"Tolkien in Asia" Workshop + Panel

November 3, 2023, 1:00 pm - 4:15 pm

Price Gilbert Memorial Library, Scholars Event Theater (Room 1280)

Join us for two global speculative fiction events! Authors Ploi Pirapokin (Tor.com, Pleiades, Ninth Letter) and Silvia Park (Black Warrior Review, The Best American Science Fiction) will join us in person for a Speculative Writing Workshop and Q&A from 1 – 2 p.m. Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy-award winner Ken Liu will join us online from 3 – 4:15 p.m. for a hybrid panel celebrating the new issue of the School of Modern Languages' global SF publication, Hivemind Magazine. This issue, "Tolkien in Asia," explores how Tolkien featured Asia in his work, as well as how his work has impacted fantasy writing both in Asia and around the world.

Schedule

1 – 2 p.m. "Writing Speculative Fiction" Workshop/Q+A

Webinar Link: https://gatech.zoom.us/j/98066872796

Speakers:

• Ploi Pirapokin
• Silvia Park
• Moderated by Ida Yoshinaga (LMC)

3 – 4:15 p.m. "Tolkien in Asia" Panel Discussion

Webinar Link: https://gatech.zoom.us/j/97730163226

Panelists:

• Ploi Pirapokin (in person)
• Silvia Park (in person)
• Ken Liu (online)
• Introduced by Lisa Yaszek (LMC)
• Moderated by Amanda Weiss (ModLangs)

Registration required. Please RSVP at: https://forms.office.com/r/pgFfNRBiDC?origin=lprLink.

Co-sponsored by the School of Modern Languages and Atlanta Global Studies Center.