CONGRESS CANCELED The End of Game of Thrones in History and Literature
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On May 19, 2019, the final episode of Game of Thrones aired on HBO. This panel will work through the show’s violent ending, when Daenerys torched King’s Landing, and Brandon Stark was made the caretaker king of the seven kingdoms. The panel will address the novels’ themes of slavery, race, colonialism, whiteness, masculinity, sexual violence, feminism, genocide, and power. It will debate the medieval and early modern contexts in Europe, England, and the Mediterranean and Atlantic worlds that Martin drew from (as well as how well he knew them), and examine the expectations that his readers and viewers have, due to the earlier works of Lewis and Tolkien and other Christianity-infused fantasy literature, and popular understandings of the medieval past. Elizabeth Terry-Roisin
CONGRESS CANCELED The End of Game of Thrones in History and Literature
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On May 19, 2019, the final episode of Game of Thrones aired on HBO. This panel will work through the show’s violent ending, when Daenerys torched King’s Landing, and Brandon Stark was made the caretaker king of the seven kingdoms. The panel will address the novels’ themes of slavery, race, colonialism, whiteness, masculinity, sexual violence, feminism, genocide, and power. It will debate the medieval and early modern contexts in Europe, England, and the Mediterranean and Atlantic worlds that Martin drew from (as well as how well he knew them), and examine the expectations that his readers and viewers have, due to the earlier works of Lewis and Tolkien and other Christianity-infused fantasy literature, and popular understandings of the medieval past. Elizabeth Terry-Roisin