FRIDAY,
FEBRUARY 11, 2005

7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Thompson Room, Barker Center

Short films, presentations, and refreshments

SATURDAY,
FEBRUARY 12, 2005

Thompson Room, Barker Center

BREAKFAST
9:30 am - 10:00 am

MORNING PANELS
10:00 am - 12:45pm

"Our Lady's Tumbler: from Medieval Fantasy to Modern Fakelore" (Jan Ziolkowski)

"Seeking Seed-Wheat I Have Come: Desire between the Worlds in Medieval Irish and Welsh Tales" (Kate Chadbourne)

"Why Should Sleeping Beauty Wake Up?" (Cara Zimmerman)

"Fairy Tale Romance: Love, Sex, and Bestiality Across the Centuries" (Catherine Orenstein)

"The Magic Art of the Great Humbug: Performative Language in The Wizard of Oz" (Maria Tatar)

LUNCH
12:45pm - 1:30pm

KEYNOTE ADDRESS
1:30pm - 2:30pm

James Russell
"J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis: A Russian Liberal Perspective"

AFTERNOON PANELS
2:30pm - 4:45 pm

"Tolkien and the Ornithography of Evil" (Joseph Harris)

"The Naming of Trees is a Difficult Matter: Treebeard and the Kalevala" (Veronica Heller)

"The Mythological Heritage of Tolkien's Elves" (Matthew Granoff)

"Shared Narrative Framework in Role-Playing Games" (Bryn Neuenschwander)

"Star Wars: Myth and Autobiography" (Paulette Curtis)

"Imaginary Lands, Economic Territories: Conquering the Global Film Market with the Fantasy/Sci-Fi Genre" (Winnie Li)

REFRESHMENTS
5:00 pm - 5:30pm