There is going to be a week-long, in-depth seminar on The Lord of the Rings at the University of Toronto from July 16-21, 2006. Part of Classical Pursuits, learning vacations with a difference, the seminar is being conducted by Dr. Glen Robert Gill, Professor of English at Troy University in Alabama, and promises to be exciting affair. [More]
Category: Lectures & Education
Author Henry Gee writes: Dr Dimitra Fimi has been teaching an online Tolkien course at Cardiff University and due to popular demand it will be run again from May 1. This course can be taken by anybody in the world (student or adult learner) and its credits can be used towards a qualification at any other Higher Education and/or Higher Education Lifelong Learning institution in Britain. The website of the course is here.
Chris writes: Dr. Thomas Shippey will deliver the lecture “Narnia and Middle-Earth: Seventy Years on and Still Accelerating” at Marymount University, in Arlington, Virginia, on Wednesday, April 5, 2006. Join us at 7 PM in the Reinsch Library for the talk, reception to follow. [marymount.edu]
Anthony and Jessica of the North East Tolkien Society write: The proceedings from the 2004 Marquette University LOTR Conference have now been published. New research by twenty scholars of J.R.R. Tolkien is now available from the Marquette University Press. The articles were originally presented at the October 2004 conference, “The Lord of the Rings, 1954-2004: Scholarship in Honor of Richard E. Blackwelder,” organized by the Marquette Libraries’ Department of Special Collections and University Archives. The international conference celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Tolkien’s masterpiece, as well as the opening of Marquette’s new John P. Raynor, S.J., Library. More information and ordering is found here. [More]
Dr. Dimitra Fimi writes: The online Course on Tolkien hosted by Cardiff University last semester (Autumn 2005) will be run again during the Spring Semester (20 February – 30 April 2006). Both students and adult learners can enrol, and explore the rich background of myth, languages and contemporary ideas of Tolkien’s creative writing. For more information visit the Course’s website.
We got this from a mailing list: Wayne Hammond & Christina Scull will be talking about their work on Tolkien, especially “The Lord of the Rings: A Reader’s Companion”, at Water Street Books, 26 Water Street in Williamstown (north-west Massachusetts), 6:30 to 8:00 tonight, Jan 12. If you are in the area, make it a point to meet these great Tolkien scholars!