Month: December 2020

The project’s doctoral student, Meritxell Risco de la Torre, “went to Madrid” last week and presented some of her recent research at the 2nd Congreso de Jóvenes Investigadores JIMENA (CJIJ). Her conference paper was titled ‘El Yo, el cuerpo y las emociones en el Roman de Silence’ (‘Self, body, and emotion in the Roman de Silence’).

The online congress was organised by JIMENA, an organisation of medieval studies students at the Complutense University of Madrid, and it was held from November 30^th to December 2^nd. The theme this year was ‘El Cuerpo en el Medievo’ (‘The Body in the Middle Ages’). Further details, as well as the conference programme, can be found here.

The project’s Postdoctoral Researcher, Dr Timothy Bourns, recently “went to Norway” to attend the online conference ‘Ecocriticism and Old Norse Studies’, the Fourth Workshop of the Ecocritical Network for Scandinavian Studies (ENSCAN).

Timothy’s conference paper was titled ‘Trees in the Saga Dreamscape’. In the sagas, trees in people’s dreams take a different shape according to a character’s fate and identity, and the motif is widespread; while disappearing from the Icelandic landscape, trees were growing in the saga dreamscape.

The event was hosted by the University of Agder and was held on November 26^th-27^th. Further details, as well as the conference program, can be found here.

Our project’s Principal Investigator, Professor Sif Ríkharðsdóttir, “went to Oxford” last week and presented some of her recent research at the Old Norse in Oxford Research Seminar. Her talk, held online on November 24th, was titled ‘Pain, Emotion and Embodiment in Old Norse Literature’.