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
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