Building the North with Words
Programme 5-6 June 2014
Thursday 5 June 2014
| 14h00 | Introduction - Joachim Grage (Freiburg), Thomas Mohnike (Strasbourg), Michael Rießler (Freiburg) |
| 14h30 | Mapping Place Theory - Dan Ringgaard (Aarhus) |
| 15h15 | Imagining the North while travelling to the South: Geographical structures of thought in the travel writings of P.D.A. Atterbom - Paula Henriksson (Uppsala) |
| 16h30 | Coffee break |
| 17h00 | Building the North with poetry - "the Edda" in European Romanticism - Julia Zernack (Frankfurt) |
| 17h45 | Hauch’s German lectures on Nordic mythology - Lis Møller (Aarhus) |
| 20h00 | Dinner |
Vendredi 6 June 2014
| 09h30 | Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modern Scandinavian Literature as an Academic Topic in Europe - Joachim Grage (Freiburg) |
| 10h15 | Coffee break |
| 10h45 | A Nordic Defence: Old Norse Philology in Copenhagen in the middle of the 19th Century - Annette Lassen (Copenhagen) |
| 11h30 | Narrating the Germanic. Strasbourgian philologists caught in Geographical imaginations - Thomas Mohnike (Strasbourg) |
| 12h15 | Lunch |
| 14h15 | The romanticized North - construing the image of the Saami in the 19th century French travel literature - Merja Torvinen (Caen) |
| 15h00 | Saami Studies at European universities since 1850 - Michael Rießler (Freiburg) |
| 15h45 | Coffee break |
| 16h15 | Final discussion |
