Call for Papers and Posters 2020

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This year, Háskóli Íslands will host the 10th Anniversary Student Conference on the Medieval North! The organizing committee is planning an exciting three-day event for our speakers and guests to enjoy. We aim to celebrate a decade of success!

If you have any questions, e-mail the committee at HIstudentconference@gmail.com for assistance and we look forward to seeing you all on April 16-18, 2020.

Find the Call for Papers below and also look at the Submission Guidelines page for more information:

Please feel free to download/print the Call for Papers and distribute to your institution or other interested parties!

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Keynote Announcement!

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Planning for the 10th anniversary Háskóli Íslands Student Conference on the Medieval North continues with our hardworking organizing committee!

We are delighted to announce our keynote speakers:

Dr. Luke John Murphy is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Archaeology at the University of Iceland. He is working on a book about religious sacrifice in first-millennium Britain, and on a project about the role of ‘ritual props’ in periods of religious change. He has previously held postdoctoral positions at the University of Leicester (UK), Stockholm University (Sweden), and the University of Iceland; as well as having studied in the UK, Denmark, and Iceland.

Dr. Beeke Stegmann is a member of the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies (Stofnun Árna Magnússonar í íslenskum fræðum). She is working on creating a digital, theoretical version of Brennu-Njáls saga as it appears in Reykjabók (AM 468 4to). She also studies the use of red ink in Icelandic leather manuscripts from the 13th century to the 15th century.

She received her Doctoral degree from the University of Copenhagen in 2017, and she received her MA degree from the University of Iceland 2011.

Luke and Beeke were the organizers of the very first Háskóli Íslands Student Conference on the Medieval North, and so it is a particular delight to welcome them back after 10 years of conferences!

Don’t forget to check our Call for Papers and Posters 2020 and make plans to attend the conference April 16-18, 2020.

The 2019 Conference Committee

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Get to know your organizers and please do approach us at the conference with any questions or concerns you may have.

We’re here to help!

If you would like to contact us privately, use our e-mails:

Teresa: tdn1[at]hi.is
Rob: robertop[at]hi.is
Beth: blr3[at]hi.is
Liv: lmm[at]hi.is
Michael: mim20[at]hi.is
Zack: zjm1[at]hi.is

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(Rob is also our Vice President of Committee!
And no, all those sweet farm animals are not actually part of the committee!)

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Conference Schedule 2019

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It is our pleasure to announce the 9^th annual Háskóli Íslands Student Conference on the Medieval North. This student-organized two-day conference is an interdisciplinary forum for graduate students of Old Norse and medieval Scandinavia. The primary aim of this event is to provide them with a platform to present their research in a supportive environment, fostering dialogue, exchange of ideas, and inter-department networking on student level.

The conference is free and open to all! No registration is required for guests.

Click the image below to see a larger version.The schedule is also available as a PDF here. Please consider printing it and placing it in your home institution!

Abstracts are available here.

Call for Papers: 2019 Háskóli Íslands Student Conference on the Medieval North

We invite submissions to our 9th annual Háskóli Íslands Student Conference on the Medieval North, which will take place at the University of Iceland, on April 12-13th, 2019.

This student organized two-day event is intended as an interdisciplinary forum for postgraduate students (MA and PhD level) of Old Norse and medieval Scandinavia. Students who have not given papers at an academic conference before are especially encouraged to submit.

In accordance with the HÍ Student Conference‘s previous installments the theme of this year is left broadly open for any independent research related to medieval Scandinavia.

Participation at the conference is not restricted to those enrolled in the University of Iceland, and interested students from other universities are encouraged to submit. In the past years the conference has becoming increasingly international, and last year the conference was attended by speakers from eleven universities, in nine countries.

Submission guidelines

If you wish to present a paper at the conference, please e-mail an abstract of 250-300 words to HIstudentconference@gmail.com before 5th of January 2019. The student conference committee reserves the right to make selections based on quality of written abstracts, adherence to submission guidelines, and timely submissions of abstracts.

The conference languages are Icelandic and English, and individual paper presentations will be 20 minutes in length, followed by a 10 minute discussion time.

