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Name: Professor Simon Horobin
University of Oxford
Events this person is speaking at:
Wednesday 22 November 2023
Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series: Simon Horobin – ‘J.R.R. Tolkien: The Making of a Philologist’
Date: 22 November 2023, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Professor Simon Horobin (University of Oxford)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Organiser:
Stuart Lee (Exeter College)
Hosts:
TBA
‘J.R.R. Tolkien: The Making of a Philologist’
Date: 22 November 2023, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Professor Simon Horobin (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:
Monday 22 April 2024
“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
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
Tolkien’s Lancelot in The Fall of Arthur: the living memory of a decaying world
Date: 29 April 2024, 17:00 - 18:30
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
‘I always felt that something ought to be done about the word…’: Tolkien's latchwords
Date: 6 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:00
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
Tolkien and the Anglo-Saxon Calendar
Date: 13 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:30
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
"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
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
Riddles in the Grass: the characterisation and narrative value of landscape over the fields of Rohan
Date: 27 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:30
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
A grandson's reflections on J.R.R. Tolkien
Date: 3 June 2024, 17:00 - 18:30
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
A Veritable “Middle Earth”’: Tolkien and the Palaeoanthropological Imagination
Date: 10 June 2024, 17:00 - 18:30
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
Friday 2 May 2025
Middle-Earth Post-#MeToo
Date: 2 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Grace O'Duffy
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Sophia Sheppard Room
Organisers:
Professor Stuart Lee (University of Oxford),
Professor Simon Horobin (University of Oxford),
Grace Khuri (University of Oxford),
Professor Giuseppe Pezzini (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
