CMS Research School Seminar: Past, Present and Future

Programme:

                  April 12.

16.30.    Departure from Strandkaiterminalen, Bergen, with boat for Selje.

                  April 13.

08–09.     Breakfast.

09.00.    Judy Quinn: The impending past: the haunting presence of the pagan afterlife of the pagen afterworld.

09.15.    Vicky Cribb (Cambridge): “Where past meets present”: mediating memories in Íslendinga saga.

10.00.    Jeff Love (Cambridge): Concepts of Time in the fornaldarsögur.

10.45.     Coffee break.

11.00.    Heather O’Donoghue: Some afterlives of Old Norse myth in English poetry.

11.15.    Simon Patterson (Cambridge): “Þetta mun fram koma, sem ek segi”: forging the future in Vatnsdœla saga.

12.00.    Alf Tore Hommedal: The Excursion to Selja.

12.30.     Lunch.

13.45.    Departure for Selja.

17.45.     Coffee break.

18.15.    Lucy Keens (UCL): Sex in the sagas.

19.00.    Dale Kedwartds (Nottingham): Landscape and identity: folkloric themes in Bárðar saga.

19.45.    Carolyne Larrington: Thinking about Siblings in Old Norse texts.

20.15.     Dinner.

                 April 14.

08–09.     Breakfast.

09.00.    Haki Antonsson: King Sven Estridsen: the problem of biography.

09.15.    Teva Vidal (Nottingham): Space and Memory: Representation of the House in Grettis saga.

10.00.    Malte Ringer (Nottingham): Don’t believe the Finns: defining the heathen in Old Norwegian law.

10.45.     Coffee break.

11.00.    Judith Jesch: The Once and Future King: Sigvatr’s Poetry on St Óláfr.

11.15.    Brianna MacLean (Oxford): Monstrous Threats to Stability in Old Norse Cosmology.

12.00.    Tom Birkett (Oxford): Re-scripting the past: The Runes of Sigrdrífumál.

12.45.     Lunch.

13.45.    Elisabeth Ashman Rowe: The Medieval Annals of Iceland: A First

              English Translation.

14.00.    Christian Carlsen (Oxford): Challenging Temporal Transitions in two Norse Visions of the Hereafter.

14.45.    David Baker (Oxford): The end of the affair?: looking back at the topos of the marriage of Óðinn and Jörð from the eleventh century.

15.30.    Emily Osborne (Cambridge): A Present verpassed: Moments of Skaldic Inspiration in Light of Future Recitation.

16.15.     Coffee break.

16.45.    Helen Leslie (Bergen): The Quotation of Grottasöngr in Snorra Edda.

17.30.    Eleanor Parker (Oxford): Middle English romances and the Viking Past.

18.15.    Katherine C. Cross (UCL): Viking raiders and myths of origins.

19.00.    John Quanrud (Nottingham): Alfred in 878. Securing the Future by Recalling the past?

20.00.     Dinner.

                 April 15.

06.50.    Departure from Selje with boat for Bergen

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