9 May 2022 19:00 utc — view in local time
Tales after Tolkien Society business meeting
[From draft program.]
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International Congress on Medieval Studies
2022
57th International Congress on Medieval Studies
Hosted by the Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University, the International Congress on Medieval Studies is an annual gathering of thousands of scholars interested in medieval studies. The Congress embraces the study of all aspects of Middle Ages, extending to into late antiquity and the early modern periods, including — but not limited to — history, language, literature, linguistics, art, archaeology, religion, science, medicine, music, drama, philosophy, gender, sexuality mysticism, and technology, as well as medievalism.
57th Congress
The 57th International Congress on Medieval Studies takes place online Monday, May 9, through Saturday, May 14, 2022, followed by two weeks of recorded content available to registrants from Monday, May 16, through Saturday, May 28. Special events include a series of behind-the-scenes museum visits.
The program [will be] available … in February, and registration opens in March.
Tolkien-related sessions
10 May 2022 17:00 utc — view in local time
№ 121: Medieval understandings of the nature of evil as depicted by J.R.R. Tolkien
Michael Wodzak, organizer; and Michael Wodzak, presider
[From draft program.]
- Edmund Michael Lazzari: The cosmic catastrophe of history: Augustinian theology of history and patristic angelology in Tolkien’s “Long defeat”
- Michael David Elam: Dante’s Paradiso and the Fall of Melkor: Tolkien’s preoccupations with culpability and purgation
- Joshua T. Parks: A clamorous unison: Musical evil in the Middle Ages and the Ainulindalë
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12 May 2022 13:00 utc — view in local time
№ 226: Tolkien and the Medieval Animal
Kristine A. Swank, organizer; and Kristine A. Swank, presider
[From draft program.]
- Marc Zender: Mammoth, Mûmak, and “The old fireside rhyme of Oliphaunt”: Tolkien’s contributions to the Medieval bestiary tradition
- Fiammetta Comelli: From Classical to Medieval: A reflection on bats in Tolkien’s works
- John Rosegrant: Of foxes and dancing bears
- Camilo G. Peralta: Tolkien’s dragons: sources, symbols, and significance
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12 May 2022 13:00 utc — view in local time
№ 270: Twenty-first-century neo/medievalisms: A rountable
Geoffrey B. Elliott, organizer; and Rachel Sikorski, presider
Participants include Geoffrey B. Elliott; Lars Olaf Johnson, Cornell University; and Michael Torregrossa.
[From draft program.]
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12 May 2022 23:00 utc — view in local time
№ 275: J.R.R. Tolkien and Medieval poets: A session in memory of Richard C. West
Christopher T. Vaccaro, organizer; and Jane Beal, presider
[From draft program.]
- Paul L. Fortunato: Tolkien and Dante on the musical nature of “sub-creation”
- Anna Smol: The lost roads of Old English poetry: Dramas of time travel in Tolkien’s works
- Gavin Foster: Strange sounds, strange scenes: Alliterative metre and personification in J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The lay of the children of Húrin”
- John R. Holmes: Tolkien, Beowulf, and Gawain: The myth of alliteration
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13 May 2022 15:00 utc — view in local time
Tolkien at Kalamazoo business meeting
[From draft program.]
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13 May 2022 23:00 utc — view in local time
№ 360: Medieval Tolkien and the nature of Middle-earth: A roundtable
Yvette Kisor, organizer; and Deidre Dawson, presider
Participants include Edward Louis Risden, Professor of English, St. Norbert College; Sutirtho Roy, University of Calcutta; Christopher T. Vaccaro, Senior Lecturer, University of Vermont; and John D. Rateliff, independent scholar.
[From draft program.]
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14 May 2022 19:00 utc — view in local time
№ 394: C.S. Lewis and the Middle Ages I: Dante and the Lewis Circle (in honor of Marsha Daigle Williamson)
Joe Ricke, organizer; and Barbara L. Prescott, presider
[From draft program.]
- Paul E. Michelson: “... And telling you a story”: Dorothy L. Sayers, Charles Williams, and Dante’s Divine Comedy
- Gabrielle N. Baalke: Everyone take out your mappa mundi: A Medieval tour through C.S. Lewis’s Pilgrim’s Regress
- Curtis Gruenler: Heavenly models of desire in Dante, Lewis, and Tolkien
- Brenton D.G. Dickieson: Medieval models and Lewisian intertextuality: A quest for a new metaphor
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14 May 2022 21:00 utc — view in local time
№ 418: Medievalism in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-century literary and cinematic adaptations of Beowulf
Lorraine Kochanske Stock, organizer; and Lorraine Kochanske Stock, presider
[From draft program.]
- Andrew Phillip de Carion: The existential dragon: Adapting Beowulf in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and John Gardner’s Grendel
- Erin Cadenhead: Beowulf’s “sword”: The sacrifice of manhood in the fight with Grendel’s mother
- Schuyler Eastin: The medievalism of cultural trauma in Maria Dahvana Headley’s The Mere Wife
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14 May 2022 21:00 utc — view in local time
№ 421: New readings of The Lord of the Rings
Luke J. Chambers, presider
[From draft program.]
- Consuelo M. Concepcion: The fisherman’s ring of power: Masculinity, castration, and the great quest in The Hobbit and The Lord of The Rings
- Ruthann E. Mowry: The dragon is not an allegory: Reading Tolkien’s monsters in Medieval contexts
- Brian J. McFadden: Samwise: J.R.R. Tolkien’s practical Boethian
- Perry Neil Harrison: Tolkien, Augustinian theodicy, and Lovecraftian evil
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