Wednesday 4 August 14.30-16.30

Session 16: Pre-Modern Nordic Memory Culture (II) 

Chair: Pernille Hermann

Lena Rohrbach Retelling the saga. Genre traditions and memory in late premodern Icelandic sagas and literary history

Timon von Mentlen Blended and Translated Memories: An Unorthodox Translation at the End of the 18th Century

Stephen Mitchell Memoria, rhetoric, and the lawman tradition: Þorgnýr’s oration in Óláfs saga Helga

Lukas Rösli Staging orality to construct a cultural memory in Old Norse-Icelandic literature

Session 17: Gender, power and memory (I)

Chair: Magdalena Malmfors

Heming H. Gujord – Kven drap Germaine? «Synspunkter» og «Kunsten å myrde» av Cora Sandel

Anna Helle Maiden of Finland in Distress – The Relations between Finland and Soviet Union in Finnish Novels

Aukse Beatrice Katarskyte Gísli Súrsson: A Drama and the Woman Question

Session 18: Life writing (I)

Chair: Gunhild Agger

Joachim Schiedermair (Dis)placing the Revivalist Movements. How Literature Reflects on Religious Memory

Atene Mendelyte Film as Material Inscription of Memory: Aslaug Holm’s Brothers (Brødre), 2015

Johan Almer Om Ingmar Bergmans minneskonst i Laterna magica

Paulina Przywuska. Vurdering og kategorisering av kroppen i Linnéa Myhres roman «Evig søndag»

Session 19: Media transformations

Chair: Annika Lindskog

Rima Palubinskiene Litteraturkanon i nye klæder i faget dansk: et børneperspektiv på remediering som adaptation af en ældre tekst

(cancelled) Alžbeta Jurkovičová “The Man Who Quit Smoking”. A Case Study in Media Transformations.

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Kristina Malmio Romanen som glömde att den var litteratur

Session 20: World War II and the Holocaust

Chair: Karolina Drozdowska

Steffen Werther Memory work of Scandinavian Waffen-SS veterans in Eastern Europe

Anker Gemzøe Kaj Munks ”De Faldne” – mindedigt og monument

Jan-Marek Šík Who remembers and who speaks? The reminiscentor in Ninas resa by Lena Einhorn        

Sonia Ławniczak Den svenska minneskulturen kring Förintelsen och det andra världskriget. Analys av en litterär text med hänvisning till Astrid Erll och hennes forskning om det kollektiva minnets retorik

Session 21: Language and power 

Chair: Loreta Vaicekauskienė 

Eglė Jankauskaitė Power relations among different groups of agents in the field of language

Giedrius Tamaševičius Retrospective analysis of metalinguistic discourse about TV and radio speech

Vuk Vukotić Language experts’ ideologies of language in public discourses

Loreta Vaicekauskienė Coercion of power in national language curricula

Dalia Pinkevičienė Power in workplace interactions

Session 22: Reimagining pre-modern North

Chair: Daniel Sävborg

Jorunn Joiner   Northern Antiquities: Retrieving the Memory of the Pre-Modern North in Eighteenth-century Britain

Andrey Korovin Adam Oehlenschläger’s Tales and Sagas Tradition

Maria Sibinska Meddeling av minner i Jomsviking-romanserien av Bjørn Andreas Bull-Hansen

Lucie Korecká Sturlunga saga and cultural memory

Session 23: Transnational memory: migration, reception, translation (I)

Chair: Jan Dlask

Marta Grzechnik The journey of “Fram”. Case study of a Paraguayan colony: from place of memory to place of forgetting

Gábor Attila Csúr Det ungarske tidsskrift Nyugat (1908–1941) som mindekulturelt fænomen i skandinavisk optik

Iryna Papa Danish «travel memories» of Ukrainian lands in 1711

Adéla Ficová Forming Reception in Communist Czechoslovakia. Norwegian Literature in Czech Translations 1945–1968.