All One Race?
All One Race? Being ‘Human’ in Middle-earth and Beyond
Date: Saturday, 24 February 2024
Time: 10:00 – 14:00
Venue: MS Teams (link)
RSVP: pridmjt@unisa.ac.za
Programme
10.00 Opening – Prof Deirdre Byrne
10.15 Nick Groom: Bright things that he had never yet imagined... How different Races and Species create manifold Middle-Earths
10.45 Michéle du Plessis-Hay: Optative and ontological quandaries in Eä – The World That Is.
11.15 Break
11.30 Julie Pridmore: Hobbits and Others: Racialist but not Racist?
12.00 Jamie McGregor: "A branch of the specifically human race": Identifying as a Hobbit in Farthest Harad
12.30 Discussion / Q&A
13.00 Closure by Prof Eileen Donaldson
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