Name: Professor Stuart Lee
University of Oxford

Events this person is speaking at:

Thursday 24 October 2024

JRR Tolkien and GB Smith: Two Forgotten War Poets?
Date: 24 October 2024, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Stuart Lee (University of Oxford)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Fitzhugh Auditorium, Cohen Quad
Organiser: Professor Stuart Lee (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 5 December 2024

The ‘Key-spring’ of The Lord of the Rings?
Date: 5 December 2024, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Stuart Lee (University of Oxford)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Fitzhugh Auditorium, Cohen Quad
Organiser: Professor Stuart Lee (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 16 October 2025

‘H. P. Lovecraft: The Madness and the Horror’
Date: 16 October 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Stuart Lee (University of Oxford)
Venue: Cohen Quadrangle, Walton Street OX1 2HD
Venue Details: The Fitzhugh Lecture Theatre, Cohen Quad, Walton Street, Oxford (Exeter College’s annex)
Organiser: Professor Stuart Lee (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Events this person is organising:

Thursday 17 October 2024

Tolkien as Interpreter and Transformer of Culture
Date: 17 October 2024, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Holly Ordway
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Fitzhugh Auditorium, Cohen Quad
Organiser: Professor Stuart Lee (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 24 October 2024

JRR Tolkien and GB Smith: Two Forgotten War Poets?
Date: 24 October 2024, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Stuart Lee (University of Oxford)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Fitzhugh Auditorium, Cohen Quad
Organiser: Professor Stuart Lee (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 7 November 2024

A Harmless Vice: Tolkien’s Invented Languages
Date: 7 November 2024, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Mark Williams (University of Oxford)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Fitzhugh Auditorium, Cohen Quad
Organiser: Professor Stuart Lee (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 14 November 2024

A Harmless Vice: Tolkien’s Invented Languages
Date: 14 November 2024, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Mark Williams (University of Oxford)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Fitzhugh Auditorium, Cohen Quad
Organiser: Professor Stuart Lee (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 21 November 2024

Medievalism in the Margins
Date: 21 November 2024, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Grace Khuri (University of Oxford)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Fitzhugh Auditorium, Cohen Quad
Organiser: Professor Stuart Lee (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 28 November 2024

C.S. Lewis’s Influence on The Lord of the Rings
Date: 28 November 2024, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Michael Ward
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Fitzhugh Auditorium, Cohen Quad
Organiser: Professor Stuart Lee (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 5 December 2024

The ‘Key-spring’ of The Lord of the Rings?
Date: 5 December 2024, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Stuart Lee (University of Oxford)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Fitzhugh Auditorium, Cohen Quad
Organiser: Professor Stuart Lee (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 24 January 2025

'Tolkien the Mythographer'
Date: 24 January 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dimitra Fimi (University of Glasgow)
Venue: Corpus Christi College, Merton Street OX1 4JF
Venue Details: The Rainolds Room
Organiser: Professor Stuart Lee (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 31 January 2025

‘The Dwarves are a race apart’: Tolkien’s contribution to the specialisation of dwarves in popular fantasy’
Date: 31 January 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Kit Richards (University of Birmingham)
Venue: Corpus Christi College, Merton Street OX1 4JF
Venue Details: the Rainolds Room
Organiser: Professor Stuart Lee (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 7 February 2025

‘Tolkien's Forms of Detachment’
Date: 7 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Rebekah Lamb (University of St Andrews)
Venue: Corpus Christi College, Merton Street OX1 4JF
Venue Details: The Rainolds Room
Organiser: Professor Stuart Lee (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 21 February 2025

‘Tolkien and old English prosody’
Date: 21 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Rafael Pascual (University of Granada)
Venue: Corpus Christi College, Merton Street OX1 4JF
Venue Details: the Rainolds Room
Organiser: Professor Stuart Lee (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 28 February 2025

