POSTPONED: The 14th Bergen International Postgraduate Symposium in Old Norse Studies 2020
The annual international postgraduate symposium in Old Norse Studies organised by the Old Norse section of the Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies.
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Due to the current situation, the symposium has been postponed.
Each year MA and PhD students are invited from Bergen and several other universities to present their research to their peers, gaining experience in writing papers and public speaking, and getting the opportunity to meet students at the equivalent academic stage. The symposium was initiated by Professor Else Mundal under the auspices of the Centre for Medieval Studies.
Programme
Monday, 30th March
Jusbygg II, Auditorium (Jekteviksgaten 31)
09:00–10.30: Session 1
Session Chair: Brittany Schorn, University of Cambridge
09:00-09:30: Christopher James Mawford, University of Nottingham: “The Hall as the Boundary of Wisdom”
09:30-10:00: Alicia Maddalena, University of York: “Prefixes and Prescience: Exploring Snotr in Old Norse Eddic Verse”
10:00:10:30: Eilidh Thompson, University of Cambridge: “Bridging Worlds: Speech through Space in Helreið Brynhildar, Vǫlundarkviða, and Vǫluspá”
10.30–11:00: Coffee Break
11:00–12:00: Session 2
Session Chair: Stefan Drechsler, Universitetet i Bergen
11:00-11:30: Robert K. Paulsen, Universitetet i Bergen: “Streamlining the Transcription of Old Norse Primary Sources”
11:30:12:00: Patrick Farrugia, Universitetet i Bergen: “The Scribal Community of Fourteenth-Century Hólar”
12:00–13:00 Lunch
13:00–14:30: Session 3
Session Chair: Keith Ruiter, University of Nottingham
13:00-13:30: Zuzana Stankovitsová, Universitetet i Bergen: “Narrative Structure, Character Depiction and Motivation in Króka-Refs saga”
13:30-14:00: Paul Tan, Durham University: “The Nature of the Foreteller in the Íslendingasögur and the Íslendinga þættir”
14:00-14:30: Elizabeth Skuthorpe, Université de Genève: “Speaking with the Dead in the Íslendingasögur”
14:30–15:00 Coffee Break
15:00–16:30: Session 4
Session Chair: Lesley Abrams, University of Oxford
15:00-15:30: Harriet Clark, University of Nottingham: “How to be King: Co-Rulership Practices in Twelfth-Century Norway”
15:30-16:00: Will Raybould, Durham University: “The ‘Nature’ of Old Norse Kingship — Nature and Natural Metaphors in Konungs Skuggsjá”
16:00-16:30: Julián Valle, Universitetet i Bergen: “‘You have left the whole book to our ordering’: Materiality of Law and the Development of Royal Legislative Authority in Medieval Iceland”
Tuesday, 31th March
Bryggens Museum, Auditoriet (Dreggsallmenningen 3)
09:00–10:00: Bryggens Museum exhibition
10:00–11:00: Keynote Lecture
10:00-11:00: Judy Quinn, University of Cambridge, and Stefanie Gropper, Universität Tübingen: “Íslendingasögur as Prosimetrum”
11:00–11:30: Coffee Break
11:30–12:30: Session 5
Session Chair: David Ashurst, Durham University
11:30-12:00: Charlie Steer-Stephenson, Durham University: “The Classicisation of Icelandic Myth: The Trojan Matter”
12:00-12:30: Sarah McAllister, Durham University: “Echoes of the Old Norse Gods in British Culture from 1760–1810”
12:30–13:30: Lunch
13:30–15:00: Session 6
Session Chair: Timothy Rowbotham, University of York
13:30-14:00: Kathryn Ania Haley-Halinski, University of Cambridge: “Voice or Language: Species Anxiety and Speech of Birds in Old Norse Literature”
14:00-14:30: Ashley Castelino, University of Cambridge: “‘Heyr þú nú, Vígi!’ — Dogs in the Old Norse Comitatus”
14:30-15:00: Rebeca Franco Valle, Universitetet i Bergen: “Art and Late Viking Age Iconography beyond the Eddas”
Wednesday, 1st April
Bjørn Christiansens hus, Auditorium 129 (Christies gate 12)
09:00–10:30: Session 7
Session Chair: Helen Leslie-Jacobsen, Universitetet i Bergen
09:00-09:30: Ben Chennells, Durham University: “Breaking and Remaking: The Body in Creative Acts in Eddic Mythology”
09:30-10:00: Adele Kreager, University of Cambridge: “‘Þykki mér hann ok eigi heill til ganga’: Bodily Fragmentation and Identity in Old Norse Literature”
10:00-11:30: Lee Colwill, University of Cambridge: “Female Masculinity in Mábilar rímur sterku”
10:30–11:00: Coffee Break
11:00–12:30: Session 8
Session Chair: Sofie Laurine Albris, Universitetet i Bergen
11:00-11:30: Joshua Neil, University of Nottingham: “TBC”
11:30-12:00: Jessica Treacher, University of Nottingham: “Old Norse Arboreal Toponyms: Perceptions of the Wooded Landscape in Anglo-Saxon England”
12:00-12:30: Jeanette Beatrice Geirsdottir, Universitetet i Bergen: “The Knockando Runestone: Methodological Approaches to Runic Inscriptions”
12:30–13:30: Lunch
13:30–15:00: Session 9
Session Chair: Jens Eike Schnall, Universitetet i Bergen
13:30-14:00: Matthew Gan, Durham University: “Late to Tale: Variations on a Motif in Old Norse”
14:00-14:30: Kimberley Anderson, University of Cambridge: “Disobedient Guests in the Íslendingasögur”
14:30-15:00: Cassidy Croci, University of Nottingham: “The Social Network of Skalla-Grímr: Relationship building in Settlement Period Iceland”
15:00–15:30: Coffee Break
15:30–17:00: Session 10
Session Chair: Erik Niblaeus, University of Cambridge
15:30-16:00: Rebecca Drake, University of York: "Navigation and the North Atlantic maritime world view in Örvar-Odds saga and The Alliterative Morte Arthure"
16:00-16:30: Alisa Valpola-Walker, University of Cambridge: “A Humorous Past: Intertextuality and Parody in Sturlaugs saga starfsama”
16:30-17:00: Aaron Sheldon, University of York: “The Ties that Bind: Exploring Love in Old Norse Families”