Record of Past Mythopoeic
Conferences (Mythcons)
I, September 4-7, 1970. Harvey Mudd College, Claremont,
California. Combined with Tolkien Conference III. Guest of
Honor: C.S. Kilby (Inklings scholar & curator). Chairman:
Glen GoodKnight.
II, September 3-6, 1971. Francisco Torres Conference Center,
Santa Barbara, California. Guest of Honor: Mary McDermott
Shideler (Williams scholar). Chairman: Glen GoodKnight.
III, June 30-July 4, 1972. Edgewater Hyatt House, Long Beach,
California. Held in conjunction with Westercon XXV. Guest of
Honor: Poul Anderson (fantasy writer). Chairman: Glen GoodKnight.
IV, August 17-20, 1973. Francisco Torres Conference Center,
Santa Barbara, California. Guests of Honor: Peter S. Beagle
(fantasy author) and Richard Plotz (founder of the Tolkien
Society of America). Chairman: Glen GoodKnight.
V, August 23-26, 1974. Scripps College, Claremont, California.
Theme: "The MabinogiCon": Celtic and Welsh
Influence in Mythopoeic Literature. Guests of Honor:
Evangeline Walton (fantasy author) and Kathryn Lindskoog (Lewis
scholar). Chairman: Glen GoodKnight.
VI, August 15-18, 1975. Scripps College, Claremont, California.
Theme: The Fictional Worlds of C.S. Lewis. Guests of
Honor: Walter Hooper (Lewis scholar & executor) and Ed
Meskys (former Thain of the Tolkien Society of America).
Chairman: Bruce McMenomy.
VII, August 13-16, 1976. Westbridge Conference Center,
Sacramento, California. Theme: Arthurian Elements in
Williams, Lewis, and Tolkien. Guest of Honor: Thomas Howard
(Inklings scholar). Chairman: Bruce McMenomy; Conference
Coordinator: Mary Morman.
VIII, August 26-29, 1977. University of California-San Diego, La
Jolla, California. Theme: The "Lesser" Works of
J.R.R. Tolkien. Guest of Honor: Richard L. Purtill (Inklings
scholar and fantasy author). Chairman: Bruce McMenomy; Local
Coordinators: Andy Howard and Sandi Howard.
IX, August 11-13, 1978. Ambassador Inn, West Sacramento,
California. Theme: DeryniCon. Guest of Honor: Katherine
Kurtz (fantasy author). Chairman: Michael Morman.
X, July 12-15, 1979. Hyatt House, San Jose, California. Theme: "The
Silmarillicon." Guests of Honor: Annette Harper
(fantasy artist) and Jim Allan (Tolkien linguist). Chair: Lisa
Deutsch Harrigan.
XI, July 25-28, 1980. University of Nevada, Reno. Theme: Joy
in the Great Dance. Guest of Honor: Glen GoodKnight (founder
of the Mythopoeic Society). Chairperson: Debbie Smith.
XII, August 7-10, 1981. Mills College, Oakland, California.
Theme: A Festival in Faerie. Guests of Honor: Elizabeth
M. Pope (fantasy author and scholar) and Joe R. Christopher
(Lewis scholar and Inklings bibliographer). Chair: Diana L.
Paxson.
XIII, August 13-16, 1982. Chapman College, Orange, California.
Theme: "Celtic Con": The Celtic Influence on
Fantasy Literature. Special guests: Nancy-Lou Patterson
(keynote speaker), Marion Zimmer Bradley, Tim Kirk, Katherine
Kurtz, Kathryn Lindskoog, Ataniel Noel, Paul Edwin Zimmer,
Bernie Zuber. Director: Lisa Cowan.
XIV, August 12-15, 1983. Scripps College, Claremont, California.
Theme: Mythic Structures in Tolkien, Lewis, and Williams. Guests
of Honor: C.S. Kilby (Inklings scholar & curator) and
Stephen R. Donaldson (fantasy author). Chairman: Glen GoodKnight.
XV, August 10-13, 1984. Mills College, Oakland, California.
Theme: The Wood Between the Worlds. Guests of Honor: Jane
Yolen (fantasy author) and Paul F. Ford (Lewis scholar). Chair:
Eric Rauscher.
XVI, July 26-29, 1985. Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois.
Theme: A Kinship of Dancers: Interplay in the Lives and Works
of Lewis, Tolkien, and Williams. Guests of Honor: Patricia
A. McKillip (fantasy author) and Peter Schakel (Lewis scholar).
Chairman: Diana Lynne Pavlac.
XVII, August 8-11, 1986. California State University, Long
Beach. Theme: The Daughters of Beatrice: Women in Fantasy.
Guests of Honor: Charles de Lint (fantasy author) and Judith
Kollmann (Williams scholar). Co-chairs: Sarah Beach and Peter
Lowentrout.
XVIII, July 24-27, 1987. Marquette University, Milwaukee,
Wisconsin. Theme: Looking Back From Weathertop: A Fifty
Years' Retrospective on The Hobbit. Guests of Honor:
Christopher Tolkien (Tolkien scholar and executor) and John
Bellairs (fantasy author). Chair: Gregory G.H. Rihn.
XIX, July 29-August 1, 1988. Clark Kerr Campus, Berkeley,
California. Theme: Legends for a New Land: Fantasy in
America. Guests of Honor: Ursula K. Le Guin (fantasy author)
and Brian Attebery (fantasy scholar). Chair: David Bratman.
XX, July 28-31, 1989. University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
Theme: Mythic Elements in Fantasy. Guests of Honor: Guy
Gavriel Kay (fantasy author) and Raymond H. Thompson (Arthurian
scholar). Chairman: Lynn J.R. Wytenbroek.
