Name: Professor Simon Horobin
University of Oxford

Events this person is speaking at:

Wednesday 22 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series: Simon Horobin – ‘J.R.R. Tolkien: The Making of a Philologist’
Date: 22 November 2023, 13:00 - 14:00 (Wednesday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker : Professor Simon Horobin (University of Oxford)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Organiser: Stuart Lee (Exeter College)
Hosts: TBA

‘J.R.R. Tolkien: The Making of a Philologist’
Date: 22 November 2023, 13:00 - 14:00 (Wednesday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker : Professor Simon Horobin (University of Oxford)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Exeter College's Cohen Quad, Walton Street OX1 2HE
Organiser: Dr Stuart Lee (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Events this person is organising:

Monday 22 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

“Being a cult figure in one’s lifetime is not at all pleasant”: Tolkien’s relationship with his fans
Date: 22 April 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Monday, 1st week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Catherine McIlwaine (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Magdalen College (Summer Common Room)
Organisers: Professor Simon Horobin (University of Oxford), Grace Khuri (University of Oxford), Professor Giuseppe Pezzini (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 29 April 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

Tolkien’s Lancelot in The Fall of Arthur: the living memory of a decaying world
Date: 29 April 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Monday, 2nd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Hugo Lacoue-Labarthe (Exeter College, University of Oxford)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Magdalen College (Summer Common Room)
Organisers: Professor Simon Horobin (University of Oxford), Grace Khuri (University of Oxford), Professor Giuseppe Pezzini (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 6 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

‘I always felt that something ought to be done about the word…’: Tolkien's latchwords
Date: 6 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Monday, 3rd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Edmund Weiner (Oxford English Dictionary)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Magdalen College (Summer Common Room)
Organisers: Professor Simon Horobin (University of Oxford), Grace Khuri (University of Oxford), Professor Giuseppe Pezzini (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 13 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

Tolkien and the Anglo-Saxon Calendar
Date: 13 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Monday, 4th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Dr. Eleanor Parker (Brasenose College, University of Oxford)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Magdalen College (Summer Common Room)
Organisers: Professor Simon Horobin (University of Oxford), Grace Khuri (University of Oxford), Professor Giuseppe Pezzini (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 20 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

"I am a link in the chain": Victorian Transformations of British Romanticism and their Influence on Tolkien
Date: 20 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Monday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Will Sherwood (University of Glasgow)
Venue: Merton College, Merton Street OX1 4JD
Venue Details: Merton College, T.S. Eliot Theatre
Organisers: Professor Simon Horobin (University of Oxford), Grace Khuri (University of Oxford), Professor Giuseppe Pezzini (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 27 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

Riddles in the Grass: the characterisation and narrative value of landscape over the fields of Rohan
Date: 27 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Monday, 6th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : David Bernabé (University of Oxford/University of the Basque Country)
Venue Details: Magdalen College (Summer Common Room)
Organisers: Professor Simon Horobin (University of Oxford), Grace Khuri (University of Oxford), Professor Giuseppe Pezzini (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 3 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

A grandson's reflections on J.R.R. Tolkien
Date: 3 June 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Monday, 7th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Michael G.R. Tolkien (Poet and Critic)
Venue: Merton College, Merton Street OX1 4JD
Venue Details: Merton College, T.S. Eliot Theatre
Organisers: Professor Simon Horobin (University of Oxford), Grace Khuri (University of Oxford), Professor Giuseppe Pezzini (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 10 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

A Veritable “Middle Earth”’: Tolkien and the Palaeoanthropological Imagination
Date: 10 June 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Monday, 8th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : John Holmes (University of Birmingham)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Magdalen College (Summer Common Room)
Organisers: Professor Simon Horobin (University of Oxford), Grace Khuri (University of Oxford), Professor Giuseppe Pezzini (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA