So, the program book for Kalamazoo has arrived. I was worried that its offerings might be scant in thes postpandemic days, but a look through shows there's plenty to keep a medievalist busy (462 sessions). Here's a listing I put together of the scheduled Tolkien events. This doesn't necessarily cover everything --sometimes there is a stray paper on Tolkien that makes up part of a panel that's non-Tolkienish in theme -- but it's a good place to start. And of course there are all sorts of treasures in the form of presentations on a vast array of medieval authors and themes.
sessions at Kalamazoo, 2023
Thursday May 11th
Friday May 12th
Saturday May 13th
13 Bernhard Center 210 Thursday 10am
Medieval Elements in Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (A Roundtable)
Sponsor: Presider: Organizer:
Tolkien at Kalamazoo
Yvette Kisor, Ramapo College
Yvette Kisor
Christopher Vaccaro, Univ. of Vermont
A roundtable discussion with Kristine Larsen, Central Connecticut State Univ.; Lydia H. Hayes, Catawba College; Jennifer Fast, Newman Theological College; Christopher Vaccaro; and Valerie Dawn Hampton, Univ. of Florida
204 Virtual Friday 10am
Religion along the Tolkienian Fantasy Tradition: New Medievalist Narratives
Sponsor: Presider: Organizer:
Tales after Tolkien Society
Luke Shelton, Univ. of Glasgow Geoffrey B. Elliott, Independent Scholar Friday 10:00 a.m.
Do You Even Pray Though? Examining the Worship of the Great Mother Goddess in Tamora Pierce’s Tortall Universe
Rachel Sikorski, Independent Scholar
Playing with Medieval(ist?) Religion in Forum-Based Play-by-Post Roleplaying Games: A Case Study
Geoffrey B. Elliott
255 Virtual Friday 1.30 pm
Tolkien and Medieval Constructions of Race (A Roundtable)
Sponsor: Presider: Organizer:
Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic, Univ. of Glasgow Kristine A. Swank, Univ. of Glasgow
Mariana Rios Maldonado, Univ. of Glasgow
A roundtable discussion with Robin Anne Reid, Independent Scholar; Luke Shelton, Univ. of Glasgow; Mercury Natis, Signum Univ.; Toni DiNardo, Univ. of North Carolina–Chapel Hill; and Lars Olaf Johnson, Cornell Univ.
Respondent: Mariana Rios Maldonado
278 Schneider Hall 1155 Friday 3.30pm
Tolkien and the Middle Ages: Tolkien and the Scholastics
Sponsor: Presider: Organizer:
D. B. Reinhart Institute for Ethics in Leadership, Viterbo Univ. Michael A. Wodzak, Viterbo Univ.
Michael A. Wodzak
Thomistic Evil in Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings
Mitchell B. Simpson, Univ. of Arkansas–Fayetteville
Tolkien and Aquinas: The Body, Wonder, and Aesthetics
Paul L. Fortunato, Univ. of Houston–Downtown
Was Tolkien a Franciscan? Bonaventurian Themes in the Legendarium
Craig A. Boyd, St. Louis Univ.
“What your folk would call magic”: Thomas Aquinas and Natural Power in Tolkien’s Works
Brian McFadden, Texas Tech Univ.
340 Schneider Hall 1330 (hybrid) Saturday 10am
Climate Change II: Social, Ecological, Political, and Spiritual Shifts in J. R. R. Tolkien and Medieval Poets
Sponsors: Presider: Organizer:
Tolkien at Kalamazoo; International Pearl-Poet Society Deidre Dawson, Michigan State Univ.
Yvette Kisor, Ramapo College
Jane Beal, Univ. of La Verne
Christopher Vaccaro, Univ. of Vermont
Tolkien’s Old English Exodus and Philosophy of Translation
Perry Neil Harrison, Fort Hays State Univ.
Elements of the Bel Inconnu Tradition in Tolkien’s Legendarium Yvette Kisor
Deep in the Earth: J. R. R. Tolkien’s Transformation of a Motif from the Works of the Pearl-Poet
Jane Beal
The Fall of Númenor: A Political and Natural Catastrophe
Gaëlle Abaléa, Univ. de Paris–Sorbonne
LUNCH 12:00–1:00 p.m.
