The first workshop will take place at St Hilda's College in Oxford, 14th-16th August 2024.
This workshop will address the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of Old Norse emotion research. The following topics will be addressed:
- Dialogue and its Emotive Possibilities/Functions (Ásdís Egilsdóttir)
- Reading Emotion in Saga Prose and Prosimetrum (Brynja Þorgeirsdóttir)
- Legal Approaches to Old Norse Emotion and/or Approaching Emotion in Old Norse Legal Sources (Hannah Burrows)
- Silence and its Emotive Possibilities/Valences (Stefka Eriksen)
- Reading Emotion in Skaldic Verse (Gareth Lloyd Evans)
- Creative Approaches to Old Norse Emotion (Kári Gíslason)
- Reading Emotion in Eddic Verse (Carolyne Larrington)
- Bodily Signs: Gestures and Somatic Indicia (George Manning)
- Linguistic Approaches to Old Norse Emotion (Teodoro Manrique Antón and Edel Maria Porter)
- Action/Performance and its Emotive Functions (Rebecca Merkelbach)
- Emotion Words (Kristen Mills)
- Historical Approaches to Old Norse Emotion (Katherine Olley)
- Literary Approaches to Old Norse Emotion (Sif Ríkharðsdóttir)
- Reading Emotion in Epigraphic Sources (Alexander Wilson)
A report on the workshop will be posted here shortly after it is held.
