Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series
18 Jul, 2023
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2023-7-18 6:21:22 PM UTC
2023-7-18 6:21:22 PM UTC
A weekly series of free talks by Oxford staff to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the death of J. R. R. Tolkien
Wednesdays 11th, 18th October & 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd November, 1.00-2.00pm
Exeter College's Cohen Quad, Walton Street OX1 2HE
A series of free seminars to commemorate the death of J. R. R. Tolkien. The seminars are free to attend and open to the public but Registration is required to manage numbers. The talks will present an introduction and further background to Tolkien's life, work, and legacy. They are aimed at those who have read Tolkien's work but are interested in gaining a bit more insight into his life, career, and writings.
The presentations will be held in the Fitzhugh Auditorium (unless stated otherwise) from 1.00-2.00pm. Fitzhugh is situated in Exeter College's new Cohen Quad on Walton Street in Oxford. Exeter College providing a perfect venue as it was Tolkien's undergraduate college.
- 11th October: Stuart Lee – ‘How to write The Lord of the Rings’
- 18th October: Michael Ward – ‘Peak Middle-earth: Why Mount Doom is not the Climax of The Lord of the Rings’
- 25th October: HALF-TERM
- 1st November: Giuseppe Pezzini – ‘Tolkien and the Classics’ [Venue TBC]
- 8th November: Grace Khuri – ‘A Heroic History of the Elves: Tolkien’s “lost” Mythology of England?
- 15th November: Laura Varnam – ‘Tolkien and Beowulf’
- 22nd November: Simon Horobin – ‘J.R.R. Tolkien: The Making of a Philologist’
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Trotter wrote:
Some more free seminars in Oxford, from now until the end of March.John Garth (Writer and Journalist)
- Week 6 - 23 February (FACULTY OF CLASSICS LECTURE THEATRE)
Inventing on the hoof: How the Riders of Rohan suddenly became Anglo-Saxon
Something from Garth's upcoming book, methinks
looking forward to a recording of this one....Another series of the talks
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Catherine McIlwaine (Tolkien Archivist, Bodleian Library)
“Being a cult figure in one’s lifetime is not at all pleasant”: Tolkien’s relationship with his fans
CHAIR: Simon Horobin (Magdalen)
WEEK 2 – April 29
Hugo Lacoue-Labarthe (Exeter College, University of Oxford)
Tolkien’s Lancelot in The Fall of Arthur: the living memory of a decaying world
CHAIR: Mark Atherton (Regent’s Park)
WEEK 3 – May 4
Edmund Weiner (Oxford English Dictionary)
‘I always felt that something ought to be done about the word…’: Tolkien's latchwords
CHAIR: Simon Horobin (Magdalen)
WEEK 4 – May 13
Dr. Eleanor Parker (Brasenose College, University of Oxford)
Tolkien and the Anglo-Saxon Calendar
CHAIR: Grace Khuri (Oriel)
WEEK 5 – May 20 [MERTON COLLEGE]
Will Sherwood (University of Glasgow)
"I am a link in the chain": Victorian Transformations of British Romanticism and their Influence on Tolkien
CHAIR: Grace Khuri (Oriel)
WEEK 6 – May 27
David Bernabé (University of Oxford/University of the Basque Country)
Riddles in the Grass: the characterisation and narrative value of landscape over the fields of Rohan
CHAIR: Anine Englund (Balliol)
WEEK 7 – June 3 [MERTON COLLEGE]
Michael G.R. Tolkien (Poet and Critic)
A grandson's reflections on J.R.R. Tolkien
CHAIR: Giuseppe Pezzini (Corpus Christi)
WEEK 8 – June 10
John Holmes (University of Birmingham)
A Veritable “Middle Earth”’: Tolkien and the Palaeoanthropological Imagination
CHAIR: Giuseppe Pezzini (Corpus Christi)
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Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar SeriesWEEK 1 – April 22
A weekly series of free talks to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the death of J. R. R. Tolkien
Trinity Term: Monday 5-6.30pm
A series of free seminars to commemorate the death of J. R. R. Tolkien, to be held in 2023/2024 in the University of Oxford. The talks present an introduction and further background to Tolkien's life, work, and legacy. They have an academic approach, but they are also aimed at those who have read Tolkien's work but are interested in gaining a bit more insight into his life, career, and writings.
Trinity Term series
Mondays 5-6.30 pm: all sessions at Magdalen College (Summer Common Room) except Week 5 and 7 (@Merton College, T.S. Eliot Theatre)
Catherine McIlwaine (Tolkien Archivist, Bodleian Library)
“Being a cult figure in one’s lifetime is not at all pleasant”: Tolkien’s relationship with his fans
CHAIR: Simon Horobin (Magdalen)
WEEK 2 – April 29
Hugo Lacoue-Labarthe (Exeter College, University of Oxford)
Tolkien’s Lancelot in The Fall of Arthur: the living memory of a decaying world
CHAIR: Mark Atherton (Regent’s Park)
WEEK 3 – May 4
Edmund Weiner (Oxford English Dictionary)
‘I always felt that something ought to be done about the word…’: Tolkien's latchwords
CHAIR: Simon Horobin (Magdalen)
WEEK 4 – May 13
Dr. Eleanor Parker (Brasenose College, University of Oxford)
Tolkien and the Anglo-Saxon Calendar
CHAIR: Grace Khuri (Oriel)
WEEK 5 – May 20 [MERTON COLLEGE]
Will Sherwood (University of Glasgow)
"I am a link in the chain": Victorian Transformations of British Romanticism and their Influence on Tolkien
CHAIR: Grace Khuri (Oriel)
WEEK 6 – May 27
David Bernabé (University of Oxford/University of the Basque Country)
Riddles in the Grass: the characterisation and narrative value of landscape over the fields of Rohan
CHAIR: Anine Englund (Balliol)
WEEK 7 – June 3 [MERTON COLLEGE]
Michael G.R. Tolkien (Poet and Critic)
A grandson's reflections on J.R.R. Tolkien
CHAIR: Giuseppe Pezzini (Corpus Christi)
WEEK 8 – June 10
John Holmes (University of Birmingham)
A Veritable “Middle Earth”’: Tolkien and the Palaeoanthropological Imagination
CHAIR: Giuseppe Pezzini (Corpus Christi)
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