Talks

I have presented my research at the major international medieval conferences at Leeds and Helsinki, as well as at the International Saga Conference. I have also spoken at smaller conferences and research seminars in Belgium and abroad.

2024

  • “Aud/Unn de Bedachtzame. Verhalen over de Oermoeder der IJslanders,” at the lustrum of Firapeel—Vereniging voor Mediëvistiek in Utrecht at DUMS – De Utrechtse Muziekschool, the Netherlands. April 2024.

2022

  • “Constructing the Viking Age”, live panel of the Nordic Mythology Podcast at Midgardsblot in Borre, Norway. August 2022.
  • “Auðr/Unnr Ketilsdóttir: Viking Foremother of Iceland” at the Mimir Talks at Midgardsblot in Borre, Norway. August 2022.
  • “The Lady Aud, a Lifelike Word-Picture. Reinventing the Foremother Figure in Nineteenth-Century Icelandic Folklore and Victorian Travelogues” at the 18th International Saga Conference Sagas and the Circum-Baltic Arena in Helsinki, Finland and Tallinn, Estonia. August 2022.

2019

  • “Between Darkness and Light: The Struggle Between Gullbrá and Auður in the Icelandic folktale ‘Gullbrá og Skeggi í Hvammi’” at the Darkness 2019 Island Dynamics Conference in Longyearbyen, Svalbard. January 2019.

2018

  • “Lofsælastar linda sólir: The Memory of Strong Icelandic Saga-Women in 18th-Century Praise Poetry” at the 17th Saga Conference Íslendingasǫgur in Reykjavík, Iceland. August 2018.
  •  “Myths of the Foremother Auðr/Unnr Re-Interpreted in Icelandic Literature during the ‘Era of Memory’” at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds, UK. July 2018.

2017

  • “Auðr/Unnr djúp(a)uðga Ketilsdóttir: Cultural memories of the foremother figure in Icelandic literature” at the Symposium Gender and Sexuality during the Nordic Middle Ages in Stockholm, Sweden. September 2017.

  • “Íslands kvennalof: Cultural memories of Viking-age women in 18th-century praise poetry” at the 18th Viking Congress in Copenhagen and Ribe, Denmark. August 2017.

2015

  • “Letters in the margin: Female provenance of Laxdæla saga manuscripts on Flatey” at the 16th Saga Conference Sagas and Space in Zürich, Switzerland. August 2015.
  • “What’s in a name? An exploration of Auðr/Unnr djúp(a)uðga’s bynames in Icelandic literature” at the Doktorand-Workshop in Ghent, Belgium. April 2015.
  • “Tracing the textual trails of Auðr/Unnr djúp(a)uðga: Cultural memory and female Viking-age identity” at the Medieval Seminar Series in Ghent, Belgium. March 2015.

2014

  • “The representation of Auðr djúpúðga Ketillsdóttir in medieval and post-medieval Icelandic literature” at the PhD workshop Comparing the Medieval North in Århus, Denmark. April 2014.

2013

  •  “Violence-motivated far-travel — The case of Auðr djúpúðga” at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds, UK. July 2013.

2012

  •  “The never ending story of Aud/Unn the Deep-Minded Ketilsdóttir: Cultural memory and religious identity” at the 15th Saga Conference Sagas and the uses of the past in Aarhus, Denmark. August 2012

2011

  • “A remarkable woman: Painting a picture of Auðr djúpúðga Ketilsdóttir or Aud the Deep-Minded” at the International Conference Taking care of body and soul in Helsinki, Finland. June 2011.
  • “Auður nam öll Dalalönd [ok] gaf land: de ‘vrouwelijke’ kolonist in Landnámabók en de Íslendingasögur” at VOG Oudgermanistendag in Ghent, Belgium. May 2011.

2010

  • “De heksenkoningin in het Hoge Noorden: een casestudie rond gender, machte, etniciteit en zwarte magie in Egils saga Skalla-Grímssonar en Hrólfs saga kraka” at VOG Oudgermanistendag in The Hague at the Huygens Institute, the Netherlands. May 2010.
  • “Conflict tussen historiciteit en literaire vrijheid: Problematiek en gebruik van Oudnoordse teksten bij de schildering van Auðr djúpúðga Ketilsdóttir” at the Vlaamse Doctorandidag voor Mediëvisten organized by VWM and the Henri Pirenne Institute in Ghent, Belgium. May 2010.