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
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
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
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
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