The 2021 Prancing Pony Podcast Digital Moot Schedule

Time (EST, Fri - Track 1 Fri - Track 2 Sat - Track 1 Sat - Track 2 Sun - May 16 GMT-5) May 14 May 14 May 15 May 15 11:00 AM Panel 1 Special: Bill Fliss 11:30 AM

12:00 PM Keynote - Amy Sturgis Keynote - Michael Drout 12:30 PM

1:00 PM Break 1:30 PM

2:00 PM Talk 1A Talk 2A Special: Tom Shippey 2:30 PM Talk 1B Talk 2B

3:00 PM Talk 1C (Creative) The Council of : Round Table 2C 3:30 PM Talk 1D an immersive audio experience

4:00 PM Break Moot Wrap-up - Alan & Shawn

4:30 PM Talk 1E

5:00 PM Talk 1F Talk 2F

5:30 PM Talk 1G Talk 2G

6:00 PM Break

6:30 PM PPP LIVE! 7:00 PM Meet and Greet A live, AMA-style recording with Alan & Shawn 7:30 PM Moot Launch - Alan & Shawn

8:00 PM Pub Quiz Round Table 1H 8:30 PM

9:00 PM The Common Room: Happy Hour The Common Room: Happy Hour 9:30 PM

10:00 PM Hall of Fire: Virtual Middle-earth Finrod v. Sauron 10:30 PM Poetry Reading Scavenger Hunt Escape Room Rap/pun battles

Schedule and speakers subject to change; be sure to check our website for up-to-date information

1 Speaker Information

Talk Speaker Title

KN Sat Amy Sturgis

KN Sun Michael Drout

“Forth now, and fear no darkness!”: Reflections on the Oral Special Bill Fliss History Project at Marquette University

Special Tom Shippey “Old Norse Myth in Modern Fantasy”

Chad High, Jeremy Edmonds & Panel 1 Collector’s Corner Andrew Ferguson

Talk 1A Adam Tyler “Keep up your hobbitry in heart”: Finding Community in Crisis and Separation

Talk 1B Enrico Spadaro “Tolkieniani Italiani”: New digital voices to meet Tolkien in Italy

Talk 1C Robert Albright Is Social Media our version of the Palantír? If so, who is on the other end?

Talk 1D Dani Inkpen Digital Recovery and Virtual Holidays in Faërie

Talk 1E Elise Trudel Cedeño & James Tauber Education and Computers and the Cottage of Lost Play

Talk 1F Calvin Barbee “A little nudge out of the door”: A Catalyst for Adventure

Talk 1G Jon Nelson A Hobbit Door: An Architectural Analysis

Talk 2A Laurie Magan In Defense of Tauriel: My Journey from Tolkien Purist to Tolkien Fan

Talk 2B Zara Williams The Importance of Online Fandom to Recovery

RT 2C Becca Davis Round Table: Community and Subcreation in Tolkien Fanart and Fanfiction

Talk 2F Nick Polk Taking Comfort in Virtual Humor: Tolkien Memes as Adaptation and Escape

Talk 2G Becca Davis Held in High Honor: The Role of Gardens in the Recovery of Middle-earth

RT 1H The Friends of Mr. Underhill Come sit a while, talk with friends, and recover your strength

Creative Jordan Rannells & Chad Bornholdt The Council of Elrond: An Immersive Audio Experience

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