Name: Grace Khuri
University of Oxford

Events this person is speaking at:

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

Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series: Grace Khuri – ‘A Heroic History of the Elves: Tolkien’s “lost” Mythology of England?
Date: 8 November 2023, 13:00 - 14:00 (Wednesday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker : Grace Khuri (University of Oxford)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Cohen Quad
Organiser: Stuart Lee (Exeter College)
Hosts: TBA

‘A Heroic History of the Elves: Tolkien’s “lost” Mythology of England?
Date: 8 November 2023, 13:00 - 14:00 (Wednesday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker : Grace Khuri (University of Oxford)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Exeter College's Cohen Quad, Walton Street OX1 2HE
Organiser: Dr Stuart Lee (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Events this person is organising:

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

'The Arkenstone and the Ring: wilful objects in Tolkien's The Hobbit’
Date: 19 January 2024, 16:00 - 17:00 (Friday, 1st week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker : Mark Atherton
Venue: Merton College, Merton Street OX1 4JD
Venue Details: MERTON COLLEGE T.S. ELIOT LECTURE THEATRE
Organisers: Professor Giuseppe Pezzini, Grace Khuri (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

Tolkien's 'Sellic Spell' and Beowulfian Poetics: the Artist and the Critic
Date: 26 January 2024, 16:00 - 17:00 (Friday, 2nd week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker : Elena Vermeer
Venue: Corpus Christi College, Merton Street OX1 4JF
Venue Details: CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE AUDITORIUM
Organisers: Professor Giuseppe Pezzini, Grace Khuri (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

Mr. Underhill: Topography and the Ring's Temptation
Date: 2 February 2024, 16:00 - 17:00 (Friday, 3rd week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker : Bond West
Venue: Merton College, Merton Street OX1 4JD
Venue Details: MERTON COLLEGE T.S. ELIOT LECTURE THEATRE
Organisers: Professor Giuseppe Pezzini, Grace Khuri (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

“Fundamentally religious and Catholic"? Authorial Intent and the Intentional Fallacy
Date: 9 February 2024, 16:00 - 17:00 (Friday, 4th week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker : Holly Ordway
Venue: Corpus Christi College, Merton Street OX1 4JF
Venue Details: CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE AUDITORIUM
Organisers: Professor Giuseppe Pezzini, Grace Khuri (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

Ents and Ecological Entanglements
Date: 16 February 2024, 16:00 - 17:00 (Friday, 5th week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker : Dion Dobrzynski
Venue: Merton College, Merton Street OX1 4JD
Venue Details: MERTON COLLEGE T.S. ELIOT LECTURE THEATRE
Organisers: Professor Giuseppe Pezzini, Grace Khuri (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

Inventing on the hoof: How the Riders of Rohan suddenly became Anglo-Saxon
Date: 23 February 2024, 16:00 - 17:00 (Friday, 6th week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker : John Garth
Venue Details: FACULTY OF CLASSICS LECTURE THEATRE
Organisers: Professor Giuseppe Pezzini, Grace Khuri (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

Tolkien Beyond Tolkien: Unleashing the Sub-Creative Imagination in an Era of Bridge Building
Date: 1 March 2024, 16:00 - 17:00 (Friday, 7th week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker : Eduardo Gutierrez
Venue Details: FACULTY OF CLASSICS LECTURE THEATRE
Organisers: Professor Giuseppe Pezzini, Grace Khuri (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

“In the halls of Mandos”: Death, Deathlessness and Inter-Racial Relations in Beren and Lúthien
Date: 8 March 2024, 16:00 - 17:00 (Friday, 8th week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker : Anine Englund
Venue: Corpus Christi College, Merton Street OX1 4JF
Venue Details: CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE AUDITORIUM
Organisers: Professor Giuseppe Pezzini, Grace Khuri (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

“Being a cult figure in one’s lifetime is not at all pleasant”: Tolkien’s relationship with his fans
Date: 22 April 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Monday, 1st week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Catherine McIlwaine (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Magdalen College (Summer Common Room)
Organisers: Professor Simon Horobin (University of Oxford), Grace Khuri (University of Oxford), Professor Giuseppe Pezzini (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

Tolkien’s Lancelot in The Fall of Arthur: the living memory of a decaying world
Date: 29 April 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Monday, 2nd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Hugo Lacoue-Labarthe (Exeter College, University of Oxford)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Magdalen College (Summer Common Room)
Organisers: Professor Simon Horobin (University of Oxford), Grace Khuri (University of Oxford), Professor Giuseppe Pezzini (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

‘I always felt that something ought to be done about the word…’: Tolkien's latchwords
Date: 6 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Monday, 3rd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Edmund Weiner (Oxford English Dictionary)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Magdalen College (Summer Common Room)
Organisers: Professor Simon Horobin (University of Oxford), Grace Khuri (University of Oxford), Professor Giuseppe Pezzini (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

Tolkien and the Anglo-Saxon Calendar
Date: 13 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Monday, 4th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Dr. Eleanor Parker (Brasenose College, University of Oxford)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Magdalen College (Summer Common Room)
Organisers: Professor Simon Horobin (University of Oxford), Grace Khuri (University of Oxford), Professor Giuseppe Pezzini (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

"I am a link in the chain": Victorian Transformations of British Romanticism and their Influence on Tolkien
Date: 20 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Monday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Will Sherwood (University of Glasgow)
Venue: Merton College, Merton Street OX1 4JD
Venue Details: Merton College, T.S. Eliot Theatre
Organisers: Professor Simon Horobin (University of Oxford), Grace Khuri (University of Oxford), Professor Giuseppe Pezzini (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

Riddles in the Grass: the characterisation and narrative value of landscape over the fields of Rohan
Date: 27 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Monday, 6th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : David Bernabé (University of Oxford/University of the Basque Country)
Venue Details: Magdalen College (Summer Common Room)
Organisers: Professor Simon Horobin (University of Oxford), Grace Khuri (University of Oxford), Professor Giuseppe Pezzini (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

A grandson's reflections on J.R.R. Tolkien
Date: 3 June 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Monday, 7th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Michael G.R. Tolkien (Poet and Critic)
Venue: Merton College, Merton Street OX1 4JD
Venue Details: Merton College, T.S. Eliot Theatre
Organisers: Professor Simon Horobin (University of Oxford), Grace Khuri (University of Oxford), Professor Giuseppe Pezzini (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

A Veritable “Middle Earth”’: Tolkien and the Palaeoanthropological Imagination
Date: 10 June 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Monday, 8th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : John Holmes (University of Birmingham)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Magdalen College (Summer Common Room)
Organisers: Professor Simon Horobin (University of Oxford), Grace Khuri (University of Oxford), Professor Giuseppe Pezzini (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA