INKLINGS SYMPOSIUM

2023

14:00

Members' Assembly

Lecture Hall 6

16:30

Opening Remarks

Lecture Hall 6

16:45

Panel I: Immortality and Rebirth in Middle Earth

"Langlebigkeit, Unsterblichkeit und Wiedergeburt in Mittelerde"
Friedhelm Schneidewind (Mannheim)

"Tod und Unsterblichkeit im altenglischen Setting: Leben und Nachleben in Tolkiens Rohan"
Knut Martin Stünkel (Bochum)

Lecture Hall 6

18:30

Dinner

Côba (Menu)

Please note that the dinner is self-paid. Côba does not accept card payment, cash only.

9:30

Panel II: Philosophical Musings

"Divine Immortality as a Curse in Madeline Miller’s Circe"
Raphaela Behounek (Salzburg)

"'The last, ultimate nothingness': Necromantic Power Relations in the Fiction of Clark Ashton Smith"
Alexander Schröder (Bochum)

"Death as a Character and Its Philosophical Depiction in Children’s Books"
Artemis Papailia (Komotini)

Lecture Hall 6

11:30

Panel III: The Theology of C.S. Lewis

"'Till Death Do Us Part' – Or Not? Death as a Unifier in C.S. Lewis’s Fiction"
Teodora Driscu (Iași)

"Rebirth as New Beginning or Redemption in C. S. Lewis’ The Pilgrim’s Regress: An Aesthetical and a Theological Perspective"
Daniela Denise Vasiliu (Iași)

"'Unless a Grain of Wheat Falls into the Earth': Death and Rebirth in The Chronicles of Narnia"
Anne-Frédérique Caballero (Amiens)

Lecture Hall 6

13:00

15:00

Panel IV: Epic Fantasy

"Death Is Personally Impersonal: The Wyrd Fates of Grendel and Beowulf in Part I of Beowulf"
James H. Buckingham (Sharon, WI)

"The House and the Dweller: A Holistic Framework for Understanding the Post-Mortem Continuity of Personal Identity in Tolkien’s Work"
Advait Praturi (Mumbai)

"The Ritual of Tellann: Immortality and Its Refusal in Steven Erikson‘s Malazan Book of the Fallen"
Tjorven Carstens (Greifswald)

16:30

Coffee Break

17:00

The Life and Work of Owen Barfield

Owen A. Barfield, in conversation with Elmar Schenkel

19:00

Dinner

Lago di Garda (Menu)

Please note that the dinner is self-paid.

9:00

Panel V: Immortality and Rebirth in Harry Potter

"Death and Immortality: Reading The Bible and the Harry Potter Series"
Athira Mohan (Stuttgart)

"Death, Immortality, and Rebirth in Harry Potter"
Melissa Sarikaya (Erlangen-Nürnberg)

Lecture Hall 6

10:15

Panel VI: The Fantastic and TTRPGs

"You Die, Then What? Engaging with Mortality in Fantasy Narratives"
Pia Holste (Bonn)

"Deities of Death in Fantasy Media: Evil Villains or Forces of Nature?"
Kristin Aubel (Wien)

Lecture Hall 6

11:15

11:30

Panel VII: Ecocritical Perspectives

"Depressed Immortals: Immortality and Ecocriticism in Brandon Sanderson‘s Elantris (2005)"
Aylin Walder (Köln)

"Immortality as Body Horror: T. Kingfisher’s What Moves the Dead"
Anna Lüscher (Konstanz)

12:30

Lunch Break

13:30

Panel VIII: Transmigrations

"Von allen Seelen, die mir begegnet sind, war seine die menschlichste': Spock, vulkanische Seelenwanderung und der Kreislauf des Lebens"
Pia Nöfer (Berlin)

"'Where I come from, ghosts are not to be taken lightly': Fragmentarische Wiederauferstehung und gespenstische Ontologien bei Guillermo del Toro"
Catherin Persing (Bochum)

14:30

Coffee Break

14:45

Panel IX: Immortality and Rebirth in Science Fiction

"Zum Greifen nah: Visionen der Unsterblichkeit"
Dominik Becher (Leipzig)

"Immortality and Digital Rebirth in Science Fiction"
Stefan Lampadius (Leipzig)

"Splitting the Atom and Returning: Death and Beyond in C.S. Lewis’ Out of the Silent Planet and Philip Pullman’s The Amber Spyglass"
Eva Oppermann (Kassel)

16:15

Closing Remarks