Doxamoot 2024

THEME: “Well, I’m back.” The Hero and the Heroic in Tolkien.

Tickets are at EVENTBRITE (get them here)!!!!!!

Join us in Emmaus, PA at St. Paul’s Orthodox Church for our annual Doxamoot Conference, for feasting, festivity, intellectual cuisine, and the most arcane of tavern trivia.

Our special speaker this year is Richard Rohlin of both the Amon Sul and the Symbolic World Podcasts. Richard is an author, teacher, podcaster, and all-about Renaissance man.

{COMING SOON: A REALLY GREAT PICTURE OF THAT DEBONAIRE MAN FOR ALL SEASONS, RICHARD ROHLIN}

Our other speakers will be Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick, Podcaster extraordinaire, author, speaker, and inveterate lover of Tolkien when not in Lithuania (and probably even there as well),

And Dr. Cyril Gary Jenkins, author, podcaster, professor (in his more despairing moments) and high school teacher of history and Latin (in his most exuberant moments!!!).

And we hope a few others!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Schedule.

FRIDAY, 30 August:

– 5pm Registration

– 6pm Talk #1: Richard Rohlin: “”Pentecost at the Stone of Erech: Oathbreakers and Covenant Keepers in the Legendarium””

– 7:15pm Reception / Pub Trivia (Form teams and compete!)

SATURDAY, 31 August:

– 8am Coffee

– 8:30am Akathist before the Axion Estin Icon

9:15 Talk #2: Dr. Cyril Gary Jenkins: “Love’s Obligation: Deceit and Truth the divide between virtue and vice in Tolkien.”

– 10:30am – 10:45am Break of an unusually Sacramental Nature

– 10:45am- 12:15pm Talk #3: Richard Rohlin: “Like Rain on the Mountain: Theodoric, Beowulf, Theoden, and Tolkien’s Elegy for Northern Courage”

– 12:30pm Lunch (provided)

– 2:00pm Tolkien Talent Show – Dramatic reading, music and art! (Interested in participating? Contact us!)

– 2:45pm Break

– 3:15 – 4:30 pm Talk #4: Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick: “’We heard of the horns in the hills ringing’: Wars of the Rohirrim through musical memory in J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings”

– 5pm Vespers

– 6pm Dinner (provided)

– 7pm “Celebrity” Trivia: Our speakers and special guests compete for TOLKIEN PRIZES on behalf of randomly-chosen moot attendees — must be present to win!

SUNDAY, 1 September:

– 8am Matins

– 9am Divine Liturgy, followed by coffee hour

– 1:30pm Lecture (TBA)

-3pm More Talent

-5pm La Grande Fête

-7pm An Evening of the Last Homely House (or something like that).