I posted some highlights from the conference using the hashtag #Inklings2025 if you want to see more 😊

Eleonore Laubenstein in front of her presentation

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

#Linguistics

Gustav Styrbjørn Johannessen in front of his presentation

Milena Wein in front of her presentation

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

#Inklings #LiteraryStudies

Helmut W. Pesch in front of his presentation, "Die Sprache der Kesh"

H W Pesch in front of his presentation, showing the lyrics of one of the Kesh songs - the quail song

H W Pesch in front of his presentation

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

#LiteraryStudies

Julia Grillmayr in front of her presentation, showing a connection between Aleida Assmann's book "Im Dickicht der Zeichen" and the 4 novels

Next, @superscienceme.bsky.social s talk analysed 4 novels at the connex of #extinction #ecocriticism #wetlands & more than human worlds: Kushner's "Creation Lake" Vandermeer's "Absolution", Beauman's "Venomous Lumpsucker" & Croft's "The Extinction of Irena Rey"

#Inklings2025

Matthias Hurst in front of his presentation

Matthias Hurst in front of his presentation, showing a symbol of the language used in Villeneuve's and Chiang's "Arrival"

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

#Inklings2025 #ScienceFiction

Sandra Schäder in front of her presentation

Sandra Schäder in front of her presentation

The intersection of #LiteraryStudies & #Linguistics continued at #Inklings2025 with Sandra Schäder's talk on #ConLangs & world-building

#Inklings

a hallway of the Fantastic Library - bookshelves to the left and the right, with a spaceship model overhead

bookshelves and a dragon hanging from the ceiling

Klaudia Seibel of the Fantastic Library presents the library's Perry Rhodan book collection, some of the doublets of which have been made into furniture, such as chairs and tables.

A glimpse into the fairy-tale room, including the fairy tale book collection, a throne for reading aloud and on the wall an artful depiction of little red riding hood and the wolf

A high point of the #Inklings2025 #conference / Wetzlarer Tage der Phantastik was the tour through @phanbibwz.bsky.social
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 in front of her presentation

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

Mareike Huber in front of her presentation, "Does Fair Speech Correlate with Fair Hearts?"

We're looking back at some highlights of the #Inklings2025 #conference !
@mareikehuber.bsky.social on #ConLangs & their speakers asks, "Does Fair Speech Correlate with Fair Hearts?", looking at attitudes towards languages from #Fantasy like #LotR #GoT #Avatar #StarTrek

#Linguistics #Inklings

Bereit für die Co-Tagung der Wetzlarer Phantastik-Tage und der Inklings Gesellschaft in der Phantastischen Bibliothek Wetzlar :) #Inklings2025