Bolg’S Mother: Orc Women In Tolkien’S Legendarium,
2025
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Bolg’S Mother: Orc Women In Tolkien’S Legendarium, Robert T. Tally Jr.
Online Midwinter Seminar (OMS)
No abstract provided.
Grendel's Mother Talks Back: Contemporary Women's Mythopoeic Revisions,
2025
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Grendel's Mother Talks Back: Contemporary Women's Mythopoeic Revisions, Anna Smol
Online Midwinter Seminar (OMS)
No abstract provided.
Revisiting Ambiguous Aredhel,
2025
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Revisiting Ambiguous Aredhel, Megan Abrahamson
Online Midwinter Seminar (OMS)
No abstract provided.
Sex, The Body, And Learning Gender: Demons In The World Of The Five Gods,
2025
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Sex, The Body, And Learning Gender: Demons In The World Of The Five Gods, Erin Mcbrien
Online Midwinter Seminar (OMS)
No abstract provided.
Desirable Lady’ Or ‘She Who Desires’: Examining Aredhel’S Agency In Tolkien’S Legendarium,
2025
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Desirable Lady’ Or ‘She Who Desires’: Examining Aredhel’S Agency In Tolkien’S Legendarium, Lyra Keran Zhang
Online Midwinter Seminar (OMS)
No abstract provided.
Belief After The Death Of King Arthur: Lev Grossman’S Postsecular Portrayal Of Nimue In The Bright Sword,
2025
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Belief After The Death Of King Arthur: Lev Grossman’S Postsecular Portrayal Of Nimue In The Bright Sword, Liz Busby
Online Midwinter Seminar (OMS)
No abstract provided.
She Chose Her Fate: The Genderqueer Women Of Tolkien And Freedom Beyond The Patriarchal Binary,
2025
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
She Chose Her Fate: The Genderqueer Women Of Tolkien And Freedom Beyond The Patriarchal Binary, Alicia Fox-Lenz, Grace Moone, Leah Hagan
Online Midwinter Seminar (OMS)
No abstract provided.
“The Gift Which Was Withheld I Take”: The Rape Of The Sun Maiden In Tolkien’S Legendarium,
2025
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
“The Gift Which Was Withheld I Take”: The Rape Of The Sun Maiden In Tolkien’S Legendarium, Kristine Larsen
Online Midwinter Seminar (OMS)
No abstract provided.
From Once To Future Queen: Revitalizing Guinevere In Recent Arthuriana,
2025
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
From Once To Future Queen: Revitalizing Guinevere In Recent Arthuriana, Michael A. Torregrossa
Online Midwinter Seminar (OMS)
No abstract provided.
Painting “The Most Beautiful Of All The Children Of Ilúvatar”: Aesthetic Beauty In The Silmarillion And Its Illustrations,
2025
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Painting “The Most Beautiful Of All The Children Of Ilúvatar”: Aesthetic Beauty In The Silmarillion And Its Illustrations, Marie Bretagnolle
Online Midwinter Seminar (OMS)
No abstract provided.
Witches, Prophets, And Outcasts: Liminal Women In Mythopoeic Fantasy,
2025
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Witches, Prophets, And Outcasts: Liminal Women In Mythopoeic Fantasy, Supriya Baijal
Online Midwinter Seminar (OMS)
No abstract provided.
Reimagining Human-Nonhuman Friendships Through Feminist Animal Studies: An Exploration Of Sunny And Della’S Cross-Species Friendship In Nnedi Okorafor’S The Nsibidi Scripts Series,
2025
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Reimagining Human-Nonhuman Friendships Through Feminist Animal Studies: An Exploration Of Sunny And Della’S Cross-Species Friendship In Nnedi Okorafor’S The Nsibidi Scripts Series, Akshitha Javahar
Online Midwinter Seminar (OMS)
No abstract provided.
“Her Hair Was Held A Marvel Unmatched”: The Significance Of Long, Blonde Hair In Tolkien’S Imagination,
2025
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
“Her Hair Was Held A Marvel Unmatched”: The Significance Of Long, Blonde Hair In Tolkien’S Imagination, Sara Brown
Online Midwinter Seminar (OMS)
No abstract provided.
Keynote: Still Perilous, Still Fair: Perspectives On The Legacy, Or How (Not)Éowyn And (Not) Galadriel Made The Magic Work,
2025
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Keynote: Still Perilous, Still Fair: Perspectives On The Legacy, Or How (Not)Éowyn And (Not) Galadriel Made The Magic Work, Leslie Donovan, Janet Brennan Croft
Online Midwinter Seminar (OMS)
No abstract provided.
Welcome And Announcements,
2025
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Welcome And Announcements, The Mythopoeic Society
Online Midwinter Seminar (OMS)
Join us for a screening of the Welcome and Announcements video and have a cup of coffee before we get started!
A Verdant Reading: On The Agency Of The Nonhuman Landscape In Apocalypse Now (1979),
2025
Ateneo de Manila University;
Chulalongkorn University
A Verdant Reading: On The Agency Of The Nonhuman Landscape In Apocalypse Now (1979), Christian Jil Benitez
Kritika Kultura
lack of sensitization, and fanatic adherence to tradition allow the illegal practice of prenatal sex
Neoliberal Society, Alienation, And Affective Crisis In The Answers (2017),
2025
Nanyang Technological University
Neoliberal Society, Alienation, And Affective Crisis In The Answers (2017), Xiaoxiao Huang
Kritika Kultura
West finds a nemesis in sex-selective abortion in India. Unfortunately, the sociocultural baggage,
In Quest Of The “Sublime Paralytic”: Speculations On History, Identity, Andthe Emergence Of National-Class Consciousness,
2025
Washington State University
In Quest Of The “Sublime Paralytic”: Speculations On History, Identity, Andthe Emergence Of National-Class Consciousness, E. San Juan Jr.
Kritika Kultura
employing a focus on abortion in extending liberation for women since the mid-1900s in the
Maritime (Im)Mobility And Heterotopia: Jeju Island In South Korea,
2025
Konkuk University
Maritime (Im)Mobility And Heterotopia: Jeju Island In South Korea, Taehee Kim
Kritika Kultura
Jeju Island, located on the remote periphery of the Korean peninsula and historically a site of exile, has become a popular destination for domestic migration over the past decade. Drawing on Michel Foucault’s notion of heterotopia as a methodological framework and taking Jeju Island as an example to reveal “islandness,” this paper discusses how the island is imagined and represented in Korean society. From this perspective, Jeju Island is regarded exteriorly as a place outside the ordinary and internally as a heterogeneous place. Further, in the heterotopia of “illusion” and “compensation,” a sojourn on Jeju Island is expected and experienced …
Love Is A Molecular Island,
2025
Soochow University
Love Is A Molecular Island, Chun-Mei Chuang
Kritika Kultura
When clarifying Spinoza’s concept of affect, Deleuze declares, “Hope as such or love as such represents nothing, strictly nothing.” In this paper, I approach the question of love by taking a detour of nonhuman affinity. First, I present this paper as an experimental becoming that weaves through heterogeneous lines of thinking and creating. Second, explicating the Deleuzian-Guattarian notion of “abstract machine” alongside Isabelle Stengers’s figure of “inappropriable unknown,” I argue for viewing the cosmos and art as interconnected abstract machines that foster novel realities and communities. Third, I weave planetary thinking with an interdisciplinary approach to propose a “planetary art …