Further information can be found on the conference blog at histudentconference.wordpress.com. Please direct any further inquiries to the student conference committee via e-mail (see above).

Conference Schedule 2018

It is our pleasure to announce the 8^th annual Háskóli Íslands Student Conference on the Medieval North. This student-organized two-day conference is an interdisciplinary forum for graduate students of Old Norse and medieval Scandinavia. The primary aim of this event is to provide them with a platform to present their research in a supportive environment, fostering dialogue, exchange of ideas, and inter-department networking on student level.

The conference is open to all!

The schedule is also available as a PDF here. Please consider printing it and placing it in your home institution!

Abstracts are available here.

Friday, April 13 – sessions held in Lögberg 101

14:10	Opening address
Session 1	Narratology: plotting destiny	(chair: Michael Micci)
14:15	Katherine Beard (MA, Háskóli Íslands) Legendary Swords in Legendary Sagas
14:45	Olivia Elliott Smith (MA, Háskóli Íslands) Guðrún’s Garments: Textile Imagery and Memory in Laxdæla saga
15:15	Holly McArthur (MA, Háskóli Íslands) The Simultaneous Story: Interlaced Narrative in Laxdæla saga
15:45 – 16:00	Short break
Session 2	Saints and Pilgrims	(chair: Roberto Pagani)
16:00	Gaïa Sybil Perreaut (MA, Sorbonne Université) ‘SHE BECAME WHOLE, AND WENT SOUTH AFTERWARDS’: Female pilgrims in the late Viking Age?
16:30	Gregory Gaines  (MA, Háskóli Íslands) “Wholly a man of the Law: Law in the saga of St. Óláfr the Holy”
	Friday sessions end at 17:30. Informal drinks follow at Stúdentakjallarinn.
Saturday, April 14 – sessions held in Lögberg 101
Session 3	Beyond the tradition	(chair: Eirik Westcoat)
9:30	Nicolas Jaramillo (MA, Háskóli Íslands/Universitetet I Oslo) Íslendingabók and the Birth of the Icelandic culture
10:00	Simon van Rekum (PhD, University Zurich) Negotiating “names” in Heimskringla
10:30	Kathryn Ania Haley-Halinski (PhD, Pembroke College, Cambridge University) The Oars of the Eagle are Feathers: Skaldic Practice and Perception Beyond Performance
11:00 – 11:15	Short break
Session 4	Digging in the dirt part I	(chair: Teresa Dröfn F. Njarðvík)
11:15	Christopher Nichols (MA, Uppsala Universitet) Iron Age Dog Burials at the Cemetery of Valsgärde, Uppland, Sweden
11:45	Alba Vichi (BA, Università degli Studi di Milano) Better to feed a single cat than an army of mice
12:15 – 13:15	Lunch break
Session 5	Digging in the dirt part II	(chair: Liv Aurdal)
13:15	Susanne Nagel (MA, Háskóli Íslands/Universitetet I Oslo) Homicide and Suicide in the Viking Age
13:45	Tonicha Mae Upham (MA, Háskóli Íslands) One Man’s Trash is Another Man’s Treasure: Viking Upcycling at Kaupang
14:15 – 14:30	Short break
Session 6	Norse Presence	(chair: Zachary Melton)
14:30	Joshua Neal (PhD, University of Nottingham) ‘Northamptonshire is really a border county’: a historiographic re-analysis of The Place-Names of Northamptonshire’s Scandinavian place-names
15:00	Natalia Radziwillowicz  (Msc, University of Edinburgh) Considering the connections between Scandinavia and the southern Baltic coast in the 10th-11th centuries
15:30	Annie C. Humphrey  (PhD, Trinity College Dublin) ‘Foreign Gaels’: The Norse in Irish Historical Literature c. 1100
16:00 – 16:15	Short Break
Session 7	The realm of literature	(chair: Beth Rogers)
16:15	Basil Arnould Price  (MA, University of York) Navigating the Ins and Outs of an Outlaw: Grettis Saga and the Boundaries of Heroism
16:45	Nikola Macháčková (MA, Háskóli Íslands) The Restless Trolls in Egils Saga
17:15	Madita Knöpfle  (MA, Háskóli Íslands) The Birth of the Icelandic Novel from the Spirit of Sagnaskemmtun?
	Saturday sessions end at 17:45.

