New Frontiers in Old Norse
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Viking Society for Northern Research
Organizer Name
Richard Cole
Organizer Affiliation
Harvard Univ.
Presider Name
Christina Lee
Presider Affiliation
Institute for Medieval Research, Univ. of Nottingham
Paper Title 1
Masochism and Paranoia, Sex and Violence in Völundarkviða
Presenter 1 Name
Peter Sandberg
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Univ. College London
Paper Title 2
The Controlled Decline of Viking-Held Dorestad
Presenter 2 Name
Christian Cooijmans
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Univ. of Edinburgh
Paper Title 3
Medieval Identity in the North Atlantic
Presenter 3 Name
Dayanna Knight
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Independent Scholar
Start Date
15-5-2015 3:30 PM
Session Location
Schneider 1125
Description
THE VIKING SOCIETY FOR NORTHERN RESEARCH, founded in 1892 as the “Orkney, Shetland and Northern Society, or Viking Club”, is the world's oldest and largest learned society devoted to the study of medieval Scandinavia. We are pleased to announce that we will be sponsoring a panel at The 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 14th – 17th 2015, Kalamazoo MI. Our intention is that this panel should provide an exciting forum for the exchange of ideas between North American and European scholars. In recent years, the International Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo has become a fertile locus for medieval Scandinavian studies. Particular projects there, such as the Háskóli Íslands initiative on “The Supernatural in Medieval Icelandic Literature” or work by scholars at Cornell University on the Biskupasögur, have attracted international participation and resulted in fruitful discussions. Given the strength of interest in Old Norse topics at Kalamazoo, the Viking Society is sponsoring a panel entitled New Frontiers in Old Norse. This is an exciting time for the field of Old Norse, with new research areas emerging alongside productive advances in ongoing scholarly conversations. Indeed, a brief survey of current early career research in Old Norse reveals interests in cartography, cognitive poetics, ecocriticism, medieval astronomy, object-oriented ontology, racism studies, and many more – none of which would have been traditional fare for medieval Scandinavian studies ten years ago. In this panel, the oldest Old Norse institution wishes to host a dialogue on (and between) the emerging subdisciplines of medieval Scandinavian studies.
Kindly,
Richard Cole, Harvard University.
New Frontiers in Old Norse
Schneider 1125
THE VIKING SOCIETY FOR NORTHERN RESEARCH, founded in 1892 as the “Orkney, Shetland and Northern Society, or Viking Club”, is the world's oldest and largest learned society devoted to the study of medieval Scandinavia. We are pleased to announce that we will be sponsoring a panel at The 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 14th – 17th 2015, Kalamazoo MI. Our intention is that this panel should provide an exciting forum for the exchange of ideas between North American and European scholars. In recent years, the International Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo has become a fertile locus for medieval Scandinavian studies. Particular projects there, such as the Háskóli Íslands initiative on “The Supernatural in Medieval Icelandic Literature” or work by scholars at Cornell University on the Biskupasögur, have attracted international participation and resulted in fruitful discussions. Given the strength of interest in Old Norse topics at Kalamazoo, the Viking Society is sponsoring a panel entitled New Frontiers in Old Norse. This is an exciting time for the field of Old Norse, with new research areas emerging alongside productive advances in ongoing scholarly conversations. Indeed, a brief survey of current early career research in Old Norse reveals interests in cartography, cognitive poetics, ecocriticism, medieval astronomy, object-oriented ontology, racism studies, and many more – none of which would have been traditional fare for medieval Scandinavian studies ten years ago. In this panel, the oldest Old Norse institution wishes to host a dialogue on (and between) the emerging subdisciplines of medieval Scandinavian studies.
Kindly,
Richard Cole, Harvard University.