Í tilefni af 200 ára afmæli Jóns Árnasonar þjóðsagnasafnara stendur Stofnun Árna Magnússonar í íslenskum fræðum fyrir alþjóðlegri ráðstefnu um þjóðsögur í samstarfi við Háskóla Íslands. Ráðstefnan fer fram í Norræna húsinu dagana 17. og 18. október. Ráðstefnan fer fram á ensku.

10:30–11:15 Opening

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

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: Olga Holownia
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)