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 “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 “Memory as 236 Evidence in Tolkien Scholarship” 3:30-5pm PANEL: Lecture Hall The Valkyrie & the Goddess: Women in Mythopoeic Fiction (with , Sharan Newman, , 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 “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 ” 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)