Hybrid Kalamazoo May 9-11, 2024

Tolkien Sessions

The Tolkien at Kalamazoo area will be organizing six sessions for the 2024 conference: three are in-person, and three are virtual.

The proposal deadline is September 15: please submit proposals by email to the organizers, Christopher Vaccaro and Yvette Kisor, at: ykisor@ramapo.edu, cvaccaro@uvm.edu.

They will accept or reject proposals and create the six sessions by October 15 after which presenters will need to complete the required paperwork (Participant Information Form). Information on proposals can be found on the Congress’s web site.

All proposals must be made through the Congress’s Confex system. Please follow the instructions on the Congress’s Call for Papers carefully.

Tolkien's Leeds Legacy: A Reconsideration of His Work as a Medievalist (In-person)

Tolkien and "The Battle of Maldon" (In-person)

Tolkien’s Problematic Medievalisms, A Roundtable (In-person)

Flora, Fauna & Fantasy: Medieval Poets and J.R.R. Tolkien, co-sponsored with the Pearl Poet Society. (Virtual)

Here Be Dragons: Tolkien at the Medieval Margins (co-sponsored with Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic, University of Glasgow: Virtual)

Tolkien and Disability (co-sponsored with Society for the Study of Disability in the Middle Ages: Virtual)