It is not only in Aachen that the 20th Seminar of the Deutsche Tolkien Gesellschaft e.V. will take place from 11 to 13 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 “Tolkien and His Editors” by speakers from all over the world.
Presentations and timetable
Venue: Theaterplatz 14, 52064 Aachen. Barrier-free access is via Borngasse 20-32
14:00-14:30 Registration (ZHG 1.141 Conference Office)
14:30-14:45 Opening Ceremony Venue ZHG 103
14:45-15:30 Christian Trenk: Hierarchies of Authenticity? Concerning Canon, Copyright, and a Tolkienian Cinematic Universe in the 21st Century
15:30-16:15 Allan Turner: The Editors and the Critics
16:15-16:45 Break
16:45-17:30 Thomas Fornet-Ponse: Editing Philosophy and Theology
17:30-18:15 Lukasz Neubauer: The Lost Lectures and Other Writings: Editing and Publishing Tolkien’s Academic Work
19:30 Conference-warming at the Elisenbrunnen Restaurant (pre-booking required)
09:30-10:15 Thomas Honegger: Fathers and Sons, or: Looking for CJRT in JRRT’s Fiction
10:15-11:00 Ryan Syler: Coming Into His Own: Christopher Tolkien, Unfinished Tales, and the Transformation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Legendarium
11:00 break
11:15-12:00 Giovanni Costabile: Christopher Tolkien and the Introduction to Pearl
12:00-14:00 lunch
14:15-15:45 The Legacy of Christopher Reuel Tolkien (A talk with Prof. Dr. Vincent Ferré, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle)
15.45-16:15 coffee break
16:15-17:00 Denis Bridoux: A Colourful Edition: Christopher Tolkien’s edition of his father’s artwork
17:00-17:45 Jacob Langenhahn: Editing the Unpublished – Some Thoughts on The New Shadow
17:45-18.15 Presentation of new Publications & Honorary PhD
19:00 Dinner at the Elisenbrunnen Restaurant (pre-booking required)
09:30-10:15 Antoine Paris: “Notes within quotations mark are found in the sources. Others are editorial.” Ambiguities of the author/editor of The Lord of the Rings
10:15-11:00 Jonathan Nauman: Editorial Peril: Tolkien’s Depictions of Academic Practice and Solecism
11:00-11:45 Sebastian Krinner: Tolkien was not a ‘genius”. A Critical appraisal of a great author and his publishers
11:45-12:15 Break
12:15-13:00 Final discussion, conclusion & goodbyes
Online participation
Online participation takes place via Zoom and is free of charge.All you need to do is register.
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Titelfoto: Deutsche Tolkien Gesellschaft