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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?
Tolkien at Exeter College Exeter College will be exhibiting books, documents and photographs from Tolkien’s time at the college (1911 to 1915), including rare sporting images and the book he regarded as a major inspiration for his later works.
Tolkien at Merton: Fellowship and Friendship Merton College will display original Tolkien-related material, as well recollections of Merton students and colleagues and images of Mertonian places visited and used by Tolkien in his life.
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Some more free seminars in Oxford, from now until the end of March.
Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series
A weekly series of free talks to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the death of J. R. R. Tolkien All seminars are on Friday afternoon, 4-5pm, in different venues as indicated below. Free access (no need to book). Venues at Corpus Christi and the Classics Faculty have step-free access; to access the T.S. Eliot Lecture Theatre at Merton College one needs to go up and down some steps.
Week 1 - Fri, 19 Jan 2024 4:00 PM GMT (MERTON COLLEGE T.S. ELIOT LECTURE THEATRE)
Mark Atherton (University of Oxford) The Arkenstone and the Ring: wilful objects in Tolkien's The Hobbit
Week 2 - Fri, 26 Jan 2024 4:00 PM GMT (CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE AUDITORIUM)
Elena Vermeer (University of Oxford) Tolkien's 'Sellic Spell' and Beowulfian Poetics: the Artist and the Critic
Week 3 - Fri, 2 Feb 2024 4:00 PM GMT (MERTON COLLEGE T.S. ELIOT LECTURE THEATRE)
Bond West (University of Oxford) Mr. Underhill: Topography and the Ring's Temptation
Week 4 - Fri, 9 Feb 2024 4:00 PM GMT (CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE AUDITORIUM)
Holly Ordway (Word on Fire Institute) "Fundamentally religious and Catholic"? Authorial Intent and the Intentional Fallacy
Week 5 - Fri, 16 Feb 2024 4:00 PM GMT (MERTON COLLEGE T.S. ELIOT LECTURE THEATRE)
Dion Dobrzynski (University of Birmingham) Ents and Ecological Entanglements
Week 6 - Fri, 23 Feb 2024 4:00 PM GMT (FACULTY OF CLASSICS LECTURE THEATRE)
John Garth (Writer and Journalist) Inventing on the hoof: How the Riders of Rohan suddenly became Anglo-Saxon
Week 7 - Fri, 1 Mar 2024 4:00 PM GMT (FACULTY OF CLASSICS LECTURE THEATRE)
Eduardo Gutierrez (University of Oxford) Tolkien Beyond Tolkien: Unleashing the Sub-Creative Imagination in an Era of Bridge Building
Week 8 - Fri, 8 Mar 2024 4:00 PM GMT (CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE AUDITORIUM)
Anine Englund (University of Oxford) "In the halls of Mandos": Death, Deathlessness and Inter-Racial Relations in Beren and Lúthien
Some more free seminars in Oxford, from now until the end of March.
It appears that similar seminars have been recorded and released as podcasts by Oxford (after some time delay). I'm hopeful that these will be too as there are a number of interesting topics.
Some more free seminars in Oxford, from now until the end of March.
It appears that similar seminars have been recorded and released as podcasts by Oxford (after some time delay). I'm hopeful that these will be too as there are a number of interesting topics.
The previous ones were all recorded, so hopefully these will be as well 🤞
Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series 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)
WEEK 1 – April 22 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)
looking forward to a recording of this one....
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