Mythcon History

	Date	Details
1	September 4-7, 1970
2	September 3-6, 1971
3	June 30-July 4, 1972
4	August 17-20, 1973
5	August 23-26, 1974	Claremont, California The MabinogiCon: Celtic and Welsh Influence in Mythopoeic Literature
6	August 15-18, 1975	Claremont, California The Fictional Worlds of C.S. Lewis
7	August 13-16, 1976	Sacramento, California Arthurian Elements in Williams, Lewis, and Tolkien
8	August 26-29, 1977	La Jolla, California The “Lesser” Works of J.R.R. Tolkien
9	August 11-13, 1978	West Sacramento, California DeryniCon
10	July 12-15, 1979	San Jose, California The Silmarillicon
11	July 25-28, 1980	Reno, Nevada Joy in the Great Dance
12	August 7-10, 1981	Oakland, California A Festival in Faerie
13	August 13-16, 1982	Orange, California “Celtic Con”: The Celtic Influence on Fantasy Literature
14	August 12-15, 1983	Claremont, California Mythic Structures in Tolkien, Lewis, and Williams
15	August 10-13, 1984	Oakland, California The Wood Between the Worlds
16	July 26-29, 1985	Wheaton, Illinois A Kinship of Dancers: Interplay in the Lives and Works of Lewis, Tolkien, and Williams
17	August 8-11, 1986	Long Beach, California The Daughters of Beatrice: Women in Fantasy
18	July 24-27, 1987	Milwaukee, Wisconsin Looking Back From Weathertop: A Fifty Years’ Retrospective on The Hobbit
19	July 29-August 1, 1988	Berkeley, California Legends for a New Land: Fantasy in America
20	July 28-31, 1989	Vancouver, British Columbia Mythic Elements in Fantasy
21	August 3-6, 1990	Long Beach, California Aspects of Love in Fantasy
22	July 26-29, 1991	San Diego, California The Hero Cycle: Archetypes in Fantasy Literature
23	August 17-24, 1992	Oxford, England The J.R.R. Tolkien Centenary Conference
24	July 30-August 2, 1993	Minneapolis, Minnesota Down the Hobbit-hole & Through the Wardrobe: Fantasy in Children’s Literature
25	August 5-8, 1994	Washington, D.C. The Language of Myth
26	August 4-7, 1995	Berkeley, California Fairies in the Garden, Monsters at the Mall: Fantasy in the World Around Us
27	July 26-29, 1996	Boulder, Colorado The Inklings and Nature: Magic in the Mountains, Wonder in the Woods
28	August 8-11,1997	Malibu, California J.R.R. Tolkien: The Achievement of His Literary Life
29	July 15-20, 1998	Wheaton, Illinois C.S. Lewis: A Centenary Celebration
30	July 30-August 2, 1999	Milwaukee, Wisconsin Bree & Beyond: Exploring the Fantasy Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien and His Fellow Travelers
31	August 18-21, 2000	Volcano, Island of Hawai’i, Hawai’i Myth and Legend of the Pacific
32	August 3-6, 2001	Berkeley, California Many Dimensions: Modern Supernatural Fiction
33	July 26-29, 2002	Boulder, Colorado A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Shakespeare and Fantasy
34	July 25-28, 2003	Nashville, Tennessee From Athena to Galadriel: The Image of the Wise Woman in Mythopoeic Fiction
35	July 30-August 2, 2004	Ann Arbor, Michigan Bridges to Other Worlds: Thirty-five Years of Mythopoeic Scholarship
36	August 11-15, 2005	Birmingham, England 50 Years of The Lord of the Rings
37	August 4-7, 2006	Norman, Oklahoma The Map & The Territory: Maps and Landscapes in Fantasy
38	August 3-6, 2007	Berkeley, California Becoming Adept: The Journey to Mastery
39	August 15-18, 2008	New Britain, Connecticut The Valkyrie and the Goddess: The Warrior Woman in Fantasy
40	July 17‐20, 2009	Los Angeles, California Sailing the Seas of Imagination