Kalamazoo 2013 (schedule)

Not sure if I've posted this before, but if so no harm in doing so again: here's the schedule of Tolkien-related events at this year's Medieval Congress, put together by Doug Anderson from the program book (thanks Doug). Today is set-up and check in; events start tomorrow. As you can see, the Tolkien events this year are heavily skewed to the first two days of the conference (Thursday/Friday), with my own bit being Friday afternoon. There are also some Lewis events, but unfortunately those are largely focused on the least interesting part of his work (Narnia). Here's the listing:

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