The Inklings: Myth and Magic across Time
Saturday, April 14
Honors Hall, Goldstar Memorial Building - OCU University
2501 North Blackwelder, ذكذكتسئµ, OK 73106
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Schedule
9:30 AM - Light Breakfast
10:00 AM - Keynote Address
“J.R.R. Tolkien's Medieval Mythology.†Joyce Coleman, Bambas Professor of Medieval English Literature & Culture and Director of the Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, University of Oklahoma
11:00 AM - Break
11:15 AM - Student Papers
Andrew Wright, Oklahoma Baptist University, reading from his novel Phoenix Rising
Chloe Harrison, Oklahoma Baptist University, “Inescapable Suffering: The Dangerous Otherworld in Sir Orfeoâ€
12:00 -1:30 - Lunch on your own at local restaurants
1:30 – 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 Oklahoma State University
“The N.I.C.E. and the Pendragon: Opposing â€کThe Inner Ring.’†Lindsey Panxhi, Assistant Professor of English, Oklahoma Baptist University
15 min break
“C.S. Lewis as a Ring-writer.†John Granger, Adjunct, PhD student, University of Central Oklahoma/University of Swansea
“Was Faramir Gandalf's Original Chosen Ringbearer?†Victoria Gaydosik, Professor, Department of Language and Literature, Southwestern Oklahoma State University
For further information, please email [email protected].
Presented by the ذكذكتسئµ Chapter of the C. S. Lewis and Inklings
Society and the OCU University Honors Program.
