Episode 36: Tolkien and Diversity Recap
Athrabeth is produced by James Pierson. James can be found on twitter @jpierson
The Tolkien Society Summer Seminar: https://www.tolkiensociety.org/events/tolkien-society-summer-seminar/
CitationsBooks:Oluo, Ijeoma. 2019. So You Want to Talk about Race. Seattle, WA: Seal Press.
Websites:The Association of Ramaytush Ohlone
Accessed June 30, 2021
Michigan State University, Native American Institute, “Guide to Land Acknowledgements”
https://www.canr.msu.edu/nai/about/land-acknowledgements
Accessed June 30, 2021
Native Governance Center, “A guide to Indigenous land acknowledgement”
https://nativegov.org/a-guide-to-indigenous-land-acknowledgment/
Accessed June 30, 2021
Native Land Digital
Accessed June 30, 2021
Mills, Selena, “What are land acknowledgements and why do they matter?
Posted on Local Love on March 18, 2019
https://locallove.ca/issues/what-are-land-acknowledgements-and-why-do-they-matter/#.YN4CHW5lCis
Accessed July 1, 2021
Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma
Accessed June 30, 2021
The Tolkien Society
https://www.tolkiensociety.org/
Accessed July 4, 2021
Socials: @TolkienSociety
The Tolkien Society- Oxonmoot 2021
https://www.tolkiensociety.org/events/oxonmoot-2021/
Accessed July 5, 2021
Tolkien Society Summer Seminar 2021Presentations discussed in this episode:Saturday, July 3, 2021 (listed in order of appearance)Gondor in Transition: A Brief Introduction to Transgender Realities in The Lord of the RingsBy Cordeliah Logsdon
Twitter: @cordeliah_g
The Problem of Pain: Portraying Physical Disability in the Fantasy of J. R. R. TolkienBy Clare Moore
Twitter: @claremoore914
“The Burnt Hand Teaches Most About Fire”: Applying Traumatic Stress and Ecological Frameworks to Narratives of Displacement and Resettlement Across Cultures in Tolkien’s Middle-earthBy V. Elizabeth King
Twitter: @VElizabeth_King
The Invisible Other: Tolkien’s Dwarf-Women and the ‘Feminine Lack’By Dr. Sara Brown
Twitter: @AranelParmadil
Projecting Indian Myths, Culture and History onto Tolkien’s WorldsBy Sultana Raza
Website: https://sultanaraza.wordpress.com
The Lossoth: Indigeneity, Identity, and AntiracismBy Nicholas Birns
Twitter: @nicholasbirns
The Problematic Perimeters of Elrond Half-elven and Ronald English-CatholicBy Kristine Larsen
Website: https://kristinelarsen.academia.edu
Hearkening to the Other: Athrabeth Finrod ah AndrethBy Cami Agan
Website: https://www.oc.edu/directory/cami-agan-ph-d
Sunday, July 4, 2021 (listed in order of appearance)Pardoning Saruman?: The Queer in Tolkien’s The Lord of the RingsBy Christopher Vaccaro
Website: https://www.uvm.edu/cas/english/profiles/chris\_vaccaro
Desire of the Ring: An Indian Academic’s Adventures in her Quest for the Perilous RealmBy Sonali Chunodkar
Queer Atheists, Agnostics, and Animists, Oh, My!By Robin Reid
Hidden Visions: Iconographies of Alterity in Soviet Bloc Illustrations for The Lord of the RingsBy Joel Merriner
Twitter: @JoelMerriner
Questions of Caste in The Lord of the Rings and its Multiple Chinese TranslationsBy Eric Reinders
Website: http://religion.emory.edu/home/people/faculty/reinders-eric.html
Stars Less Strange: An Analysis of Fanfiction and Representation within the Tolkien Fan CommunityBy Dawn Walls-Thumma
Twitter: @DawnFelagund
Website: http://dawnfelagund.com
“Something Mighty Queer”: Destabilizing Cishetero Amatonormativity in the Works of TolkienBy Danna Petersen-Deeprose
Translation as a means of representation and diversity in Tolkien’s scholarship and fandomBy Martha Celis-Menzoda