Program
Programme SCN2017:
Thursday 31 August
Venue: Linken, Forskningsparken meeting centre, Tromsø
09:00-10:00 Coffee and registration
Chair: Cathinka Dahl Hambro
10:00-10:10: Opening words by Ambassador Karl Gardner
10:10-10:20: Opening words by Head of Department Eystein Dahl
10:20-11:50: Session 1
Gregory Richard Darwin (Harvard): Orality, folklore, and the archive in Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill’s ‘mermaid’ poems
Eivor Bekkhus (Oslo): From a Greek king's daughter to punished sinners: The mythological motif of women at sea.
Unni Kolrud Lefébure (Oslo): “Mó is ainm damh Fer Benn” Literary functions in Buile Ṡuibhne
12:00-13:15: Lunch
13:15-14:00: Keynote lecture: John Carey (Cork): Tairchell and the Spectre
Chair: Ailbhe Ó Corráin
14:00-14:15: Coffee
14:15-15:00: Keynote lecture: Trond Trosterud (Tromsø): Working for a unified Cornish spelling
Chair: Eystein Dahl
15:00-15:20: Coffee
15:20-16:50 Session 2
Chair: Ruben Moi
Steve Hewitt (Independent): Grammatical dialect variation in Breton
Steve Hewitt (Independent): The problem of neo-speakers in language revitalization - the example of Breton
Esther Le Mair (Ghent): Nitorbe lasuidiu precept doib manidénatar ferte occa: Subject-like oblique arguments in Old Irish
17:00: Reception and book launch hosted by the Embassy of Ireland, Norway.
Venue: HSL Faculty Cantine, Breivika campus, Tromsø
Friday 1 September 2017
Venue: Auditorium, Nedre Lysthus, Centre for Peace Studies, Breivika campus
09:30:00-11:00: Session 3
Chair: Kjetil Aasen
George Broderick (Mannheim): Carl J. S. Marstrander in the Isle of Man 1929, 1930, 1933
Lars Ivar Widerøe (Independent): The Breton language archive after Carl Johan Sverdrup Marstrander in the National Library- the need and prospect of cataloguing, digitalization and dissemination
Eystein Dahl (Tromsø): Remarks on the Old Irish passive
11:00-11:20: Coffee break
11:20-12:05: Key-note lecture: Clodagh Downey (Galway): Etymologizing in the Dindṡenchas
Chair: Morgan T. Davies
12:10-13:30: Lunch (main cantine, Breivika campus)
13:30-14:15: Keynote lecture: Aidan Doyle (Cork): The Irish Language Revival a Hundred Years on: Where Are We?
Chair: Niamh Ní Shiadhail
14:15-14:30: Coffee
14:30-16:00 : Session 4
Chair : Katja Ritari
Ruben Moi (Tromsø): Pangur Bán and Paul Muldoon
Joanna Pettersson (Uppsala): Sheela-na-gig: a comparative analysis of different hypotheses and their arguments
Máire Ní Mhaonaigh (Cambridge): eDIL workshop
17.30/18:00: Pick up outside Scandic Ishavshotel for transport to the cable car (Fjellheisen)
19:00: Conference dinner at Fjellstua restaurant (https://fjellheisen.no/en/fjellstuarestaurant/)
Tromsø by night
Saturday 2 September 2017
Venue: Linken, Forskningsparken meeting centre, Tromsø
10:00-11:30: Session 5
Chair: Aidan Doyle
Mikael Males (Oslo): Native or Latin: Stanzaic Structure in Irish and Old Norse
Kristen Mills (Oslo): Bodies and Borders: Vortimer, Brân, and Ívarr beinlauss
Máire Ní Mhaonaigh (Cambridge): Textual Reflexes of the Norse-Gaelic Interface in the Thirteenth Century: Surprises and Significance
11:30-11:50: Coffee break
11:50-12:40: Keynote lecture: Joseph F. Nagy (Harvard): Heroes Telling Stories in Later Medieval Irish Literature
Chair: Jan Erik Rekdal
12:40-14:00: Lunch
14:00-15:30: Session 6
Chair: Clodagh Downey
Cathinka Dahl Hambro (Tromsø): Tasting the Good News: Food, Feast and Fasting in Altram Tige Dá Medar
Morgan T. Davies (Colgate): Father-Son Rivalry in Early Irish Narrative
Katja Ritari (Helsinki): The memory of the saints in Félire Oengusso
15:30-15:50: Coffee
15:50 - ca.16:30: Session 7
Chair: John Carey
Niamh Ní Shiadhail (Uppsala): A conversion narrative and accompanying dialogue poem from Co. Roscommon, c. 1835.
Jan Erik Rekdal (Oslo): Conclusive remarks/end of conference