‘Themes in The Lord of the Rings: A Defence and an Exploration'
Date: 28 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Patrick Curry (University of Wales Trinity St David)
Venue: Corpus Christi College, Merton Street OX1 4JF
Venue Details: the Rainolds Room
Organiser: Professor Stuart Lee (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 7 March 2025

‘'Alight Here for Middle-earth!': Tolkien, Place, and the Past’
Date: 7 March 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Carl Phelpstead ((University of Cardiff)
Venue: Corpus Christi College, Merton Street OX1 4JF
Venue Details: the Rainolds Room
Organiser: Professor Stuart Lee (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 14 March 2025

‘Languages on the Move: Tolkien's Invented Languages and Their Use in Adaptations’
Date: 14 March 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Mareike Huber (University of Freiburg)
Venue: Corpus Christi College, Merton Street OX1 4JF
Venue Details: the Rainolds Room
Organiser: Professor Stuart Lee (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

Friday 9 May 2025

Tolkien and Arthurian Romance: The Interlace Structure of The Lord of the Rings
Date: 9 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Jolina Bradley (University of Oxford)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Sophia Sheppard Room
Organiser: Professor Stuart Lee (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 16 May 2025

J.R.R. Tolkien at the BBC
Date: 16 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Gabriel Shenk (Signum University)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Sophia Sheppard Room
Organiser: Professor Stuart Lee (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 23 May 2025

Trees, Tales, and Tolkien: A Growing Environmental Consciousness from The Hobbit to The Lord of the Rings
Date: 23 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Andoni Cossio (Basque Country)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Sophia Sheppard Room
Organiser: Professor Stuart Lee (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 16 October 2025

‘H. P. Lovecraft: The Madness and the Horror’
Date: 16 October 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Stuart Lee (University of Oxford)
Venue: Cohen Quadrangle, Walton Street OX1 2HD
Venue Details: The Fitzhugh Lecture Theatre, Cohen Quad, Walton Street, Oxford (Exeter College’s annex)
Organiser: Professor Stuart Lee (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 23 October 2025

‘Fantasy & the Occult: Charles Williams, Dion Fortune and the Order of the Golden Dawn’
Date: 23 October 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Felix Taylor (English, St Hugh’s)
Venue: Cohen Quadrangle, Walton Street OX1 2HD
Venue Details: The Fitzhugh Lecture Theatre, Cohen Quad, Walton Street, Oxford (Exeter College’s annex)
Organiser: Professor Stuart Lee (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 6 November 2025

'Philip Pullman: Sense of an ending'
Date: 6 November 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Margaret Kean (St Hilda's College, University of Oxford)
Venue: Cohen Quadrangle, Walton Street OX1 2HD
Venue Details: The Fitzhugh Lecture Theatre, Cohen Quad, Walton Street, Oxford (Exeter College’s annex)
Organiser: Professor Stuart Lee (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 13 November 2025

‘Translating Fantasy: Language, Culture and Mythology — with a Navajo Case study'
Date: 13 November 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker s: Dr Mark Atherton (University of Oxford), Barbara Fischer
Venue Details: The Fitzhugh Lecture Theatre, Cohen Quad, Walton Street, Oxford (Exeter College’s annex)
Organiser: Professor Stuart Lee (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 20 November 2025

‘C.S. Lewis and the Atmospherics of Fantasy’
Date: 20 November 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Michael Ward
Venue: Cohen Quadrangle, Walton Street OX1 2HD
Venue Details: The Fitzhugh Lecture Theatre, Cohen Quad, Walton Street, Oxford (Exeter College’s annex),
Organiser: Professor Stuart Lee (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 27 November 2025

‘Prequels and the Mother-Ship: House of the Dragon and Game of Thrones’
Date: 27 November 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof Carolyne Larrington (University of Oxford)
Venue: Cohen Quadrangle, Walton Street OX1 2HD
Venue Details: The Fitzhugh Lecture Theatre, Cohen Quad, Walton Street, Oxford (Exeter College’s annex)
Organiser: Professor Stuart Lee (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA