Thursday, January 23, 2014

More Tolkien at 2014 Kalamazoo

And, sure enough, here's a few more Tolkien presentations in non-Tolkien dominated panels. Plus, I thought I'd throw the C. S. Lewis ones in as well, just for the sake of convenience.

--JDR



Friday May 9th, 10 a.m.
The Real Generic Middle Ages
Sponsor: Tales after Tolkien Society
Organizer: Helen Young, Univ. of Sydney
Presider:  Helen Young
“Creasing the Truth”: Dialogical Medievalisms in Kevin Crossley Holland’s Arthur Trilogy
Molly Brown, Univ. of Pretoria
Little, Big: The Royal Court versus Owen Archer’s York
Candace Robb/Emma Campion, Independent Scholar
Unchurched: On the Relative Lack of Religion in Tolkienan-Tradition Fantasy Literature
Geoffrey B. Elliott, Oklahoma State Univ.
Adapting Odin: The Pagan and the Secular in Contemporary Urban Fantasy
Kim Wilkins, Univ. of Queensland

Saturday May 10th, 3.30 p.m.
In Honor of Geoffrey Richard Russom: Aspects of Early English Poetic Culture II
Organizer: M. J. Toswell, Univ. of Western Ontario
Presider: Amy N. Vines, Univ. of North Carolina–Greensboro
Tolkien’s Archaisms
Paul Acker, St. Louis Univ.
The (Comparative) Roots of English Literature
Lesley E. Jacobs, Brown Univ.
Boars and Beowulf Lindy Brady, Univ. of Mississippi
Maxims III: The Aphorisms of Geoffrey Russom Susan Signe Morrison, Texas State Univ.


Friday, May 9th, 1.30 p.m.
C. S. Lewis and the Middle Ages I
Sponsor: C. S. Lewis Society, Purdue Univ.; Center for the Study of C. S. Lewis and Friends, Taylor Univ.
Organizer: Joe Ricke, Taylor Univ.
Presider:  Joe Ricke
This Is Awkward: C. S. Lewis and the Medieval Matter of Race
Hannah Oliver Depp, American Univ.
Wise Beyond Their Years: Pearl, The Great Divorce, and the Medieval Dream Vision
Amber Dunai, Texas A&M Univ.
The Discarded Mage: Lewis’s Merlin and the Medieval Mind
Christopher Jensen, Florida State Univ.
Dante’s Vision and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Marsha Daigle-Williamson, Spring Arbor Univ.


Friday, May 9th 3.30 p.m.
C. S. Lewis and the Middle Ages II
Sponsor: C. S. Lewis Society, Purdue Univ.; Center for the Study of C. S. Lewis and Friends, Taylor Univ.
Organizer: Joe Ricke, Taylor Univ.
Presider:  Ingrid Pierce, Purdue Univ.
Getting Medieval on Matter: C. S. Lewis and “Stuff”
Chris Armstrong, Bethel Seminary
Medieval Sources for the Anthropology of The Abolition of Man Laura A. Smit, Calvin College
This Rough Magic: C. S. Lewis and the Medieval Dialogue about Magic
Edwin Woodruff-Tait, Independent Scholar

1 comment:

Ben Camino said...

thanks for posting the C. S. Lewis stuff as well! Joe Ricke