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“Time, Space & Narrative in Medieval Icelandic Literature” Conference Programme Friday 17th – Saturday 18th March 2017 University of Iceland

FRIDAY AM at Norræna húsið, PM at Árnagarður 9-9:30 Registration 9:30-9:45 Welcome 9:45-11 “Time, Space, Narrative and the Íslendingasögur” Project Members’ Presentations (University of Iceland)

- Torfi Tulinius – “Constructing Time in a Time of Collapse” - Martina Ceolin – “Time Manipulation in the Íslendingasögur” - Gísli Sigurðsson – “Narrating Space Here, There and Above” - Emily Lethbridge – “Digitally Mapping the Icelandic Sagas” - Anna Katharina Heiniger – “From Space to Spacelessness in the Íslendingasögur”

11-11:30 Coffee 11:30-12 Heather O’Donoghue (University of Oxford) – “Voice and Time in Laxdœla saga and Grettis saga” 12-13 Lunch at Litla torg (Háskólatorg) Move over to Árnagarður (3rd floor) 13-14:30 Session 1a (Á304): The Creation of Mythic and Social Spaces

Chair: Slavica Ranković (Independent Researcher) - Jonas Wellendorf (University of California, Berkeley) – “The Displacement

of Myth in Old Norse Literature” - Lukas Rösli (University of Basel) – “The Space of Narration in Vǫlospá, and

its Implications on Time and Space” - Luke John Murphy (Aarhus University) – “Towards an Abductive Reasoning

of Space in the Konungasögur”

Session 1b (Á311): Time and Space in Hagiography Chair: Oren Falk (Cornell University)

- Ásdís Egilsdóttir (University of Iceland) – “Hagiography: Beyond Time and Space”

- Mauro Camiz (Sapienza University of Rome) – “‘Human, all too Human’: Overcoming Space and Time in Benedictus saga”

- Rory McTurk (University of Leeds) – “Time, Space and Narrative in Martinus saga byskups”

14:30-15 Coffee (Árnagarður 2nd floor) 15-16:30 Session 2a (Á304): The Semioticization of Landscape

Chair: Richard Cole (University of Notre Dame) - Verena Höfig (University of Illinois at Urbana-Campaign) – “Creation of a

National Landscape: A Case Study of Ingólfr and Hjörleifr’s landnám” - Jack Hartley (University of Iceland) – “Geography and Landscape in Njála” - Marion Poilvez (University of Iceland) – “The Geography of Outlawry.

Iceland as a Natural Prison?”

Session 2b (Á311): Philosophical Approaches to Temporality Chair: Torfi Tulinius (University of Iceland)

- Andrea Maraschi (University of Iceland) – “Forever Young, Forever Full. Magic, Faith and the Annihilation of Time in Medieval Icelandic Literature”

- Miriam Mayburd (University of Iceland) – “Kumlbúa þáttr and the Paranormal Event. The Traumatic Ontology of Being in Time in Medieval Iceland”

- Sarah Harlan-Haughey (University of Maine) – “Living on Borrowed Time: The Temporal Aesthetic of the Outlaw Sagas”

16:30-17:30 Reception hosted by (Árnagarður 2nd floor)

SATURDAY All day at Árnagarður (3rd floor) 9:30-11 Session 3a (Á304): Domestic and Unfamiliar Spaces

Chair: Siân Grønlie (St Anne’s College, Oxford) - Richard Cole (University of Notre Dame) – “Heterotopia and Homotopia, or,

Reading Sagas on an Industrial Estate” - Jennifer Grayburn (Temple University) – “Narrating Architecture and Space:

Domestic Architecture in the Icelandic Sagas” - Védís Ragnheiðardóttir (University of Iceland) – “Limen to Maturity: The

Forest in the Icelandic Chivalric Sagas”

Session 3b (Á311): The Construction of Time Chair: Martina Ceolin (University of Iceland)

- Fjodor Uspenskij (Russian Academy of Sciences; National Research University) – “Time and Authorship in Íslendingabók”

- Ben Allport (University of Cambridge) – “Time and Space in the Chronological Structure of Íslendingabók and Icelandic Ecclesiastical History”

- Shaun F.D. Hughes (Purdue University) – “Linear and Episodic Time in Grettis saga”

11-11:30 Coffee (Árnagarður 2nd floor); book-sale from 11 to 14 (Á310, 3rd floor)

11:30-13 Session 4a (Á304): Narrative and Landmarks Chair: Jonas Wellendorf (University of California, Berkeley)

- Gaetan Dupont & Oren Falk (Cornell University) – “Seabirds to Starboard: Notes on Norse Navigational Technique”

- Colin Gioia Connors (University of Wisconsin-Madison) – “Revisiting the Topography of Hrafnkels saga: Is Freyfaxahamarr real?”

- Úlfar Bragason (University of Iceland) – “Örlygsstaðir and Flugumýrr as the Places of Destiny in Íslendinga saga”

Session 4b (Á311): Time and Space Around the Figures of Skalds and Kings Chair: Alison Finlay (Birkbeck, University of London)

- Anna Solovyeva (University of Iceland) – “Kings, Poets and Time-Traveling: The Construction of Time in Skáldatal”

- Andreas Schmidt (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich) – “The Times, They are A-Changing, or rather for Whom the Bell Tolls? The Dawn of the Christian Age and the Spatial Dichotomy in Færeyinga saga”

- Alessia Bauer (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich) – “Time and Space in the Legend of St Sunniva”

13-14 Lunch at Litla torg (Háskólatorg) 14-15:30 Session 5a (Á304): Network and Digital Approaches

Chair: Ben Allport (University of Cambridge) - Richard Gaskins (Brandeis University) – “Narrative Webs and Networks:

Spatial-Temporal Strategies in the Sagas” - Slavica Ranković (Independent Researcher) – “‘Þræll einn þegar hefnisk, en

argr aldri’: Timing/Taming Grettir’s Temper within the Traditional Space of the ‘No Reaction’ Narrative Pattern”

- Michael MacPherson (University of Iceland) – “Time for the Induction Machine: Statistical Approaches to Dating our Texts”

Session 5b (Á311): Narrative Art and Strategies Chair: Heather O’Donoghue (University of Oxford)

- Siân Grønlie (St Anne’s College, Oxford) – “Bakhtin’s Chronotope and Sagas about Early Icelanders”

- Alison Finlay (Birkbeck, University of London) – “Stories within Stories. Disruption of Time and Authorial Perspective in Icelandic Saga Narrative”

- Joanne Shortt Butler (University of Cambridge) – “Character Introductions: Positioning Personalities in Time and Space”

15:30-16 Coffee (Árnagarður 2nd floor) 16-16:45 Concluding discussion (Á301)

Chair: Jürg Glauser (Universities of Zürich and Basel) Participants: Richard Cole (University of Notre Dame), Alison Finlay (Birkbeck, University of London), Siân Grønlie (St Anne’s College, Oxford) and Heather

O’Donoghue (University of Oxford)

19 Conference dinner at Bryggjan Brugghús