Presentations by AHS

INDIVIDUAL PRESENTATIONS BY AHS

AHS speaking at the Gathering of the Fellowship in Toronto, Ontario in 2003. Drawing by Nancy Martsch from a photo by Anthony Burdge.

2010

Guest Speaker by invitation, “Who’s Afraid of J.K. Rowling?: In Search of Harry Potter’s ‘Appropriate’ Readership,” Potterfest at Lenoir-Rhyne University, Hickory, NC, October 25
Guest Speaker by invitation, “Young Adult Dystopias: What Do They Mean for Science Fiction?,” ReConStruction: The 10th Occasional North American Science Fiction Convention, Raleigh, NC, August 7
Guest Speaker by invitation, “The Rise of Young Adult Dystopias,” RavenCon, Richmond, VA, April 9
Guest Speaker by invitation, “What We Can Learn From Young Adult Dystopias,” The Unitarian Universalist Church of Catawba County, Hickory, NC, March 21
Keynote Speaker by invitation, “‘I Take My Life in My Hand’: A Tale of Two Cherokees and the Trail of Tears,” A Night with the Friends of Rudisill Library, Lenoir-Rhyne University, Hickory, NC, March 12
Guest Presenter by invitation, “You Say Shoggoth, I Say Hobbit: The Lovecraft-Tolkien Connection,” MarsCon, Williamsburg, VA, January 16

2009

Keynote Speaker by invitation, “Contemporary Young Adult Dystopian Novels and What They Can Teach Us,” McConnell Center Lecture Series, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, September 11
“Anticipating Worlds Gone Wrong: Contemporary Young Adult Dystopias,” Anticipation/The 67th World Science Fiction Convention Scholarly Track, Montreal, Canada, August 9
Visiting Expert by invitation, “The Tolkien Shadow over Hogwarts and Contemporary Fantasy,” “J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings: The Real and Imagined Middle Ages” National Endowment for the Humanities Institute at Texas A&M University – Commerce, Commerce, TX, July 28
Guest Speaker by invitation, “Remembering the Trail of Tears,” Oakwood Elementary School, Hickory Public Schools, Hickory, NC, April 30
Guest Speaker by invitation, “When Harry Met Faerie: The Tolkien Solution to the Rowling Problem,” RavenCon, Richmond, VA, April 25
Keynote Speaker by invitation, “Pushing the Boundaries in English Studies: From Middle-Earth to Hogwarts,” Third Annual Symposium on English Studies, Tennessee Tech University, Cookeville, TN, March 21

2008

Conference Director and Discussion Leader for “Liberty, Property, and Native America” Colloquium, Liberty Fund, Inc., Indianapolis, IN, April 10-13
“The H.P. Lovecraft-J.R.R. Tolkien Connection,” The Association for Private Enterprise Education 2008 International Convention, Las Vegas, NV, April 8
Guest Speaker by invitation, “The Legacy of the Trail of Tears and Indian Removal,” First American: Voices Film Series, Sponsored by Lenoir-Rhyne College and The Women’s Resource Center of Hickory, Hickory, NC, February 28

2007

Guest Speaker by invitation, “Teaching Archetypes through Science Fiction and Fantasy,” Teacher Continuing Education Program, Broken Arrow Public Schools, Broken Arrow, OK, January 31
Guest Speaker by invitation, “Science Fiction, Fantasy, and ‘Archetype Soup’” and “Lovecraft, Tolkien, and the Problem of Modernity,” Broken Arrow High School, Broken Arrow, OK, January 30 and 31
Guest Speaker by invitation, “Harry Potter is a Hobbit? The Tolkien Solution to the Rowling Problem,” Broken Arrow Senior High School “Evening With An Author” Series, Broken Arrow, OK, January 30

AHS with Douglas Gresham, stepson of C.S. Lewis, at the Past Watchful Dragons conference on C.S. Lewis (organized by AHS) in Nashville, TN in 2005. Photo by Kathryn E. Darden.

