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Schedule
2026
Friday, July 24th
1:30 PM

Shared Trauma, Shared Drama: Faërian Drama in Russian Doll and Elsewhere

Janet Croft

Weatherford, Oklahoma

1:30 PM - 2:20 PM

1:30 PM

Travel in Ryan Coogler’s Sinners: The Going-ons of the Smoke Stack Twins and Remmick

Mena Nizam

Weatherford, Oklahoma

1:30 PM - 2:20 PM

2:30 PM

The Road Goes Ever On: Teaching Tolkien in Colleges Today

Leslie A. Donovan
Megan B. Abrahamson
Cami D. Agan
Katherine Wyma
Joseph Rex Young

Weatherford, Oklahoma

2:30 PM - 3:20 PM

2:30 PM

The Scholar's Journey: The Limits of Academic Discourse

Katherine McLoone

Weatherford, Oklahoma

2:30 PM - 3:20 PM

3:30 PM

An Infinite Number of Roads Diverged in a Wood: Robert Heinlein’s Maximalist Road Trip in The Number of the Beast

Patrick Julian

Weatherford, Oklahoma

3:30 PM - 4:20 PM

3:30 PM

How to Use Your Mythsoc Membership Online

Megan B. Abrahamson
Alicia Fox-Lenz
Sean Marlow
Grace Moone

Weatherford, Oklahoma

3:30 PM - 4:20 PM

4:30 PM

From Dust Bowl to Digital: Fueling Your Research in the MythSoc Archives

Phillip Fitzsimmons, Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Janet Brennan Croft
Victoria Gaydosik
Brice Odom

Weatherford, Oklahoma

4:30 PM - 5:20 PM

4:30 PM

Haunted, Will Travel: “divided, fractured, and barely legible” The Nightmare-Self in Harrow the Ninth

Atiyana Ringling

Weatherford, Oklahoma

4:30 PM - 5:20 PM

7:00 PM

New Info on The Hunt for the Ring

Chad Bornholdt
Bill Fliss

Weatherford, Oklahoma

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Saturday, July 25th
9:00 AM

Opening Ceremonies / Scholar Guest of Honor Keynote - The Rhetoric of the Road: The Romantic Journey as a Map of Myth, Memory, and Majesty

Joe R. Christopher

Weatherford, Oklahoma

9:00 AM - 10:50 AM

11:00 AM

Local & Experiential: Exploring Embodied Ethnogeomythology through TTRPG

Gregory Fields
Teagan Brady
Dakota Dalota
Claira Hickman
Gina Manygoats
Donovan McBride
Ryan Pillmore

Weatherford, Oklahoma

11:00 AM - 11:50 AM

11:00 AM

The Future of the Mythopoeic Society

Megan Abrahamson
MythSoc Stewards

Weatherford, Oklahoma

11:00 AM - 11:50 AM

1:30 PM

Fangorn Forest as a Rerouting to the Ecological Contemplative in The Two Towers

Nicholas Birns

Weatherford, Oklahoma

1:30 PM - 2:20 PM

1:30 PM

Fundamentally Linguistic

John Rosegrant

Weatherford, Oklahoma

1:30 PM - 2:20 PM

2:30 PM

Eucatastrophe: J.R.R. Tolkien as a Christian Apologist

Donald T. Williams

Weatherford, Oklahoma

2:30 PM - 3:20 PM

2:30 PM

Orc Road Trip; or, We’re Taking the Hobbits to Isengard!

Robert T. Tally Jr.

