Mythcon51 Preliminary Schedule

We're excited to announce the preliminary schedule of our upcoming virtual conference. It promises to be a very full and inspiring weekend. If you haven't signed up yet, there is still time to join us! Go to www.mythcon.org for more information.

Mythcon51 Presentation Schedule (subject to change)

Saturday:

• Philology and the Lived Imagination: Vico, Collingwood, and Tolkien - Reno Lauro
• Cities and Strongholds of Middle-earth Part 1 - Cami Agan, et al.
• Q&A with Mythopoeic Award Winners
• Her Enchanted Hair’: Rossetti, ‘Lady Lilith,’ and the Victorian Fascination with Hair as Influences on Tolkien - Kathryn Colvin
• (Un)Fair(ly) Unknown: New and Neglected Arthurian Television Programming - Michael Torregrossa, et al.
• The Mythopoeic Fantasy and Scholarly Awards Discussions - David Lenander
• The Keystone or the Cornerstone - Donald Willams
• Adam’s Task: Naming and Sub-creation in Good Omens - Janet Brennan Croft
• Transmedia Mythopoeia: Towards an Interactive Mythology - Brian Thomson
• A Saga Re-Written: The Character of Odin and J.R.R. Tolkien's Addition of Eucatastrophe in "The New Lay of the Volsungs" - Matthew Gidney
• Writing Against the Grain: T. Kingfisher's Feminist Mythopoeic Fantasy - Robin Anne Reid
• Mythopoeic Dungeons & Dragons - Megan Abrahamson
• Finding and Organizing Tolkien’s Invented Languages - Eileen Moore
• The Mythic, the Fantastic, and the Alien - El Hudson
• The Fanastic Short Story - Vicki Ronn
• Back to Camelot: 21st-century Reinterpretations of the Arthurian Mythos - Jennifer Spirko
• Mythopoeia in American Gods - Danica Stojanovic
• Other Than Him: Superman as the Alien That Made Good - Roy Schwartz
• Spoilers & Sequels; Bifurcated Fandoms in the Age of Adaptation - Joe Young, et al.
• Habla Amigo y Entra: Tolkien and the language of wonder - Martha Celis Mendoza, et al.
• Realizing History: Tolkien and the Desire called Marx - Robert Tally

Sunday:

• The Philosophy and Theology of Fairy-Stories:Fantasy, Escape, Recovery, and Consolation - Giovanni Costabile
• Cities and Strongholds of Middle-earth Part 2 - Cami Agan, et al.
• Fairy Tale Retellings for the Modern World - Sarena Ulibarri
• From Malacandra to Mars: Representations of the Red Planet in C. S. Lewis, Robert Sawyer, and Andy Weir - Bill Thompson
• ‘Descensus Ad Inferos’: Dante's Mythic Nekyia Journey in The Inferno - Ron Boyer
• How Mythopoeic Stories Carve Space For Change - Rivera Sun
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• “Long Anguish and Self-Murdering Thought”: Gollum and the Figure of Jealousy in The Faerie Queene - Anne Acker
• The Speculative Worldbuilding of ADÁL’s Blueprints for a Nation - Matt Goodwin
• Eärendil’s Errand and “Errantry” - Janet Brennan Croft, David Emerson, David Bratman, Verlyn Flieger
• Q&A with Unofficial Mythsoc Historian Lee Speth - Lynne Darga
• The Personhood of Nature in J. R. R. Tolkien’s Legendarium - Sophia Parrila
• Those Who See the Unseen West - Scott Hodgman
• My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me - John Rosegrant
• Faerie Reality in The Spiral Dance by Rodrigo Garcia y Robertson - Robert Treday
• Lil Nas X’s Montero: A Visual Mythology - Alicia Fox-Lenz, Jessica Dickinson Goodman
• Sterner Stuff; Sansa Stark and the System of Gothic Fantasy - Joseph Young
• Spray-painting the Sistine Chapel: Aesthetic Problems in Leaf by Niggle - John Holmes
• Tolkien, Race and Racism - Robin Reid, Megan Abrahamson, Helen Young, Craig Franson, Will Sherwood