Thursday 22 August 09:00 - Friday 23 August 16:30,
Hulda Garborgs hus, University of Stavanger.
Organised by the MARRI project group.
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Thursday 22nd August
9:00-9:15 Welcome and Introduction
Location: HG N-105
Oliver M. Traxel, Stavanger
9:15-10:15 Keynote Lecture
Location: HG N-105
Moderator: Oliver M. Traxel, Stavanger
Gods, Vikings and the end of the world: Old Norse medievalisms in the current decade (Carolyne Larrington, Oxford)
10:15-10:45 Tea/Coffee Break
10:45-12:15 Session 1
Session 1A: Norse Mythology
Location: HG N-105
Moderator: Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir, Oslo
- A. S. Byatt's subversive mythology (Clare Mulley, Oxford)
- Völuspá and The Prophecy of the Oracle: Inter-textuality and meta-textuality in The Gospel of Loki (2014) (Anine Olsen Englund, Oxford)
- Reimagining Valkyries in fantasy fiction: The legacy of Brynhild (Rebecca Hill, Huddersfield)
Session 1B: Runes and Symbols
Location: HG N-106
Moderator: Gabriele Knappe, Bamberg
- Runic revivals: Why we should care about rune magic and rune yoga (Kerstin Majewski, Bochum)
- The runes in The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien: A comparison between the movies and the books (Lea Müller, Munich)
- Dawn language, medievalism, and the mark on the Hobbit's door (Patrick J. Murphy, Miami)
12:15-13:15 Lunch (sponsored for speakers and project members)
13:15-14:45 Session 2
Session 2A: Norse Women
Location: HG N-105
Moderator: Clare Mulley, Oxford
- The shieldmaiden figure in modern-day film and literature (Simon Hauke, Münster)
- Sigrid Undset and Norse romance (Jonathan Y. H Hui, Cambridge)
- Vikings, women, sexual violence and revenge in Sigrid Undset's Fortællingen om Viga-Ljot og Vigdis (Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir, Oslo)
Session 2B: Arthurian Literature
Location: HG N-106
Moderator: Kerstin Majewski, Bochum
- Rex Vetus, Rexque Novus: How "a New Morte D'Arthur" redoes King Arthur (Miriam Strieder, Bern)
- Women doing things: The new face of Arthurian women in M. Z. Bradley's The Mists of Avalon (Radhia Flah Gaiech, Sousse, Tunisia)
- [No third paper]
14:45-15:15 Tea/Coffee Break
15:15-16:45 Session 3
Session 3A: Re-enactments
Location: HG N-105
Moderator: Jens Eike Schnall, Bergen
- Words and music: Re-enacting tractive time (Victoria Condie, Cambridge)
- Drinking with the Vikings? The case of mead (Simon Trafford, London)
- A match made in Valhalla? Viking Age-inspired professional wrestling (Bob Oscar Benjamin van Strijen, Oslo)
Session 3B: Literary Depictions
Location: HG N-106
Moderator: Miriam Strieder, Bern
- Ethical discourse after The Battle of Maldon: Exploring cowardice in J. L. Borges, Wu Ming 4 and J. O. Morgan (Giuliano Marmora, Trento / Augsburg)
- Alternate universes and Victorian detectives: Sherlock Holmes goes medieval (Elisabeth Maria Magin, Oslo)
- [No third paper]
Friday 23rd August
9:00-10:30 Session 4
Session 4A: Historical Films
Location: HG P-220
Moderator: Carolyne Larrington, Oxford
- Live like a warrior, die like a pagan: Viking funerary world through audiovisual media (Alberto Robles Delgado, Alicante)
- Vikings (2013-2020): Reimagining medieval vernaculars on the screen (Gabriele Knappe, Bamberg)
- Reimagining medieval England for a contemporary audience: The Last Kingdom (Yorick Sarrail, Toulouse)
Session 4B: International Politics
Location: HG P-231
Moderator: M. J. Toswell, Western Ontario
- "Anglo-Saxon" as a linguistic cipher: The prescience of Kemp Malone (James H. Morey, Atlanta)
- Once and future extremism: The medievalism of William L. Pierce (Helen Young, Melbourne, Australia)
- Medievalism in Russia today: From Putin and the patriarch to Moscow conceptualism (Michael Makin, Ann Arbor, Michigan)
10:30-11:00 Tea/Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 Session 5
Session 5A: Fantasy Films
Location: HG P-220
Moderator: Victoria Condie, Cambridge
- "Eden is not burning, it's burnt": Dragons between allegory and natural science in Reign of Fire (2002) (Thomas Honegger, Jena)
- From god of mischief to god of stories: How the Marvel Cinematic Universe put Loki at the heart of a new creation myth (Kevin Fylan, Cork)
- 'All the way back to the Middle Ages': Batman as a medievalist symbol in Batman: The Curse of the White Knight (Minjie Su, Frankfurt)
Session 5B: Norse Politics
Location: HG P-231
Moderator: Simon Trafford, London
- "Knightflix" and abandoned runes: Changing medievalisms in 21st century Norway (Karl Christian Alvestad, USN)
- The Viking in modern American mythmaking (Steffen Andre Birkeland Hope, Oslo)
- Old grudges and older gods still: Norse academic proclivities in the French pagan right wing (Lyonel Perabo, Sorbonne)
12:30-13:30 Lunch (sponsored for speakers and project members)
13:30-15:00 Session 6
Session 6A: Video Games
Location: HG P-220
Moderator: Markus Eldegard Mindrebø, Stavanger
- Bits and Berserkers: Adapting Old Norse literature in Skyrim, God of War: Ragnarök, and Assassin's Creed: Valhalla (Luca Panaro, Reykjavik)
- Borealism in Assassin's Creed Valhalla: A case study of representations of the medieval period, their constructions and implications (Thomas Besson, Paris)
- The cult of Freya in The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt: Representation of Old Norse mythology in a best-selling video game (Olga Kalinovskaia, Bergen)
Session 6B: Material Culture
Location: HG P-231
Moderator: Radhia Flah Gaiech, Sousse, Tunisia
- Medievalism and material aesthetics around 1900 (Jens Eike Schnall, Bergen)
- Medieval Italy in modern Mogadishu: Neo-Medievalism in Italian Colonial Eastern Africa and its aftermaths (Vera-Simone Schulz, Florenz)
- The medievalizing architecture of Canada's official buildings (M. J. Toswell, Western Ontario)
15:00-15:30 Tea/Coffee Break
15:30-16:30 Workshop: Tabletop Role-Playing Games
Location: HG P-220
Moderator: Oliver M. Traxel, Stavanger
- Common medieval and pseudo-medieval elements in fantasy tabletop roleplaying games (Sebastian Rob Kolnes, Stavanger Outland)
- Playing a Viking: The synthesis of mechanical classes from archetypes in Old Norse tabletop roleplaying settings (Emma Louise Thompson, Leicester)
For further details, please contact Professor Oliver M. Traxel.