XXI, August 3-6, 1990. California State University, Long Beach.
Theme: Aspects of Love in Fantasy. Guests of Honor: Diana
L. Paxson (fantasy author and musician) and Patrick Wynne
(fantasy artist and Tolkien linguist). Chairman: Jo Alida
Wilcox; Conference Co-ordinator: Bill Welden.
XXII, July 26-29, 1991. Clarion Hotel, San Diego, California.
Theme: The Hero Cycle: Archetypes in Fantasy Literature.
Guests of Honor: C.J. Cherryh (fantasy author) and Stephen W.
Potts (myth and fantasy scholar). Chair: Linda Sundstrom.
XXIII, August 17-24, 1992. Keble College, Oxford, England.
Co-sponsored with The Tolkien Society. Theme: The J.R.R.
Tolkien Centenary Conference. 16 special guests, including
Christopher, John, and Priscilla Tolkien. Chairman: Christina
Scull.
XXIV, July 30-August 2, 1993. University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis. Theme: Down the Hobbit-hole & Through the
Wardrobe: Fantasy in Children's Literature. Guests of Honor:
Carol Kendall (fantasy author) and Jane Yolen (fantasy scholar
and author). Chair: David Lenander.
XXV, August 5-8, 1994. American University, Washington, D.C.
Theme: The Language of Myth. Guests of Honor: Madeleine
L'Engle (fantasy author), Judith Mitchell (fantasy artist), and
Verlyn Flieger (Tolkien scholar). Chair: Wendell Wagner.
XXVI, August 4-7, 1995. Clark Kerr Campus, Berkeley, California.
Theme: Fairies in the Garden, Monsters at the Mall: Fantasy
in the World Around Us. Guests of Honor: Tim Powers (fantasy
author) and Michael R. Collings (Lewis and fantasy scholar).
Chair: Eleanor M. Farrell.
XXVII, July 26-29, 1996. University of Colorado, Boulder,
Colorado. Theme: Magic in the Mountains, Wonder in the Woods:
The Inklings and Nature. Guests of Honor: Doris T. Myers
(Inklings scholar) and Ted Nasmith (Tolkien artist). Chair:
Bruce Leonard.
XXVIII,
August 8-11, 1997. Pepperdine University, Malibu, California.
Theme: J.R.R. Tolkien: The Achievement of His Literary Life.
Guests of Honor: Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull (Tolkien
scholars) and Orson Scott Card (fantasy author). Chair: Glen
GoodKnight.
XXIX, July
15-20, 1998. Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois. Theme: C.S.
Lewis: A Centenary Celebration. Special Guests: Paul F. Ford
(Lewis scholar) and Verlyn Flieger (Inklings scholar). Chairman:
Diana Glyer.
XXX, July
30-August 2, 1999. Archbishop Cousins Center, Milwaukee,
Wisconsin. Combined with Bree Moot 4. Theme: Bree &
Beyond: Exploring the Fantasy Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien and His
Fellow Travelers. Guests of Honor: Sylvia Hunnewell (fantasy
artist), S. Gary Hunnewell (Tolkien scholar), and Douglas A.
Anderson (Tolkien and fantasy scholar). Chairperson: Richard C.
West.
XXXI, August
18-21, 2000. Kilauea Military Camp, Volcano, Hawai'i. Theme: Myth
and Legend of the Pacific. Guest of Honor: Steven Goldsberry
(fantasy author and scholar). Co-Chairs: Steve Brown and Ken
Burtness.
XXXII,
August 3-6, 2001. Clark Kerr Conference Center, Berkeley,
California. Theme: Many Dimensions: Modern Supernatural
Fiction. Guests of Honor: David Llewellyn Dodds (Williams
scholar) and Peter S. Beagle (fantasy author). Chair: Eric
Rauscher.
XXXIII, July
26-29, 2002. Boulder Ramada Inn, Boulder, Colorado. Theme: A
Midsummer Night's Dream: Shakespeare and Fantasy. Second
theme: Mythcon Comes of Age. Guests of Honor: Alexei Kondratiev
(myth and fantasy scholar) and Connie Willis (fantasy author).
Chair: Pat Yarrow.
XXXIV, July
25-28, 2003. Scarritt-Bennett Center, Nashville, Tennessee.
Theme: From Athena to Galadriel: The Image of the Wise
Woman in Mythopoeic Fiction. Guests of Honor: Dabney A.
Hart (C.S. Lewis scholar) and Sherwood Smith (fantasy author).
Co-chairs: Ruby Dunlap and Mary Stolzenbach.
XXXV, July
30-August 2, 2004. Univeristy of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Theme: Bridges to Other Worlds: Thirty-Five Years of Mythopoeic Scholarship. Guests of Honor: Charles Huttar (Charles Williams scholar) and Neil Gaiman (fantasy author). Co-chairs: Marion Van Loo and Judith Kollmann.
XXXVI, August 11-15, 2005. Aston University, Birmingham, England. Combined with Tolkien 2005, sponsored by The Tolkien Society with 28 other participating societies. Theme: 50 Years of The Lord of the Rings. 16 invited guests. Chairman: Chris Crawshaw.
XXXVII, August 4-7, 2006. Univerisity of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma. Theme: The Map & The Territory: Maps and Landscapes in Fantasy. Guests of Honor: Lois McMaster Bujold (fantasy and SF author) and Amy Sturgis (C.S. Lewis and Native American fantasy scholar). Chair: Janet Croft.
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