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    Episode 66: Tolkien and New Media - Live from Oxonmoot 50

    Episode 66: Tolkien and New Media - Live from Oxonmoot 50

    Citations:

    Thank you to the panelists of the “Tolkien and New Media” panel at Oxonmoot 50, September 2, 2023:

    Marcel R. Bülles, a.k.a. The Tolkienist: Tolkien scholar and founder of the German Tolkien Society. @The_Tolkienist, @thetolkienist.com, https://thetolkienist.com/

    Mercury Natis, Queer historian and Tolkien scholar. @Mercuryreads, @mercuryreads.bsky.social, https://lushthemagicdragon.carrd.co/

    S.R. Westvik, Tolkien scholar, writer and researcher. @srwestvik, @srwestvik.bsky.social, https://srwestvik.com/

    Tolkien Experience Podcast episode 18 with Luke Shelton and Maria Alberto: 

    https://luke-shelton.com/2020/08/28/tep-18-maria-alberto/

    Tim Scholz : Tim’s Tolkien Tempel website

    https://www.tims-tolkien-tempel.de/

    Poem “Why Bother?” by Sean Thomas Dougherty

    From his book The Second O of Sorrow.

    https://www.boaeditions.org/blogs/main/poem-of-the-week-august-27-2018

    Jude mentioned the artist Elmenel

    Website: https://www.parmaeldalieva.com/

    Patreon: 

    www.patreon.com/Elmenel

    Episode 36: Tolkien and Diversity Recap

    Episode 36: Tolkien and Diversity Recap

    Athrabeth is produced by James Pierson. James can be found on twitter @jpierson

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

    Citations

    Books:

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

    Websites:

    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