We are pleased to announce the schedule for the Oxford Tolkien Seminar in Trinity Term 2025. The seminar will be held at Magdalen College on Fridays at 5pm, in the Sophia Sheppard Room, except week 8 (see below). Please ask the porters for directions.
Week 1: Grace O’Duffy (University of Oxford) ‘Middle-Earth Post-#MeToo’’
Week 2: Jolina Bradley (University of Oxford) ‘Tolkien and Arthurian Romance: The Interlace Structure of The Lord of the Rings’
Week 3: Gabriel Shenk (Signum University) ‘J.R.R. Tolkien at the BBC’
Week 4: Andoni Cossio (Basque Country) ‘Trees, Tales, and Tolkien: A Growing Environmental Consciousness from The Hobbit to The Lord of the Rings’
Week 5: Giuseppe Pezzini (University of Oxford) ‘Tolkien and the Mystery of Literary Creation’ (Book launch)
Week 6: Tom Emanuel (University of Glasgow) ‘Tolkien the post-Christian? A Proposition’
Week 7: Eliot Vale (University of Oxford) ‘Imitative Translations of Beowulf: Tolkien, Lehmann, and McCully’
Week 8: [SUMMER COMMON ROOM] Christopher Snyder (Mississippi State University) ‘The Sub-Creation Theory of J.R.R. Tolkien: Literary Criticism or Theology?’
We are also happy to let you know that the recordings of the MT and HT seminars are now are available on YouTube and/or The Fantasy Literature Podcast. For more information: tolkien50.web.ox.ac.uk/event/tolkien-50th-anniversary-seminar-series
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