|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Modtheow
Lorien
Apr 30 2007, 5:02pm
Post #1 of 19
(1268 views)
Shortcut
|
|
Tolkien at Kalamazoo
|
Can't Post
|
|
I'm wondering if anyone is planning to go to the Tolkien conference at Kalamazoo next week: May 10-13. Be warned: this is a scholarly event, but there's also some fun to be had as well during the three and a half days of sessions. The Tolkien panels are a part of a much larger conference, the International Congress on Medieval Studies, that takes place at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo. I'm hoping to arrive May 9th and have to leave on the 12th (hoping is the key word -- I'm having the hardest time finding available flights into Kalamazoo!) Can I persuade anyone else to come -- dinner at Bilbo's restaurant?
|
|
|
N.E. Brigand
Half-elven
May 1 2007, 3:54am
Post #2 of 19
(1165 views)
Shortcut
|
|
Schedule for this year's Tolkien sessions.
[In reply to]
|
Can't Post
|
|
Thursday, May 10, 2007
Session 14 (10:00 a.m.), Valley I, 100
Tolkien’s Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Organizer/Presider*: Mary Faraci, Florida Atlantic Univ.
-"The Poet’s Interest Is Not There": Tolkien and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
(Amelia Gledhill, Univ. of Sydney)
-Sir Gawain: The Incredible Hulk and the Critics
(John R. Holmes, Franciscan Univ. of Steubenville)
-Problems of the English Mind: Sir Gawain, the Green Knight, and the World of J. R. R. Tolkien
(Kevin L. Shirley, LaGrange College)
-Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Tolkien’s "Game with Rules"
(Lisa L. Spangenberg, Univ. of California–Los Angeles)
Session 68 (1:30 p.m.), Valley I, 100
Religion and Tolkien
Organizer/Presider: Rachel Fulton, Univ. of Chicago
-The Potency of Imago Dei: The Theology of Sub-Creation in Tolkien’s Mythopoeia
(Sam Unger, Sam Houston State Univ.)
-Valinor as Purgatory: A Path for Spiritual Redemption in Tolkien’s Middle-Earth
(Sarah Hauer, Georgia State Univ.)
-Divine Contagion: On the Nature of Power in The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings
(Roger Ladd, Univ. of North Carolina–Pembroke)
-Tolkien the Buddhist: Thoughts and Perspectives
(Bradford Lee Eden, Univ. of California–Santa Barbara)
Session 121 (3:30 p.m.), Valley I, 100
War and Exile in Tolkien
Organizer/Presider: Matthew C. MacLaughlin Jr., Army Logistics Management College
-"Fires of Many Poisonous Hues": WW I in Tolkien’s Silmarillion
(Leigh Smith, East Stroudsburg Univ.)
-Battlefield Death-Humor in Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings and The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm’s Son
(Carol Klees-Starks, Marquette Univ.)
-Bound for Greatness: Exile and Covenant in the Transformation of Sam Gamgee
(Carole Lynn McKinney, Mayland Community College)
-Gollum as Exile
(Yvette Kisor, Ramapo College)
Friday, May 11, 2007
Session 211 (10:00 a.m.), Valley I, 100
Revisions of Gender in Tolkien
Organizers/Presiders: Robin Anne Reid, Texas A&M Univ.–Commerce, Shaun F. D. Hughes, Purdue Univ.
-Beorhtnoth’s Journey: Alliterative Style and Poetic Tradition in Tolkien’s Re-vision of The Battle of Maldon
(Anna Smol, Mount St. Vincent Univ.)
-"The Theme of Mistaken Love": A Feminist Re/Vision of Éowyn
(Robin Anne Reid; Respondent: Faye Ringel, United States Coast Guard Academy)
Session 269 (1:30 p.m.), Valley I, 100
Music and Language in Tolkien
Organizer/Presider: Bradford Lee Eden, Univ. of California–Santa Barbara
-Tolkien and the Metaphysics of Language
(Dimitra Fimi, Univ. of Cardiff)
-Dissonance in the Divine Themes: The Issue of Individuality in Tolkien’s Silmarillion
(Keith W. Jensen, William Rainey Harper College)
-Shire Song: Transitional Literacy in J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit
(Aaron DeRosa, Boston Univ.)