2006

“Quest for The Magic Ring: A Rediscovered Fairy Tale,” Fifth Annual Fall Humanities Symposium, Belmont University, Nashville, TN, October 26
Guest Speaker by invitation, “Rights Under Attack: The Captain Power Story,” PhreakNIC 10: Technology and Culture Exposition, Nashville, TN, October 20
Scholar Guest of Honor Keynote Address, “Native America and Fantasy: Challenges for Scholars and Readers,” MythCon 37, Norman, OK, August 5
Guest Faculty presentations, “Property Rights Among Native Americans” and “Property and the Human Imagination,” Cato University, St. Pete’s Beach, FL, July 28
Scholarly Guest presentations, “The Magic Ring meets The Lord of the Rings” and “Your Dwarves Don’t Dance and Your Elves Don’t Rock-n-Roll: A Tour of Tolkien-Inspired World Music,” The Gathering of the Fellowship 2006, Toronto, Canada, July 2 and 3
Special Guest presentations, “You Say Hobbit, I Say Shoggoth: The J.R.R. Tolkien-H.P. Lovecraft Connection” and “‘A Loon Is He That Will Not Sing’: Tolkienian Music Across the World,” HyperiCon II, Nashville, TN, June 24
“The Fouqué Influence: From The Magic Ring to The Lord of the Rings,” Lómelindi Smial of The Tolkien Society, Nashville, TN, June 21
“Government Failure as Obstacle to Native American Market Success,” The Association of Private Enterprise Education 2006 International Conference, Las Vegas, NV, April 3
Special Guest presentation, “The Middle-Earth – Hogwarts Connection: How J.R.R. Tolkien Answers the Harry Potter Question,” ORC: The One Ring Celebration, Pasadena, CA, January 21

2005

Conference Manager, “Past Watchful Dragons: Fantasy and Faith in the World of C.S. Lewis,” Belmont University, Nashville, TN, November 3-5
“The Lost State of Franklin,” Fourth Annual Fall Humanities Symposium, Belmont University, Nashville, TN, October 27
Special Guest presentation, “Still Big Brother After All These Years: Totalitarianism in Science Fiction,” PhreakNIC: Technology and Culture Exposition, Nashville, TN, October 22
“On ‘Past Watchful Dragons’: Fantasy and Faith in the World of C.S. Lewis,” New Student Family Day, Belmont University, Nashville, TN, September 17
Special Guest presentations, “When Harry Met Faerie: Harry Potter as J.R.R. Tolkien’s Fairy-Story” and “Sexy Nerds: The Evolution of the Cerebral Hero in Television Drama,” HyperiCon, Nashville, TN, June 17 and 18
Special Guest presentations, “J.K. Rowling’s Problem, J.R.R. Tolkien’s Solution” and “Middle-Earth Writings: Tolkien Fan Fiction as a Case Study,” Xanadu 8/DeepSouthCon 43, Nashville, TN, April 9
Special Guest presentation, “Computers and ‘Sexy Nerds’: How Technology Changed the Cerebral Hero in SF/F Television,” MidSouthCon 23, Memphis, TN, April 2
“Reimagining Rosie: Portrayals of Tolkien’s Rosie Cotton in 21st-Century Fan Fiction,” Academic Lecture Convocation Program, Students for the Advancement of Gender Equality, Belmont University, Nashville, TN, March 30
“The Problem of Native America” and “Cultural Optimism,” “Free Your Mind” Seminar, Duke University with the Institute for Humane Studies, Durham, N.C., February 4 and 5

2004

Guest Speaker by invitation, “The BIA: An Institutional Overview,” Focus Honor Series, Duke University, Durham, N.C., November 11
Special Guest presentations, “The King of SF’s Golden Age: How Robert A. Heinlein Earned the Crown” and “Sexy Nerds: Computers and the Development of the Cerebral Hero in Television Drama,” PhreakNIC 8: Technology and Culture Exposition, Nashville, TN, October 22 and 23
“The Problem of Native America,” “Free Your Mind” Seminar, The Political Theory Project at Brown University with the Institute for Humane Studies, Providence, R.I., October 16
“For Whom Does the Hogwarts Bell Toll?: Rowling’s Problem, Tolkien’s Solution,” MythCon 35, The Mythopoeic Society, Ann Arbor, MI, July 30
Special Guest presentation, “Middle-earth in Music: Forty Years of World Sounds” at Xanadu 7, Nashville, TN, May 8
Special Guest presentations, “Your Dwarves Don’t Dance and Your Elves Don’t Rock-n-Roll: Middle-earth in Music” and “Harry Potter is a Hobbit: How J.R.R. Tolkien Put the Adult in Children’s Literature” at MidSouthCon 22/DeepSouthCon 42, Memphis, TN, March 26 and 28
Participant by invitation in “The Lord of the Rings as Christian Literature,” Faith Development Convocation Event, Belmont Honors Council, Belmont University, Nashville, TN, March 1
Guest Speaker by invitation, “Why Read J.R.R. Tolkien?” Croft Library Series, Croft Middle School, Nashville Metro Public Schools, Nashville, TN, January 28

: AHS signing at her 2006 book launch event in Toronto, Ontario. Photo by Ryan Cagle.

