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Doxacon 2024

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  • CLERGY KEYNOTE: The Golden Path Revisited: Frank Herbert's Dune Series as Religion Critique & Messianic Fantasy, by Fr. David Subu
  • LAY KEYNOTE: "For You, For All of Us": Christ-like Sacrifice in Loki Season 2, by Amy Browning-Dill 
  • Breakout Session (Firefly): "Big Damn Heroes” - Christian Morality in the Firefly 'Verse, by Allison Franklin-Jordan | Image, Incarnation, and the Man They Call Jayne: A Response to the Anxieties of Firefly's ‘Jaynestown’ Informed by Athanasius' On the Incarnation, by Lucia Tosatto
  • Breakout Session (Gothic): Popery in Prose: The Incarnational Aesthetic of Nineteenth Century Gothic, by Eleanor Bourg Nicholson | Gothic Dream and Gothic Nightmare: Literary Reflections on the Ecclesiastic Gothic Revival, from Walpole to Ralph Adams Cram, by Matthew G. Alderman
  • Breakout Session (Star Wars Debate Panel): Grace, From a Certain Point-of-View(?), with Rae Grabowski, Eddie Lazzari, and Jeanatan (J.C.) Hall
  • Breakout Session (Dystopias): The Incarnation: Humanity's Next Chapter and The Children of Men, by Lia Lewis​ | The Forest in Human Form: An Exploration of Salvific Imagery in Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, by Mary Jessica Woods
  • Breakout Session (The Numinous): Revealing the Numinous in TTRPGs, by Ken Hite
  • Breakout Session ("Who Gets a Soul?"): Spaceships Against Manichaenism: the Influence of the Flesh upon the Soul in Ann Leckie's Ancillary Justice, by Erin Lazzari | "In Christ, there is neither Slave nor Free, neither Human nor Goblin": the Implications of the Incarnation on "Monstrous" Races in Fantasy, by Rae Grabowski
  • Breakout Session: How (not) to be Incarnational in Games, by Fr. Evan Cummings | Ambassadors of Light: Metaphors of Grace in the Ultraman Franchise, Sara Esker

Doxacon 2023

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  • CLERGY KEYNOTE: The Sun's Reflection in Water: How St Basil's Address to Young Men Guides Us to Discern Good Fantasy by Dn. Nicholas Kotar
  • LAY KEYNOTE: Fantasy Fiction Through a Catholic Lens by Tim Powers 
  • Suffocation and Ritual Dismemberment: Speculative Fiction and the Spiritual Life by Karen Ullo and Eleanor Bourg Nicholson
  • The Man Who Shot Joseph Curwen by Kenneth Hite
  • How (Not) to Play the Game: Game of Thrones and Saving the Realms of Men | Against Game of Thrones Christianity by Cindy Collins Smith | Stephanie Slade
  • Who Are You? What Do You Want? The Origins of Character, Our Baggage, and the Backstory of Humanity by Bryan J.L. Glass

Doxacon 2022

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  • ​CLERGY KEYNOTE: Out of the Darkness: The Redemption Found in the Anti-Hero by Fr. Turbo Qualls. (best audio here) 
  • LAY KEYNOTE: A (Meaning) Crisis on Infinite Earths by Richard Rohlin. (best audio here)
  • Heroes of Vice: How the Anti-Hero Lost the Anti by S.K. Ehre. (best audio here)
  • Horror Films and the Redemption of the Victims by Eve Tushnet. (best audio here)
  • HAN SHOT FIRST! How Revisionism in Star Wars Reflects Our Culture’s Distortion of Grace by Bryan J.L. Glass. (best audio here)
  • Doppelgängers & Divinity: The Christian Potential of the Unheimlich by Eleanor Bourg Nicholson. (best audio here)
  • Pain Made Holy: Sacrificial Redemption in Lois McMaster Bujold’s The Curse of Chalion by Sarah Slater. (best audio here)
  • Glorious Purpose: The Role of Forgiveness and Sacrifice in Redemption by Amy Browning-Dill. (best audio here)
  • Redeeming a Demonic Bloodline in Merlin Mythos, Hellboy, and Teen Titans’ Raven by Edmund Lazzari. (best audio here)
  • Embodiment of Evil and the Battle Against Diabolic Foes by Rev. Robert L. Lewis, Jr. (best audio here)
  • Goodness at What Cost? An Investigation of Scar in Fullmetal Alchemist by Erin Lazzari. (best audio here)
  • Resistance is No Longer Necessary: Changing Attitudes towards Transhumanism in Star Trek by Fr. Brian Russell. (best audio here)
  • Will the Fairies be Redeemed? by Cynthia June Long. (best audio here)

