Program Schedule Papers: Mars Science Center Rooms 1141, 1314, 3102 and 3120. Panels & Key Events: Hindle Auditorium. Meals: Emerson Dining Room. Lodging & late evening activities: Gebbie and Keefe Halls. See map on inside front cover for building and room locations.

Friday, August 8 Time Room 1:00–2:00 3120 Paper: Christopher “Chip” Crane, Perception and Ambiguity in Tolkien’s Prose Style: , Short Works, and Non-Fiction 1141 Paper: Brenton D.G. Dickieson, A Cosmic Shift in The Screwtape Letters 2:00–2:30 3120 Paper: , The Family Plot: Naming, Siring, and Identity 3102 Paper: James Baugher, Spiritual Criticism and : Christ in 2:00–3:00 1141 Paper: Lisa Padol, Where does fantasy fit? The Short Answer Is: Anywhere it Wants. 2:30–3:00 3120 Paper: Janet Brennan Croft, The SPARQ Labyrinth 3102 Paper: Cheryl Hunter, The Heroic Life of Tolkien’s Characters as Defined by Their Ethical Choices and Morality 3:00–3:30 3102 Paper: William Thompson, Mediating the Text: The Narrative Voice in C.S. Lewis’s Narnia 3122 Paper: James Baugher, Spiritual Criticism and Fantasy: Christ in The Lord of the Rings 3:00–4:00 1141 Paper: Joe Christopher, On J.R.R. Tolkien as a Generic Poet 3120 Paper: Elise McKenna, Music Makers and Dreamers of Dreams: Fantasy and Entwined 4:00–5:00 1141 Paper: Michael Drout, Tolkien’s Beowulf 3120 Paper: Andrew Hallam, Warrior Topos: The Ethics of Middle-earth’s Martial Traditions 5:30–6:30 Emerson Dinner 7:00–8:30 Keefe Stewards’ Reception 8:30 on Keefe Hospitality Room Gebbie Bardic Circle

Saturday, August 9 Time Room 8:00–9:00 Emerson Breakfast 9:00–9:30 Opening Ceremonies 9:30–11:00 Scholar Guest of Honor Richard C. West 11:00–12:00 Hindle Panel: College-level Tolkien: Teaching Middle-earth Sixty Years Later. Brian Walter (moderator), Christopher Crane, , Kristine Larsen, Corey Olsen 1141 Paper: Caroline Mosser, The Use of Myth in the Creation of National Cultural Identities in Wagner and Tolkien 11:00–11:30 1314 Paper: Elliot Crane and Christopher Crane Jr., The Power in Knowing a True Name 11:30–12:00 1314 Paper: Vicki Ronn, Bill Willingham’s and ABC’s Once Upon A Time: Contemporizing Classic Tales in a Postmodern World 12:00–1:00 Emerson Lunch

9 1:00–2:00 1141 Paper: Eleanor Simpson, Tolkien’s Evolution and Clarification in his Portrayal of Nature through Fantasy: Foreshadowing Critical Animal Theory and Anti-Speciesism 1314 Paper: Sumner Hunnewell, Science and Scripture: The Viewpoint of Tolkien’s Works During the First Decade of Tolkien Hindle Talk: Tales Beyond the Tale: Storytelling in The Lord of the Rings Online. Chris Pierson 2:00–3:00 1141 Paper: Dominic J. Nardi, The Law of the Rings: Reevaluating Politics in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-Earth 2:00–2:30 1314 Paper: Jared L. Reichard, Menace, Myth, and Madness; Villainy, and the Search for Self 2:30–3:00 1314 Paper: Joshua D. Reichard, Matter, Myth, and Meaning: Science, Fantasy Literature, and the Spiritual 3:00–4:00 Hindle Panel: Bringing Tolkien’s World to (Digital) Life. M.D.C. Drout (moderator), Chris Pierson, Todd DeMelle, Ross Glover, and Elise McKenna 1141 Paper: Ryan W. Lawrence, Tolkien’s Creative Process: Retelling and Expanding Norse Saga in The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun 1314 Paper: Donald Williams, Text versus Word: C.S. Lewis’s View of Inspiration and the Inerrancy of Scripture 4:00–5:00 1314 Paper: Miguel Angelo Fernandes Rodrigues, Evil in Tolkien: A Matter of (Dis)continuities 1141 Paper: Molly Hall, J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings: Modernist Fantasy, Ecology, Trauma, and the Great 3102 Paper: Rebecca McCurdy, Comedy, Tragedy and Romance: A Study in Tolkien’s Eucatastrophe 5:30–6:30 Emerson Dinner 7:00–8:00 Hindle Collaborative Reading of Beowulf 9:30 on Keefe Hospitality Room Gebbie Bardic Circle

