2022 Program

Day One - September 24

Panel A: Victorian Society

Susannah Aston: ‘There Will Be Poems’: Franklin, The Terror and the Noble Failure narrative
Shelley Yang: Imperial Apparitions: Victorian Periodicals and the Search for Franklin (1848-1860)
skazka: Always Simple & Sincere: Protestant Doctrine & Difference In The Franklin Expedition

Panel B: Literature and Art

Reg: The C, the C, the open C: Classics and The Terror
Kit: and sang no more: The Fictional and Historical Impact of Traditional Music in The Terror
Branwell Roberts: Poetic afterlives of the Franklin Expedition

Roundtable 1: Show Influences and Aesthetics

VP James: A New Way of Being: Moving towards disability in the Terror
Allison Raper: The Medieval Costumes of Carnivale and the Early Victorian Imagination
susan: Visual parallelisms, comparisons and artworks referred to in The Terror season 1
Grace: Doctors of Medicine: The Terror and the Birth of Psychiatry

Saturday Keynote

A conversation with the two of the editors of May We Be Spared To Meet On Earth: Letters of the Lost Franklin Arctic Expedition, Russell A. Potter and Peter Carney

Day Two - September 25

Panel C: Museums and Preservation

Sabina Zevons: Imagining the Northwest Passage
Maia Council: Interesting and Pathetic Relics: The Franklin Expedition and British Museums"
Rach: “This is what you tell them”: Presenting what remains of the Franklin Expedition

Panel D: History and Miscellaneous

Vini: The Summer of Doug: Douglas Mawson, the Construction of Society, and the Most Underrated Antarctic Expedition Ever!
Ted Logun: Let’s Talk about Grief, Baby – The Terror, Tragic Fandom, and Anticipatory Mourning in the Age of Climate Grief
Sarah Pickman: Next Door to the Promised Land: The Franklin Expedition and National Belonging from Richler to Rogers

Roundtable 2: Relics and Retelling

Sam Botz: Care in a Cold Climate: Polar Epistemologies of Preservation
Ashley Smith: Ghosts, Gore, and Girl Bosses; The Franklin Expedition in Twenty-First Century Literature
Isaac Fellman: Unsettling the Question: Why We Retell the Story Of an Expedition
D.J. Holzhueter: Faith, family, and fate: John Irving’s life and afterlife

Sunday Keynote

A conversation with cast and crew of the Terror

Alex Eldridge (Writer's Assistance)

Christos Lawton (Lt. Hodgson)

Alistair Petrie (Dr. Stanley)

Annie Symons (Costume Designer)