Doxacon 2021

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  • CLERGY KEYNOTE: ​One More Blasphemy Remains: Memory, Prescience, Possession, and Abomination in Frank Herbert's Dune Saga by Fr. David Subu
  • LAY KEYNOTE: Charles Dickens, MCU v LOTR, and Bees by Frederica Mathewes-Green with Fr. Steve Matthewes
  • SESSION ONE: Beyond Kicking Butt: Countercultural Representations of Strength and Victory by Eve Tushnet | Shadows and Mirrors in Time and Space by Mat. Sarah Begley
  • SESSION TWO: Glory in His Shame: Zuko on the Road to Honor by Erin Lazzari | Response to ‘Glory in His Shame’  by Cindy Collins Smith
  • SESSION THREE: Action and Mimesis in ‘This Is How You Lose the Time War’” by Anne M. Carpenter & Lyle Enright | Hopepunk Theology: Weaponizing Optimism in Resistance to a Grimdark World by Rev. Mindi Welton-Mitchell & Rev. Paul Schneider

Doxacon 2020

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  • CLERGY KEYNOTE: Exodus and Escape in the Fantastic: Pandemonium, Pandemic and Promised Land by Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick
  • LAY KEYNOTE: Bring Out Your Undead: Lessons in Faith from Zombie Apocalypse Films by Ellen Elliot
  • SESSION ONE: The Discerning Consumer: Loving Media Without Losing Your Soul by Zachary Porcu | Light in the City: Technology, Freedom, and Suffering in Mega Man by Patrick R. Callahan (Dr.)
  • SESSION TWO: Barefaced and Brightfaced: Pestilence and Theophany in Till We Have Faces by Cindy Collins Smith | The Banality of Goodness: Problems with Portraying Heaven in Film and the Possibility of Reading Road Warriors as Saints by Rachel Grabowski
  • SESSION THREE: Facing Judgment and Choosing Life: The Eschatology of Star Trek: Picard by Jonathan Jacobson | The Artifice of Escape: Chesterton and Star Wars on Hope by Edmund Lazzari

Doxacon 2019

  • CLERGY KEYNOTE: Man of Steel, Man of Faith? by Fr. Niko Bekris
  • LAY KEYNOTE: ​Messiah or Hot Mess?: The Theology of Superheroes by Steven Christoforou
  • Biblical Typology in The Lord of the Rings by Michael Haldas
  • Everyday Enchantment: C.S. Lewis and the Importance of Imagination in Knowing God by Sarey Martin Concepción
  • Thanos and Athanatos: Marvel's Avengers and the Orthodox Conception of the Person by Zachary Porcu
  • Faithful Hearts, Froward Tongues: Spiritual Portraits from the Tolkien Legendarium by Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick
  • More than Good and Evil: How Fairy Tales Teach Christian Humility by Anna Hussmann
  • Trekking through the Expanse of the Heart by Jonathan Jacobson
  • Tolkien Panel by Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick, Stephen Christoforou, and Michael Haldas

Doxacon 2018

  • The Akathist Hymn: Glory to God for All Things
  • CLERGY KEYNOTE: Testing the Spirits: What Reality Would You Like? by Protodcn. Peter Danilchick
  • LAY KEYNOTE: We are the Ones Who Bump Back by Daniel Otto Jack Patersen
  • Space: Where Hope Meets Despair by Steven Christoforou
  • Baited with His Blood: Christ the Trickster by Leah Libresco
  • God and Comics Podcast Panel: Gnosticism in Comics
  • Science Fiction and the Myth of Progress by Zachary Porcu
  • Mana and Meaning: Theology and Teleology in Magic: The Gathering by Alexi Sargeant
  • Horror: the Genre of the Sacred by Karen Ullo

Doxacon 2017

  • CLERGY KEYNOTE: Strange Longings: Why Wonderful Stories Stir the Human Heart  by Fr. David Wey
  • LAY KEYNOTE: Wizardry and the Wounds of the World  by Leah Libresco
  • Traveling the Hero's Journey  by Stephanie Braun
  • Can Beautiful Fantasy Save the World?  by Nicholas Kotar
  • Authority in the Marvel Cinematic Universe  by Alexi Sargeant
  • Loving the Enemy by Rosamund Hodge
  • Descending to the Nethersphere: Death and the Afterlife in Moffat-Era Doctor Who  by Philip Christman
  • Gaming Mythos: How Classic Storytelling has Changed in the Newest Art Form  by S. Peter Fendrich
  • Finding Faith in the X-Men  by Fr. David Subu
  • The Humiliation of Authority in Horror Films  by Eve Tushnet
  • Beauty and the Truth: What to do When the Truth isn't Pretty  Panel Discussion
  • Old Enough to Start Reading Fairy Tales Again  by Cynthia June Long

Doxacon 2015

  • CLERGY KEYNOTE: Ascetic Themes in "Angel," the TV Series by Fr. Theodore Paraskevopoulos
  • LAY KEYNOTE: Harry Potter's Magic Ring by John Granger
  • Using Discernment When Engaging in Sci-Fi and Fantasy by Fr. Ernesto Obregon
  • Navigating Fiction, Fantasy, and Faith by Ben Anderson
  • The Case for Alternative Histories...by a Historian by Dn. Nicholas Dujmovic
  • Chesteron, Lewis, and Card by Leah Libresco
  • Love, Understanding, and Repentence in Ender's Game by Mitchell Balan
  • Science Fiction: Artificial Intelligence or Artificial Art? by Peter Fendrich
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