 

Call for Papers: 2018 Háskóli Íslands Student Conference on the Medieval North

2018 Call for Papers

We invite submissions to our 8th annual Háskóli Íslands Student Conference on the Medieval North, which will take place at the University of Iceland, on April 13-14th, 2018.

This student organized two-day event is intended as an interdisciplinary forum for postgraduate students (MA and PhD level) of Old Norse and medieval Scandinavia. Students who have not given papers at an academic conference before are especially encouraged to submit.

In accordance with the HÍ Student Conference‘s previous installments the theme of this year is left broadly open for any independent research related to medieval Scandinavia.

Participation at the conference is not restricted to those enrolled in the University of Iceland, and interested students from other universities are encouraged to submit. In the past years the conference has becoming increasingly international, and last year the conference was attended by speakers from ten universities, in eight countries.

Submission guidelines

If you wish to present a paper at the conference, please e-mail an abstract of 250-300 words to HIstudentconference@gmail.com before 5th of January 2018. The student conference committee reserves the right to make selections based on quality of written abstracts, adherence to submission guidelines, and timely submissions of abstracts.

The conference languages are Icelandic and English, and individual paper presentations will be 20 minutes in length, followed by a 10 minute discussion time.

Further information can be found on the conference blog at histudentconference.wordpress.com. Please direct any further inquiries to the student conference committee via e-mail (see above).

Conference Schedule 2017

It is our pleasure to announce the 7^th annual Háskóli Íslands Student Conference on the Medieval North. This student-organized two-day conference is an interdisciplinary forum for graduate students of Old Norse and medieval Scandinavia. The primary aim of this event is to provide them with a platform to present their research in a supportive environment, fostering dialogue, exchange of ideas, and inter-department networking on student level.

The conference is free and open to all! No registration required.

The schedule is also available as a PDF here. Please consider printing it and placing it in your home institution!

Abstracts are available here.

Friday, April 7 – sessions held in Oddi 101

14:10	Opening address
Session 1	Monstrous Opposition	(chair: Jennifer MacLellan)
14:15	Johann Levin (MA, LMU München) Zombies of the Magic River – A New Look at the fróðárundr in Eyrbyggja saga
14:45	Michel van der Hoeff (MA, Universitet van Amsterdam) The Sami People as ‘the Other’ in Old-Norse Literature
15:15	Julian Eduardo Valle (MA, Háskóli Íslands) Using Contextual Information for Dating Eyrbyggja saga: A Case Study
15:45 – 16:00	Short break
Session 2	Drawing Lines	(chair: Michael MacPherson)
16:00	Zachary Melton (MA, Háskóli Íslands) The Lake District of England and Iceland: A Topographical and Literary Connection
16:30	Kathryn A. Catlin (PhD, Northwestern University) Marginal Households of Medieval Iceland
17:00	Simon Nygaard (PhD, Aarhus University) Var hon borin á bálit ok slegit í eldi: Instances of Procession in pre-Christian Scandinavian Religion
	Friday sessions end at 17:30. Informal drinks follow at Stúdentakjallarinn.
Saturday, April 8 – sessions held in Oddi 101
Session 3	Illuminating Runes	(chair: Teresa Dröfn Freysdóttir Njarðvík)
9:00	Jason Hash (MA, Háskóli Íslands) Decoding Lbs 764 8vo: A Case Study in Icelandic Cryptography and Medieval Magic
9:30	Benjamin Eric Holt (MA, Háskóli Íslands) ‘Sá fló eigi at Uppsôlum, en vá með hann vápn hafði’: A Concordance of Literary and Runic Attestations of the Battle at Fýrisvellir
10:00	Karen Langsholt Holmqvist (MA, Norwegian University of Science and Technology) Scandinavian Runes and Roman Script in Contact in the British Isles
10:30 – 10:45	Short break
Session 4	From Language to Memory	(chair: Eleonora Pancetti)
10:45	Kathryn Ania Haley-Halinski (MA, Háskóli Íslands/Universitetet I Oslo) Kennings in Mind and Memory
11:15	Denis Golovanenko (MA, NRU HSE, Moscow) History of Notions and History of Thought: On the Emergence of the Terminology of the Miraculous in Old Norse Literature
11:45	Francesco Colombo (MPhil, ASNAC, University of Cambridge/BA, Háskóli Íslands) The igður Stanzas of Fáfnismál
12:15 – 13:15	Lunch break
Session 5	Gendered Identities	(chair: Roberto Pagani)
13:15	Amy Franks (MA, Háskóli Íslands) The Obsession with Masculine Viking Women in Popular Culture
13:45	Jessie Yusek (MA, Brock University, Canada) Monstrous Women: Exploring Gender in Medieval Icelandic Literature and Society
14:15	Lee Colwill (MA, Háskóli Íslands) Transgender Identities in Norse Society
14:45 – 15:00	Short break
Session 6	Trouble with Kings I	(chair: Marion Poilvez)
15:00	Deniz Cem Gülen (PhD, University of Aberdeen) Tostig the Bad
15:30	Benjamin Harrison (MLitt, University of Aberdeen) Konungs skuggsjá and the Royal Hirð
16:00	Heidi Synnøve Djuve (PhD, University of Aberdeen) King and Court in Konungastyrelsen
16:30 – 16:45	Short Break
Session 7	Trouble with Kings II	(chair: Yoav Tirosh)
16:45	Selene Mazza (MA, Háskóli Íslands) Addressing Mental Illness in Medieval Iceland: Ívars þáttur Ingimundarsonar from Morkinskinna
17:15	Daria Segal (MA, Háskóli Íslands/Universitetet i Oslo) Between Image and Word: Outline of the Initial Ólafs saga helga Leaf in Flateyjarbók
	Saturday sessions end at 17:45.

