Oktober 2021

As the end of October is approaching fast, this year’s DTG Tolkien Seminar is almost upon us! For the first time, the seminar will be held in a hybrid fashion, permitting participation on-site in Marburg as well as online. This year’s seminar offers 18 exciting presentations about “Tolkien and politics” from international researchers, as well as time for discussion, the honorary degree awarding ceremony for the Dwarvish University of the Blue Mountains doctorate and a presentation of Walking Tree Publishers’ latest publications. We have bundled the most recent update concerning registration for online or on-site participation as well as the seminar timetable for you. Participating online. In order to participate online, please register using the online registration form. Again, participation is free. Online participation will be hosted on Zoom. The conference link as well as additional information and advice will be sent out to registered participants on Friday morning. With some exceptions, online participants will not be able to switch on their video or microphone. If you have questions or contributions to ongoing presentations or discussions, you can hand them in using the Q&A function. For conversation with other participants, you can use the chat function. Additionally, breakout rooms will be provided to enable direct interaction between remote participants and recreate some seminar feeling online, especially during breaks. In these breakout rooms you can use your video and microphone. Participating on-site. Due to pandemic restrictions, you are encouraged to register in advance if you want to travel to Marburg and participate in person, using the form at the bottom of this paragraph. Registration is free and serves only to facilitate the planning. You will have to provide proof of immunisation (vaccination or recovery from Covid19 infection) or a negative Covid19 test result no older than 24 hours. Furthermore, hygiene and distancing rules must be observed, and surgical or FFP2 masks are obligatory inside and wherever distancing is impossible. You can find more information on participating in person at the University of Marburg’s Tolkien seminar site Presentations and timetable. Some presentations will be held in German while others will be held in English (see titles below). To allow for a more focussed discussion, two to three presentations have been combined into a panel. After the last presentation of each panel, some time for discussion will be provided. You can find the event timetable here. Friday, October 29Saturday, October 30Sunday, October 31 2.00 – 2.15 pm Opening Ceremony2.15 – 3.30 pm Panel 1 Andre Ay (D): Welche politischen Ideen kann man in Herr der Ringe wiederfinden?Robin Auer (D): Political Allegory, Apolitical Narrative & Applicability in Middle-Earth 3.30 – 4.00 pm Coffee break4.00 – 6.00 pm Panel 2 Friedhelm Schneidewind (D): Die Abstammungsgemeinschaft als politisches Konzept in Tolkiens MittelerdeUlrich Matthias Gerr (D): Ressentiment revisited – Antisemitismus im LegendariumJelena Filipovic (D): Machiavellianism in Middle-earth 9.00 – 11.00 am Panel 1 Philip-Thomas Wehage (D): Re-reading of the Tolkienean Concept of WarOleksandra Filonenko (UKR): The Great Manipulator: Saruman’s Magical PoliticsMarco Mazzocca (I): On Sauron’s Power 11.00 – 11.30 am Coffee break11.30 – 12.45 pm Panel 2 Muhammed Alpaslan Tandırcı (TUR): Environmental History of the Middle-earthJonas Mertens (D): Tolkien – der Öko-Anarchist? 12.45 – 3.00 pm Lunch break3.00 – 5.00 pm Panel 3 Claudio Testi (I): The Machine and the Ring: Tolkien, Ellul and UnabomberRenée Vink (NL): The Lords of the West: Colonialism in 2nd and 3rd Age Middle-earthNorbert Schürer (USA): Indigenous Politics in Tolkien’s Legendarium 5.00 – 5.30 pm Coffee break5.30 – 6.00 pm Walking Tree Publishers Presentation of new publicationsDwarvish University of the Blue Mountains Honorary Degree Awarding Ceremony 9.00 – 10.15 am Panel 1 Jonathan Nauman (USA): Bard and the Master of Lake-town: Tolkien on Heroism and PoliticsPamina Fernandez Camacho (E): Elven-latin and Semitic Adûnaic. Linguistic, Political and Religious Strife in the Island of Númenor 10.15 – 10.30 am Coffee break10.30 – 12.30 pm Panel 2 Andreas Zeilinger (D): Stellung und Politik der Truchsesse von GondorMario Wintersteiger (A): Die Politik des Orthanc. Saruman und die Dialektik der ModerneUlrich Wille (D): Anarchy in the Shire – Tolkien und die libertäre Kritik an Staat und Politik 12.30 – 1.00 pm Final discussion, conclusion and goodbyes

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