Terror Camp
| Online Convention | |
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| Name: | Terror Camp |
| Dates: | 2021-present |
| Frequency: | Annual |
| Type: | Online con |
| Focus: | The Terror, The Erebus, polar exploration |
| Organization: | |
| Founder: | |
| URL: | https://terror.camp/ |
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Terror Camp is an online convention for The Terror and the Franklin Expedition that has since expanded into all polar exploration. It first took place in the fall of 2021.
About
The convention is a combination of an academic-style conference and fan convention, and features academic presentations on topics related to The Terror and polar exploration, Q&As and talks delivered by people involved with the show, and an artists' alley. Terror Camp encourages fans who are not professional academics to propose presentations and discussions on a variety of topics, such as:
- Original historical and archival research
- Terror-, Franklin Expedition-, and polar exploration-related history
- Show meta, theory, and criticism
- Fan works (art, fiction, cosplay, etc.)
- Film, TV, and performance
- Gender and queerness
- Race, Indigenous studies, and colonialism
- Polar geography, biology, and conservation
- Fandom culture and community/ies
- Archaeology and forensics
- Character studies and biography
- Archives, museums, and digital humanities[1]
Panels
2021
Terror Camp 2021 ran for one day and concluded with a moderated conversation with show creator David Kajganich.
Panel A-1: Science and Discovery
- Species, expedition, and the legacy of ‘discovery’ in Victorian biological sciences’ - Millie
- “Tell Them We’ll Be Gone”: Arctic sea ice, climate change, & the Northwest Passage - Filip Mikulski
Panel A-2: Workers & Class
- Survival is a Nasty Piece of Business: The Worker’s Role Within Imperialism - Katie Dowd
- What Rank is that Dog? Analysing the portrayal of workers and management in The Terror - Shreya
Panel B-1: Masculinity & Violence
- Embodying the Empire: The Victorian Medical Sciences, Masculinity, and Arctic Exploration - Eva Molina
- Horrible From Supper: Violent Tipping Points in The Terror - Jack Doyle
Panel B-2: Individual Histories
- Two Boys from the Medway: An intimate look at the lives of the Hartnell brothers - D.J. Holzhueter
- “always called Frederick or Freddy”: A Look into the Life of Charles Frederick Des Voeux - Edmund Wuyts
Panel C-1: Characters & Empire
- The Terror and Imperial Boyhood - Ted Logan
- “People there are good”: Harry Goodsir as a Liberal Audience Surrogate - Johannes
Panel C-2: Fandom Practices
- Finding Franklin’s Men: The Terror Fandom’s Biographical Turn - Allegra
- Let me go Hodge real quick: On why we understand linguistic creativity in fandom - Toby
Panel D-1: Biographical Afterlives
- Towards a Rigorous Amateurism, and a Gay Fitzjames - Isaac Fellman
- “Your Penelope, But Angry: Fictional Afterlives of Jane, Lady Franklin” - Kathryn H. Stutz
Panel D-2: Costuming
- Undressed Sailors: The 1843-1846 Undress Uniform - Alexa Figuerres
- The Courts of Gloriana: Nostalgia, Patriotism, and Fantasy in the Costumes of Carnivale - Kit B
Panel E-1: Cannibalism & Monstrosity
- Forbidden Desires: Ravenous, The Terror, and the Cannibal Queer - K Hadley
- Victorian Survival Cannibalism and the Spectacle of Crime - LC von Hessen
- “Whether we’ve earned him or not”: The Abject and Constructions of Monstrosity in The Terror - Aurora Barksdale
Panel E-2: The Arctic Landscape
- Inuit Trails and Franklin’s Crew - Stephen Zorn
- “I dreamed a dream and I thought it true”: The Ghosts and Dreams of Polar Exploration - Rob Eveleigh
- “A Stygian Bleakness”: Exploring the Arctic landscapes of The Terror - Bhuvana Sri
KEYNOTE: A moderated conversation with David Kajganich[2]
2022
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2023
Day 1 - Arctic
Panel A - Primary Sources
- "old Harvey (a mulatto)": Sailors of Colour on British Arctic Expeditions (1848-1859), Edmund Wuyts
- "Do attend to your orthography": spelling as history in Franklin Expedition Letters, Reg
- Relic or Artefact; an Analysis of Polar Artefacts in Museum Catalogues, Ash
Panel B - Historical Persons
- Thomas Holloway: Pills, Palaces, and The Accursed Bears, Verity Holloway
- "Scarface" Charley Tong Sing: A Chinese-American on the Jeannette, In the Papers, and Afterwards, Han
- Failsons of Hudson Bay, Jas Bevan Niss
- “Nor will it yield to Norway or the Pole”: Roald Amundsen as Shakespearean Tragedy, Ireny
Panel C - Cultural Understandings and the Arctic
- How Fares the Raft of the Medusa?: Mutiny, Cannibalism, and the Portrayal of History, Brianna Lou
- “This Place Wants Us Dead”: The Terror and Folk Horror, Allison Raper
- Icebound, Not Down, Hester Blum
Day 2 - Antarctic
Panel D - Death and Narratives of Death
- "Known to all the youth of the Nation": Scott's Sacrifice in Children's Literature, Branwell
- What We Talk About When We Talk About Quest, Caitlin Brandon
- Funny to think of it as coming home: football, exploration, and the stories we tell ourselves, Rach
Panel E - The Allure of the Antarctic
- From the South Pole to the Stars, Emma
- The Feminine(?) Antarctic, Sam Botz
- There and Back Again: In the Antarctic with Ross and Crozier, Phil Mikulski
Panel F - Antarctic Round Table
- Out of the Rookery: An exploration of science and survival on Shackleton's Endurance, with Rebecca, Meg, and Avery[3]