IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 824: Memory in Performance
Tuesday 3 July 2018, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Memory & the Pre-Modern North Network |
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| Organisers: | Simon Nygaard, Afdeling for Religionsvidenskab, Aarhus Universitet Yoav Tirosh, Faculty of Icelandic & Comparative Cultural Studies, University of Iceland, Reykjavík |
| Moderator/Chair: | Jürg Glauser, Deutsches Seminar, Universität Zürich |
| Paper 824-a | Cultural Memory in Oral Contexts: Ritual Reproduction and Ritual Specialists in Pre-Christian Nordic Religion (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Literacy and Orality, Pagan Religions, Religious Life |
| Paper 824-b | Remembering Heathen Women: Female Keepers of Memory in Medieval Icelandic Literature (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Women's Studies |
| Paper 824-c | An Ugly Head and a Beautiful Mind: The Memories of 'Höfuðlausn' (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Scandinavian |
| Abstract | Memory and performance are intrinsically connected. Performers embody in their actions the traditions and identity of the group. This session will focus on Old Norse performers, how they convey the concept of memory and how the collective memory is conveyed through their actions. This can be achieved through performance both of a pre-Christian and Christian nature. Poetry and ritual are very potent media for collective memory and are at the core of the papers in this session, which will center on orality, women and skaldic poetry. |