Tolkien at Kalamazoo Business Meeting
Bernhard Center 242
374 Bernhard Center 210 Saturday 1.30pm
Christopher Tolkien: Medievalist Editor of J. R. R. Tolkien’s Legendarium I: The Works
Sponsor: Presider: Organizer:
Tolkien at Kalamazoo
Christopher Vaccaro, Univ. of Vermont Yvette Kisor, Ramapo College Christopher Vaccaro
The Sun, the Son, and the Silmarillion: Christopher Tolkien and the Copernican Revolution of Morgoth’s Ring
Kristine Larsen, Central Connecticut State Univ. 138
She Put a Spell on the Man U Script: Tolkien’s Edits on Beowulf, Sellic Spell, and the Foundations of the Ogress
Annie Brust, Kent State Univ.
Competing Silmarillions in a Post-Tolkien World Stephen Yandell, Xavier Univ.
423 Bernhard Center 210 Saturday 3.30pm
Christopher Tolkien: Medievalist Editor of J. R. R. Tolkien’s Legendarium II: The Interactions
Sponsor: Presider: Organizer:
Tolkien at Kalamazoo
Kristine Larsen, Central Connecticut State Univ. Yvette Kisor, Ramapo College
Christopher Vaccaro, Univ. of Vermont
The Legacy of Tolkien’s Love for and of Nature in His Children: The Evidence from Michael H. R. Tolkien’s Library
Brad Eden, Drexel Univ.
“I have written with you most in mind”: J. R. R. Tolkien’s Letters to Christopher Tolkien
Deidre Dawson, Michigan State Univ.
Christopher Tolkien and the Legacy of the Father of Middle-earth
Iona McPeake, New York Univ.
Tales after Tolkien Society 204
Tolkien at Kalamazoo 13, 340, p. 133, 374, 423
2 comments:
A little frustrating for those of us who've attended online, because, if I've read the program correctly, only one of those is going to be streamed online.
Dear David
I don't think things are as bad as you thought. As I read the schedule there look to be three virtual or hybrid sessions :
#204
#255
#340
204 Virtual Friday 10am
Religion along the Tolkienian Fantasy Tradition: New Medievalist Narratives
255 Virtual Friday 1.30 pm
Tolkien and Medieval Constructions of Race (A Roundtable)
Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic, Univ. of Glasgow Kristine A. Swank, Univ. of Glasgow
Mariana Rios Maldonado, Univ. of Glasgow
A roundtable discussion with Robin Anne Reid, Independent Scholar; Luke Shelton, Univ. of Glasgow; Mercury Natis, Signum Univ.; Toni DiNardo, Univ. of North Carolina–Chapel Hill; and Lars Olaf Johnson, Cornell Univ.
Respondent: Mariana Rios Maldonado
340 Schneider Hall 1330 (hybrid) Saturday 10am
Climate Change II: Social, Ecological, Political, and Spiritual Shifts in J. R. R. Tolkien and Medieval Poets
Tolkien at Kalamazoo; International Pearl-Poet Society Deidre Dawson, Michigan State Univ.
Yvette Kisor, Ramapo College
Jane Beal, Univ. of La Verne
Christopher Vaccaro, Univ. of Vermont
Tolkien’s Old English Exodus and Philosophy of Translation
Perry Neil Harrison, Fort Hays State Univ.
Elements of the Bel Inconnu Tradition in Tolkien’s Legendarium Yvette Kisor
Deep in the Earth: J. R. R. Tolkien’s Transformation of a Motif from the Works of the Pearl-Poet
Jane Beal
The Fall of Númenor: A Political and Natural Catastrophe
Gaëlle Abaléa, Univ. de Paris–Sorbonne
--that's truncated but still worthwhile, I shd think.
--Need to check whether their two C. S. Lewis sesssions are virtual or in-person of hybrid (=both)
P.S.: Just to add, of the two CSL sessions the first is devoted to Narnia, the second to CSL's 'never was a Renaissance in England' thesis.
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