Mythcon 34 Papers
Papers Accepted:
- David Armstrong: “Unpacking Athena” (Followed by tour of Nashville Parthenon)
- Brandy Ball: “Wise Fantasy: the Role of the Childlike Empress in The Neverending Story“
- Sarah Beach: “For Love of Sophia: the Mythic Tradition of the Wise Woman”
- Sarah Beach: “Frodo: The Failure of the Christ Image”
- Berni Phillips Bratman: “Christian Symbolism in Buffy the Vampire Slayer“
- Danielle Bienvenue: “Irene, Lucy, and Meg: The Role of the Childhood Athena”
- Kristi Brobeck: “Tolkien Fanfiction by Women: a survey”
- Cain: “Women and Water: the Cultural Significance of Galadriel as Keeper of Nenya”
- Chandler: “J.R.R. Tolkien and the Call of Immortality”
- Joe Christopher: “Seeking the Faerie Queene in Narnia”
- Janet B. Croft: “Nice, Good, and Right” (Terry Pratchett novels)
- David Bratman: “Music of Middle-Earth, an examination with musical samplings”
- Elvish Linguistic Fellowship: “Quenya and the Tengwar: a Workshop”
- Betsy Farquhar: “God as Grandmother: MacDonald’s Wise Woman”
- Ernelle Fife: “The Wise Warrior in Tolkien, Lewis, and Rowling”
- Fisher: “Wisdom and Water: T’seh as Guide and Goddess in Leslie Marmon Silko’s CEREMONY“
- Victoria Gaydosik: “Choosing Wisely: The Conflicting Claims of Action and Passivity on Tolkien’s Fictional Women”
- Melody Green: “Wisdom, Love and Pain: the Roles of Women in MacDonald’s Fiction”
- Gabrielle Greggersen: “Imagination and Wisdom: an analysis of Lewis’ female characters in the Chronicles of Narnia”
- Hardy: “Influence of Spenser and Milton on Lewis’ female characters”
- Lois Hinckley: “Paired wisdoms in Homer, MacDonald, Tolkien, Lewis and Le Guin”
- Hixon: “Mirrors, Towers, Dragons and Wise Women” (on McKillip)
- Holland: “Exploring Feminine Wisdom in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Gardens in the Dunes“
- Mark T. Hooker: “Ten Rings for Russian Men Doomed to Die”
- Mark T. Hooker: “Russian Tolkien Illustrations, a commented slide show”
- Johnson: “Golden Key to MacDonald/Curdie’s Key”
- Johnson: “THE WISE WOMAN: a Twofold Tale”
- Pamela Jordan: “The Enigmatic Veil” [Lewis’ Orual and Hawthorne’s veiled Minister]
- Don King: “Has That Which was Lost been Found? – Metrical Meditations of a Cod”
- Romuald Lakowski: “The Fall and Repentance of Galadriel”
- Scott McLaren: “The Anatomy of Magic: Charles Williams and the Inviolability of Being”
- Grace Walker Monk: “What Should Be: the Lady of Rohan and the Lady of Moge”
- Matthew Nickel: “The Woman’s Place in Tolkien and Lewis”
- Eric Rauscher: “Surveying the Female Body: Women in the novels of Charles Williams”
- Melanie Rawls: “Witches, Wives and Dragons: the Evolution of the Women of Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea”
- Richter: “Spontaneous Myth Generation in Epic Literature” [Beowulf]
- Beth Russell: “Galadriel, her Life in Four Ages”
- Ray Schneider: “A Scientist Seeks Mystery, Metaphor, Myth and Magic”
- Amy Sturgis: “Reimagining Rose: Tolkien’s Rosie Cotton in Twenty-First Century Fan Fiction”
- Lois Westerlund: “Psyche in Till We Have Faces“
- Lois Westerlund: “Shadows: Dark and Otherwise”
- Don T. Williams: “A Larger World: Lewis, Christianity and Culture”
Proposed Panels:
- George Orwell in his Centenary Year
- Wonder Women of the Comics (and, of course, Xena)
- Theme Panel: the Image of the Wise Woman in Mythopoeic Fiction
- Women and the Inklings
- Teaching Tolkien