I am very pleased to announce that all six sessions on J.R.R. Tolkien I proposed for the International Medieval Congress at Leeds 2018 have been accepted! This will be the fourth consecutive year of papers on J.R.R. Tolkien at IMC Leeds, after a successful series of sessions in 2015, 2016 and 2017. Leeds is, of course, a Tolkien-related location, and it is very fitting that his work will be once again explored in this prestigious conference. Many thanks to Professor Thomas Honegger for his help with the IMC 2018 organizing. I am looking forward to a series of brilliant sessions and papers from well-established Tolkien scholars, alongside new voices and perspectives!
Here are the sessions titles, abstracts, papers, speakers and times:
Session 127
Title: Memory in Tolkien’s Medievalism, I
Session Time: Mon. 02 July – 11.15-12.45
Sponsor: Cardiff Metropolitan University
Organiser: Dimitra Fimi, Department of Humanities, Cardiff Metropolitan University
Moderator/Chair: Brad Eden, Christopher Center for Library & Information Resources, Valparaiso University, Indiana
Memory, Lore, Knowledge in Tolkien’s Legendarium
Thomas Honegger, Institut für Anglistik, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
World-Building and Memory in The Name-List to the ‘Fall of Gondolin’
Andrew Higgins, Independent Scholar, Brighton
The Smith, the Weaver and the Librarian: Sub-Creating Memory in Tolkien’s work
Gaëlle Abaléa, Centre d’Etudes Médiévales Anglaises (CEMA), Université Paris IV – Sorbonne
Tolkien’s Typological Imagination
Anna Smol, Department of English, Mount Saint Vincent University, Nova Scotia
Session 227
Title: Memory in Tolkien’s Medievalism, II
Session Time: Mon. 02 July – 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: Cardiff Metropolitan University
Organiser: Dimitra Fimi, Department of Humanities, Cardiff Metropolitan University
Moderator/Chair: Andrew Higgins, Independent Scholar, Brighton
Tolkien Remembering Tolkien: Textual Memory in the 1977 Silmarillion
Gergely Nagy, Independent Scholar, Budapest
Remembering and Forgetting: National Identity Construction in Tolkien’s Middle-Earth
Sara Brown, Independent Scholar, Conwy
Longing to Remember, Dying to Forget: Memory and Monstrosity
Penelope Holdaway, Department of Humanities, Cardiff Metropolitan University
‘Forgot even the stones’: Stone Monuments and Imperfect Cultural and Personal Memories in The Lord of the Rings
Kristine Larsen, Department of Geological Sciences, Central Connecticut State University
Session 311
Title: ‘New’ Tolkien: Expanding the Canon
Session Time: Mon. 02 July – 16.30-18.00
Sponsor: Cardiff Metropolitan University
Organiser: Dimitra Fimi, Department of Humanities, Cardiff Metropolitan University
Moderator/Chair: Dimitra Fimi
‘I will give you a name’: Sentient Objects in Tolkien’s Fiction
J. Patrick Pazdziora, College of Liberal Arts, Shantou University, China
Tolkien’s ‘The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun’ and The Lay of Leithian
Yvette Kisor, School of American & International Studies, Ramapo College of New Jersey
Invented Language and Invented Religion: Tolkien’s Innovative Symbolic Systems and New Religious Movements
Nathan Fredrickson, Department of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
The Grammar of Historical Memory in Tolkien’s Legendarium: The Tale of Beren and Lúthien
Christian F. Hempelmann and Robin Anne Reid, Department of Literature & Languages, Texas A&M University, Commerce
Session 749
Title: Tolkien: Medieval Roots and Modern Branches, I
Session Time: Tue. 03 July – 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: Cardiff Metropolitan University
Organiser: Thomas Honegger, Institut für Anglistik, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Moderator/Chair: Anna Smol, Department of English, Mount Saint Vincent University, Nova Scotia
Some Boethian Themes as Tools of Characterization in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings
Andrzej Wicher, Zakład Dramatu i Dawnej Literatury Angielskiej, Uniwersytet Łódzki
Eldest: Tom Bombadil and Fintan Mac Bóchra
Kris Swank, Northwest Campus Library, Pima Community College, Arizona
Under the Wings of Shadow: Mental Health and the Price of Civilization in The Lord of the Rings
Hilary Justice, Ernest Hemingway Collection, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, Boston, Massachusetts
Hobbits: The Un-Recorded People of Middle-Earth
Aurélie Brémont, Centre d’Études Médiévales Anglaises (CEMA), Université Paris IV – Sorbonne
Session 849
Title: Tolkien: Medieval Roots and Modern Branches, II
Session Time: Tue. 03 July – 16.30-18.00
Sponsor: Cardiff Metropolitan University
Organiser: Thomas Honegger, Institut für Anglistik, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Moderator/Chair: Thomas Honegger
Longing for Death: Tolkien and Sehnsucht
Anna Vaninskaya, School of Literatures, Languages & Cultures, University of Edinburgh
Tolkien’s Agrarianism in its Time
Joshua Richards, Faculty of English, Williams Baptist College, Arkansas
Frodo Surrealist: André Breton and J. R. R. Tolkien on Dreams
Claudio Antonio Testi, Independent Scholar, Modena
A Man of His Time?: Tolkien and the Edwardian Worldview
Brad Eden, Christopher Center for Library & Information Resources, Valparaiso University, Indiana
Session 949
Title: Tolkien in Context(s): A Round Table Discussion
Session Time: Tue. 03 July – 19.00-20.00
Sponsor: Cardiff Metropolitan University
Organiser: Dimitra Fimi, Department of Humanities, Cardiff Metropolitan University
Moderator/Chair: Dimitra Fimi
Participants:
Yvette Kisor, School of American & International Studies, Ramapo College of New Jersey
Kristine Larsen, Department of Geological Sciences, Central Connecticut State University
Irina Metzler, College of Arts & Humanities, Swansea University
Gergely Nagy, Independent Scholar, Budapest
Sara L. Uckelman, Institute of Medieval & Early Modern Studies, Durham University
