Schedule
(Updated July 26, 2001: final schedule.) Full descriptions of panels and papers will be in the program book.
Friday, August 3
- 9:00-2:00
- Dealers’ Room open for setup only (Room 204)
- 12:00-6:00
- Registration open (Building 1)
- 2:00-5:00
- Dealers’ Room open
- 3:00-4:00
- Paper: Judith Kollmann, The Achievement of Charles Williams: His Novels of Supernatural Fantasy
- 4:00-5:00
- Paper: Joe Christopher, Martin Lamb, Observer of Mysteries
- 4:00-5:30
- Panel: The Canon of Fantasy
- Moderator: Mike Glyer
Panelists: Peter Beagle, Charles Coulombe, Dan Timmons, Jacob Weisman
- 5:30-7:00
- Dinner
- 7:00-8:00
- Mythopoeic Awards nominee discussion
- Moderator: Diane Joy Baker
- 8:00-
- Opening night party (con suite)
- English country dancing (residence hall basement)
- Dancemaster: Alan Winston; Music: James Langdell
- 9:00-
- Films: Haunted Houses
- Program: The Ghost and Mr. Chicken, The Haunting, The Sentinel
Saturday, August 4
- 7:00-8:30
- Breakfast
- 8:30-8:00 pm
- Registration open (except during meal hours) (lobby of Krutch Theatre)
- 9:00-9:30
- Procession, Opening Ceremonies
- 9:30-10:30
- Guest of Honor speech: David Dodds
- 10:00-5:00
- Dealers’ Room open
- 10:30-12:00
- Panel: Modern Supernatural Fiction
- Moderator: Judith Kollmann
Panelists: Peter Beagle, Win Blevins, David Dodds, Lisa Goldstein
- 11:00-12:00
- Paper: Sam McBride, Battling the Woman Warrior: Gender and Combat in Tolkien and Lewis
- Reading: Laurel Winter
- 12:00-1:30
- Lunch
- 1:00-2:30
- Panel: Music and Fantasy
- Panelists: Peter Beagle, Margaret Davis, Kristoph Klover, Chris Seeman
- 1:30-2:30
- Paper: Sarah Thomson, Preparing for Descent: Two Drafts of Charles Williams’s Descent Into Hell
- Paper: Zina Petersen, Ritual and Mysticism in Le Guin’s Tombs of Atuan
- 2:30-3:30
- Paper: Susan Lewak, Bestial Beauty: Fantasy and Identity in Angela Carter’s The Tiger’s Bride
- Reading: Tim Callahan
- 3:00-4:30
- Panel: Charles Williams, King Arthur, and Us
- Moderator: Eleanor Farrell
Panelists: David Dodds, Eric Rauscher, Alexei Kondratiev, Katherine Kerr
- 3:30-4:30
- Paper: Charles Coulombe, Night’s Black Agent: Fritz Leiber and Urban Horror
- Reading: Win Blevins
- 4:30-5:30
- Paper: Romuald Ian Lakowski, Patterns of Masculine Heroism in The Lord of the Rings
- Khazad-dûm Book Toss
- 5:30-7:00
- Dinner
- 7:00-8:00
- Paper: Janet Brennan Croft, The Great War and Tolkien’s Memory: An Examination of World War I Themes in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings
- Paper: Jennifer King, Of Christianity or the Occult: Reader Determination of Symbols in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Series
- 8:00-9:00
- Concert: Brocelïande
- 9:00-10:00
- Masquerade; Sizzling Egrets; Not Ready for Mythcon Players
- 10:00-
- Films: Black and White Spirits
- Program: 13 Ghosts, The Uninvited, Incubus
- Bardic Circle
- Con Suite
- Dubious hours
- Golfimbul
- Sale of College Land
Sunday, August 5
- 7:00-8:30
- Breakfast
- 8:30-5:00 pm
- Registration open (lobby of Krutch Theatre)
- 10:00-5:00
- Dealers’ Room open (Room 204)
- 9:00-10:00
- Interview: Philippa Boyens, screenwriter of The Lord of the Rings
- Interviewer: Paula DiSante
- Paper: Sylvia Kelso, Loces Genii (Places of Spirit): Urban Settings in the Fantasy of Peter Beagle, Martha Wells, and Barbara Hambly
- 10:00-11:00
- Paper: Don King, Quorum Porum: The Literary Cats of T.S. Eliot, Ruth Pitter, and Dorothy L. Sayers
- 10:00-10:30
- Films: excerpts of Peter Jackson films (excerpts from Heavenly Creatures, trailers of LotR)
- 10:30-12:00
- Panel: Reading the Tea Leaves: What Will Peter Jackson’s LotR Film Be Like?
- Moderator/panelist: David Bratman
Panelists: Paula DiSante, Bill Welden, Cliff Broadway, Erica Challis
- 11:00-12:00
- Paper: Joe Christopher, On War in Heaven as a Mystery Novel
- 12:00-1:30
- Lunch
- 1:00-2:00
- Reading: Peter Beagle
- 1:00-2:30
- Panel: Children’s Fantasy in the Age of Harry Potter and Philip Pullman
- Moderator: Alexei Kondratiev
Panelists: David Lenander, Sherwood Smith, Laurel Winter, Zilpha Keatley Snyder
- 1:30-5:00
- Tengwar Workshop
- Rúmil: Arden Smith
- 1:30-2:30
- Paper: Janice Bogstad, The Fey and the Fantastic: Rationalizing Fantastic Occurrences in Contemporary Life
- 2:30-5:00
- Auction (Room 203)
- Auctioneers: Eric Rauscher, Charles Coulombe; Treasurer: Lisa Harrigan
- 3:00-4:00
- Paper: Chris Seeman, From Mind to Mind: Telepathy in Tolkien’s Writings
- 4:00-5:00
- Paper: Thomas Roberts, The Mythos of the Superheroes and the Mythos of the Saints
- 5:30-6:45
- Banquet
- 6:45-7:00
- Mythopoeic Awards presentation
- 7:00-8:00
- Guest of Honor speech: Peter Beagle
- 8:00-9:00
- Dramatic Presentation: The Masque of the Manuscript
- 9:30-
- Films: I See Dead People
- Program: Blithe Spirit, The Sixth Sense, Manos: The Hands of Fate
- Bardic Circle
- Con suite
Monday, August 6
- 7:00-8:30
- Breakfast
- 9:00-10:00
- Paper: Phil Kaveny, It’s a Long Long Way from May to December: Letters to Lalage, the Letters of Charles Williams to Lois Lang-Sims
- Paper: Joe Christopher, The Theistic Poetry of C.S. Lewis
- 10:00-11:30
- Members’ Meeting
- 11:30-12:00
- Closing Ceremonies
- 1:00
- Deadline for room checkout
Send comments and queries to David Bratman, Mythcon Programming coordinator