The program for 2022 is now ready
See the page Program items or for more info on individual program items.
Friday June 24th 2022
17.00 – 22.00 | Meet & Greet at the cafe, Kulturhuset Støberiet. Everyone is welcome! |
Saturday June 25th 2022
Time | Cafe | Rum 1 – Frankenstein | Rum 2 – Dracula |
10.00 – 10.45 | – | Opening | – |
11.00 – 11.45 | Dealers room | “Strange Creatures” Intro Panel (English) Øystein Runde, Lauren Beukes, Priya Sharma, Majbrit Høyrup. Moderator: Sanna Bo Claumarch |
Psychology of the Alien (English) – talk Flemming Rasch |
12.00 – 12.45 | Dealers room | Creating Fictional Beings (English) – panel Andreas Boeskov, Karin Tidbeck, Mikkel Wendelboe, Tatiana Goldberg. Moderator: Jesper Rugård |
Interview med Viggo Bjerring (dansk) Jane Mondrup interviewer Viggo Bjerring |
13.00 – 13.45 | Dealers room | Guest of Honor Interview: Priya Sharma (English) Seb Doubinsky interviews Priya Sharma |
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14.00 – 14.45 | Dealers room | Gods and Monsters in Arthur Machen’s Mystical Universe (English) – talk Freja Gyldenstrøm on Arthur Machen |
Den nordiske mytologis væsener (dansk) – interview Etnolog og folklorist Karen Bek-Pedersen interviewes af Jane Mondrup |
15.00 – 15.45 | Dealers room | Twisting the Folklore (English) – panel Billy O’Shea, Zara Lea Palmqvist, Lauren Beukes, Øystein Runde. Moderator: Johan Anglemark |
Horrorforfatter Teddy Vork (interview) Flemming Rasch interviewer Teddy Vork |
16.00 – 16.45 | Dealers room | “Made to Order: Robots and Revolution” (English) – panel Niels Dalgaard, Carolina Gomez Lagerlöf, Jeppe Larsen, Jane Mondrup. Moderator: Flemming Rasch |
Elves as “The Other” (English) – presentation Anita Albæk Simonsen |
17.00 – 17.45 | Dealers room | Noget er på vej: Krabats folketroantologi (dansk) – panel Kat Lassen, Malene Fabricius Holm, Alexandra Vinther, Lars Ahn. Moderator: Helle Perrier |
The world from the Monster’s perspective (English) -panel Priya Sharma, Tue Omø, Teddy Vork, Karsten Brandt-Knudsen. Moderator: Klaus Æ Mogensen |
20.15 – ? | Dinner at Madklubben Vesterbrogade 62 (sign-up required – no later than June 17th) Sign me up for the Saturday dinner |
Sunday June 26th 2022
Time | Cafe | Rum 1 – Frankenstein | Rum 2 – Dracula |
10.00 – 10.45 |
Auction and Market for books, comics etc. |
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11.00 – 11.45 | Dealers room | Body Horror from a Medical Perspective (English) – panel Penny Jones, Priya Sharma, Lauren Beukes. Moderator: Mariane Mide |
Væsener fra rummet (dansk) – panel Marie Ladefoged, Seb Doubinsky, Marie Howalt, Lars Ahn. Moderator: Sidsel Pedersen |
12.00 – 12.45 | Dealers room | Queer creatures (dansk) – panel Simon Zander Skovgaard, Pernille L. Stenby, Christina Ebbesen, Sanna Bo Claumarch. Moderator: Sidsel Pedersen |
To boomers taler ud – om monstre og fantastik (dansk) Samtale mellem Flemming R.P. Rasch og Klaus Æ. Mogensen |
13.00 – 13.45 | Dealers room | Guest of Honor Interview: Lauren Beukes (English) Seb Doubinsky interviews Lauren Beukes |
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14.00 – 14.45 | Dealers room | Special Guest Interview: Øystein Runde (English) Flemming Rasch interviews Øystein Runde |
Monstre og samfundets orden (dansk) – samtale Karsten Brandt Knudsen og Majbrit Høyrup |
15.00 – 15.45 | Dealers room | The Truly Strange (English) – panel Niels Dalgaard, Karin Tidbeck, Lars Ahn, Freja Gyldenstrøm, Ian Sales (moderator) |
Xenolingvistik (dansk) – foredrag Stig W Jørgensen |
16.00 – 16.45 | Dealers room | Artificial Minds (English) – panel Karen Skovmand, Nils Hoffman, Ian Sales, Stig W Jørgensen. Moderator: Edmund Schluessel |
Forhistoriske dyr som fantastiske væsner (dansk) – panel Mikkel Wendelboe, Pernille van Dijk, Mikala Rosenkilde. Moderator: Sidsel Pedersen |
17.00 – 17.45 | Closing | – | |
19.00 – ? | Dead dog party Everybody from the con is welcome to sit down and talk |
New venue – new format
We have moved the con to a new venue – Støberiet to get a more accessible venue.
We are changing the format of the con a compared to earlier years. We are moving the ‘meet and greet’ to Friday evening and having the opening ceremony on Saturday, so everyone have a change to take part in both. The shorter program is reflected in the price of the tickets for the con. We are also trying to limit the number of program items that are in the same slot, so that there are no more than two at any given time – we hope that will mean a bigger audience to each program item and give everyone a bit more time to socialize.
This year’s theme will be Strange Creatures
Aliens, elves, AI, ghosts, gods and monsters – countless varieties of non-human intelligence are to be found in the genres Fantasy, Sci-Fi and Horror. In Fantasticon 2022 we will explore the subject of the conscious Other across the borders of the fantastic genres.