Sunday, August 10 Time Room 4:26 am Sale of College Land (Building 28½) 8:00–9:00 Emerson Breakfast 9:00–9:30 1314 Paper: Michael Carr, “A Wild Litany”: Beowulf, The , and the 21st Century Student 3102 Paper: Christine Keating, Essence over Existence: The Mythopoeic Quest of Virginia Woolf in The Waves 9:30–10:00 1314 Paper: Sarah Hays, Teaching Tolkien and Lewis to College Athletes in the South 3102 Paper: Clotilde Landais, Mapping Genre Fiction in France and in the U.S.: Fantasy, , and Fiction 10:00–11:00 1141 Paper: Robyn Bosica, Where Young Adult Fantasy Fits: A Field Report 10:00–10:30 1141 Paper: Kris Swank, Harry Potter as Dystopian Literature 10:30–11:00 3102 Paper: Janet Brennan Croft, Noms de Guerre: The Power of Naming in War and Conflict in Middle-Earth 1141 Paper: Marie Perrier, Lord Dunsany and H.P. Lovecraft: Estranged Fantasists in 11:00–12:00 1314 Paper: John Rosegrant, The Interplay of Enchantment and Loss in Tolkien’s Work and Life 11:00–11:30 3102 Paper: Daniel Lüthi, Toying with Fantasy: The Post-Modern Playground of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld 11:30–12:00 3102 Paper: Eric Doyle, Race and Magic in Ben Bova’s Mars 1314 Paper: John Polanin, Damnation (Un-)Eternal: Fluid Mythologies of Hell in the Work of Neil Gaiman 10 12:00–1:00 Emerson Lunch 1:00–2:00 1314 Paper: John Gavin, St. Jerome’s Narnia: The Myth of Paul the Hermit 2:00–3:00 Hindle Panel: Fantasy and Faith. Chip Crane (moderator), Carl Hostetter, Sørina Higgins and Lynn Maudlin 1141 Paper: Kristine Larsen, Frozen Fire and Iron of Death: Magical Weapons in and A Song of Ice and Fire 3102 Paper: Janice Bogstad, Tolkien’s Translations of The Pearl Poem and the Early Tale of Beren and Tinuviel: Some Further Considerations 3:00–4:00 Hindle Panel: and King Arthur. Sørina Higgins (Moderator), Chris Gaertner, Yannick Imbert, Benjamin Shogren, Brenton D. G. Dickieson 1141 Paper: , Did He Hate That ?: C.S. Lewis and Lord Nuffield 1314 Paper: Samantha Vitale, Darwinian Influence on and The Lord of the Rings 3102 Paper: Paromita Sengupta, When Good Warlocks Turn Bad: The Politics of Corpse- Jumping in The Lord of the Rings Online 4:00–5:00 1141 Paper: Joe Christopher, Lindskoog vs. Hooper: I. An Introduction to a Conflict II. The Problems with Kathryn Lindskoog’s Argumentation 1314 Paper: Matthew Rettino, of History: Guy Gavriel Kay’s Synthesis of the Novel 1343 Auction 6:00–7:00 Emerson Banquet 7:00–8:00 Author/Artist Guest of Honor: Ursula Vernon The 8:00–9:00 Hindle Masquerade Costume Presentation Clerihew Contest winners presentation The Not-Ready-for-Mythcon Players Masquerade Awards Presentation 9:00 on Keefe Hospitality Room Gebbie Bardic Circle The Dimple Golfimbul

Monday, August 11 Time Room 8:00 –9:00 Emerson Breakfast 9:00–10:00 1141 Paper: Megan Abrahamson and Lynne Darga, “It is not said that Aredhel was wholly unwilling”: Consent and Historical Bias in The Silmarillion 1314 Paper: John McGeary, C.S. Lewis and C.G Jung: The Fine Line Between “Myth” and “Archetype” 10:00–11:00 1314 Paper: Lydia Christoph, He Who Would Find: How the Sacred Stone Transforms its Servants in Williams, Goudge, and Rowling 11:00–12:00 Hindle Annual Members’ Meeting All Mythcon attendees are welcome to this discussion of future Mythcon plans and other Society policies with the members of the Council of Stewards, the Society’s governing body. 11:00–11:30 Hindle Closing Ceremonies Time approximate; will begin at the closing of the members’ meeting. Includes the singing of the traditional Mythcon songs. 12:30–1:00 Check Out

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