Session 328 (3:30 p.m.), Valley I, 100
Style and Re-vision in Tolkien
Organizers/Presiders: Faye Ringel, United States Coast Guard Academy, Robin Anne Reid
-"Will You Hearken to Me?": Finding Théoden’s Center in Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings
(S. Russell Wood, Hampden-Sydney College)
-Estrangement and Recovery in Shklovsky and Tolkien
(Chad Engbers, Calvin College)
-Authorial Insecurity: Tolkien’s Modern Medievalized Style
(Sharin Schroeder, Univ. of Minnesota–Twin Cities)
Evening Session (7:00 p.m.), Fetzer 1035
Tolkien Unbound: A Dramatic Reading of Verlyn Flieger’s "The Bargain"
(An Adaptation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight)
Organizer/Presider: Merlin DeTardo, The Cleveland Play House
A reading with Marjorie J. Burns, Portland State Univ.; Bradford Lee Eden, Univ. of California–Santa Barbara; Deanna Delmar Evans, Bemidji State Univ.; Vaughn Howland, Independent Scholar; Amy Amendt-Radeuge, Marquette Univ.; Edward L. Risden, St. Norbert College; David Thomson, Texas State Technical College.
Saturday, May 12, 2007
12:00 noon, Bernhard 205
"Tolkien at Kalamazoo" Business Meeting
Session 445 (1:30 p.m.), Valley II, 201
Tolkien Studies
Presider: Leigh Smith, East Stroudsburg Univ.
-Archaic Style and the Textual Poetics of E. R. Eddison and J. R. R. Tolkien
(Buell Wisner, Univ. of Tennessee–Knoxville)
-Tolkien’s "Natural Theology": The Nature and Struggle of Good and Evil in Middle-Earth
(Elizabeth Crowll, Youngstown State Univ.)
*Note: All Thursday and Friday sessions, presented under the auspices of "Tolkien at Kalamazoo", were nominally co-organized by Jane Chance, recently succeeded by Robin Anne Reid.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 Tolkien Illustrated! Jan. 29-May 20: Visit the Reading Room to discuss art by John Howe, Alan Lee, Ted Nasmith and others, including Tolkien himself.
Apr. 30-May 30: Post-Tolkienian Fantasy Art.
|
|
|
a.s.
Valinor
May 1 2007, 10:54am
Post #3 of 19
(1117 views)
Shortcut
|
I was going to try this year, but got a new job and so can't take the time off yet, not to mention the cane and etc.
Next year I should be walking on TWO bionic legs, so am going to try to attend (if they have it next year...they have it yearly, right??)
a.s.
"an seileachan"
Some say they're going to a place called Glory, and I ain't saying it ain't a fact.
But I've heard that I'm on the road to Purgatory, and I don't like the sound of that!
I believe in love, and live my life accordingly,
And I choose: let the mystery be.
~~~~Iris DeMent
|
|
|
entmaiden
Forum Admin
/ Moderator
May 2 2007, 8:07pm
Post #4 of 19
(1126 views)
Shortcut
|
|
I'm seeing some familiar names there
[In reply to]
|
Can't Post
|
|
I might be able to make it this year - need to check my schedule and see what I can arrange.
Each cloak was fastened about the neck with a brooch like a green leaf veined with silver.
`Are these magic cloaks?' asked Pippin, looking at them with wonder.
`I do not know what you mean by that,' answered the leader of the Elves.
NARF since 1974.
Balin Bows
|
|
|
drogo
Lorien
May 5 2007, 9:40pm
Post #5 of 19
(1104 views)
Shortcut
|
Someday I will be able to go to K'zoo. Worst time of year for me (right after the semester ends is administrative planning retreat time, ugh), but I have heard it is a very interesting conference--all those medievalists in one place--and really want to go for the Tolkien papers and the experience of it all!
