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