5 April 2019 19:30 utc — view in local time
Interview and Q&A with Yvette Kisor
Christopher T. Vaccaro, moderator
Participants include Yvette Kisor, Professor of Literature, Ramapo College of New Jersey.
[for UVM English majors and minors]
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Tolkien in Vermont
2019
16th annual conference
~ Tolkien & Horror ~
This year’s conference is dedicated to the memory of our friend and colleague, Gerry Blair.
5 April 2019 22:30 utc — view in local time
Karukoski’s Tolkien
A free, private screening of Fox Searchlight’s 2019 biopic Tolkien.
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6 April 2019 00:30 utc — view in local time
Post-film discussion & readings
Christopher T. Vaccaro, facilitator
At Phoenix Books, 191 Bank Street, Burlington
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6 April 2019 12:00 utc — view in local time
Continental breakfast & welcome
In Waterman Memorial Lounge (Waterman 338)
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6 April 2019 12:30 utc — view in local time
Session 1: Nature, madness, & humor
Matthew Dickerson, moderator
- Karin Murray-Bergquist: The wrath of trees: Nature and horror in The Lord of the Rings
- Ian Gauthier: Riddles and laughter, powers for good in Tolkien’s Middle-earth
- Kristine Larsen: They’re like something from a nightmare.: No. They’re something nightmares are from.… Monsters. Magic. Gods; or, J.R.R. Tolkien and Joss Whedon: The Notion Club Papers as horror [albeit somewhat satirical and intellectual horror, as in the classic film The Cabin in the Woods] Disclaimer: Don’t…
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6 April 2019 13:45 utc — view in local time
Session 2: The perils of Feærie
Kristine Larsen, moderator
- Brendan Anderson: The girl in the woods: On fairy-stories and the virgin-horror
- Sian Pehrsson: Rivers of flame and a great reek rising: Volcanoes and the horror of the sublime in Tolkien’s legendarium
- Christopher T. Vaccaro: The anguish of longing: Homo-amory in Dome Karukoski’s Tolkien and Geoffrey Bache Smith’s A spring harvest
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6 April 2019 15:00 utc — view in local time
Session 3: UVM undergraduate voices
Christopher T. Vaccaro, moderator
- Briggs M. Heffernan: Women of the North: Defining heroism in The Lord of the Rings and Germanic Medieval literature
- Tyler Jackson: Two sides of the same coin? Exploring the relationship between good and evil in Middle-earth
- Peter Larsen: The mythological smith and the smith of myth: How Tolkien used the disparate stories about Weyland of Sweden to forge his legendarium
- Jordan Meeker: Inside the song: The battle between free will and fate
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6 April 2019 16:15 utc — view in local time
lunch break
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6 April 2019 17:15 utc — view in local time
Keynote address
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6 April 2019 18:00 utc — view in local time
Session 4: Horror of words
Jamie Williamson, moderator
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6 April 2019 19:15 utc — view in local time
afternoon break
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6 April 2019 19:30 utc — view in local time
Session 5: Horrors of modernity
Mary Lou Kete, moderator
- Matthew Dickerson: Raising walls or welcoming refugees: Reflecting on models of wisdom, heroism and ethics in The Hobbit, The Fall of Gondolin, The Lord of the Rings, and other works of J.R.R. Tolkien (and yet another instance of the continued relevance of the legendarium to modern day life)
- Lisa Gerard: Tolkien: The horror of modernity
- Andrew Liptak: Tolkien’s wartime experiences: How the Great War redefined horror
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6 April 2019 20:45 utc — view in local time
Session 6: On the borders of horror
Christopher T. Vaccaro, moderator
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