The Inklings: Myth and Magic across Time
Saturday, April 14
Honors Hall, Goldstar Memorial Building - ΒιΆΉ΄«Γ½ City University
2501 North Blackwelder, ΒιΆΉ΄«Γ½ City, OK 73106
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Schedule
9:30 AM - Light Breakfast
10:00 AM - Keynote Address
βJ.R.R. Tolkien's Medieval Mythology.β Joyce Coleman, Bambas Professor of Medieval English Literature & Culture and Director of the Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, University of ΒιΆΉ΄«Γ½
11:00 AM - Break
11:15 AM - Student Papers
Andrew Wright, ΒιΆΉ΄«Γ½ Baptist University, reading from his novel Phoenix Rising
Chloe Harrison, ΒιΆΉ΄«Γ½ Baptist University, βInescapable Suffering: The Dangerous Otherworld in Sir Orfeoβ
12:00 -1:30 - Lunch on your own at local restaurants
1:30 β 4:30 PM - Faculty Papers
"Tolkien, Lewis, and the Aesthetics of Christian Environmentalist Fiction: An Excerpt from Fire and Snow: Climate Fiction from the Inklings to Game of Thrones." Marc DiPaolo, Assistant Professor, Department of Language and Literature, Southwestern ΒιΆΉ΄«Γ½ State University
βThe N.I.C.E. and the Pendragon: Opposing βThe Inner Ring.ββ Lindsey Panxhi, Assistant Professor of English, ΒιΆΉ΄«Γ½ Baptist University
15 min break
βC.S. Lewis as a Ring-writer.β John Granger, Adjunct, PhD student, University of Central ΒιΆΉ΄«Γ½/University of Swansea
βWas Faramir Gandalf's Original Chosen Ringbearer?β Victoria Gaydosik, Professor, Department of Language and Literature, Southwestern ΒιΆΉ΄«Γ½ State University
For further information, please email [email protected].
Presented by the ΒιΆΉ΄«Γ½ City Chapter of the C. S. Lewis and Inklings
Society and the ΒιΆΉ΄«Γ½ City University Honors Program.
