Medieval Narratives between History and Fiction

30 November:  dagsseminar

Dragefjellet, Jusbygget, seminarrom 1

The inventions of fictional forms - From the ancient novel to the age of television

10:45 Introduction Lars Boje Mortensen , CMS

11:00 Tomas Hägg , Classical philology, University of Bergen
Historical fiction in the Graeco-Roman world: Cyrus, Alexander, Apollonius

12:00 Lunch

13:00 Dennis H. Green , German philology, University of Cambridge
The rise of medieval fiction in the twelfth century

14:00 Finn Hauberg Mortensen , Nordic philology, University of Southern Denmark
From classicism to modernism: the development of 19th century fictional prose seen through Kierkegaard and Andersen

15:00 Coffee break

15:30 Jostein Gripsrud , Media Studies, University of Bergen
From documentary film to reality TV

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2 November
Professor Kjell Lars Berge, Universitetet i Oslo
Tekstnormer og tekstnormendring. En teoretisk presentasjon krydret med eksempler fra teksthistorien

19 Oktober
Docent, Ph.D. Päivi Mehtonen, University of Tampere
Medieval concepts and theories of fiction

5 Oktober
Professor Erik Bjerck Hagen, Universitetet i Bergen
Fiksjon, sannhet og tolkning. Om ulike fiksjons- og litteraturforståelser i moderne litteraturteori

21 September
Director and professor Vésteinn Ólason, The Árni Magnússon Institute in Iceland

Representation of Reality in the Sagas of Icelanders

7 September
Prof. Paul Gerhard Schmidt, Universitetet i Freiburg, Tyskland
Historie und Fiktion. Variationen der Geschichte Englands nach 1066