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Tolkien Conference 2024
3rd May 2024: Tolkien and His Editors
Call for papers, DTG Conference 2024
A call for papers has been issued for the 2024 DTG Conference. The topic of this years's conference is "Tolkien and His Editors". The conference will be held from 11 to 13 October 2024 at RWTH Aachen, Germany.
More information on DTG website.
This website's latest update on this event (link will update when new items posted).
(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/news_archive.php?item=222 )
Tolkien Conference 2023
2nd February 2023: Call for Paper, Tolkien Seminar 2023
A call for papers for the 2023 Tolkien Seminar has been published on the website of DTG.
The topic of this years's conference is With other eyes: The Visualisation of Tolkien's Work.
The conference is being held on 27-29 October 2023 at Georg-August-University of Göttingen, Germany
(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/news_archive.php?item=193 )
Tolkien Conference 2022
3rd February 2022: Tolkien Seminar 2022
The DTG's 2022 Tolkien Seminar will have as topic Space and Time in Tolkien's Work and be held at the University of Jena, Germany, from 28-30th October 2022. A call for papers has been announced on the DTG website.
The event is supported by Walking Tree Publishers.
(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/conference/22_jena.php )
Tolkien Conference 2021
23rd March 2021: Call for papers Tolkien Conference 2021
A call for papers has been issued for the 2021 Tolkien Conference, which will be held in Marburg from 29-21 October 2021. the topic is Tolkien and Politics.
The call for papers can be read here or on the website of the DTG (here).
The topic has been postponed from the 2020 conference, which had to be cancelled due to the pandemic.
(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/conference/21_marburg.php )
Tolkien Conference 2020
11th March 2020: Call for papers Tolkien Conference 2020
The 17th Tolkien Conference will be held at the University of Augsburg from 23rd to 25th October 2020. The topic is Tolkien and Politics. A call for papers can be downloaded here (pdf).
(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/conference/20_augsburg.php )
The Romantic Spirit in the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien
20th February 2020: Call for papers — The Romantic Spirit in the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien
If we examine Tolkien research since the 1960s, we may conclude that the notion of Tolkien as a Romanticist is not a popular approach of interpretation: "When referring to Tolkien's works, Romanticism is hardly the first genre that comes to mind" (Birks 28). His work has instead been largely interpreted within the context of his professional background as philologist and expert of medieval literature. The connection between Tolkien and the Middle Ages has thus become a commonplace of Tolkien scholarship "Tolkien and the Middle Ages: a connection that seems self-evident and has frequently been dealt with by Tolkien scholars over the last years" (Brückner et al. 6). But as important as these studies grounded in history and philology may be, their dominance makes it difficult for other aspects of Tolkien's complete works to become visible.
Continue reading here (pdf) ...
(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/news_archive.php?item=160 )
Lewis & Tolkien
9th July 2019: Call for papers — Lewis & Tolkien
It is rather common knowledge amongst the scholars of both Lewis and Tolkien that, although the former played quite a significant role in encouraging the latter to first publish The Hobbit and then to complete The Lord of the Rings, the creator of Middle-earth was never able (or, it seems, even willing) to appreciate the stories set in the land of Narnia. The actual reason(s) may now appear to be somewhat obscure (Tolkien is not known to have been particularly vocal about the matter), but, as he once remarked in a letter to Eileen Edgar (1972), his dislike of Lewis's septology resulted simply from "a difference of taste", doubtlessly caused by Tolkien's well-known aversion to allegory (and religious didactic allegory in particular).
Continue reading here (pdf) ...
The Songs of the Spheres
Lewis, Tolkien and the Overlapping Realms of their Imaginations
Edited by Łukasz Neubauer and Guglielmo Spirito
(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/news_archive.php?item=153 )
Tolkien Conference 2019
4th February 2019: Call for papers Tolkien Conference 2019
The 16th Tolkien Conference will be held at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena from 11 to 13 October 2019. The topic is Power and Authority in the Works of JRR Tolkien. A call for papers has been published on this page of the DTG website.
DTG is also offering a conference scholarship for junior researchers in the field of Tolkien studies. Details of this and a contact address for aplicants are published on the same page.
(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/conference/19_jena.php )
Tolkien and the Classical World
21st January 2019: Call for papers Tolkien and the Classical World
Scholarship on J.R.R. Tolkien has become more and more interested in the topic of worldbuilding in the literature of the English fantasy novelist and academic. Critical explorations into how Tolkien constructed his worlds have covered various domains: the early Germanic, the medieval (more broadly), the modern, the natural, and the Christian world. What has not received more comprehensive exploration, however, is how the Classical world of Ancient Greece and Rome influenced the literature, scholarship, and thoughts of Tolkien. Given Tolkien's early schooling in and love of Latin and Ancient Greek language and literature, is it possible to reconstruct a Classical worldbuilding in Tolkien's works? (read more here).
(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/news_archive.php?item=150 )
New Perspectives on JRR Tolkien in the Great War
19th December 2017: Call for papers
"Something has gone crack":
New Perspectives on J.R.R. Tolkien in the Great War
edited by Janet Brennan Croft and Annika Röttinger
J.R.R. Tolkien"s experiences in the Great War (1914-1918) can be traced in his writings, most prominently in his masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings. Much has been written concerning the impact of his time in the war on his literary work, including such significant publications as John Garth's Tolkien and the Great War (2003), Janet Brennan Croft"s War and the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien (2004) and edited collection Baptism of Fire (2015), Joseph Loconte's A Hobbit, a Wardrobe and a Great War (2015), and Margaret Hiley's The Loss and the Silence (2011).
This edited collection of new essays on J.R.R. Tolkien's experiences (read more ...)
(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/news_archive.php?item=141 )
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