Ráðstefna: New Approaches to the Mind in the Early North

Þann 11. og 12. maí (kl. 9:30-17:00) verður haldið alþjóðlegt málþing „New Approaches to the Mind in the Early North“. Atburðurinn fer fram á ensku í Veröld – húsi Vigdísar í stofu VHV 007 og er öllum ópið. Aðgangur er ókeypis. Ath. að ekki verður streymt frá málstofum.

Sif Ríkharðsdóttir, prófessor í almennri bókmenntafræði við Íslensku- og menningardeild Háskóla Íslands og Stefka G. Eriksen, rannsóknaprófessor við Norsk Institutt for Kulturminneforskning í Osló, flytja aðalerindin. Málþingið er haldið á vegum verkefnisins „Fickle Friends: Disentangling Religion, Moral and Society in the Early Medieval North“ og er styrkt af RANNÍS, Ráðstefnusjóði Hugvísindastofnunar HÍ og Bókmennta- og listafræðistofnun HÍ.

Dagskrá:

Föstudaginn 11. maí 2023 í Veröld – hús Vigdísar, VHV 007 

• 09.55 Welcome Address, Declan Taggart 
• 10.00–11.00    Keynote 1, Sif Ríkharðsdóttir, ‘The Narrative Self, Mind and Emotion’. Chair: Felix Lummer 
• 11.00–11.20    Coffee break 
• 11.20–12.50    Session 1: Shaping Literature and Literary Minds. Chair: Inés García López 
  - Torfi H. Tulinius, ‘The Skaldic Mind’ 
  - Bridget Catherine Leary, ‘The Anachronistic Skald: The Emotionality in Sonatorrek’ 
  - Catalin Taranu, ‘Who Needs a Self When You Have Emotions? Performance and Authenticity in Early Medieval Affective Selfhood’ 
• 12.50–14.10    Lunch break 
• 14.10–15.40    Session 2: Giving Voice and Taking Voices Away. Chair: Katrín Lísa L. Mikaelsdóttir 
  - Katherine Beard, ‘Mímir’s Head: The Head as a Symbolic Conduit to Wisdom in Old Norse Literature and Archaeology’ 
  - Robyn McAuliffe, ‘Sexual Trauma and the Female Voice in Grettis saga and the Old English Apollonius of Tyre’ 
  - Clare Mulley, ‘Mapping the Mind Poem: Völuspá as a Poetic Continuum’ 
• 15.40–16.00    Coffee break 
• 16.00–17.00    Session 3: Cognitive Approaches to the Viking Age. Chair: Declan Taggart. 
  - Angie Padilla, ‘Embodied Nature: Cognitive Approaches to Emotions in Old Norse Myths and Sagas’ 
  - Sophie Bønding, ‘A Cognitive Approach to the Ritual Performances of Viking-Age vǫlur’ 

Fimmtudaginn 12. maí 2023 í Veröld – hús Vigdísar, VHV 007 

• 09.30 Coffee break 
• 10.00–11.30    Session 4: New Bridges with the Past. Chair: Caitlin Ellis.  
  Keith Ruiter, ‘Indigenized Approaches to Early Scandinavian Legal Thinking?’ 
  Alberto Robles Delgado, ‘Dying with the Sword in a Hand: The Depiction of Death in Viking Mentality through Audiovisual Media’ 
  Gwendolyne Knight, ‘Perception and the Mind in the Early North’ 
• 11.30–12.00    Coffee break 
• 12.00–13.00    Session 5: New Bridges between Text and Mind. Chair: Felix Lummer 
  - Inés García López, ‘Hallucinations as Literary Motif in Old Norse Literature’ 
  - Eugenia Vorobeva, ‘Martyrdom & Mindful Reading: Dismembering the ‘Body’ of Andreas saga postola I’ 
• 13.00–14.10    Lunch break 
• 14.10–15.40    Session 6: Mind, Myth, and Traditions. Chair: Sophie Bønding 
  - Frog, ‘Three Dimensions of Mind: A Perspective on Old Norse Traditions’ 
  - Blake Middleton, ‘Man ek jǫtna? A Discussion of the Differing Interpretations of the jǫtnar in the Poetic Edda and Snorra Edda’ 
  - Giuliano Gajetti, ‘What Can the Cognitive Definition Say about the Early Nordic Gods’ Image?’ 
• 15.40–16.00    Coffee break 
• 16.00–17.00    Keynote 2. Stefka Eriksen, ‘You Are What You Read: Theory of Mind and Mind-Reading in Old Norse Literature’. Chair: Declan Taggart.