Image: Walter Crane, “The Viking Ship” (Photograph: University of Manitoba Archives’ copy of William Morris’s The Story of the Glittering Plain, Kelmscott Press, 1894; see JWMS, 2012).
9:00 am – 10:10 am (3:00 pm – 4:10 pm) Panel 1: Old Norse Literature and Realism
-Panel Chair: Andrew McGillivray
-Ármann Jakobsson, “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in Medieval Iceland: Saga Realism and the Sworn Brothers”
-Heather O’Donoghue, “Madness, Mythology and Mitteleuropa: Günter Grass’s Transformation of Old Norse Myth in The Tin Drum”
10:20 am – 11:30 am (4:20 pm – 5:30 pm) Panel 2: Old Norse Literature and Medievalism
-Panel Chair: P. J. Buchan
-Tom Shippey, “The Old Gods Return”
-Meghan Korten, “Old Norse women, feminism and textiles: the post-medieval representation of traditional femininity”
11:40 am – 12:50 pm (5:40 pm – 6:50 pm) Panel 3: Illusions of Perspective
-Panel Chair: Brynjarr Þór Eyjólfsson
-Adam Hansson, “Sympathy for a Jötunn: The Justification of Loki’s Actions”
-Dustin Geeraert, “A Simulacrum of Gods”
1:00 pm – 2:10 pm (7:00 pm – 8:10 pm) Panel 4: New Norse Creations
-Panel Chair: Ryan E. Johnson
-Mackenzie Stewart, “The Creation of Midgard from Ymir the giant”
-Ainsley Bloomer, “A Viking Legend: The Power of Love”
2:20 pm – 3:30 pm (8:20 pm – 9:30 pm) Panel 5: Connections to the Land of Giants
-Panel Chair: Katrín Níelsdóttir
-Amélie Roberts, “The Giantess as ‘Other’ in The Poetic Edda, Ynglinga Saga, and Gerður Kristný’s Bloodhoof”
-Zlata Odribets, “Trauma and Fragmentation in Grendel and Bloodhoof”
Please follow This Link to pre-register to attend this event; questions can be directed to Dustin Geeraert (Dustin.Geeraert@umanitoba.ca).
Symposium Slides
Panel 2 Old Norse Women Feminism and Textiles
Panel 4 The Creation of Midgard from Ymir the Giant