http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/files/schedule-2014.pdf
There are fewer on Tolkien this year (although I see two on CSL), though still quite a range of interesting topics I'm looking forward to learning more about. Here's a listing of the Tolkien-themed sessions for those, like me, primarily interested in their Tolkien track. There are probably a few Tolkien papers in other sessions as well that I didn't spot in a first skim through the program book. This year the Tolkien events are front-loaded towards the first day of the conf, which I suppose means more time for non-Tolkien sessions and wandering through the book room.
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Thursday, May
8th, 10 a.m.
Session 38
Bernhard 208
Tolkien and His Medieval Sources
Sponsor: Tolkien at Kalamazoo
Organizer: Brad Eden,
Valparaiso Univ.
Presider: Edward Risden, St. Norbert College
Tolkien Grammaticus:
The Influence of the Gesta Danorum on The Hobbit and The Lord
of the Rings
Leigh Smith, East
Stroudsburg Univ.
Approaching “Se
Uncuthaholm”: Tolkien’s Early Study of Anglo-Saxon Poetry and Prose as a Source
for the Invention of Ottor Waefre
Andrew Higgins,
Cardiff Metropolitan Univ.
Creative Corrections:
Tolkien’s Response to Beorhtnoth’s Ofermod Colin Pajda, St. Louis Univ.
Tolkien’s Man in
the Moon and Medieval Complaint Literature Brad Eden
Hrolfr Kraki in Tolkien’s Middle-earth Brent Landon Johnson,
Mythgard Institute/Signum Univ.Thursday 10:00 a.m.
Thursday, May
8th, 1.30 p.m.
Session 83
Bernhard 208
Tolkien’s The Fall of Arthur
Sponsor: Tolkien at Kalamazoo
Organizer: Brad Eden,
Valparaiso Univ.
Presider: Brad Eden
“That seems fatal to
me”: Pagan and Christian in The Fall of Arthur John D. Rateliff, Independent Scholar
Mapping the
Grammatical Margins of Middle-earth: How the Geography of The Fall of Arthur
fits in Tolkien’s Legendarium
Robin Anne Reid,
Texas A&M Univ.–Commerce
“Double-Hearted”: Psychomachia
in The Fall of Arthur John R. Holmes,
Franciscan Univ. of Steubenville
Tides of Time in The
Fall of Arthur Robert Tredray, Independent Scholar
Where Is Avalon?
Tolkien’s Otherworld in the West and The Fall of Arthur Dimitra Fimi, Cardiff Metropolitan Univ.
Thursday, May 8th, 3.30 p.m.
Session 134 Bernhard 208
Tolkien’s Natural World and Science
Sponsor: Tolkien at Kalamazoo
Organizer: Brad Eden,
Valparaiso Univ.
Presider: Anna Smol, Mount St. Vincent Univ.
The (Nearly)
Discarded Image: Tolkien’s Later Tinkerings with His Medieval Cosmology
Kristine Larsen,
Central Connecticut State Univ.
You Must Remember
This: Time Dilation in Middle-earth
Michael Wodzak,
Viterbo Univ.
Litany of the Ents:
Treebeard’s Priesthood and the Sacred Nature of Tolkien’s Natural World
Victoria Holtz Wodzak, Viterbo Univ.
Friday, May 9th, 6.30 p.m.
Tales after Tolkien
Society
Business Meeting
Friday, May 9th, 7 p.m.
Tolkien Unbound
(Performances)
Sponsor: Tolkien at Kalamazoo
Organizer: Brad Eden,
Valparaiso Univ.
Presider: Robin Anne Reid, Texas A&M
Univ.–Commerce
Maidens of
Middle-earth IV
Eileen Marie Moore,
Cleveland State Univ.
A Dramatic Reading of Tolkien’s The
Fall of Arthur
John D. Rateliff, Independent Scholar; Thom Foy, Univ. of
Michigan–Dearborn; John Houghton, Independent Scholar; and Brad Eden.
Songs for the
Philologists
Douglas A. Anderson, Independent Scholar; Amy
Amendt-Raduege, Whatcom Community College; Jewell Morow, Independent Scholar:
Deidre Dawson, Michigan State Univ.; Merlin DeTardo, Independent Scholar; and
Brad Eden.
Saturday May 10th, 12 noon
Tolkien at Kalamazoo
Business Meeting
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Hope to see some familiar faces,* as well as meet some new ones.
--John R.
*well, as familiar as faces get to someone with face blindness.
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