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Natur und Landschaft in Tolkiens Werk / Nature and Landscape in Tolkien’s Work (11. DTG-Tolkien-Konferenz)

Natur und Landschaft in Tolkiens Werk / Nature and Landscape in Tolkien’s Work (11. DTG-Tolkien-Konferenz)

Publié le par Vincent Ferré (Source : Prof. Thomas Honegger)

Programm

Natur und Landschaft in Tolkiens Werk /

Nature and Landscape in Tolkien’s Work

11. DTG-Tolkien-Konferenz Jena 09.-11. Mai/May 2014 (Version 15/01/2014)

unterstützt durch / supported by Walking Tree Publishers & FSU/IAA

www.tolkiengesellschaft.de / www.walking-tree.org / www.uni-jena.de

Nature and landscape play a central role in Tolkien’s work. Critics and readers alike have noted positively that The Lord of the Rings can be read as a text criticising and warning against the unchecked forces of industrialisation (represented most strikingly by Sauron and Saruman) and the concomitant domination and destruction of nature. This aspect has been stressed by proponents of an ecocritical reading and made good use of by the green movement. On the other side, many readers complain about Tolkien’s very detailed and extensive landscape descriptions; and yet the carefully and lovingly elaborated geography of Arda is recognised as a hallmark of Tolkien’s literary work. It is furthermore credited with having influenced the spatial and environmental visions of later authors of fantasy and having made a lasting impact on a wide audience in form of Peter Jackson’s cinematic adaptation.

The eleventh Tolkien Seminar focusses on nature and landscape with the aim of exploring the development, importance and relevance of these two elements from a multi-disciplinary point of view. We hope for contributions not only from humanities and theology, but also from art studies and natural sciences and would like to welcome papers looking at Tolkien’s legendarium as well as his shorter texts and, not to forget, his pictures and illustrations.

Conference languages are English and German.

(voir l'appel à communications ici)

 

Freitag/Friday 09. May 2014

Hörsaal (wird angekündigt) / Lecture hall (to be announced)

  • 16.30-17.00: Anmeldung  / Registration
  • 17.00-17.30: Eröffnung / Opening Ceremony
  • 17.30-18.15: Jonathan Nauman (USA): Old Forest and Barrow Downs: A Natural Prelude to LotR (e) (conf.)
  • 18.15-19.00 : Patrick Peters (D): Die dunkle Seite des Waldes? Formen von Bedrohung durch natürliche Räume (d)
  • 19.30: Abendessen im Gasthaus zur Noll (Oberlauengasse) / Dinner at the Zur Noll (Oberlauengasse) 4

Samstag/Saturday 10. May 2014

Hörsaal (wird angekündigt) / Lecture hall (to be announced)

  • 09.15-10.00: Allan Turner (D/GB): Tolkien’s Living Landscapes (e) (conf.)
  • 10.00-10.45: Guglielmo Spirito (I): Melian’s Girdle: Boundaries and Hidden Thresholds in Arda (e) (conf.)
  • 10.45-11.30: Annie Birks (F): Sympathetic Background in Tolkien’s Prose (e) (conf.)
  • 11.30-12.00: Pause
  • 12.00-12.45: Julian Eilmann (D): Romantische Landschaften in JRR Tolkiens Werk (d) (conf.)
  • 13.00-15.00: Mittagessen & Stadtführung (max. 25 P., Treffpunkt Am Markt 16 = Touristeninformation) / lunch & guided tour around Jena (limited to 25 persons, meeting point Am Markt 16 = Touristeninformation). 
  • 15.30-16.15: Thomas Kullmann (D): Landscape as Metaphor in LotR (e) (conf.)
  • 16.15-17.00: Tatjana Silec (F): What Tolkien’s Landscapes Owe to Medieval Storytelling (e) (conf.)
  • 17.00-17.30: Pause
  • 17.30-18.15: Martin Simonson (E): Mountains and Memory in Middle-earth (e) (conf.)
  • 18.15-19.15: Vorstellung der neuen Publikationen / new publications, Verleihung der Ehrendoktorwürde durch die Dwarvish University of the Blue Mountains / Dwarvish University of the Blue Mountains Honorary Degree Awarding Ceremony
  • 19.30: Gemeinsames Abendessen der Vortragenden und interessierten Zuhörer in der Noll  

Sonntag/Sunday 11. May 2014

Hörsaal (wird angekündigt) / Lecture hall (to be announced)

  • 09.00-09.45: Mick Ennis (GB): The Post-Modern Medievalist: Tolkien’s Landscapes of the Imagination (e) (conf.)
  • 10.00-10.45: Natalia Gonzalez de la Llana (D): The Role of Nature in LotR and La Saga de los Confines (e) (conf.)
  • 10.45-11.30: Michaël Devaux (F): The Dead Marshes and oikoumene: the limits of a landscape in Middle-earth (e) (conf.)
  • 11.30-11.45: Pause
  • 11.45-12.30: Martin Sternberg (D): Angang und Aufenthalt: Struktur von Weg und Ziel bei Tolkien (d)
  • 12.30-13.00: Schlussdiskussion und Verabschiedung / Final discussion, conclusion & goodbyes