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The Trouble with Memory II
The Trouble with Memory II
Irish-Icelandic Memory Studies
Programme 13 -14 March 2015
Aula
1st floor Main Building
Friday 13 March
8.30 – 8.50 Registration
8.50 – 9
Welcome – Gunnþórunn Guðmundsdóttir and Daisy Neijmann
9 – 10.30
The Middle Ages I:
Jürg Glauser, Universities of Zurich and Basel; Pernille Hermann, Aarhus University; Stephen Mitchell, Harvard University: Old Norse Memory Studies
Gísli Sigurðsson, The Árni Magnússon Institute : Memory of Ireland in the different versions of the Book of Settlement
Ásdís Magnúsdóttir, University of Iceland: Time and Memory in the Saga of Grettir
Chair: Úlfar Bragason
Coffee
10.45 – 12.15
The Middle Ages II
Pétur Knútsson, University of Iceland: Líadan and Cuirithir in Laxdæla Saga
Úlfar Bragason, The Árni Magnússon Institute: Creating the Medieval Saga
Ciaran McDonough, National University of Ireland, Galway: “Acht do bhrígh go bhfuaras scríobhtha i sein-leabhraibh iad” (“Because I found them in some old books”): Medieval Memories and Nationalist Intentions in Nineteenth-Century Irish Antiquarianism
Chair: Gísli Sigurðsson
Lunch
13.15 – 14.45
Landscape
Emily Lethbridge, University of Iceland: Icelandic Saga Landscapes as Palimpsest
Hilary Bishop, Liverpool John Moores University: Rationalising Penal Myths: The Memory of Mass Rock Sites in Ireland
Sveinn Yngvi Egilsson, University of Iceland: Landscape and memory: Some points of comparisons between two modern poets in Ireland and Iceland
Chair: Sharae Deckard
15.15 – 17 .15
Heritage:
Lucy Collins, University College Dublin: Reading the Viking Past in Contemporary Irish Poetry
Jón Karl Helgason, University of Iceland: Saints of Poetry: More than just a metaphor?
Charles Dillon, Queen‘s University Belfast: The 18th-century Gaelic elegy and memory
Eilis Almquist: The Power of the Heartfelt Curse. A Medieval Folktale of Protest, with some reflections on its relevance to contemporary Ireland (and Iceland?)
Chair: Fionnuala Dillane
Reception
Conference Dinner
Saturday 14 March
10 – 12
Crisis
Fionnuala Dillane, University College Dublin: Open and Closed Cases: Plotting Time in Contemporary Icelandic and Irish Crime Fiction
Sharae Deckard, University College Dublin: Memory and the Market: Financialization, Irrealist Aesthetics, and the “Boom” Novel in Ireland and Iceland
Gunnþórunn Guðmundsdóttir, University of Iceland: Comparative trauma? The Icelandic financial crisis and global trauma contexts in Álfrún Gunnlaugsdóttir’s Siglingin um síkin (Sailing on the canals)
Anne Fogarty, University College Dublin: “The usual inner throb in me”: Reading Trauma and Memory in Eimear McBride’s A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing (2013)
Chair: Daisy Neijmann
Lunch
13 – 14.30
War
John Brannigan, University College Dublin: ‘In this corner of peace in a world of trouble’: Literary Representations of Neutrality, War, and Occupation in the Islands of the North-East Atlantic in the Second World War
Daisy Neijmann, University of Iceland: Hidden People – Hidden Crimes: Memories of the Allied Occupation in the Fiction of Arnaldur Indriðason
Ásta Kristín Benediktsdóttir, University College Dublin: Deviant independence: A few words on two queer novels by Sjón and Jamie O’Neill
Chair: Gunnþórunn Guðmundsdóttir
Coffee
15 – 16.30
Travel and Round Table Discussion
Eavan O’Dochartaigh, National University of Ireland, Galway: Irish Memory and Arctic Landscape: The Visual Records of William Henry Browne (1821-71)
Sumarliði Ísleifsson, Reykjavík Academy: „Their huts are very much like the Irish“, John Barrow in Iceland 1835
Round Table Discussion
Chair: Ásta Kristín Benediktsdóttir
17 – 19
Humanities Conference Reception
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