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

• 13:00 - Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series: Grace Khuri – ‘A Heroic History of the Elves: Tolkien’s “lost” Mythology of England?
  Grace Khuri (University of Oxford)
• 13:00 - ‘A Heroic History of the Elves: Tolkien’s “lost” Mythology of England?
  Grace Khuri (University of Oxford)
  Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series

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

• 16:00 - 'The Arkenstone and the Ring: wilful objects in Tolkien's The Hobbit’
  Mark Atherton
  Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series

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

• 16:00 - Tolkien's 'Sellic Spell' and Beowulfian Poetics: the Artist and the Critic
  Elena Vermeer
  Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series

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

• 16:00 - Mr. Underhill: Topography and the Ring's Temptation
  Bond West
  Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series

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

• 16:00 - “Fundamentally religious and Catholic"? Authorial Intent and the Intentional Fallacy
  Holly Ordway
  Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series

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

• 16:00 - Ents and Ecological Entanglements
  Dion Dobrzynski
  Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series

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

• 16:00 - Inventing on the hoof: How the Riders of Rohan suddenly became Anglo-Saxon
  John Garth
  Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series

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

• 16:00 - Tolkien Beyond Tolkien: Unleashing the Sub-Creative Imagination in an Era of Bridge Building
  Eduardo Gutierrez
  Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series

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

• 16:00 - “In the halls of Mandos”: Death, Deathlessness and Inter-Racial Relations in Beren and Lúthien
  Anine Englund
  Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series

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

• 17:00 - “Being a cult figure in one’s lifetime is not at all pleasant”: Tolkien’s relationship with his fans
  Catherine McIlwaine (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series

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

• 17:00 - Tolkien’s Lancelot in The Fall of Arthur: the living memory of a decaying world
  Hugo Lacoue-Labarthe (Exeter College, University of Oxford)
  Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series

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

• 17:00 - ‘I always felt that something ought to be done about the word…’: Tolkien's latchwords
  Edmund Weiner (Oxford English Dictionary)
  Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series

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

• 17:00 - Tolkien and the Anglo-Saxon Calendar
  Dr. Eleanor Parker (Brasenose College, University of Oxford)
  Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series

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

• 17:00 - "I am a link in the chain": Victorian Transformations of British Romanticism and their Influence on Tolkien
  Will Sherwood (University of Glasgow)
  Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series

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

• 17:00 - Riddles in the Grass: the characterisation and narrative value of landscape over the fields of Rohan
  David Bernabé (University of Oxford/University of the Basque Country)
  Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series

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

• 17:00 - A grandson's reflections on J.R.R. Tolkien
  Michael G.R. Tolkien (Poet and Critic)
  Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series

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

• 17:00 - A Veritable “Middle Earth”’: Tolkien and the Palaeoanthropological Imagination
  John Holmes (University of Birmingham)
  Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series