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Programme

Thursday, October 17th

10:30–11:15 Opening

Welcome: Guðrún Nordal, Director of the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies
Katrín Jakobsdóttir, Prime Minister of Iceland, opens the conference.

The Theater group Umskiptingar (Changelings) in collaboration with Akureyri Theatre Company: Galdragáttin og þjóðsagan sem gleymdist (Magical gateway and the folktale that was lost) 

Terry Gunnell tells “The Deacon of Myrká” (Djákninn á Myrká)

 

11:15–12:15 Plenary
Chair: Guðrún Nordal
Joep Leerssen
: A Hub Called Jón: On the transnational entanglements of cultural nationalists

12:15–13:30 Lunch

Legends
Chair: Sveinn Yngvi Egilsson

13:30–14:10 Terry Gunnell: Íslenzkar þjóðsögur og ævintýri in the International Context of the Grimm Ripples
14:10–14:50 Júlíana Þóra Magnúsdóttir: “On the knees of women”: Approaches to Female Storytellers in Nineteenth Century Iceland
14:50–15:30 Ane Ohrvik: The Cultural Network of the Norwegian Folklore Collector Peter Christen Asbjørnsen in the Nineteenth Century

15:30–16:00 Coffee

16:00–17:30 Digital Folkloristics
Chair: Eva Þórdís Ebenezersdóttir 

Fredrik Skott: Digital dissemination: ethical dilemmas and new possibilities
Trausti Dagsson: Extending Sagnagrunnur: digital collection of places, letters, folklore and the folk
Timothy R. Tangherlini: The Making of Danske sagn: Evald Tang Kristensen and Folklore Collecting in 19th Century Denmark

17:30 The Theater group Miðnætti (Midnight) in collaboration with Akureyri Theatre Company: Djákninn á Myrká (The Deacon of Myrká)

Friday, October 18th

9:00–09:15 Rósa tells a wonder tale

09:15–10:15 Plenary
Chair: Gísli Sigurðsson

Maria Tatar: Enchantments, Spells, and Curses: The Sorcery of Stories and the Magic in Them

10:15–10:45 Coffee

Wonder Tales and Storytelling
Chair: Gísli Sigurðsson

10:45–11:25 Rósa Þorsteinsdóttir: ‘So is All the World a Story’: Storytellers and their Tales
11:25–12:05 Pauline Greenhill: Transgressive Tales Revisited: “Hans My Hedgehog” and Queer Transbiology

12:05–13:15 Lunch

Wonder Tales and Literature
Chair: Kristinn Schram

13:15–13:55 Aðalheiður Guðmundsdóttir: Old Norse literature, Icelandic fairy tales, and different systems of signification
13:55–14:35 Cristina Bacchilega: At the Multiple Crossroads of Wonder Tales and Contemporary Fiction

14:35–15:15 Coffee

Folktales and Modern Literature
Chair: Vilborg Davíðsdóttir

15:15–16:00 Eilis Ni Dhuibhne Almqvist: Midwife to the Fairies: My life as a folklorist and creative writer in Ireland and the world
16:00–16:30 Sjón: Days in the Company of Skoffíns
16:30 Final remarks: Guðrún Nordal, director of the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies

Reception