Discuss the Bakshi Lord of the Rings on the Movie Board starting April 16
(This post was edited by drogo on May 5 2007, 9:41pm)
|
|
|
N.E. Brigand
Half-elven
May 6 2007, 4:19am
Post #6 of 19
(1209 views)
Shortcut
|
|
"Yf thou were a latyn tretise ich wolde putte thee in the vernacular."
[In reply to]
|
Can't Post
|
|
That and more amusing "lynes of picke-vppe", largely composed with the Kalamazoo conference in mind, can be found at Geoffrey Chaucer's blog here. Professor Herr von Korncrake's summary of the K'zoo experience is also pretty funny, though it apears that I'm a limpet on a snail's belly. (Hat tip: In the Middle and R.S. Nokes.)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Tolkien Illustrated! Jan. 29-May 20: Visit the Reading Room to discuss art by John Howe, Alan Lee, Ted Nasmith and others, including Tolkien himself.
Apr. 30-May 6: Post-Tolkienian Fantasy Art.
|
|
|
dernwyn
Forum Admin
/ Moderator
May 6 2007, 6:27pm
Post #7 of 19
(1126 views)
Shortcut
|
|
"Makstow a pilgrymage heere often?"
[In reply to]
|
Can't Post
|
|
Love that site.
Wish I could go - it all sounds like so much fun! (Even though I probably couldn't comprehend half of the lectures  , it'd still be great!)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"And when Sam heard that he laughed aloud for sheer delight, and he stood up and cried: 'O great glory and splendour! And all my wishes have come true!'"
|
|
|
L. Ron Halfelven
Grey Havens
May 6 2007, 6:40pm
Post #8 of 19
(1139 views)
Shortcut
|
|
Ich bethoughten me, thatte into a dreme ich hadde streyde.
[In reply to]
|
Can't Post
|
|
I remember that post; the anonymous spammer was me!
A new Powah is wising! Its victowy is at hand!
Let me accompany you, Tharuman. I may be of thome athithtanthe if Ithengard ith thtormed by Entth.
|
|
|
N.E. Brigand
Half-elven
May 6 2007, 6:43pm
Post #9 of 19
(1125 views)
Shortcut
|
I hadn't read the comments responding to Chaucer's blog post, and just noticed that one of them is a spam advertisement.
In Middle English.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Tolkien Illustrated! Jan. 29-May 20: Visit the Reading Room to discuss art by John Howe, Alan Lee, Ted Nasmith and others, including Tolkien himself.
Apr. 30-May 6: Post-Tolkienian Fantasy Art.
|
|
|
N.E. Brigand
Half-elven
May 6 2007, 6:46pm
Post #10 of 19
(1093 views)
Shortcut
|
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Tolkien Illustrated! Jan. 29-May 20: Visit the Reading Room to discuss art by John Howe, Alan Lee, Ted Nasmith and others, including Tolkien himself.
Apr. 30-May 6: Post-Tolkienian Fantasy Art.
|
|
|
Modtheow
Lorien
May 6 2007, 7:48pm
Post #11 of 19
(1100 views)
Shortcut
|
then I must be the one who's perpetually by the coffee urn.
Being exactly in the position described in "In the Middle," I took cohen's advice and read Professor von Korncrake's account of the K'zoo experience -- which explains why I've booked a hotel room, for one thing. Thanks for these hilarious diversions! I think I'll post the "lynes of picke-vppe" for my students to practice.
|
|
|
Modtheow
Lorien
May 6 2007, 7:49pm
Post #12 of 19
(1091 views)
Shortcut
|
Just wondering if you've managed to arrange a trip to K'zoo this year. If you're having trouble finding accommodation, you can send me a P.M.
|
|
|
dernwyn
Forum Admin
/ Moderator
May 7 2007, 3:24am
Post #13 of 19
(1089 views)
Shortcut
|
|
YOU made that "advertisement"? LOL, it's great! /
[In reply to]
|
Can't Post
|
|
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"And when Sam heard that he laughed aloud for sheer delight, and he stood up and cried: 'O great glory and splendour! And all my wishes have come true!'"
|
|
|
greendragon
Sr. Staff
May 7 2007, 3:51pm
Post #14 of 19
(1131 views)
Shortcut
|
|
bwahaha - 'nat exactlie Colin de Pharelle'!!!
