Folklore, Fantasy, & Film

Friday, February 11

& Saturday February 12, 2005

Friday, February 11, 2005

7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Thompson Room, Barker Center

Short films, presentations, and refreshments

Saturday, February 12, 2005

Thompson Room, Barker Center

BREAKFAST
9:30 am - 10:00 am

MORNING PANELS
10:00 am - 12:45pm

"Our Lady's Tumbler: from Medieval Fantasy to Modern

Fakelore"

(Jan Ziolkowski)

"Seeking Seed-Wheat I Have Come: Desire between the

Worlds in Medieval Irish and Welsh Tales"

(Kate Chadbourne)

"Why Should Sleeping Beauty Wake Up?"

(Cara Zimmerman)

"Fairy Tale Romance: Love, Sex, and Bestiality Across the

Centuries"

(Catherine Orenstein)

"The Magic Art of the Great Humbug: Performative

Language in The Wizard of Oz"

(Maria Tatar)

 

LUNCH
12:45pm - 1:30pm

 

KEYNOTE ADDRESS
1:30pm - 2:30pm

James Russell
"J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis: A Russian Liberal Perspective"

 

AFTERNOON PANELS
2:30pm - 4:45 pm

"Tolkien and the Ornithography of Evil"

(Joseph Harris)

"The Naming of Trees is a Difficult Matter: Treebeard

and the Kalevala"

(Veronica Heller)

"The Mythological Heritage of Tolkien's Elves"

(Matthew Granoff)

"Shared Narrative Framework in Role-Playing Games"

(Bryn Neuenschwander)

"Star Wars: Myth and Autobiography"

(Paulette Curtis)

"Imaginary Lands, Economic Territories: Conquering the

Global Film Market with the Fantasy/Sci-Fi Genre"

(Winnie Li)

 

REFRESHMENTS
5:00 pm - 5:30pm