Call for papers for 2017 conference

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The 7^th annual
Háskóli Íslands Student Conference
on the Medieval North
in association with Miðaldastofa

April 7–8, 2017

Call for Papers

Paper proposals are invited for the 7^th annual Háskóli Íslands Student Conference on the Medieval North, to be held at the University of Iceland on April 7–8, 2017.

This student-organized two-day event is intended as an interdisciplinary forum for postgraduate students (MA and PhD level) of Old Norse and medieval Scandinavia. Students who have not given papers at academic conferences before are especially encouraged to submit.

In accordance with the HÍ Student Conference’s previous installments the theme of this year’s event is left broadly open to any independent research related to medieval Scandinavia.

Participation in this conference is not restricted to those enrolled at the University of Iceland, and interested students from other universities are encouraged to submit.

Submission guidelines

If you wish to present a paper at the conference, please email an abstract of 250–350 words to HIstudentconference@gmail.com before January 5^th 2017. The student conference committee reserves the right to make selections based on quality of written abstracts, adherence to submission guidelines (see here), and timely submissions of abstracts.

The conference languages are English and Icelandic, and individual paper presentations will be 20 minutes in length, each followed by a 10 minute discussion.

Please direct any questions or further inquiries to the student conference committee via email (see above).

Please feel free to share this call for papers widely, if you wish to print it and share, please use this document (link downloads PDF document): Call for papers.

Conference Schedule 2016

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It is our pleasure to announce the 6th annual Háskóli Íslands Student Conference on the Medieval North. This student-organized two-day conference is an interdisciplinary forum for graduate students of Old Norse and medieval Scandinavia. The primary aim of this event is to provide them with a platform to present their research in a supportive environment, fostering dialogue, exchange of ideas, and inter-department networking on student level.

