The International Conference on J.R.R. Tolkien’s Invented Languages
10 – 13 August 2017
California State University, East Bay, Hayward Campus
Chairman: Christopher Gilson
Secretary: Beregond, Anders Stenström
| Thursday | 3–5 p.m. | check-in and get rooms |
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| 5 p.m. | Opening of the conference Introduction to the programme, and practical information |
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| 530 p.m. | dinner | |
| 7 p.m. | Practical Elvish (led by Roman Rausch) | |
| Friday | 730 a.m. | breakfast |
| 830 a.m. | Chairman's Address by Christopher Gilson | |
| 930 a.m. | Bertrand Bellet (in absentia): Quenya as a Classical Language — Greek and Latin Inspirations in High-elven | |
| 1030 a.m. | The Book I Wrote! (presentation by Fiona Jallings) | |
| 1130 a.m. | Alexander Zapryagaev (in absentia): Poetic Metre and Prosody in Eldarin Languages | |
| 1230 | lunch | |
| 130 p.m. | Carl F. Hostetter: An Analytical Inventory of The Etymologies (work in progress) | |
| 230 p.m. | Beregond, Anders Stenström: Phonotactic Preferences Revisited (work in progress) | |
| 330 p.m. | Approaches to Teaching and Learning Sindarin and Quenya Online (discussion led by Fiona Jallings) | |
| 430 p.m. | Elvish Dictionary Project (report by Roman Rausch) | |
| 530 p.m. | dinner | |
| 7 p.m. | American as a Foreign Language to Read Tolkien In (discussion led by David Bratman) | |
| 8 p.m. | Words Are Like Walnuts (presentation by Bill Welden) | |
| Saturday | 730 a.m. | breakfast |
| 830 a.m. | Departure for a Tour of Berkeley guided by David Bratman | |
| 1230 | lunch | |
| 2 p.m. | Bill Welden: How We Got Sindarin | |
| 3 p.m. | Roman Rausch: Mapping Out Semantic Spaces in Elvish | |
| 4 p.m. | Miriam Mayburd: Dream-words, Dream-lore, and Languages of Ascent: Tolkien's Qenya and Gnomish Lexicons in the Light of Medieval Mystical and Meditative Traditions | |
| 530 p.m. | festive dinner | |
| 745 p.m. | Cirth in Carolina (presentation by Beregond, Anders Stenström) | |
| 830 p.m. | Elvish Poets' Circle (led by Christopher Gilson) | |
| Sunday | 730 a.m. | breakfast |
| 830 a.m. | Arden Smith: Elvish and Other Featural Scripts | |
| 930 a.m. | Måns Björkman: “Usually omitted”: The Long and Convoluted History of hwesta sindarinwa | |
| 1030 a.m. | The Future: we will take thought of the Omentielvar in 2019 and 2021 | |
| 1130 a.m. –12 noon |
check-out from rooms | |
| 12 noon | lunch | |
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