The Inklings: Myth and Magic across Time

Saturday, April 14
Honors Hall, Goldstar Memorial Building - Oklahoma City University
2501 North Blackwelder, Oklahoma City, OK 73106

Register to attend here.

Schedule

9:30 AM - Light Breakfast

10:00 AM - Keynote Address
“J.R.R. Tolkien's Medieval Mythology.” Joyce Coleman, Bambas Professor of Medieval English Literature & Culture and Director of the Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, University of Oklahoma

11:00 AM - Break

11:15 AM - Student Papers
Andrew Wright, Oklahoma Baptist University, reading from his novel Phoenix Rising
Chloe Harrison, Oklahoma Baptist University, “Inescapable Suffering: The Dangerous Otherworld in Sir Orfeo”

12:00 -1:30 - Lunch on your own at local restaurants

1:30 – 4:30 PM - Faculty Papers
"Tolkien, Lewis, and the Aesthetics of Christian Environmentalist Fiction: An Excerpt from Fire and Snow: Climate Fiction from the Inklings to Game of Thrones." Marc DiPaolo, Assistant Professor, Department of Language and Literature, Southwestern Oklahoma State University
“The N.I.C.E. and the Pendragon: Opposing ‘The Inner Ring.’” Lindsey Panxhi, Assistant Professor of English, Oklahoma Baptist University

15 min break

“C.S. Lewis as a Ring-writer.” John Granger, Adjunct, PhD student, University of Central Oklahoma/University of Swansea
“Was Faramir Gandalf's Original Chosen Ringbearer?” Victoria Gaydosik, Professor, Department of Language and Literature, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

For further information, please email [email protected].
Presented by the Oklahoma City Chapter of the C. S. Lewis and Inklings
Society and the Oklahoma City University Honors Program.