Weatherford, Oklahoma

2:30 PM - 3:20 PM

3:30 PM

No Body, No Sacrament: Tolkien’s Route from Children of the Valar to Marriage as an ‘Association’ in The History of Middle-earth Drafts

Nicole duPlessis

Weatherford, Oklahoma

3:30 PM - 4:20 PM

3:30 PM

Spacing Out of the Shire: Spatiomagus and Spatial Nomadism in The Lord of the Rings

Kieran Strand-Leeds

Weatherford, Oklahoma

3:30 PM - 4:20 PM

4:30 PM

Between the Unexpected and the Unknown: The Liminal Transformation of Bilbo Baggins and Travelers Along Route 66

Logan O. Uber

Weatherford, Oklahoma

4:30 PM - 5:20 PM

4:30 PM

Mythic Roads: Tolkien's Literary Network and Cosmopolitan Imagination

Hayden Bilbrey

Weatherford, Oklahoma

4:30 PM - 5:20 PM

Sunday, July 26th
9:00 AM

Perception as a Gateway of Faërie in Owen Barfield’s Philosophy of Language

Sylwia Wilczewska

Weatherford, Oklahoma

9:00 AM - 9:50 AM

9:00 AM

Remembering Lee Speth

Megan B. Abrahamson

Weatherford, Oklahoma

9:00 AM - 9:50 AM

10:00 AM

Glen GoodKnight's International Narnia Collection

David L. Emerson

Weatherford, Oklahoma

10:00 AM - 10:50 AM

10:00 AM

Illustrating Lothlórien as a Faerie Space in The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

Marie Bretagnolle

Weatherford, Oklahoma

10:00 AM - 10:50 AM

11:00 AM

Gondor Calls for Aid! Volunteering and Running for Office with the Mythopoeic Society

Janet Brennan Croft
Megan B. Abrahamson
Phillip Fitzsimmons
Alicia Fox-Lenz
Victoria Gaydosik
Tim Lenz

Weatherford, Oklahoma

11:00 AM - 11:50 AM

11:00 AM

Mythopoeic Awards Finalists Discussion

David Lenander
Grace Moone

Weatherford, Oklahoma

11:00 AM - 11:50 AM

1:30 PM

The God Machine: Environmental Resonances in Tolkien and Hollow Knight: Silksong

Alicia Fox-Lenz

Weatherford, Oklahoma

1:30 PM - 2:20 PM

1:30 PM

The Harlequinades: Agatha Christie’s Forays into Fantasy

Joe R. Christopher

Weatherford, Oklahoma

1:30 PM - 2:20 PM

2:30 PM

Middle-earth Inspired Chess Sets

Bruce Leonard

Weatherford, Oklahoma

2:30 PM - 3:20 PM

2:30 PM

Today’s Christianity: Are We in the Mirror Universe? A Comparison of Petrine Christianity and the Gospel of Mary via the Heroine’s Journey

Blythe A. Collier

Weatherford, Oklahoma

2:30 PM - 3:20 PM

3:30 PM

“The daemons of unplumbed space”: Einsteinian Portals Into the Unknown in Paul W. S. Anderson’s Event Horizon and H.P. Lovecraft’s The Dreams in the Witch House

Kristine Larsen

Weatherford, Oklahoma

3:30 PM - 4:20 PM

3:30 PM

The Road to Armageddon; Commonwealth Orcs, 1872-2000

Joseph Rex Young

Weatherford, Oklahoma

3:30 PM - 4:20 PM

7:30 PM

Author Guest of Honor Keynote - Fantasy as a Tool of Resilience and Resistance / Mythopoeic Awards Ceremony

David R. Slayton

Weatherford, Oklahoma

7:30 PM - 9:00 PM

Monday, July 27th
9:00 AM

Are Book Clubs the new Discussion Groups?

Megan B. Abrahamson
Dusty Brooks
Grace Moone

Weatherford, Oklahoma

9:00 AM - 9:50 AM

9:00 AM

Boundary Crossings: Charles Williams and Bruce Cockburn as Grim Traveling Companions

John Mabry

Weatherford, Oklahoma

9:00 AM - 9:50 AM

10:00 AM

A Charles Williams Diptych: G. M. Hopkins and T. S. Eliot

Eric Rauscher

Weatherford, Oklahoma

10:00 AM - 10:50 AM

10:00 AM

Visit with Joe R. Christopher

Leslie A. Donovan

Weatherford, Oklahoma

10:00 AM - 10:50 AM

11:00 AM

Members’ Meeting and Closing Ceremonies

The Mythopoeic Society

Weatherford, Oklahoma

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM