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Mythcon 39 Programming Schedule Mythcon 39 Programming Schedule Please note that any Programming Changes and important announcements will be made at Opening Ceremonies. Evening festivities that are currently TBA will have specifics (time & location) posted in the lobby at Copernicus Hall. It is our hope that the definitive schedule will be printed in the Program Booklet and on a separate hand-out in the Registration Packet. As it stands, no major changes to programming will be made… we hope. Programming Tracks COPERNICUS HALL Track Room Number Valkyrie & Goddess Room 213 Inklings Room 236 General Mythopoeic Fiction Room 232 Panels & Presentations Lecture Hall Special Scheduling Meals PROGRAMMING LOCATION SCHEDULE Campus Site FRIDAY COPERNICUS HALL (Unless otherwise noted) 2pm-5pm Dealer’s Room Room: 224/05 2pm Jason Fisher “Tolkien's Wraiths, 236 Rings, and Dragons: An Exercise in Literary Linguistics” 2pm Daniel Baird “Becoming a Warrior 213 Empress: Chinese Mythology in Twelve Kingdoms: Sea of Shadow ” 2:30-3:30pm Book Discussion: Mythopoeic Lecture Hall Award Finalists—Followed by Khazad dûm Book Toss 3pm Carl Hostetter: 236 "'The Circles of the World:' Fate, Free Will, and the Oikumene in Elvish Thought" 3pm Christopher Tuthill “Made to Hold 232 Light: The Feminism of LeGuin’s Earthsea Books” 4pm Jessica Burke “Guinevere’s Voice in 213 the 19 th Century” 4pm Joe Christopher: “Artistic Form and 232 the Supernatural in Pushing the Bear ” 5:-6:30pm DINNER MEMORIAL HALL 7:15 pm Planetarium PLANETARIUM Show Evening Festivities—After Planetarium Show TBA Welcoming TBA Party & Hospitality Suite TBA Bardic Circle TBA TBA Video Madness TBA SATURDAY 7:30-9am BREAKFAST MEMORIAL HALL 9-9:30am Procession MEMORIAL HALL to DAVIDSON HALL March 9:30-11:30 Opening DAVIDSON HALL Ceremonies 11:30am- LUNCH MEMORIAL HALL 1:00pm 1pm-5pm Dealers’ Room 224/05 1-2:30pm PANEL: Lecture Hall The Xena Syndrome: Overcoming the Stereotype of the Female Warrior on Page & Screen (with Janet Croft, Edith Crowe, Ellie Farrell, Arden Smith; moderated by Jessica Burke) 1pm Donald T. Williams “A Tryst With 236 the Transcendentals: C.S. Lewis on Goodness, Truth and Beauty" 1pm Tammy Gant “Changing the 213 Landscape: Women Warriors in the fiction of Robin McKinley” 2pm Paper/Panel: 232 Noelle Davies “Peter S. Beagle’s The Last Unicorn & Defining Magical Realism” Geoffrey Reiter “Two Sides of the Same Magic: The Dialectic of Mortality & Immortality in Peter S. Beagle’s The Last Unicorn ” 2:30pm Christina Scull “Memory as 236 Evidence in Tolkien Scholarship” 3:30-5pm PANEL: Lecture Hall The Valkyrie & the Goddess: Women in Mythopoeic Fiction (with Marjorie Burns, Sharan Newman, Verlyn Flieger, Leslie Donovan; moderated by Jessica Burke) 5-6:30 DINNER MEMORIAL HALL 7:15-8:15pm PAPER: TORP THEATER (DAVIDSON HALL) Verlyn Flieger “Fate and Free Will in Middle- earth." 