Session 5: Horrors of modernity

6 April 2019 19:30 utc — view in local time

• moderator: Mary Lou Kete, Professor, University of Vermont

Papers

№ 1: Tolkien: The horror of modernity

Lisa Gerard

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№ 2: Tolkien’s wartime experiences: How the Great War redefined horror

Andrew Liptak

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№ 3: 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)

Matthew Dickerson, Professor of Computer Science, Middlebury College

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