[In reply to]
|
Can't Post
|
|
Ich findest thatte trulie hylarrious! Nat sine ye passyng of manie monaten haue ich wyth myrth ben so yshook!
Totally brilliant! 
'There are older and fouler things than orcs in the deep places of my fridge...'
|
|
|
entmaiden
Forum Admin
/ Moderator
May 7 2007, 4:10pm
Post #15 of 19
(1115 views)
Shortcut
|
I checked the web site and all the sessions are filled up. Maybe we can arrange something - I'm only about 2 hours away.
Just wondering if you've managed to arrange a trip to K'zoo this year. If you're having trouble finding accommodation, you can send me a P.M.
Each cloak was fastened about the neck with a brooch like a green leaf veined with silver.
`Are these magic cloaks?' asked Pippin, looking at them with wonder.
`I do not know what you mean by that,' answered the leader of the Elves.
NARF since 1974.
Balin Bows
|
|
|
N.E. Brigand
Half-elven
May 7 2007, 8:25pm
Post #16 of 19
(1102 views)
Shortcut
|
Booked late, so I'm at a hotel 25 miles south of K'zoo -- everything in town was full. But you can still register for the conference itself onsite (though advance registration closed several weeks ago).
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Tolkien Illustrated! Jan. 29-May 20: Visit the Reading Room to discuss art by John Howe, Alan Lee, Ted Nasmith and others, including Tolkien himself.
Apr. 30-May 6: Post-Tolkienian Fantasy Art.
|
|
|
entmaiden
Forum Admin
/ Moderator
May 7 2007, 8:34pm
Post #17 of 19
(1089 views)
Shortcut
|
|
Sorry, I meant conference sessions
[In reply to]
|
Can't Post
|
|
Booked late, so I'm at a hotel 25 miles south of K'zoo -- everything in town was full. But you can still register for the conference itself onsite (though advance registration closed several weeks ago).
I could stay at several hotels along 94, but according to the web site nearly all the conference sessions are booked up. So even if I could register at the conference, I wouldn't be able to get in to your and Modtheow's sessions.
Definitely want to hear about it though! And I could be persuaded to drive over and meet you for dinner. It's about 2 hours from me.
Each cloak was fastened about the neck with a brooch like a green leaf veined with silver.
`Are these magic cloaks?' asked Pippin, looking at them with wonder.
`I do not know what you mean by that,' answered the leader of the Elves.
NARF since 1974.
Balin Bows
|
|
|
N.E. Brigand
Half-elven
May 7 2007, 9:52pm
Post #18 of 19
(1103 views)
Shortcut
|
|
The sessions aren't booked up.
[In reply to]
|
Can't Post
|
|
They can't be: attendance at sessions is first come first serve: you don't register to attend those in advance, and nobody checks at the door to see who's coming in. It's quite common for attendees to choose the session they'll attend on the spur of the moment, based on recommendations from colleagues and the like.
Now, pre-registration to attend the conference as a whole closed on Apr. 15 (as did the option for onsite housing), but walk up registration is perfectly possible.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Tolkien Illustrated! Jan. 29-May 20: Visit the Reading Room to discuss art by John Howe, Alan Lee, Ted Nasmith and others, including Tolkien himself.
Apr. 30-May 6: Post-Tolkienian Fantasy Art.
|
|
|
Modtheow
Lorien
May 8 2007, 3:23am
Post #19 of 19
(1132 views)
Shortcut
|
which is why I'm at the Radisson. I should be paying attention to my bank account and staying in the dorms, but I just couldn't face that horrible prospect.
See you in a couple of days!
|
|
|
|
|
