#inklings2025 — Public Fediverse posts
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The final talk of the #Inklings2025 conference was given by Eleonore Laubenstein as a critical perspective on the question whether there is a correlation between the sounds of natural & fictional languages, and the climates their speakers inhabit
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The final day of #Inklings2025 had some great talks, for example Gustav Styrbjørn Johannessen's talk on #Conlangs as a space of audience collaboration in fiction & Milena Wein's look at the functions of Conlangs in Christopher Paolini's #Eragon books / #InheritanceCycle
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The keynote at #Inklings2025 #conference was given by Helmut W. Pesch on the language of the Kesh in #UrsulaLeGuin 's "Always Coming Home", seen from the perspective of #syntactics #semantics & #translation & culture, with a focus on the portrayal of the songs of the Kesh
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Next, Julia Grillmayr's talk analysed 4 novels at the connex of #extinction #ecocriticism #wetlands & more than human worlds: "Creation Lake" by Rachel Kushner, "Absolution" by Jeff Vandermeer, "Venomous Lumpsucker" by Ned Beauman & "The Extinction of Irena Rey" by Jennifer Croft
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Matthias Hurst's talk on Samuel R. Delaney's "Babel-17" and #DenisVilleneuve 's #Arrival (an #adaptation of Ted Chiang's "Story of Your Life") looks at how page & screen transport (mis-)communication between aliens & humans and how it affects thinking
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The intersection of #LiteraryStudies & #Linguistics continued at #Inklings2025 with Sandra Schäder's talk on #ConLangs & world-building
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A high point of the #Inklings2025 #conference / Wetzlarer Tage der Phantastik was the tour through @phanbibwz
We saw unique collections of #SpeculativeFiction assorted by genre & target audience (child, teen or adult readers). What a wealth of resources! And such creative decor! -
Simone Broders gave a #PostcolonialStudies reading of familiarity & alienness in the #StarTrek movie "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country" and (its reading of) the #Klingon #Hamlet
#Shakespeare #LiteraryStudies #PopCulture #Inklings #Inklings2025 #ScienceFiction
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We're looking back at some highlights of this past weekend's #Inklings2025 #conference !
Mareike Huber's talk on #ConLangs & their speakers asks, "Does Fair Speech Correlate with Fair Hearts?", looking at attitudes towards languages from #Fantasy like #LotR #GoT #Avatar & #StarTrek -
The #Inklings conference is ON!
Today's the start of 2 days of learning abt fictional languages & #ConLang s in #FantasyLiterature & #ScienceFiction in the beautiful location of @phanbibwz !Klaudia Seibel of the Fantastic Library & Inklings Society president Armin Wallau greet the visitors