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Deutsches Seminar The Performance of Old Norse Myth and Ritual

Conference Program

Thursday, 27.10.2011

Assembly Hall (room: RAA G 07), Rämistrasse 59, Zürich

 

from 08:30:

Registration

09:00-09:30:

Address of welcome, Introduction

09:30-10:15:

Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati: Myth as Illusion, Narrative, or Transformation? A Challenging Category in Comparative Perspective

10:15-10:45:

Coffee break

10:45-11:30:

Terry Gunnell: The Uses of Performance Studies for the Study of Old Norse Religion

11:30-12:15:

Anders Andrén: Post festum. The archaeology of performance in Old Norse traditions

12:15-14:00:

Lunch break

14:00-14:45:

Pernille Hermann: Myth and Performance. The Orality/Literacy Debate Re-framed

14:45-15:30:

Stefan Brink: The sacred grove

15:30-16:00:

Coffee break

16:00-16:45:

Else Mundal: The most important activity of the Old Norse gods: collecting and transmitting knowledge

16:45-17:30:

Jens Peter Schjødt: Performing Myths. A discussion of Vilhelm Grønbech's contribution to the reconstruction of pre-Christian rituals in the North

17:30-17:45:

Short break

17:45-18:30:

Henning Kure: Performance As the Telling of the Myth

Friday, 28.10.2011

Lecture room (SOF E 01), Schönberggasse 1

 

08:30-09:15:

Neil Price: Nine Paces from Hel: Time and Motion in Old Norse Ritual Performance

09:15-10:00:

John Lindow: Ritual and Hierarchy in the Mythology

10:00-10:30:

Coffee break

10:30-11:15:   

John McKinnell: Personae of the performer in Hávamál

11:15-12:00:   

Stephen Mitchell: "A twelfth I know…": On Hávamál 157 and the Performance of Charm Magic

12:00-14:00:   

Lunch break

14:00-14:45:  

Karen Bek-Pedersen: Honour and Passion in Eddic Heroic Poetry

14:45-15:30:  

Lukas Rösli: Creation as Performance: The Creation of Space in Gylfaginning

15:30-16:00:  

Coffee break

16:00-16:45:  

Rudolf Simek: Social aspects of performance of Eddic Poetry

16:45-17:45:  

Final discussion

18:00:    

End of conference

19:30:    

Conference dinner at Linde Oberstrass