Wednesday 4 August 10.00-12.00 

Session 9: Pre-Modern Nordic Memory Culture (I)

Chair: Lena Rohrbach

Pernille Hermann A Seat in Ægir’s Hall. Mnemonics in Old Norse Myths

Kate Heslop The poetry machine: visualizing and memorizing sound in medieval Iceland

Patrizia Huber Constant renewal and genre memory: How letters subvert a static understanding of genre

Marie Novotná Revenants in Old Norse literature as embodied memory

Session 10: (De)constructing the nation

Chair: Bergur Rønne Moberg

Jacob Nyboe Sange fra fladlandet. Om hukommelse og uptake i danske nationalsange. [cancelled]

Krzysztof Bak Från nationalhjälte till rikstyrann. Karl XII i det svenska 1800-talets litterära minneskultur

Elina Arminen The Arctic Ocean, Pechenga, and Finnish Cultural Memory of the Second World War

Kaj Alstrup Fuglakvaðið/Fuglekvadet – et færøsk europæisk storværk

Session 11: Working class literature (II) 

Chair: Magnus Nilsson

Beata Agrell Kroppsminne och kollektiv erfarenhet: objektiveringens betydelse för produktionen av arbetarlitteraritet

Magnus Gustafson Witness roles in working-class literature

Oscar Jansson Praising Untold Memories: Literary Awards and Tradition in the Reception of Kristina Sandberg’s Novels

Kristian Lødemel Sandberg Collective Memory as a Rhetoric of Resistance in post-1989 Novels by Kjartan Fløgstad

Session 12: Vekselvirkninger mellem Skandinavien-forestillinger og europæisk historie i det lange 20. Århundrede (II)

Chair: Anita Soos

Sylwia Izabela Schab Skandinavien-forestillinger og receptionen af dansk litteratur i Polen

Karolina Drozdowska Å utsette den andre døden”. Snublesteiner i norsk litteratur

Lill-Ann Körber ”Die Wende” og Skandinavistikken  i Tyskland

Ieva Steponavičiūtė  A Lithuanian colony in Iceland during WWII: a microhistory

Session 13: Memory and material culture (II)

Chair: Kristina Malmio

Tuulikki Kurki Materialized Narratives and archeology of experiencing contemporary ‘non-places’

Kamilla Aslaksen Verk-begrepet og Camilla Colletts Skrifter (1892)

Tarja Tanttu Esineiden muisti: kertomuksia kuulumisesta, identiteetistä ja kotoutumisesta

Session 14: Staged memory

Chair: Siemke Böhnisch

Carmen Vioreanu Divertissement – det informella gustavianska hovlivet mellan non-acting och acting

Gunhild Agger The German Occupation Revisited in Danish Cinema and TV 2020

Ewa Partyga Memory-work in biographical theatre of Cecilie Løveid

Karolína Stehlíková Ibsen: remembered and reimagined. From stage adaptation to text adaptation – Hedda Gabler retold by Thomas Ostermeier and rewritten by Anna Saavedra

Session 15: Pictorial memory

Chair: Gitte Mose
Katharina Müller Literature, photography and memory in contemporary Scandinavian novels

Aleksandra Wilkus-Wyrwa «Fotografiet sier: Det har vært, sånn var det, det er over.» – bilder, minner og litteratur hos Tomas Espedal

Anastasia Lomagina Intermedial reconstruction of the historical past in the novel “Brother Jacob” by Henrik Stangerup (1991), Denmark