Online
In addition to the keynote talks and panels, the following paper and panels have been accepted for Oxonmoot Online:
- Alan Reynolds: Professors at play – Some early reviews of The Hobbit
- Andoni Cossio: Foraging for Sources – Sir Orfeo as the Origin of Medieval Romance Topoi Present in Mirkwood
- Birgitte Breemerkamp: “It Mourns for Beleg Even As You Do” – ‘Living’ Swords in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Legendarium
- Chad High: Tolkien’s Hidden Realms
- Constantin Pirozhkov: A Commentary on Tolkien’s lecture ‘Dragons’
- Denis Bridoux: Tolkien’s Doodles
- Enrico Spadaro: Destroying the state from within – the role of advisors in Tolkien’s world
- Ian Barnstead: Bilbo, the Existentialist Hero
- Ian Spittlehouse: Llanbedrog 1920
- Jay Johnstone: Tolkienography
- Jennifer Brooker: Language re-imagined in Middle Earth and Hundred-Acre Wood
- Julieta Elizaga: Archetypes in Tolkien’s work: a (very) preliminary approach from Jung’s psychological functions
- Kate Grindstaff: On Increasing Tolkien Popularity in Times of Change and Upheaval
- Kenton Sena: Ecological Memory in The Lord of the Rings
- Kristine Larsen: Doctor Tolkien’s Life-long Moon Phase Bad (with apologies to The Beatles)
- Len Sanford: Tolkien Art Show
- Leslie Donovan (moderator): Maybe Exhausting, but Not At All Depressing: Spanning Levels, Countries, and Approaches to Teach Tolkien
- Madawc Williams: Gandalf: from Bladorthin to Olorin
- Maria Zielenbach: The Semitic connection – Near Eastern Influences on Tolkien’s invented languages
- María Fernanda Chávez Guiñez: The Call of the Spiders: A Feminist Reading of J. R. R. Tolkien’s Ungoliant and Shelob
- Mariana Rios Maldonado: Ethics, Femininity and the Other in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth Narratives
- Marie Bretagnolle: Middle-earth in Paris : the BnF exhibition of 2019-2020
- Martha Celis: The importance of music and its different functions in the works of JRR Tolkien
- Michael Urick: Leadership in Tolkien’s Middle-earth
- Michaela Schneider-Wettstein: “More than Meets the Eye”: The Significance of the Edifice in The Lord of the Rings
- Murray Smith: Wizards, knowledge, strong suspicion, and divine intervention
- Patty Howerton: One Book at a Time
- Paul Corfield Godfrey: In Slothful Gardens?
- Robert Viscusi: A new lens: discovering Tolkien’s tertiary world & the reality of his work
- Sara Brown: The Ring of Power and The Deception of Simile
- Sultana Raza: Alan Lee’s Cover Art & his exploration of Tolkien’s ‘new’ works
- Theo Maligeay: Rock’n’troll : Tolkien’s works in the music of the 1960s and 1970s
- Zvetelina Nestorov: Authoritative Poetry – A structural description of Authority in The Lord of the Rings with the Weber Triadic Authority Model
The programme of Talks and Papers will run across the following times:
- Friday 22:30 to Saturday 01:15 UK time (Friday 17:30-20:15 USA Eastern time, Friday 14:30-17:15 USA Pacific Time)
- Saturday 09:00 to 17:00 UK time (Saturday 04:00-12:00 USA Eastern time, Saturday 01:00-09:00 USA Pacific time)
- Saturday 23:00 to Sunday 01:15 UK time (Saturday 18:00-20:15 USA Eastern time, Saturday 15:00-17:15 USA Pacific time)
- Sunday 09:00 to 17:15 UK time (Sunday 04:00-12:15 USA Eastern time, Sunday 01:00-09:15 USA Pacific time)
The schedule of talks within these times will be published shortly.