Anna Smol: A Single Leaf

Category: Conferences

  • Roman Association of Tolkien Studies

    The international appeal of Tolkien was recently highlighted for me when I was informed that Italian Tolkien scholar Roberto Arduini had translated CF Cooper’s Mythcon reports for the Associazione Romana Studi Tolkieniani / Roman Association of Tolkien Studies. The post, “Premio a Verlyn Flieger: diario della Mythcon 44” is obviously written in Italian, which I…

  • Atlantic Universities: Teaching Showcase 2013

    The Association of Atlantic Universities holds a Teaching Showcase every fall. This year the conference will be held at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick. As the CFP states, “The Teaching Showcase provides a forum for people to reflect on teaching practice, discuss issues related to university teaching and learning, and share teaching strategies.”…

  • Mythcon 44. Days 3-4: Multidisciplinary papers, awards, traditional entertainments, and an extended airport edition

    One of the features of Mythcon is that presenters come from many different disciplines, and on Sunday (July 14) I decided to take in some of the talks from fields outside the areas I typically work in. I started off the day listening to Andrew Higgins undertake “A Linguistic Exploration through Tolkien’s Earliest Landscapes.” Andrew’s…

  • Mythcon 44. Day Two: the land and its inhabitants in fantasy

    The second day of the Mythopoeic Society conference began with a Mythcon tradition: a procession of attendees into the auditorium to listen to the first plenary talk. Our pre-conference updates suggested that we wear our academic regalia for this event — have you ever tried to cram an academic gown into a carry-on bag? I…

  • Mythcon 44. Day One: hot sun, fanfic, and ice cream

    Travelling to Mythcon  in East Lansing, Michigan, I wondered what to expect at my first Mythopoeic Society conference. I later realized that the Tolkien 2005: The Ring Goes Ever On conference that I attended in England was a combined Mythopoeic and Tolkien Society meeting, a fact that I barely recognized at the time in that…

  • Atlantic Mediaeval Association CFP

    Call for Papers:   Sixth Annual Conference of the Atlantic Mediaeval Association 27-28 September 2013 Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada Plenary Paper by Fiona Tolhurst on Female Spirituality in the Late Middle Ages 16:00 Friday 27 Sept (Room TBA) The society and its conference are multi-disciplinary and we accordingly welcome proposals on all aspects of…

  • Calls for papers on Tolkien

    It’s never too early to start thinking about next year’s conferences! Here are two calls for papers for those who are engaged in the scholarly study of Tolkien’s works. Proposals are due this fall. Tolkien at Kalamazoo 2014 The Tolkien at Kalamazoo group is sponsoring four sessions for the 2014 International Congress on Medieval Studies.…

  • Tolkien at Kalamazoo Facebook group

    “Tolkien at Kalamazoo” is a fairly informal group that sponsors conference sessions every year at the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo. A newly formed Facebook group, Tolkien at Kalamazoo, is open to anyone interested in Tolkien studies: https://www.facebook.com/groups/119241118286629/ Please note, though, that the group does not represent the Congress…

  • Addition of another conference to my list

    Adaptations of The Lord of the Rings: the 10th DTG Tolkien Seminar to be held in April 2013, with a submissions deadline of November 30, 2012. See the list of Tolkien conferences I’m compiling in my previous post on Upcoming Tolkien Conferences 2012-13.

  • Upcoming Tolkien conferences 2012-13

    Having missed the Mythopoeic Society’s conference that just wrapped up in California last week – one of these days I’ll get there! – and thinking about the Return of the Ring conference that will begin in Loughborough UK in a few days – where  I had been hoping to go but had to cancel in the…