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Doxacon Prime 2025

Caldwell Auditorium on the Catholic University Campus
Washington, DC

Doxacon Proposed Schedule 2025

FRIDAY, October 31
Registration opens at 12:00 pm and closes at 9:00 pm. In between those times, we will have Gaming sessions, the Clergy Keynote, and a Reception with Costume Contest. Vendors may begin setting up as soon as Registration opens.

12:00 PM Registration Opens
12:30 PM: Pickup gaming sessions begin
1:00 PM: Tabletop gaming session begins (Magic Village for Sale with GM: Doug Burtt)

6:00 PM: Break

7:00 PM Clergy Keynote: Fr. Evan Cummings, CSP - Apocalypse How! - The End, Catharsis, and Magic: the Gathering

8:00 PM Reception, with Costume Contest
9:00 PM Registration Closes

SATURDAY, November 1st
Registration and Vendor Hall open at 8:00 am. Throughout the day, we will offer the Akathist Glory to God for All Things, the Lay Keynote, a variety of Breakout sessions, a reader/writer Panel, Closing Praises, Dinner with a Trivia Quiz and Silent Auction results

8:00 AM Registration Opens
8:00 AM Vendors Hall Opens
9:00 AM Akathist: Glory to God for All Things

9:30 AM Break

9:45 AM Lay Keynote: M. R. Leonard (author of Pilgrims) - Reconquering Sci-Fi for God

10:45 AM Break

11:15 AM Session One: Sr. Allison Regina Gliot, fsp and Sr. Orianne Pietra Rene Dyck, fsp - Long-Term Cathartic Accompaniment Through Fiction
11:15 AM Session One:
Fr. Demetrios Kehagias - Catharsis in Doctor Who: Biblical and Patristic Perspectives /
Richard Strube - Oh Catharsis, Where Is Thy Sting? Examining Catharsis in Twin Peaks from an Orthodox Christian Perspective (with reference to St. Anthony of the Desert)

12:15 PM Lunch

1:45 PM Session Two:
Kenneth Hite - Arthur Machen and the Catharsis of Christian Horror
1:45 PM Session Two:
Kevin Fritts - A Seat at That Table: Extrinsic and Intrinsic Catharsis in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (and Beyond) /
Jeanatan (J.C.) Hall - Becoming the Man Without Fear: Recovering Wholeness in Daredevil Season 3

2:45 PM Break

3:15 PM Session Three:
Jacob Reed - Ever Ancient, Never New: What Modern Speculative Fiction Can Learn from Classical Literature /
Jon James - Faith in Forlorn Futures: An Incensepunk Comparison of Fallout and A Canticle for Leibowitz
3:15 PM Session Three:
Allison Franklin-Jordan - The Prince and the Pyromaniac: Obsession, Dishonor, and Repentance /
Sarah Esker - The Prodigal Power Ranger

4:15 PM Break

4:30 PM Writer and Reader Panel: The Transformative Power of Story
Featuring: M.R. Leonard, Sr. Allison Regina Gliot, Ken Hite, Jon James, and Cindy Collins Smith / Moderated by Amy Browning-Dill

5:45 PM Closing Praises (Ps. 148-150)
6:00 PM Dinner with Trivia Quiz

REFUND POLICY: In the event that you need to cancel your Registration, contact doxaconplanning@gmail.com. Doxacon can only refund actual prices we charged, but not service charges from our ticketing vendor. Brown Paper Tickets provides refunds only when an entire event is cancelled.

Location

Caldwell Auditorium on the Catholic University Campus
620 Michigan Ave NE
Washington, DC 20064
United States

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