Sagas and Space

The 16^th International Saga Conference will be hosted by the Universities of Zürich and Basel. Theme this year is Sagas and Space

Registration has now opened for the 16^th International Saga Conference, which will be hosted by the Universities of Zürich and Basel.

Theme this year is ‘Sagas and Space’. Sessions will concern themselves with questions such as how Old Norse texts construct space, how space is created, narrated, and mediated, which indigenous and international traditions – for example those of rhetoric or poetics – construct ‘space’, and what kinds of thinking about and in space took place in the medieval North.

A detailed programme for all individual strands will be available at the website from mid-April.

Plenary lectures:

• The Mind’s Eye: Memory, Space and Senses in Old Norse Literature, by Pernille Hermann (Aarhus):
• Runes and Verses: The Medialities of Early Scandinavian Poetry, by Judith Jesch (Nottingham)
• Mythic Landscapes in Skaldic Poetry, by Edith Marold (Kiel)
• Sagas and the Space of Literature, by Torfi H. Tulinius (Reykjavík)

Roundtable discussions:

• Eddic Studies (Convener: Judy Quinn)
• Fornaldarsögur Studies (Convener: Matthew
• Driscoll),
• Translating the Sagas (Convener: Jon Gunnar Jørgensen)
• Memory Studies (Convener: Stephen A. Mitchell)
• Old Norse‐Icelandic Culture and the New Media (Conveners: Emily Lethbridge and Sandra Schneeberger).

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