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Worlds made of Heroes. On the 60th anniversary of the publication of J. R. R. Tolkien 's The Fellowship of the Ring

Worlds made of Heroes. On the 60th anniversary of the publication of J. R. R. Tolkien 's The Fellowship of the Ring

Publié le par Vincent Ferré (Source : Maria Luísa Malato)

Worlds made of Heroes. On the 60th anniversary of the publication of

J. R. R. Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring

6-7 November 2014

Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto

Conference Programme

Thursday, 6 November

9.00 Registration

9.30 Opening Remarks

 

10.00-11.00 Plenary: Edward James (University College Dublin) – “The Lord of the Rings as a First World War novel” | Chair:

 

11.00 BREAK

 

Thursday, 6 November

Anfiteatro Nobre

Sala de Reuniões

Panel Sessions 1-2

At the Borders of Fantasy

Performing Identity in Fantasy

11.30-13.00

 Chair: TBD

 

Somnath Basu (Freie Universität Berlin / University of Kent)

Wandering Wastrels, False Friars: Antifraternalism and Allegory in Medieval England

 

Elisabete Lopes (Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal)

Victor's Epic Journey towards Motherhood: A Feminine Reading of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus

 

Filomena Vasconcelos (Universidade do Porto)

The broken mirror of nature: readings from Rorty to Mary Shelley and Poe

Chair: TBD

 

Pamina Fernández Camacho (Universidad de Cádiz / Universidad de Almería)

Between Myth, Allegory and National Identity Building: Númenor, Plato and the Atlantis Tradition

 

Bernhard Hirsch (University of Vienna)

Character and perspective: the multi-quest in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings

 

Maria Messer (University of Kassel)

The identity formation of Hobbits by means of Othering

 

14.30-15.30 – Plenary: Maria do Rosário Monteiro (FCSH/UNL-CHAM – FCSH/NOVA-UAc) – “Heroes in The Lord of the Rings: Tradition and Modernity” | Chair:

15.30 BREAK

 

Thursday, 6 November

Anfiteatro Nobre

Sala de Reuniões

Panel Sessions 3-4

Fantasy and Dichotomy

Myth and Symbol

16.00-17.30

Chair: TBD

 

Fátima Vieira (Universidade do Porto)

Science and Magic in Shakespeare's The Tempest

 

Inês Botelho (Universidade do Porto)

Fighting for fairyland: the cinematic transformation of fairy tales into epic fantasy

 

Miguel Ramalhete Gomes (Universidade do Porto)

Unsuitable Heroes: From Millius' Conan to Syberberg's Parsifal

 

Chair: TBD

 

Tânia Patrícia Leite Ribeiro dos Reis Azevedo & Filomena Louro (Universidade do Minho)

Gawain, the Hero that came too late

 

Vu Cong Minh (Université de Caen)

The Lord of the Rings and the trifunctional structure of the indo-european myths

 

Andrew Roos Bell (Editor and Independent Researcher)

Wounds in the World: The Shared Symbolism of Death-Sites in Middle-earth

 

Friday, 7 November

 

Friday, 7 November

Anfiteatro Nobre

Sala de Reuniões

Panel Sessions 5-6

Speech as Performance

Heróis e Cavaleiros

9.30-10.30

Chair: TBD

 

Andoni Cossío, University of the Basque Country

Oral Tradition in The Lord of the Rings

 

Ana Rita Costa Loureiro (Freelance Translator)

The importance of songs in the making of heroes and their impact on different media

Chair: TBD

 

Isabel Pereira Leite (Universidade do Porto)

Milo. E também Alice e Dorothy Ou o Poder Redentor dos Heróis

 

José William Craveiro Torres (Universidade de Coimbra)

Do Herói Épico ao Cavaleiro Medieval: Aproximações e Distanciamentos

 

10.30 – BREAK

 

Friday, 7 November

Anfiteatro Nobre

Sala de Reuniões

Panel Sessions 7-8

Intermedial Tolkien

Title TBD

10.45-11.45

 

Chair: TBD

 

Bernard Scherr (Hardin-Simmons University)

From Epic Narrative to Music: Tolkien's Universe as Inspiration for “The First Age of

Middle-earth: a Symphony for Concert Band

 

Rogério Puga (CETAPS, FCSH-Universidade Nova de Lisboa)

Cotswold, the Land of Girabbits: Visual and Written World(s) Made of Secrets and Ecological Adventures in J. R. R. Tolkien's Mr. Bliss (c.1830)

Chair: TBD

 

Maria Luísa Malato (Universidade do Porto)

Oh, Knowledge, My Precious! O “Role Playing Game” na Sala de Aula

 

Pinhão Ferreira

 

 

11.45 – BREAK

 

12.00-13.00 – Plenary: Nick Groom (University of Exeter) – “The Decline and Fall of the Company of the Ring” | Chair:

 

14.30-15.30 – Plenary: Carl Phelpstead (Cardiff University) – “Geoffrey of Monmouth and J. R. R. Tolkien: Myth-making and National Identity in the Twelfth and Twentieth Centuries”| Chair:

 

15.30 – BREAK

 

Friday, 7 November

Anfiteatro Nobre

Sala de Reuniões

Panel Sessions 9-10

Children and Heroism

Shifting Heroes

15.45-17.15

Chair:

 

Maria João Pires (Universidade do Porto)

The Child as Hero in Dickens' Novels

 

Maddi Susperregi (University of the Basque Country)

A different look into the wardrobe

 

Raúl Montero Gilete (University of the Basque Country)

Frodo and Lucy, the power of the heroism through the children's faith

Chair: TBD

 

Martin Simonson (University of the Basque Country)

Aragorn: an epic hero?

 

Eduardo Encabo-Fernández (University of Murcia, Spain) & Isabel Jerez-Martínez (University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain)

Reflections on Beren and Rhaegar and the influence of love story on their status: Two kinds of heroes

 

Hugo Ferraz Gomes (New University of Lisbon)

Of Dead Heroes and Mutable Faces: A Study of A Song of Ice and Fire's Rhaegar Targaryen

 

17.15 – BREAK

 

17.30-18.30 – Round-table discussion with…Mário Vitória (pintor), Pedro Piedade Marques (designer gráfico e editor) | Anfiteatro Nobre | Chair:

 

18.30 – Closing Remarks │ Anfiteatro Nobre

 

 

20.00 – Porto de Honra

20.30 – Conference Dinner