Episode 36: Tolkien and Diversity Recap

Episode Summary

This month, we present something a little bit different! Jude and Stef attended the Tolkien Society Seminar last weekend, and we're very proud to present to you our recap of the events. It was a tremendously enriching seminar and we're pleased to have the opportunity to highlight all of the seminar's contributors.

Citations

• The Tolkien Society Summer Seminar: https://www.tolkiensociety.org/events/tolkien-society-summer-seminar/

• Oluo, Ijeoma. 2019. So You Want to Talk about Race. Seattle, WA: Seal Press.

• The Association of Ramaytush Ohlone

  https://www.ramaytush.org/ (Accessed June 30, 2021)

• Michigan State University, Native American Institute, “Guide to Land Acknowledgements”

  https://www.canr.msu.edu/nai/about/land-acknowledgements  (Accessed June 30, 2021)

• Native Governance Center, “A guide to Indigenous land acknowledgement”

  https://nativegov.org/a-guide-to-indigenous-land-acknowledgment/ (Accessed June 30, 2021)

• Native Land Digital

  https://native-land.ca  (Accessed June 30, 2021)

• Mills, Selena, “What are land acknowledgements and why do they matter?” Posted on Local Love on March 18, 2019

  https://locallove.ca/issues/what-are-land-acknowledgements-and-why-do-they-matter/#.YN4CHW5lCis (Accessed July 1, 2021)

• Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma

  https://peoriatribe.com/# (Accessed June 30, 2021)

• The Tolkien Society

  https://www.tolkiensociety.org/ (Accessed July 4, 2021)

  Socials: @TolkienSociety

  The Tolkien Society- Oxonmoot 2021: https://www.tolkiensociety.org/events/oxonmoot-2021/ (Accessed July 5, 2021)

  Tolkien Society Summer Seminar 2021

  Presentations discussed in this episode:

  Saturday, July 3, 2021 (listed in order of appearance)

  Gondor in Transition: A Brief Introduction to Transgender Realities in The Lord of the Rings

  By Cordeliah Logsdon

  Twitter: @cordeliah_g

  00:15:45

  The Problem of Pain: Portraying Physical Disability in the Fantasy of J. R. R. Tolkien

  By Clare Moore

  Twitter: @claremoore914

  00:17:26

  “The Burnt Hand Teaches Most About Fire”: Applying Traumatic Stress and Ecological Frameworks to Narratives of Displacement and Resettlement Across Cultures in Tolkien’s Middle-earth

  By V. Elizabeth King

  Twitter: @VElizabeth_King

  00:20:48

  The Invisible Other: Tolkien’s Dwarf-Women and the ‘Feminine Lack’

  By Dr. Sara Brown

  Twitter: @AranelParmadil

  00:25:52

  Projecting Indian Myths, Culture and History onto Tolkien’s Worlds

  By Sultana Raza

  Website: https://sultanaraza.wordpress.com

  00:29:22

  The Lossoth: Indigeneity, Identity, and Antiracism

  By Nicholas Birns

  Twitter: @nicholasbirns

  00:31:28

  The Problematic Perimeters of Elrond Half-elven and Ronald English-Catholic

  By Kristine Larsen

  Website: https://kristinelarsen.academia.edu

  00:33:48

  Hearkening to the Other: Athrabeth Finrod ah Andreth

  By Cami Agan

  Website: https://www.oc.edu/directory/cami-agan-ph-d

  00:37:05

  Sunday, July 4, 2021 (listed in order of appearance)

  Pardoning Saruman?: The Queer in Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings

  By Christopher Vaccaro

  Website: https://www.uvm.edu/cas/english/profiles/chris\_vaccaro

  00:39:43

  Desire of the Ring: An Indian Academic’s Adventures in her Quest for the Perilous Realm

  By Sonali Chunodkar

  00:42:16

  Queer Atheists, Agnostics, and Animists, Oh, My!

  By Robin Reid

  Website: https://www.tamuc.edu/academics/colleges/humanitiessocialsciencesarts/departments/literatureLanguages/ostl/labPersonnel/rReid.aspx

  00:44:38

  Hidden Visions: Iconographies of Alterity in Soviet Bloc Illustrations for The Lord of the Rings

  By Joel Merriner

  Twitter: @JoelMerriner

  00:46:50

  Questions of Caste in The Lord of the Rings and its Multiple Chinese Translations

  By Eric Reinders

  Website: http://religion.emory.edu/home/people/faculty/reinders-eric.html

  00:50:48

  Stars Less Strange: An Analysis of Fanfiction and Representation within the Tolkien Fan Community

  By Dawn Walls-Thumma

  Twitter: @DawnFelagund

  Website: http://dawnfelagund.com

  00:53:01

  “Something Mighty Queer”: Destabilizing Cishetero Amatonormativity in the Works of Tolkien

  By Danna Petersen-Deeprose

  00:56:24

  Translation as a means of representation and diversity in Tolkien’s scholarship and fandom

  By Martha Celis-Menzoda

  1:00:00

• Today’s episode was produced by James Kaku Pierson.

Episode URL

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