On 28th November OxTalks will move to the new Halo platform and will become 'Oxford Events' (full details are available on the Staff Gateway).
There will be an OxTalks freeze beginning on Friday 14th November. This means you will need to publish any of your known events to OxTalks by then as there will be no facility to publish or edit events in that fortnight. During the freeze, all events will be migrated to the new Oxford Events site. It will still be possible to view events on OxTalks during this time.
If you have any questions, please contact halo@digital.ox.ac.uk
Week 1 (24 January) Dimitra Fimi (University of Glasgow) ‘Tolkien the Mythographer’
* Week 2 (31 January) Kit Richards (University of Birmingham) ‘The Dwarves are a race apart’: Tolkien’s contribution to the specialisation of dwarves in popular fantasy’
* Week 3 (7 February) Rebekah Lamb (University of St Andrews) ‘Tolkien’s Forms of Detachment’
* Week 4 HALF TERM – NO SEMINAR
* Week 5 (21 February) Rafael Pascual (University of Granada) ‘Tolkien and old English prosody’
* Week 6 (28 February) Patrick Curry (University of Wales Trinity St David) ‘Themes in The Lord of the Rings: A Defence and an Exploration’
* Week 7 (7 March) Carl Phelpstead (University of Cardiff) ‘‘Alight Here for Middle-earth!’: Tolkien, Place, and the Past’
* Week 8 (14 March) Mareike Huber (University of Freiburg) ‘Languages on the Move: Tolkien’s Invented Languages and Their Use in Adaptations’
For more details: tolkien50.web.ox.ac.uk/event/tolkien-seminar-ht-2025
The seminars will take place on Fridays during term time, from 5:00 to 6:30 p.m., in the Rainolds Room at Corpus Christi College in Merton Street. Please ask the porters for directions. No registration is required.
We look forward to welcoming you to the first seminar next Friday (24 January), featuring Dimitra Fimi, Professor of Fantasy and Children’s Literature at the University of Glasgow and one of the most prominent Tolkien scholars of this generation.
