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Tolkien seminar 2024
12 april - 13 april
2nd Unquendor Tolkien Seminar
Evil in Eä
Perceptions of evil in the work of Tolkien
On Friday, April 12 and Saturday, April 13, Unquendor organises its 2nd Seminar in Leiden, the Netherlands. The Seminar will be held in the Lipsius-building, rooms 1.23 and 0.05, Cleveringaplaats 1 in Leiden. The theme of the Seminar: Evil in Eä.
The registration is now closed.
This is the programme of the seminar:
Friday, 12 April
| 11.00 hrs | Doors open. Coffee and tea |
Session 1
| 11.30 hrs | Renée Vink: ‘Tolkien’s Devils, The Biblical Satan and the Fall’ |
| 12.00 hrs | David Dodds: ‘‘ “Not his to worship the great Artefact”: Loving and Misloving the Creature, Making and Falling among the Ainur, in Eä, and throughout the life of “Man, Sub-creator”’ ‘ |
| 12.30 – 14.00 hrs | Lunch |
Session 2
| 14.00 hrs | Chiara Marchetti: ‘Food and evil. From the description of food to moral considerations of evil characters’ |
| 14.30 hrs | Jonne Steen Redeker: ‘The Nature of Evil, and Evil’s Nature’ |
| 15.00 hrs | Suzanne Klare: ‘Dual Identity: Beorn’s Beowulfian Hybridity in The Hobbit’ |
| 15.30 – 16.00 hrs | Break. Coffee and tea |
Session 3
| 16.00 hrs | Sanne Dekker: ‘Exploring Good and Evil in Tolkien’s Fantasy: A Corpus-Based Analysis’ |
| 16.30 hrs | Markus Davidsen: ‘Narrative archetypality in The Lord of the Rings, with particular attention to the (evil?) nature of the Orcs’ |
| 17.00 hrs | Lucas Gahrmann: ‘Shadowy Phenomena: Expressions of Evil in The Lord of the Rings and The Children of Húrin’ |
End of first day. Dinner (for those that have registered)
Saturday, 13 April
| 10.30 hrs | Doors open. Coffee and tea |
Session 4
| 11.00 hrs | Jan van Breda: ‘ “The Wanderings of Húrin”: how the Shadow fell on Brethil’ |
| 11.30 hrs | Stas Vugts: ‘My Own, My Precious, My choice? To what extent was the choice of the 5 hobbit ring-bearers to pick up the one ring an autonomous choice?’ |
| 12.00 hrs | Yoeri Emmaneel: ‘Evil and Justice in Middle-earth’ |
| 12.30 – 14.00 hrs | Lunch |
Session 5
| 14.00 hrs | Keynote lecture Claudio Testi: ‘The logic of evil in Tolkien: Melkor, Sauron and the Orcs’ |
| 15.00 hrs | Break. Coffee and tea |
Session 6
| 15.30 hrs | Anastassia Dalcolmo: ‘Feared Ladies & Gifted Maidens: Tracing the Figure of the Witch in the Fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien’ |
| 16.00 hrs | Renée Vink: ‘Tolkien and Zoroastrianism: Dualism and “heterodoxy” in the Ainulindalë’ |
| 16.30 – 17.30 hrs | Panel discussion |
End of second day. Dinner (for those that have registered)