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 AgesSponsor: Tales after Tolkien Society Organizer: Helen Young, Univ. of Sydney Presider:  Helen Young“Creasing the Truth”: Dialogical Medievalisms in Kevin Crossley Holland’s Arthur TrilogyMolly Brown, Univ. of PretoriaLittle, Big: The Royal Court versus Owen Archer’s YorkCandace Robb/Emma Campion, Independent ScholarUnchurched: On the Relative Lack of Religion in Tolkienan-Tradition Fantasy LiteratureGeoffrey B. Elliott, Oklahoma State Univ.Adapting Odin: The Pagan and the Secular in Contemporary Urban FantasyKim Wilkins, Univ. of Queensland
Saturday May 10th, 3.30 p.m.In Honor of Geoffrey Richard Russom: Aspects of Early English Poetic Culture IIOrganizer: M. J. Toswell, Univ. of Western Ontario Presider: Amy N. Vines, Univ. of North Carolina–GreensboroTolkien’s ArchaismsPaul Acker, St. Louis Univ.The (Comparative) Roots of English LiteratureLesley 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 ISponsor: 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 RickeThis Is Awkward: C. S. Lewis and the Medieval Matter of RaceHannah Oliver Depp, American Univ.Wise Beyond Their Years: Pearl, The Great Divorce, and the Medieval Dream VisionAmber Dunai, Texas A&M Univ.The Discarded Mage: Lewis’s Merlin and the Medieval MindChristopher 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 IISponsor: 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 SeminaryMedieval Sources for the Anthropology of The Abolition of Man Laura A. Smit, Calvin CollegeThis Rough Magic: C. S. Lewis and the Medieval Dialogue about MagicEdwin Woodruff-Tait, Independent Scholar