2003

Guest of Honor keynote speech, “Harry Potter is a Hobbit: How J.R.R. Tolkien Put the Adult in Children’s Literature,” The Gathering of the Fellowship International “Bag End” Scholarly Program, Toronto, Ontario, December 16
“J.R.R. Tolkien’s Fairy-Stories: ‘A Higher Form of Art’” Premiere Presentation of The University College Lecture Series, Belmont University, Nashville, TN, December 11
“Harry Potter is a Hobbit: J.R.R. Tolkien and J.K. Rowling,” Academic Lecture Convocation Presentation, Belmont English Club, Belmont University, Nashville, TN, November 7
Guest Speaker by invitation, “The History of Science Fiction,” PhreakNIC 7: Technology and Culture Exposition, Nashville, TN, October 25
“Reimagining Rose: Portrayals of Tolkien’s Rosie Cotton in Twenty-First Century Fan Fiction,” MythCon 34, The Mythopoeic Society, Nashville, TN, July 25

2002

Keynote speech, “Women in Power in Native America,” Women’s History Month Program, Belmont University, Nashville, TN, March 13

2001

“Retaining Amerindian Traditions in the Arena of Modern Education,” current research presentation, “Scholarship and the Free Society” Seminar, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, June 10

1998

“‘Fly For Your Lives’: The Contested Cherokee Press in the Era of Removal,” American Society for Ethnohistory, Minneapolis, MN, November 14
“The Sword in the Starship: The Arthuriana of Star Trek,” 13th Internationa Conference on Medievalism, Rochester, NY, October 8
“The Phaser As Excalibur: Star Trek, Federation Guns, and Arthurian Myth,” “Bang Bang, Shoot Shoot! Film, Television, Guns” Conference, Media Studies Working Group, Toronto, Ontario, May 16
“The ‘Middle Ground’ of Homicide: Eighteenth Century Colonial Carolina and Cherokee Clan Law,” Organization of American Historians, Indianapolis, IN, April 4

1997

“The 1820s Reinvention of the Cherokee Language: The New Nationalism,” “Languages and Voices in the Americas” International Conference, University of Versailles at Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France, October 17

1996

“James Adair’s Tradition of Ethnography: Millenarians, Rabbis, and the Jewish Indian Theory,” Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, Nashville, TN, July 20
“The Rise, Decline, and Reemergence of Classical Liberalism,” Second Annual Probasco Chair Secondary Education Conference on Classical Liberalism, The University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, TN, June 12
“‘Charged With Republican Notions’: Early Politics and Compacts in Tennessee Country,” The Tennessee Historical Society Bicentennial Lecture Series “Eden of the West,” Nashville, TN, May 7
“Classifying the ‘Other’ In the New World: Native American Culture and the Jewish Indian Theory,” Tennessee-Kentucky Chapter, American Studies Association, Murfreesboro, TN, April 20

1995

“Essex and the People: Chivalry, Patriotism, and the Image of the Rebel Earl,” Carolinas Symposium on British Studies, Boone, NC, October 7
“The Rise, Decline, and Reemergence of Classical Liberalism,” First Annual Probasco Chair Secondary Education Conference on Classical Liberalism, The University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, TN, June 14
“Transylvania, Franklin, Tennessee: The Procedural and Substantive Innovations of the Three Tennessee Constitutions,” Tennessee Political Science Association, Dickson, TN, April 7
“The Transylvania Colony and the State of Frankland: The National Impacts of Two Bids For Independence,” Tennessee-Kentucky Chapter, American Studies Association, Harrodsburg, KY, March 31

PANEL PRESENTATIONS AND SCHOLARLY ROUNDTABLES INCLUDING AHS

AHS and Jessica Burke on a panel at the Gathering of the Fellowship in Toronto, Canada in 2006. Photo by Stephanie Fysh.