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