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Monday 10 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

None - A Veritable “Middle Earth”’: Tolkien and the Palaeoanthropological Imagination
John Holmes
Part of: Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series

Monday 3 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

None - A grandson's reflections on J.R.R. Tolkien
Michael G.R. Tolkien
Part of: Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series

Monday 27 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

None - Riddles in the Grass: the characterisation and narrative value of landscape over the fields of Rohan
David Bernabé
Part of: Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series

Monday 20 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

None - "I am a link in the chain": Victorian Transformations of British Romanticism and their Influence on Tolkien
Will Sherwood
Part of: Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series

Monday 13 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

None - Tolkien and the Anglo-Saxon Calendar
Dr. Eleanor Parker
Part of: Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series

Monday 6 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

None - ‘I always felt that something ought to be done about the word…’: Tolkien's latchwords
Edmund Weiner
Part of: Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series

Monday 29 April 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

None - Tolkien’s Lancelot in The Fall of Arthur: the living memory of a decaying world
Hugo Lacoue-Labarthe
Part of: Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series

Monday 22 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

None - “Being a cult figure in one’s lifetime is not at all pleasant”: Tolkien’s relationship with his fans
Catherine McIlwaine
Part of: Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series

Friday 8 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

None - “In the halls of Mandos”: Death, Deathlessness and Inter-Racial Relations in Beren and Lúthien
Anine Englund
Part of: Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series

Friday 1 March 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

None - Tolkien Beyond Tolkien: Unleashing the Sub-Creative Imagination in an Era of Bridge Building
Eduardo Gutierrez
Part of: Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series

Saturday 24 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

None - To What Extent is the Lord of the Rings a Christian Story?
Dr Holly Ordway
Part of: Taunton Talks

Friday 23 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

None - Inventing on the hoof: How the Riders of Rohan suddenly became Anglo-Saxon
John Garth
Part of: Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series

Friday 16 February 2024 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

None - Ents and Ecological Entanglements
Dion Dobrzynski
Part of: Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series

Friday 9 February 2024 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

None - “Fundamentally religious and Catholic"? Authorial Intent and the Intentional Fallacy
Holly Ordway
Part of: Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series

Friday 2 February 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

None - Mr. Underhill: Topography and the Ring's Temptation
Bond West
Part of: Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series

Friday 26 January 2024 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

None - Tolkien's 'Sellic Spell' and Beowulfian Poetics: the Artist and the Critic
Elena Vermeer
Part of: Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series

Friday 19 January 2024 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

None - 'The Arkenstone and the Ring: wilful objects in Tolkien's The Hobbit’
Mark Atherton
Part of: Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series

Thursday 30 November 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

None - TOSCA Field Trip – Mapping Middle-earth: how Tolkien created a convincing world
Catherine McIlwaine
Part of: The Oxford Seminars in Cartography (TOSCA)

Wednesday 22 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

None - ‘J.R.R. Tolkien: The Making of a Philologist’
Professor Simon Horobin
Part of: Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series
None - Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series: Simon Horobin – ‘J.R.R. Tolkien: The Making of a Philologist’
Professor Simon Horobin

Wednesday 15 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

None - ‘Tolkien and Beowulf’
Dr Laura Varnam
Part of: Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series
None - Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series: Laura Varnam – ‘Tolkien and Beowulf’
Dr Laura Varnam

Wednesday 8 November 2023 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

None - ‘A Heroic History of the Elves: Tolkien’s “lost” Mythology of England?
Grace Khuri
Part of: Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series
None - Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series: Grace Khuri – ‘A Heroic History of the Elves: Tolkien’s “lost” Mythology of England?
Grace Khuri

Wednesday 1 November 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

None - ‘Tolkien and the Classics’
Professor Giuseppe Pezzini
Part of: Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series

Wednesday 18 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

None - ‘Peak Middle-earth: Why Mount Doom is not the Climax of The Lord of the Rings’
Dr Michael Ward
Part of: Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series
None - Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series: Michael Ward – ‘Peak Middle-earth: Why Mount Doom is not the Climax of The Lord of the Rings’
Dr Michael Ward

