Mythopoeic Society: Online Midwinter Seminar (OMS)
"Something Mighty Queer" February 17-18, 2024
I am linking to Anna Smol’s blog entry about the OMS because she has uploaded a copy of the program (which I cannot do, or have not yet figured out how to do it, here on Substack). Plus, Anna’s blog is a fantastic one to follow and read!
One of the two tracks at the event has a number of presentations on queer approaches to Tolkien, but the focus of the seminar is sff/mythopoeic literatures in general so there’s a lovely range of papers.
Co-chairs: Alicia Fox-Lenz, Grace Moone, Leah Hagan
Join us for a virtual conference centered around queerness in fantasy, science fiction, speculative fiction, or other mythopoeic work. “Queerness” is an intentionally ambiguous term, demonstrating the diversity of queer experiences, and the necessity of situating queerness as a liminal, complex paradigm. Queer theory is wider than the study of gender identity or sexuality, extending to taking positions against normativity and dominant modes of thought, and engaging with the indefinite.