Wednesday 1 November 2023

• 13:00 - ‘Tolkien and the Classics’
  Professor Giuseppe Pezzini (University of Oxford)
  Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series

Monday 22 April 2024

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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