Kalamazoo 9-12 May 2013
Wednesday
May 8
Noon Registration begins, Eldridge-Fox lobby
Set-up Exhibits Hall, Goldsworth Valley III
Thursday
May 9
Exhibits Hall, Goldsworth Valley III Thursday: 8:00 a.m.–6:30 p.m.
10.00 AM
FETZER 1045
Tolkien
as Medieval Scholar
Presider: Brad Eden
“And they are making songs about him from here to the sea”:
Samwise Gamgee
as Medieval English Yeoman Leigh Smith, East
Stroudsburg Univ.
A Historiology for England: Tolkien on the Anglo-Saxon
Chronicles
John R. Holmes, Franciscan Univ.
of Steubenville
Music of the Ainu, Music of the Spheres: Tolkien and Cosmic
Harmonies
Janice M. Bogstad, Univ. of
Wisconsin–Eau Claire
Tolkien’s Poetic Scholarship: Old English Meter and Modern
Poetry
Anna Smol, Mount St. Vincent
Univ.
Tolkien as a Celticist: Views of a “Curtain Raiser” of the
O’Donnell Lecture Series
Yoko Hemmi, Keio Univ.
1.30
SCHNEIDER 1280
In
Honor of Verlyn Flieger: The State of Tolkien Scholarship (A Panel Discussion)
Presider: Amy Amendt-Raduege, Whatcom Community College
The Geek and the Scholar: Standing Pointy Ear to Mortarboard
Thom Foy, Independent Scholar
Splintered Light and Word: Tolkien’s Myth, Philology, and
Faith
Edward L. Risden, St. Norbert
College
Whose Myth Is It? Tolkien Scholarship as Interdisciplinary
Studies
Kristine Larsen, Central
Connecticut State Univ.
The Tolkien Scholarship Project
Robin Anne Reid, Texas
A&M Univ.–Commerce
Saruman’s Coat of Many Colors: Tolkien’s Exploration of
Medieval Theories of
Light Michael Wodzak, and Vickie
Holtz-Wodzak, Viterbo Univ.
3.30
SCHNEIDER 1280
Tolkien and Alterity: In Honor of Jane Chance
Presider: Christopher T. Vaccaro, Univ. of Vermont
Medieval Organicism or Modern
Feminist Science? Bombadil, Elves, and
Mother
Nature Kristine Larsen, Central Connecticut State Univ.
The State of Tolkien and
Alterity Scholarship
Robin Anne Reid, Texas A&M
Univ.–Commerce
Language and Alterity in
Tolkien
Deidre Dawson, Michigan State Univ.
The Alterior Motive: Patterns
of Difference and Otherness in Tolkien’s World
Jared
Lobdell, Independent Scholar
7.30 SCHNEIDER 1280
Art and Music of The Hobbit
Presider: Kristine Larsen, Central Connecticut State Univ.
A Game of Tolkien
Ed Ouellette, Air Univ.
Peter Jackson’s The
Hobbit: From
Children’s Story to Epic Film
Yvette Kisor, Ramapo College
Songs of Peril in The
Hobbit
Laura Smith, Signum Univ.
Sub-creation in Action: Music
Inspired by The
Hobbit
Brad
Eden
Friday
May 10
Exhibits Hall, Goldsworth Valley III Friday: 8:00 a.m.–6:30 p.m.
1.30 VALLEY
I 104
Women in Tolkien’s Professional Life
Presider: Yvette Kisor, Ramapo College
“Professor
d’Ardenne of Liège has arrived to harrass me with philological
work”: Simonne
d’Ardenne as Student, Collaborator, Translator, and Friend of
J. R. R. Tolkien
Douglas A. Anderson, Independent
Scholar
The Missing
Women: J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lifelong Support for Women’s Higher
Education
John D. Rateliff, Independent Scholar
1.30 SCHNEIDER
1155
In Honor of Marcia Marzec: Papers by Undergraduates I
Presider: Katherine McMahon
2nd of 4 papers
The Eorl That Could Have
Been: Theoden as Tolkien’s Answer to Beorhtnoth’s
Ofermod
Colin Pajda, St. Louis Univ.
3.30 SCHNEIDER
1220
Queer Tolkien
Sponsor: Society for the Study of Homosexuality in the
Middle Ages (SSHMA);
Tolkien at Kalamazoo
Presider: Graham N. Drake
Niggle, Smith, and Giles:
Medieval as Queer
Stephen Yandell, Xavier Univ.
To All Elf-Friends and
Wizard’s-Pupils: “It gets better”: Medieval and Modern
Categories of the Queer in
Tolkien’s The
Lord of the Rings
Christopher T. Vaccaro, Univ. of
Vermont
Respondent: Jane Chance, Rice Univ.
7.30 FETZER
1045
Tolkien Unbound (Performances) Fetzer 1045
Presider: Robin Anne Reid, Texas A&M Univ.–Commerce
Maidens of Middle-earth: The
Silmarillion
Eileen Marie Moore, Cleveland State
Univ.
The
Waking of Angantyr: A Poetic Drama (Text by
Deborah C. Rogers) based on
an Old Norse Saga,
Performed with the Assistance
of the Western
Michigan University
Department of Theatre
Richard
C. West, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison
Saturday
May 11
Exhibits Hall, Goldsworth Valley III Saturday: 8:00 a.m.–6:30 p.m.
12.00 BERNHARD 211
Tolkien
at Kalamazoo Business meeting
Sunday
May 12
Exhibits Hall, Goldsworth Valley III Sunday: 8:00 a.m.–12:00 noon
8.30 AM
SCHNEIDER 1120
Tales after Tolkien: Medievalism and
Twenty-First-Century Fantasy Literature I
Presider: Carol L. Robinson, Kent State Univ.–Trumbull
Refracted Romance:
Re-visioning the Grail Legend in Catherine Fisher’s Corbenic
Molly Brown, Univ. of Pretoria
George R. R. Martin’s Quest for
Realism in A Song of Ice and Fire
Shiloh R. Carroll, Middle Tennessee
State Univ.
Androgynes, Crossdressers,
and Rebel Queens: Modern Representations of
Medieval Women Warriors from
Tolkien to Martin
Rachael Mueller, Catholic Univ. of
America
The Meaning of the Middle
Ages: Fans, Authors, and Industry
Helen
Young
10.30 SCHNEIDER 1120
Tales after Tolkien: Medievalism and
Twenty-First-Century Fantasy Literature II
Presider: Douglas A. Anderson, Independent Scholar
Pratchett’s The
Last Continent and Nominalist Questions
Jay Ruud, Univ. of Central Arkansas
A Divergent Medievalism in
Robin Hobb’s Tawny Man Trilogy
Geoffrey B. Elliott, Technical Career
Institutes
Black and Liminal in Camelot
Kris Swank, Mythgard Institute
The Hunger Games: Reinterpretation
of a Medieval Quest Narrative
Stephanie
A. Amsell, Southern Methodist Univ.
Monday
May 13
disperse . . .
--JDR