Friday, April 8 – sessions held in Háskólatorg 104

14:10 Opening address

Session 1 Sagas: Out of Control (chair: Zuzana Stankovitsová)
14:15 – Jonathan F. Correa (VMN, Háskóli Íslands)
With an Un-Trembling Heart: A Study of Fear in the Old Norse Sources
14:45 – Ermenegilda Rachel Müller (VMN, Háskóli Íslands)
Is Grettir Antisocial? Characterization and Psychology
15:15 – Helga Jónsdóttir (MA, Háskóli Íslands)
Hlutverkaleikur og valdatafl: Samspil kyngervis og valds í ‘Sigurðar sǫgu þǫgla’

15:45 -16:00 Short break

Session 2 Of Words and Men (chair: Michael MacPherson)
16:00 – Daria Glebova (MIS, Háskoli Íslands)
Þórðr Kolbeinsson: How a Weak Man Becomes a Villain – Approaching the Narrative Strategy in ‘Bjarnar saga Hítdælakappa’
16:30 – Katelin Elizabeth Anderson (MIS, Háskóli Íslands)
‘Vitoð ér enn eða hvat’: Speech Acts in ‘Völuspá’ and ‘Gylfaginning’
17:00 – Matteo Tarsi (PhD, Háskóli Íslands)
Loanwords vs. Native words: What can this Phenomenon say about the Early Stages of Icelandic?

Friday sessions end at 17:30, informal drinks follow at Stúdentakjallarinn

Saturday, April 9 – sessions held in Háskólatorg 104

Session 3 Revisiting Beliefs (chair: Anna Solovyeva)
9:00 – Romina Werth (PhD, Háskóli Íslands)
Folkloristics and Old Norse Studies: Their Historical Parallels and its Revival
9:30 – Gerður Halldóra Sigurðardóttir (MA, Háskóli Íslands)
Managing the Dead: Performances of Death in Old Norse Literature and Scandinavian Folklore
10:00 – Benjamin Sibley (VMN, Háskóli Íslands)
Óðinn, Jötunn, or Jesus? Reevaluating ‘Njáls saga’’s Járngrímr as a Pagan-Christian Deity

10:30 – 10:45 Short break

Session 4 Skaldic Mead (chair: Gerður Halldóra Sigurðardóttir)
10:45 – Bianca Patria (MA, Università di Pisa, Italy)
The Language of Myth: Some Remarks on the Heiti for ‘Giantess’ in Snorri‘s ‘Edda’
11:15 – Nicholas Hoffman (MIS, Háskóli Íslands)
Beasts of Battle: Disentangling the Allusive Knot
11:45 – Karin Fjall Murray-Bergquist (VMN, Háskóli Íslands)
Knowledge in Disguise

12:15 – 13:15 Lunch break

Session 5 At the Periphery (chair: Viktória Gyönki)
13:15 – Aleksi Moine (VMN, Háskóli Íslands)
The Conversion of Karelians to Christianity: A Struggle between East and West?
13:45 – Michael George Frost (PhD, University of Aberdeen, Scotland)
A Muddle of Bishops: The Great Schism in the Faroe Islands
14:15 – Andreas Schmidt (PhD, LMU München, Germany)
Our Norwegian Enemy? On the Role of Norwegian Sovereigns in ‘Færeyinga saga’

14:45 – 15:00 Short break

Session 6 North Atlantic Continuum (chair: Teresa Dröfn Njarðvík)
15:00 – Andri M. Kristjánsson (MA, Háskóli Íslands)
Landslýðurinn í ‘Mírmanns sögu’: Birtingarmyndir siðareglna riddarans
15:30 – Balduin Landolt (MA, Universität Basel, Switzerland, and Háskóli Íslands)
The Self-Consciousness of Literature. Metapoetic Reflections in the Prologue of the Old Norse ‘Strengleikar’
16:00 – Timothy Causbrook (MA, University of Cambridge, England)
Fate as Social Reality in Old Norse and Old Irish Narrative

16:30 – 16:45 Short Break

Session 7 Building on the Past (chair: Beth Rogers)
16:45 – Line Korsholm Lauridsen (MA, Aarhus Universitet, Denmark)
Proto-Industrialisation of the Medieval Scandinavian Iron Production
17:15 – Eleonora Pancetti (MA, Università di Pisa, Italy)
A Cue from a Saga: ‘The Waif Woman’ by R. L. Stevenson and Thorgunnna‘s Haunt from ‘Eyrbyggja saga’

Saturday sessions end at 17:45, after-conference dinner follows at 18:30 at Eldsmiðjan (Laugavegur 81)