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