Friday, April 10th
7:30 – 9:00 p.m. in Lafayette Hall L207
Tolkien fireside readings
Come read, recite, or sing your favorite verse or prose passages!
— organized and hosted by the Tolkien Club of UVM
Saturday, April 11th
8:30 – 5:00 p.m. in Lafayette Hall L207
Session 1: Tolkien and Medieval Verse
J.R.R. Tolkien: Performance artist and modern Medievalist
— Gerry Blair · independent scholar
Verses and prose: Medieval narrative, Nineteenth Century Medievalism, and Tolkien
— James Williamson · senior lecturer · University of Vermont
Modern fantasy’s roots in Medieval verse
— Andrew Liptak · independent scholar/Norwich University
Session 2: Arthurian echoes
Guinevere, Grimhild, and the Corrigan: Witches and bitches in Tolkien’s Medieval narrative verse; or, good girls don’t use magic (except if you’re Galadriel, but Elf magic is different, and who ever said Galadriel was a good girl?)
— Dr. Kristine Larsen · professor · Central Connecticut State University
A brief exploration of Tolkien’s alliterative verse and echoes of The Fall of Arthur heard in Middle-earth
— Andrew Peterson · independent scholar
Session 3: Tolkien and Beowulf
Dyrne langað: Secret longing in Beowulf and The Lord of the Rings
— Dr. Chris Vaccaro · senior lecturer · University of Vermont
Keynote

Scholarship as art, art as scholarship: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Beowulf
— Dr. Michael Drout · professor · Wheaton College
Session 3 (continued): Tolkien & Beowulf
Poetic time-travel in The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm’s Son
— Anna Smol · professor · Mount Saint Vincent University
Beowulf and Thorin as ancestral heroes: Their choices, and the dragons they face
— Cheryl Hunter · lecturer · Southern New Hampshire University
Session 4: Undergraduate Voices
Sunday, April 12th
Noon – 3:00 p.m.