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Tolkien: The Forest and the City
The School of English
Trinity College Dublin, September 21-22, 2012
Convener: Dr. H. Conrad-O’Briain, Trinity College Dublin
Keynote Address: Professor Tom Shippey (St Louis University, emeritus): ‘The Goths and the Romans in Tolkien's Imagination’’
Invited Lecturers:
Professor Michael D. C. Drout (Wheaton College): ‘The Tower and the Ruin: The Past in Tolkien’
Professor Verlyn Flieger (University of Maryland): ‘Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Sentient Landscape in Tolkien's Fiction.’
Professor Thomas Honegger (University of Jena): ‘”Raw Forest” and the “Cooked City” Lévi-Strauss in Middle-earth’
Professor Alison Milbank (University of Nottingham): 'In a Dark Wood: Tolkien and Dante’’
Papers:
Ms. Meg Black: ‘The Party Tree and its Roots in the Spanish Civil War’
Dr. Jane Carroll (Trinity College Dublin): ‘On the Edge of Ruin: Unexpected Pleasures in Unexpected Places in The Lord of the Rings’’
Dr. Dimitra Fimi (Cardiff Metropolitan University): ‘Wildman of the Woods: Inscribing Tragedy on the Landscape of Middle –earth in The Children of Hurin’
Ms. Jennifer Harwood-Smith (Trinity College Dublin): ‘Fractured Cities: the Twinning of Tolkien's Minas Tirith and Minas Morgul with Fritz Lang's Metropolis."
Gerard Hynes, (Trinity College Dublin): ‘The Cedar has Fallen: Empire, Deforestation, and the Fall of Numenor’
Ian Kinane (Trinity College Dublin): ‘Less Noise, More Green: Cultural Materialism and the Reverse Discourse of the Forest in Tolkien’s The Hobbit’
Karl Kinsella (Keble College Oxford): ‘A Preference for Round Windows: Architectural Description in Lord of the Rings’
Ms. Rebecca Merkelbach (Clare College Cambridge): ‘Deeper and Deeper into the Wood: Forests as Places of Transformation in The Lord of the Rings’
Ms. Dominika Nycz: ‘The Forest and the City: The Dichotomy of Tolkien’s Istari’
Dr. Erin Sebo (Trinity College Dublin): ‘Liminal Cities? The Location of Riddle Contests in The Hobbit'
Round table:
Dr. Henry Gee
Conference convener: Dr. H. Conrad-O’Briain
Conference Announcement
Tolkien: The Forest and the City
September 21-22, 2012
The School of English, Trinity College Dublin
Speakers: Professors Tom Shippey, Michael Drout, Verlyn Fliegger, Thomas Honegger and Alison Milbank
as well as new voices from Ireland, England, Germany and the US
with the participation of Dr. Henry Gee
Conference Registration fee of 50 euro will cover conference pack, reception, tea and coffee, and a discount on the conference proceedings volume to be published by Four Courts Press.
For conference program and registration forms, please contact
Dr. H. Conrad-O'Briain or by post: Places are limited and will be allocated strictly on the basis of receipt of conference registration form and fee.
conrado@tcd.ie
The Forest and the City
c/o Dr. H. Conrad-O'Briain
School of English, Arts Building
Trinity College, Dublin 2
Ireland
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... ou du primitivisme des Elfes, qui mangent cru avec les mains dans les forêts, face aux civilisations raffinées des humains, qui mangent cuit avec une fourchette dans les villes? Après tout, pour Tolkien, ce sont les Elfes, qui sont les peuples premiers.Oups. :-D :-D :-D
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Maaais heu ! Le carpacio de cerf et le tartare de biche sont tout à fait raffinés !
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Et puis dans la forêt, on peut cueillir des salades et après on peut les manger. Parait même qu'on peut même faire des dips délicieux avec du céléri et des carottes. :-P
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Give me fisheees now, and keep nassty chips!
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Un jour, faudra voir à inviter Shippey, Flieger et Drout en France pour des conférences.
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