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Professor Stuart Lee

University of Oxford

Events this person is speaking at:

Thursday 24 October 2024

13:00 - JRR Tolkien and GB Smith: Two Forgotten War Poets?
Please note that John Garth can now not talk at this seminar as planned. The speaker will now be Stuart Lee
Professor Stuart Lee (University of Oxford)
Tolkien seminars

Thursday 5 December 2024

13:00 - The ‘Key-spring’ of The Lord of the Rings?
Professor Stuart Lee (University of Oxford)
Tolkien seminars

Thursday 16 October 2025

13:00 - ‘H. P. Lovecraft: The Madness and the Horror’
Professor Stuart Lee (University of Oxford)
Tolkien seminars

Events this person is organising:

Thursday 17 October 2024

13:00 - Tolkien as Interpreter and Transformer of Culture
Holly Ordway
Tolkien seminars

Thursday 24 October 2024

13:00 - JRR Tolkien and GB Smith: Two Forgotten War Poets?
Please note that John Garth can now not talk at this seminar as planned. The speaker will now be Stuart Lee
Professor Stuart Lee (University of Oxford)
Tolkien seminars

Thursday 7 November 2024

13:00 - A Harmless Vice: Tolkien’s Invented Languages
Professor Mark Williams (University of Oxford)
Tolkien seminars

Thursday 14 November 2024

13:00 - A Harmless Vice: Tolkien’s Invented Languages
Professor Mark Williams (University of Oxford)
Tolkien seminars

Thursday 21 November 2024

13:00 - Medievalism in the Margins
Grace Khuri (University of Oxford)
Tolkien seminars

Thursday 28 November 2024

13:00 - C.S. Lewis’s Influence on The Lord of the Rings
Michael Ward
Tolkien seminars

Thursday 5 December 2024

13:00 - The ‘Key-spring’ of The Lord of the Rings?
Professor Stuart Lee (University of Oxford)
Tolkien seminars

Friday 24 January 2025

17:00 - 'Tolkien the Mythographer'
Dimitra Fimi (University of Glasgow)
Tolkien seminars

Friday 31 January 2025

17:00 - ‘The Dwarves are a race apart’: Tolkien’s contribution to the specialisation of dwarves in popular fantasy’
Kit Richards (University of Birmingham)
Tolkien seminars

Friday 7 February 2025

17:00 - ‘Tolkien's Forms of Detachment’
Rebekah Lamb (University of St Andrews)
Tolkien seminars

Friday 21 February 2025

17:00 - ‘Tolkien and old English prosody’
Rafael Pascual (University of Granada)
Tolkien seminars

Friday 28 February 2025

17:00 - ‘Themes in The Lord of the Rings: A Defence and an Exploration'
Patrick Curry (University of Wales Trinity St David)
Tolkien seminars

Friday 7 March 2025

17:00 - ‘'Alight Here for Middle-earth!': Tolkien, Place, and the Past’
Carl Phelpstead ((University of Cardiff)
Tolkien seminars

Friday 14 March 2025

17:00 - ‘Languages on the Move: Tolkien's Invented Languages and Their Use in Adaptations’
Mareike Huber (University of Freiburg)
Tolkien seminars

Friday 2 May 2025

17:00 - Middle-Earth Post-#MeToo
Grace O'Duffy
Tolkien seminars

Friday 9 May 2025

17:00 - Tolkien and Arthurian Romance: The Interlace Structure of The Lord of the Rings
Jolina Bradley (University of Oxford)
Tolkien seminars

Friday 16 May 2025

17:00 - J.R.R. Tolkien at the BBC
Gabriel Shenk (Signum University)
Tolkien seminars

Friday 23 May 2025

17:00 - Trees, Tales, and Tolkien: A Growing Environmental Consciousness from The Hobbit to The Lord of the Rings
Andoni Cossio (Basque Country)
Tolkien seminars

Thursday 16 October 2025

13:00 - ‘H. P. Lovecraft: The Madness and the Horror’
Professor Stuart Lee (University of Oxford)
Tolkien seminars

Thursday 23 October 2025

13:00 - CANCELLED: ‘Fantasy & the Occult: Charles Williams, Dion Fortune and the Order of the Golden Dawn’
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Felix Taylor (English, St Hugh’s)
Tolkien seminars

Thursday 6 November 2025

13:00 - 'Philip Pullman: Sense of an ending'
Dr Margaret Kean (St Hilda's College, University of Oxford)
Tolkien seminars

Thursday 13 November 2025

13:00 - ‘Translating Fantasy: Language, Culture and Mythology — with a Navajo Case study'
Dr Mark Atherton (University of Oxford), Barbara Fischer
Tolkien seminars

Thursday 20 November 2025

13:00 - ‘C.S. Lewis and the Atmospherics of Fantasy’
Michael Ward
Tolkien seminars

Thursday 27 November 2025

13:00 - ‘Prequels and the Mother-Ship: House of the Dragon and Game of Thrones’
Prof Carolyne Larrington (University of Oxford)
Tolkien seminars