Wednesday 11 October 2023 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

None - ‘How to write The Lord of the Rings’
Dr Stuart Lee
Part of: Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series

Tuesday 6 June 2023 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

None - J.R.R. Tolkien Professor of English Literature and Language Inaugural Lecture: Holidaying in the Middle Ages
Professor Marion Turner

Friday 5 May 2023 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

None - O'Donnell Lecture
Rowan Williams

Tuesday 10 May 2022 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

None - The Bampton Lectures
Professor Alec Ryrie
Part of: Bampton Lectures 2022

Thursday 3 March 2022 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

None - Meet the Manuscripts: the Renaissance reform of the book
Dr Matthew Holford, Dr David Rundle
Part of: Bodleian Events
None - Meet the Manuscripts: the Renaissance reform of the book
Dr Matthew Holford, Dr David Rundle

Monday 8 June 2020 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

None - Medieval English Virtual Graduate Conference 2020
TBA

Thursday 13 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

None - Depicting Beowulf: Gavin Bone’s 1945 Illustrations
Charles Tolkien-Gillett

Thursday 30 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

None - Ecclesiastical History for postgraduates: Introduction to using the Special Collections at the Weston Library
Matthew Holford, Mike Webb

Wednesday 20 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

None - Tolkien and Opera: Epic Scenes from the Silmarillion
Paul Corfield Godfrey, Members of the cast

Monday 18 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

None - J.R.R. Tolkien and Early English Poetry
Dr Mark Atherton
Part of: Oxford Centre for Christianity and Culture

Friday 25 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

None - “Tolkien’s Oxford and Oxford’s Tolkien”
Professor Andy Orchard, FRSC FBA
Part of: Mansfield Lectures Series

Tuesday 8 May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

None - The McCandless Lecture 2018: 'I Will Have Naught: Acedia and Other Vices and Virtues in the Works of J. R. R. Tolkien'
Dr Jonathan Sands Wise
Part of: OCCC Trinity Term 2018

Wednesday 15 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

None - Medievalism
Helen Leith Spencer, Carolyne Larrington
Part of: Medieval English Research Seminar

Monday 30 October 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

None - Dr Martin Kauffmann, Biblical Manuscripts from Medieval Europe in the Bodleian Library. The Bible in Art, Music and Literature Seminar
TBA
Part of: The Bible in Art, Music and Literature Seminar
None - Biblical Art in Oxford series: Biblical Manuscripts from Medieval Europe in the Bodleian Library
Dr Martin Kauffmann
Part of: The Bible in Art, Music and Literature Seminar

Wednesday 24 February 2016 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

None - OXFORD AFTERLIVES
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Stuart Lee, Margaret Kean
None - Oxford Afterlives: The stories of J.R.R Tolkien, Lewis Caroll and Philip Pullman
TBA

Speaker: Catherine McIlwaine (2); Dr David Rundle (2); Dr Laura Varnam (2); Dr Matthew Holford (2); Dr Michael Ward (2); Grace Khuri (2); Professor Simon Horobin (2); Anine Englund (1); Bond West (1); Carolyne Larrington (1)

Location: Exeter College (9); Magdalen College (5); Merton College (5); Corpus Christi College (3); St Cross Building (3); Weston Library (3); Regent's Park College (2); University Museum of Natural History (2); Christ Church (1); Mansfield College (1)

Topics: Library science--Library resources (1)

Series: Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series (22); The Bible in Art, Music and Literature Seminar (2); Bampton Lectures 2022 (1); Bodleian Events (1); Mansfield Lectures Series (1); Medieval English Research Seminar (1); OCCC Trinity Term 2018 (1); Oxford Centre for Christianity and Culture (1); Taunton Talks (1); The Oxford Seminars in Cartography (TOSCA) (1)

Public Lists: Faculty of English What’s On: events and talks of interest (28); Events of interest to Faculty of Theology and Religion (3); Seminars and Events of interest to the Faculty of History (3); History information skills training events (1)