Interested in meeting the Tolkien Professor in person? See where he’s going to be appearing in the upcoming weeks and months! (You can also see where he’s been, but that won’t help you meet him, unless you are a time traveler.) Click on the links to get the details about each upcoming event.
Upcoming and Recent Events
| Event | City / Location | Date(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Sunshine Moot | TBD | Postponed |
| Magnolia Moot | TBD | Postponed |
Past Events
| Event | City / Location | Date(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Middlemoot 2020 | Online | Oct. 10, 2020 |
| Mythmoot VII | Online | Aug. 6-9, 2020 |
| Teaching Engaging Classes Online: A Tutorial and Discussion (recording) | Online | March 16, 2020 |
| SXSW EDU | Austin, TX | Canceled |
| TexMoot | Houston, CA – Houston Baptist Univ. | February 8, 2020 |
| BayMoot | Berkeley, CA – First Presbyterian Church | November 23, 2019 |
| MiddleMoot | Waterloo, IA – Hawkeye Community College | October 12, 2019 |
| New England Moot | Amherst, MA – Jones Library | September 29, 2019 |
| Mythgard Movie Club: Watership Down (recording) | Online | September 5, 2019 |
| Mythgard Movie Club: Camelot (recording) | Online | August 8, 2019 |
| Weatherstock | LOTRO Landroval Server – Weathertop | July 20, 2019, 6PM |
| Mythmoot VI: Dragons | Leesburg, VA – National Conference Center | June 27 – 30, 2019 |
| The Middle Kingdom 50th Year Celebration | Danville, IN – Hendricks County 4-H Fairgrounds | May 24, 2019 |
| Tolkien Biopic Discussion (recording) | Online | May 19, 2019 |
| Nedermoot | Leiden, Netherlands – Leiden University | April 14, 2019 |
| Sunshine Moot | Lakeland, FL – Catapult Lakeland | March 23, 2019 |
| NYC Tolkien Conference | New York, NY – Morgan Library | March 16 – 17, 2019 |
| LOTRO chat with Dr. Michael Drout and Chris Pierson | Lord of the Rings Online Twitch Channel | March 14, 2019 |
| Inside “Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth” | New York City – The Sheen Center for Thought & Culture | February 12, 2019, 7PM |
| TexMoot | Waco, TX – Waco Convention Center | January 19, 2019 |
| MagnoliaMoot | Charlotte, NC – Johnson C. Smith University | November 10, 2018 |
| LA Moot | Los Angeles – Westwood Gateway | Oct. 27, 2018 |
| MiddleMoot | Parkville, MO – Park College | October 6, 2018 |
| Mythgard Movie Club: She (recording) | Online | October 11, 2018 |
| MagLabs 2018 | Alexandria, VA – Hilton Alexandria Mark Center | September 7-9, 2018 |
| BayMoot | Oakland, CA – Mills College | August 18, 2018 |
| Mythmoot V: Fantastic Frontiers | Leesburg, VA – National Conference Center | June 21-24, 2018 |
| LondonMoot | London, UK | April 28, 2018 |
| Mythgard Movie Club: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (recording) | Online | February 22, 2018 |
| The Inklings & King Arthur Roundtable | Online | February 5, 2018 |
| TexMoot | Fort Worth, Texas – Scarborough College | January 13, 2018 |
| Upper Midwest Regional Moot | Waterloo, IA – Hawkeye Community College | October 7, 2017 |
| Hobbit Day Reading | Online | September 22, 2017 |
| Mythmoot IV: Invoking Wonder… | Leesburg, VA – National Conference Center | June 1-4, 2017 |
| Wigend Rides to Rohan | Online (LOTRO) | March 25, 2017 |
| Undergraduate Conference | Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary | February 25, 2017 |
| Midmoot III | College Park, MD – Univ. of Maryland | Sept. 24, 2016 |
| Mythmoot III: Ever On… | Linthicum, Maryland – BWI Marriott | January 10-11, 2015 |
| MidMoot II – Mythgard Midatlantic Speculative Fiction Symposium | College Park, MD – Univ. of Maryland | Oct. 3, 2015 |
| Mythcon 45 | Norton, MA – Wheaton College | August 8-11, 2014 |
| MidMoot – Mid-Atlantic Mythgard Meetup | Alexandria, VA – Hilton | July 13, 2014 |
| Mythmoot II: Back Again… | Linthicum, MD – Maritime Institute | December 13-15, 2013 |
| Mythmoot: A Long-Anticipated Journey | Linthicum, MD – BWI Marriott | December 15-16, 2012 |
Dr. Corey Olsen signing books at the National Book Festival in Washington D.C.
Book Signings (2012)
With the release of his book, Exploring J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, Professor Olsen attended several events and visited a number of cities across the U.S. for his book tour. Among these were:
- Acorn Books – Smyrna Delaware, September 18, 2012.
- National Book Festival, Washington D.C. – Sept. 23, 2012
- Book Festival of the South, Nashville, TN – October 13-14, 2012
- Boston Book Festival (audio) – Boston, MA, October 27-28, 2012
- NCTE Convention, Las Vegas – November 17, 2012
- Miami Book Festival – November 18, 2012
