Organized by Joachim Grage (Freiburg) and Thomas Mohnike (Strasbourg) at the Freiburg Institut of Advances Studies (FRIAS) in Cooperation with University of Strasbourg Institute for Advanced Studies (USIAS) 11-12 june 2015 .

 

Thursday, 11/06/15

9h00     Welcome

9h30     Lars Erik Zeige (Berlin):
Northern Europe in Linguistic Maps

10h30   coffee

11h       Alderik Blom (Oxford):
Rasmus Rask in St Petersburg

12h       Kim Simonsen (Amsterdam):
Paper Monuments of the North. The Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries and Carl Christian Rafn’s letters

13h       lunch (FRIAS)

14h30   Jürg Glauser (Basel/Zürich):
From Iceland to Thule. Andreas Heusler’s Journeys to Iceland and the Construction of Nordic ‘Altertumskunde’

15h30   coffee

16h       Laura Muller-Thoma (Strasbourg): Tolkien the Philologuer

17h       Thomas Mohnike (Strasbourg):
Armchair Traveling in Philological Research: Some Thoughts on the Imaginative Geographies of 19th Century Comparative Philology as Narrative Arguments

 

Friday, 12/06/15

9h          Michael Rießler (Freiburg):
Knowledge and Imagination in Human Zoo Parks: Saami Studies carried out during Ethnological Expositions in Central Europe

10h       coffee

10h30   Lis Møller (Aarhus):
“…und doch hat die Sonne Homers auch über diese Eisberge ihren Glanz”. Mediations of Danish medieval ballads in Wilhelm Carl Grimm’s Altdänische Heldenlieder

11h30   Britta Irslinger (Freiburg):
Brave Heroes and Vicious Goddesses: Philological Research and National Identity in Ireland between 1800–1950

12h30   lunch (Paradies)

14h30   Clarence Glad (Reykjavík):
Anchoring the North. The Geography of North and South in the Construction of Icelandic National Literature

15h30   Joachim Grage (Freiburg):
“The Emerging Discipline of the Future”. The North in 19th Century Comparative Literature

16h30   coffee

17h     Goodbye