It is not only in Göttingen that the 19th Seminar of the Deutsche Tolkien Gesellschaft e.V. will take place from 27 to 29 October. You can also follow the conference worldwide via the internet from Friday at 2pm. Listeners and participants can look forward to numerous exciting lectures on this year’s theme “Through other eyes: the visualisation of Tolkien’s work” by speakers from all over the world.
Presentations and timetable
Venue: ZHG (Central Lecture Hall Building), Platz der Göttinger Sieben, 37073 Göttingen
14:00-14:30 Registration (ZHG 1.141 Conference Office)
14:30-14:45 Opening Ceremony Venue ZHG 103
14:45-15:30 Nauman: Maps as Paratexts
15:30-16:15 Mertens: Tolkien’s Maps
16:15-16:45 Break
16:45-17:30 Mączyńska: Polish Book Covers
17:30-18:15 Schurer: Book Covers
18:15-19:15 Tolkien Quizzes (Schneidewind, Eckrich)
19:30 Conference-warming at the Restaurant Apex
Venue ZHG 103
10:15-11:00 Honegger: Visualising the Elves
11:00-11:45 Zielenbach: Hobbit Feet
12:00-14:00 lunch
14:00-14:45 Trenk: Éowyn and the Male Gaze
14:45-15:30 Klug: Japonisme and Fantastic Sfumato
15.30-16:00 coffee break
16:00-16:45 Krinner: Visualising the Dúnedain
16:45-17:20 Jurickova: The 1991 Soviet adaptation of The Lord of the Rings
17.30-18.00 new publications, Dwarvish University of the Blue Mountains Honorary Degree Awarding Ceremony
Venue ZHG 104
14:00-14:45 de la Llana: John Howe’s Illustrations
14:45-15:30 Sanz-Rodriguez: Visions from Spain
15.30-16:00 coffee break
16:00-16:45 Ue: The Economics of The Hobbit
16:45-17:20 Manni: Visualising Celebrimbor
19:00 Dinner at the Bullerjahn
Venue ZHG 103
09:30-10:15 Gahrmann: Shadow Vocabulary
10:15-11:00 Filonenko: Tolkienian Tarot
11:00-11:45 Neubauer: Tove Jansson’s Illustrations
11:45-12:15 Break
12:15-13:00 Final discussion, conclusion & goodbyes
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Titelfoto: Tobias M. Eckrich