Ever thought seriously about Doctor Who? Us too… that’s why you should consider proposing a talk for the TARDIS Talks, Gallifrey One’s “academic” program track.
TARDIS Talks offer a different type of fan discussion at our convention… not just for academics, but also for fans who want to discuss topics about Doctor Who in greater depth. Rather than a traditional fan discussion panel, TARDIS Talks offer speakers a longer time to speak (ten to fifteen minutes) about a topic they’re passionate about, with a discussion after all the speakers. In addition, the TARDIS Talks feature an invited Keynote Speaker each year.
Not sure what to talk about? Don’t worry! Everyone has some area of expertise that we’d love to hear about. A list of previous topics from the past four years are included in the “Prior Talks” section below!
The Gallifrey One TARDIS Talks academic program is curated by our academic program chairs, Joy Piedmont and Paul Booth, who will work with each participant in the months leading up to the convention. (Note that all participants in the TARDIS Talks program must have a paid convention ticket; we do not offer free admission or compensation for participating.)
Prior TARDIS Talks Programs
Below is a list of all speakers and talks from the program’s beginning in 2018. Links to publicly published versions of the speaker’s talk are provided where available.
Gallifrey One’s Miracle on 34th Street (2024)
- Keynote Speaker: Piers Britton, “Design of the Times”
- Emma O’Neill-Dietel, “Time and Relative Disability in Space: Deconstructing Disability in Doctor Who”
- Julia Henken, “When Fans Become Showrunners”
- Dave Ringo, “Social Science Fiction in Doctor Who”
- Reecy Pontiff, “On a string and a prayer: the sound design of the TARDIS”
- Catrina Parker, “Lost Without You: Exploring Ambiguous Loss in Doctor Who”
- Mike Ferguson, “The UNIT Industrial Complex”
- Dominique Gagnon, “Understanding Anti-Fandom and Media Opposition During the Flux Broadcast”
Gallifrey One 33 1/3: Long Live the Revolution (2023)
- Keynote Speaker: Stacey Smith?, “Doctor Who and the Epidemics of Death”
- Thomas Rodebaugh & Naomi Jacobs, “Doctored Politics: Where Does the Doctor Fall on the Political Spectrum?”
- Emma O’Neill-Dietel, “The Space Museum: Museums, Identity, and Colonization in Doctor Who”
- Lena Barkin, “Want You or Want to Be You: Companion Relationships in New and Classic Who”
- Talia Franks, “Timey Wimey Entanglements: Critical Reception of Romance in the TARDIS from Tenrose to Thasmin”
- Amanda-Rae Prescott, “Modern Doctor Who As A Period Drama Laboratory”
Gallifrey One: Thirty-Second to Midnight (2022)
- Tom Rodebaugh, “The Friend Inside the Enemy in Doctor Who”
- Gareth Fisher, “From K’anpo to the Timeless Child: The Buddhist Journey of the Doctor” (link)
- Mary-Michelle Moore, Natalie Marquez, Danielle Kane, “When you say ‘you and the guys’ you mean the internet, don’t you?: Should you research like the Doctor?” (link)
- Lily M. Lamadrid, “Space, Empire, and the Finale as Frontier: Chibnall’s Series 12 and Its Significance in the Imperial Canon”
The 31 Flavours of Gallifrey One (2020)
- Keynote Speaker: Dr. Anita Sengupta, “Making Science Fiction Science Fact or Becoming a Time Lord (with one heart)”
- Jack Arnal, “Decision Making Doctor”
- Tablesaw Tablesawsen, “Myth Makers, Myth Breakers, and Myth Remakers”
- Rachel Donner, “Judaism and Doctor Who”
- Brenna Jones, “Zygons as Zombies: Abjection in Doctor Who”
- Derek Kompare, “No Fixed Points in Time: Versioning Doctor Who”
- Amanda-Rae Prescott, “The Bard, The Frost Fair, and The King – Doctor Who & Black British History” (link)
- Evan Teng, “Doctor Who Canon”
- Erica Veitch, “The Doctor and Christmas, a Modern Love Story”
Gallifrey One: Thirty Years in the TARDIS (2019)
- Keynote Speaker: Tai Gooden, “The Fandom Hierarchy: Women of Color’s Fight For Visibility In Fandom Spaces”
- Jack Arnal, “Memory and Identity in the Moffat Era”
- Heather Berberet, “Advanced Fandom: Love, Loss, Twitter and Trolldom”
- Nicole Carlson, “Your Mechanical Life: Cybermen vs. Steampunk”
- Tom Dickinson, “Time Can Be Rewritten: Meddling and Morals” (link)
- Matt Hills, “Doctor Who Magazine, the Role of Journalist-fans, and Intra-franchise Fandom”
- Derek Kompare, “Listen!: The Sound of Doctor Who” (link)
- Anna Livingston, “Five Weird Data Stories From A Teaspoon And An Open Mind (and One That Isn’t)” (link)
- Lizbeth Myles, “The Laws of Rassilon”
- Mikayla Micomonaco, “Asexuality, Aromanticism and Doctor Who” (link)
- Dave Ringo, “Doctor Who and the Canon of Evil”
The 29 Voyages of Gallifrey One (2018)
- Keynote Speaker: Matt Hills, “Aca-fans, Showrunner-fans and Actor-fans: Fan Experience as a Professional Resource?”
- Heather Berberet, “The Secret Psychology of Series 10”
- Paul Cornell, “Tides of Time”
- Clay Dockery, “The Last of the Time Lords and the Search for Self-Actualization”
- Dustin Hausner, “The Doctor: A Warrior, A Hero, A Peacemaker?”
- Derek Kompare, “We’re All Stories in the End: Doctor Who Fandom on the Shelf”
- Inna Kanevsky, “Understanding the Other”
