The 12th Bergen International Postgraduate Symposium in Old Norse Studies 2018: Norms, Laws and Literature
The symposium for postgraduate students of Old Norse is hosted annually by the University of Bergen. Initiated by Professor Else Mundal under the auspices of the Centre for Medieval Studies, it is now organized by the Old Norse section of the Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies.
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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 theme of the 2018 conference is "Norms, Laws and Literature".
The academic programme will take place on the 9th to the 11th of April at the University of Bergen. The location for all three days is the Law Faculty (Jusbygget, Dragefjellet, Magnus Lagab酶tes plass 1), Auditorium 3.
On Thursday the 12th April there will be an excursion in Bergen.
All are welcome to listen to the papers and participate in the discussion free of charge. For registration or more information please contact: helen.leslie@uib.no.
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Monday 9th April
08.30 - 09.00: Registration
09.00 - 09:15:听Opening address by J酶rgen Sejersted (Dean of the Humanities Faculty)
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Session 1: 脥蝉濒别苍诲颈苍驳补蝉枚驳耻谤听
Chair: David Ashurst听
09.15 - 09.45: Brynja Thorgeirsdottir (Cambridge), Anger in听Nj谩ls saga: Body, Words and Gender听
09:45 - 10.15: Tom Grant (Cambridge), Creating Problems: The Smith-Poet Figure in the听脥蝉濒别苍诲颈苍驳补蝉枚驳耻谤
10.15 - 10.45:听Lauren O'Brien (Nottingham),听Egils saga Skallagr铆mssonar听and the Rejection of his听Father鈥檚 Authority
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10.45 - 11.15: Coffee break
11.30 - 12.30:听Visit to special collections
12.45 - 14.00:听Lunch
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Session 2: Poetry听听
Chair: Hannah Burrows听
14.00 - 14.30:听Francesco Colombo (Cambridge), Advice, Betrayal and Possession: The Word听谤谩冒补 in the Eddic Poems about Sigur冒r鈥檚 Youth
14.30 - 15.00:听Katie Haley-Halinski (Cambridge), Birds of a Feather: Avian Taxonomies in Skaldic Kennings
15.00 - 15.30: Leiv Olsen (Bergen), Linguistic Criteria for the Age of Eddic Poetry: Will We Ever Be Able to Achieve a Consensus on the Date of Eddic Poetry?
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15.30 - 16.00: Coffee break
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Session 3: 贵辞谤苍补濒诲补谤蝉枚驳耻谤 and Romance听听听
Chair: Brittany Schorn听
16.00 - 16.30:听Claudia Ho脽bach (Cambridge), H煤n m忙llti 镁谩 hl忙jandi me冒 miklum 贸gangi: Laughter in 脥蝉濒别苍诲颈苍驳补蝉枚驳耻谤 and 蹿辞谤苍补濒诲补谤蝉枚驳耻谤
16.30 - 17.00: Katherine Olley (Cambridge), Co-Presence or Consumption: Transgressing Kinship Norms in Old Norse Mythic-Heroic Literature
17.00 - 17.30: Alisa Valpola-Walker (Cambridge),听Viktors saga ok Bl谩vus: Global Narratives from the Edge of the World
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Tuesday 10th April
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Session 4: Gender Perspectives听
Chair: Judy Quinn
09.00 - 09.30:听Luthien Cangemi (Cambridge), The Role of Women in Old Norse Medicine
09.30 - 10.00:听Michael Frost (Aberdeen), Bishops and Witches in Fourteenth-Century Iceland
10.00 - 10.30:听Jessica Yusek (Nottingham), Loathly Ladies and Shape-shifting Women: Gender and the Supernatural in Medieval Icelandic and Middle English Literature
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10.30 - 11.00: Coffee break
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Session 5: The King and the Aristocracy听
Chair: Jens Eike Schnall听
11.00 - 11.30:听Be帽at Elortza (Aberdeen), Memory, Law and Pragmatism: The Institutionalisation of the听濒别颈冒补苍驳谤听in Scandinavia during the Civil Wars
11.30 - 12.00:听Heidi Synn酶ve Djuve (Aberdeen), A Reappraisal of听Konungastyrelsen听鈥� A Swedish Medieval Treatise on the Art of Royal Governance
12.00 - 12.10: Short break
12.10 - 12.40:听Tom Morcom (Oxford), The Oscillating听丑颈谤冒听in Morkinskinna
12.40 - 13.10: Will Raybould (Durham), 鈥淕ilded Axe-Heads and Sword-Hilts鈥� Examining听Aristocratic Identity in Sven Aggesen鈥檚听Lex Castrensis Sive Curiae
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13.10 - 14.30: Lunch
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Session 6: Law听
Chair: Helen F. Leslie-Jacobsen
14.30 - 15.00: Anne Ladefoged (Copenhagen), The Layout in Prologue and Law Text
15.00 - 15.30: Vikt贸ria Gy枚nki (Budapest), Oaths in Medieval Scandinavian Law and Literature
15.30 - 16.00:听Joseph Ryder (Bergen), Udal Law, Place Names and Thing Places? The Problems of Interdisciplinary Research as an Archaeologist of the Viking Age and Late Norse Period of Skye and the Outer Hebrides
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16.00 - 16.30:听Coffee Break
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Session 7: Northern Geographies听
Chair: Ruarigh Dale
16.30 - 17.00: Jonas Zeit-Altpeter (Bonn),听Infernum Hyslandie听鈥� Gateway to Hell? Icelandic Volcanism in Medieval Texts, ca. 900-1300
17.00 - 17.30: William Pidzamecky (Nottingham), So it was written, so it shall be? Investigating Written Primary Source Evidence for Viking Expansion to England, Ireland, and Eastern Europe in the 8th to 10th centuries
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19.00:听Conference Dinner (Matb酶rsen,听V氓gsallmenningen 1)
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Wednesday 11th April
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Session 8: Writing Culture and Runology听
Chair: Juliane Tiemann
09.00 - 09.30:听Johan Bollaert (Oslo), Roman Alphabet Inscriptions in Early Medieval Norway 鈥� A Distinct Writing Culture?
09.30 - 10.00: Elisabeth Magin (Nottingham), Rethinking Runology
10.00 - 10.30: Caroline Wilhelmsson (Aberdeen), 脰land鈥檚 Runes and its Clergy: A Case of Interdependence?
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10.30 - 11.00: Coffee break
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Session 9: Manuscript Studies 听
Chair: Odd Einar Haugen
11.00 - 11.30: Sven Kraus (Berlin), Medieval Literature and 鈥榯he National鈥�: Normative Discourses in Research and Perception
11.30 - 12.00: Patrick Farrugia (Bergen), A Case for Lasting Old Norwegian Influence in Northern Iceland
12.00 - 12.10: Short break
12.10 - 12.40: Zuzana Stankovitsov谩 (Bergen), Building a Stemma of the Kr贸ka-Refs saga听Manuscripts
12.40 - 13.10: Nina Stensaker (Bergen), Dealing with a Law Fragment
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13.10 - 14.30:听Lunch
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Session 10: Communities 听
Chair: Zuzana Stankovitsov谩
14.30 - 15.00: Alexander J. Wilson (Durham), 鈥淎lternative鈥� Communities in the Sagas: Constructing a Methodology for Literary Interpretation
15.30 - 16.00: William Brockbank (Oxford),听Nis 镁忙t heoru stow: Unpleasant Places in听Beowulf听andGrettis saga
15.30 - 16.00:听Thomas Spray (Durham), On Origins: George Dasent, Charles Darwin, and Old Norse 鈥楪lossology鈥�
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16.00: Coffee听