8:15pm Musical TORP THEATER (DAVIDSON HALL) Performances by Lynn Maudlin; Ted Nasmith Evening Festivities—After Musical Performances TBA Hospitality Suite TBA TBA Video Madness TBA TBA Full Moon TBA Music & Meditation Circle SUNDAY 4:20 am Sale of College Land Isolate Tower 8am Mere Christian Lecture Hall-- Copernicus Non-Denominational Worship Service **Tentatively scheduled** 7:30-9am BREAKFAST MEMORIAL HALL 9am-6pm Dealers’ Room 224/05 9am Anne V. Osborne-Coopersmith“ 232 Wagner's Ring and P. Craig Russell's Reinterpretation ” 9am David Bratman “The Forgotten 213 Women of Middle-Earth” 10am Joe R. Christopher “The Thematic 236 Organization of Spirits in Bondage ” 10am Amy Schoofs-Rahne “Reflections in 232 the Belle Dame’s Button Eyes: Dualism and Identity in Neil Gaiman’s Coraline 10-11:30 PANEL: Lecture Hall Fairy Stories: A Discussion of “On Fairy Stories” and the Importance of Faërie in Our World (with Marjorie Burns, Verlyn Flieger, Ted Nasmith; moderated by Anthony Burdge) 11:30pm- LUNCH MEMORIAL HALL 1:00pm 1pm Leslie A. Donovan “Brightly Shining 213 & Armed for Battle: The Valkyrie Legacy in Tolkien’s Middle-Earth Fiction” 1pm Wayne G. Hammond “At Home 236 Among the Dreaming Spires: “Tolkien & Oxford University” 2pm Michael A. Torregrossa “King 213 Arthur, Warrior Woman of Camelot? The Transformation of the Matter of Britain in Japan’s ‘Fate/Stay Night’” 2pm Diana Glyer “C.S. Lewis in 236 Disguise: Fictional Portraits of Jack in the Work of the Inklings” 2-4:30 Auction PLANETARIUM 3pm Hannah Thomas & Cathy Hansen: 213 “Fantasy vs. Non-Fantasy: Female Characters in Modern British Literature” 3pm Kristine Larsen “Sea Birds & 236 Morning Stars: Ceyx, Alcyone, and the Many Metamorphoses of Eärendil and Elwing” 3pm PANEL: Lecture Hall Women in Middle-earth (with Leslie Donovan, Ted Nasmith, Sharan Newman, David Bratman; moderated by Janet Croft) 4pm Ted Nasmith “From Middle-earth to 232 Westeros and Back Again; New Artworks in a Familiar Vein” 4pm Nicholas Birns “Esoteric & 236 Democratic: Tradition in Rowling, Tolkien, & Lewis” 5pm Janet B. Croft “The Education of a 232 Witch: Tiffany Aching, Hermione Granger, and Gendered Magic in Discworld & Potterworld” 5pm Lisa Padol “To Lift a Sword With 213 Pride? Images of Women's Empowerment” 5pm PANEL: Lecture Hall Language & Myth: The Role of Language & the Birth of New Languages in Fantasy (Carl Hostetter, Arden Smith, Alexei Kondratiev, Sharan Newman; Ted Nasmith; moderated by Jason Fisher) 6pm General Programming Ends 6:45pm BANQUET Constitution Room—MEMORIAL HALL 9pm Masquerade; TORP THEATER (DAVIDSON HALL) Not Ready for Mythcon Players; Musical Performance by Lord of the Ringos Evening Festivities—After General Silliness TBA Bardic Circle Games with Goblin Heads Video Madness Hospitality Room MONDAY 7:30-9am BREAKFAST MEMORIAL HALL 9am Anthony Burdge “Fairy Stories . 232 in New York City?” (tentative title) 9am Jeff Swift: “Realistic War in 236 Tolkien’s Battles” 10am Eleanor M. Farrell “Cabbages 232 & Kings: Narrative Balance in the Novels of Patricia A. McKillip” 10am David Emerson “Innocence as a 213 Super-Power: Little Girls on the Hero’s Journey” 11am Members Meeting followed by CLOSING CEREMONIES ‘ 12pm Check Out COPERNICUS HALL (Lecture Hall) .
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