Tolkien Seminars HT 2026

Our Tolkien seminar continues in Hilary Term with another wide variety of speakers and topics.

The seminars will take place on Tuesdays during term time, from 5:00 to 6:30 p.m., in Corpus Christi College. See below details on the rom and please ask the porters for directions. No registration is required.

Week 1: 20 January (Rainolds Room)

Juliana Dresvina (University of Oxford/Stanford) “The Forgotten Siblings: Parish, Redival, and the Art of Putting a Self Together"

Week 2: 27 January  (Rainolds Room)

Cecilia Tamburini (University of Milan) "Poetic Language and the Making of Myth: Reading J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings through Owen Barfield"

Week 3: 3 February (Rainolds Room)

Ryan Syler (University of Marquette) "Galadriel: an empty vessel?"

Week 4: 10 February (Auditorium)

Erik Jampa Andersson (Independent Scholar and Writer) "Tolkien's 'Luxuriant Animism': Unseen Beings and the Animacy of Arda"

Week 5: HALF TERM – NO SEMINAR

Week 6: 24 February (Auditorium)

Anders Stenström (Independent Scholar and Archivist) "Beauty and Peril and Sorrow: A Web in Tolkien's Thinking"

Week 7: 3 March (Rainolds Room)

Mina Lukić Gunner (University of Belgrade) "Modes of Remembering in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Fictional World"

Week 8: 10 March (Auditorium)

Thomas Honegger (Friedrich Schiller University, Jena) "Habitatio est omen - or: like land, like people"