Draft programme – subject to change

Thursday 23 May

• 8:45-9:10 Registration, Veröld, lower ground floor (just outside VHV-023)
  
  
• 9:15-10:30 keynote – VHV-023, Main Auditorium.
  – Chair: Monica Germanà.
  – Varvara Korkina Williams: “Guardians of the Arctic Waters: Indigenous Wisdom and Creative Resistance”
  
  
• 10:30-11:00 coffee.
  
  
• 11:00-12:30 Panel 1: Poetic Visions of Ice and Water – VHV-201, Home Zone of Languages.

  – Chair: Kathryn Walchester.
  – Kate Simpson, University of Leeds: “Langjökull: A Case Study in Polytemporal Poetics”
  – Soffía Auður Birgisdóttir, University of Iceland: “Dimmumót: Steinunn Sigurðardóttir’s Apocalyptic Vision”
  – Darryl Peers, Manchester Metropolitan University: “‘she became a discord of countless things’: The Self Coming Apart in Alycia Pirmohamed’s Another Way to Split Water”
  – Danila Sokolov, University of Iceland: “Lyric at Sea: Writing the Storm in Early Modern England”

• 12:30-13:30 Lunch in Háma, the university cafeteria (main UI hub)
  
  
• 13:30-15:00 Panel 2: Environmental Poetics of Music and Listening – VHV-201, Home Zone of Languages
  – Chair: Þorvarður Árnason.
  – Luka Hattuma, University of Utrecht: “Thawing Tundra’s and Inuit Throat Singers: Aquatic Turbulence in the Spoken Word Poetry of Tanya Tagaq”
  – Konstantine Vlasis, New York University: “When Things Flow”
  – Miguel Angel Crozzoli, University of Iceland: “I am the Ocean: Data Artivism in the Climate Crisis”
  – Garrison Gerard, University of Iceland: “Frozen Echoes (Dead Ice Melting) for Clarinet and Fixed Media”
  
  
• 15:00-15:30 coffee break.
  
  
• 15:30-17:00 Panel 3: Ice and Water Ecologies: Past and Present (ONLINE session) – VHV-201, Home Zone of Languages 
  – Chair: Christopher Dunn.
  – Corrina Readioff, University of Liverpool: “‘…of all the enemies of these enormous fishes, man is the greatest’: Whales and Environmental Impact in Early Modern English Literature”
  – Abdenour Bouich, University of Exeter: “Coeval Worlds, Alter/Native Words: Healing in the Inuit Arctic”
  – Corine Wood-Donnelly, Nord Universitet and Uppsala University: “Beyond the Tip of the Iceberg: On the Materiality and Metaphysics of Ice”
  – Hannah Armstrong, University of York: “‘An everlasting stillness’: Ecomedievalism and Ice in Sabine Baring-Gould’s Iceland: Its Scenes and Sagas (1863)”
  
  
• 17:00 Wine Reception (Veröld, Home Zone of Languages)

Friday 24 May

• 9:00-10:30 Film screening and Q&A – VHV-023, Main Auditorium. 
  – Chair: Ingibjörg Ágústsdóttir.
  – Elizabeth Ogilvie and Robert Page: Into the Oceanic.
  
  
• 10:30-11:00 coffee
  
  
• 11:00-12:30 Panel 4: Uncanny Circularities: Ice and Water in Words and Images – VHV-201, Home Zone of Languages.
  – Chair: Monica Germanà.
  – Ellert Þór Jóhannsson, Árni Magnússon Institute, University of Iceland: “Representation and meaning of water and ice in Old Norse texts”
  – Þorvarður Árnason, University of Iceland: “Waterfalls and Glacier Ice: Psychopathia lyrica hydrodynamica revisited”
  – Björn Þór Vilhjálmsson, University of Iceland: “Cold Fever: Mobility and Genre in Icelandic Cinema”
  – Auður Aðalsteinsdóttir, University of Iceland: “Creatures of the Sea: a hydrofeminist reading of uncanny encounters in recent Icelandic fiction”
  
  
• 12:30-13:30 Lunch in Háma, the university cafeteria (main UI hub).
  
  
• 13:30-15:00 Panel 5: Interacting with Ice and Water – VHV-201, Home Zone of Languages.
  – Chair: Marion Amblard.
  – Dalrún Kaldakvísl, Independent scholar: “Sharks and Men: Shark fishing in Iceland”
  – Sigríður Guðmarsdóttir, University of Iceland: “Decolonizing baptism: Indigeneity, environment and water rituals under climate change”
  – Christopher Dunn, Stefansson Arctic Institute, Akureyri: “Sensing Ice: A Philosophical-Aesthetic Investigation of Immediacy and Mediation”
  – Benjamin Aidoo and Allyson Macdonald, University of Iceland: “Access to abundance: views on sustainability and water use in Iceland”
  
  
• 15:00-15:30 coffee break.
  
  
• 15:30-17:00 Panel 6: Representing the Arctic – VHV-201, Home Zone of Languages.
  – Chair: Ingibjörg Ágústsdóttir.
  – Samuel Solnick, University of Liverpool: “Time Travelling with Ice”
  – Daniel Abdalla, University of Liverpool: “‘The Whitest of Pages’?: Critical Encounters with Black Life at the Poles”
  – Kathryn Walchester, Liverpool John Moores University: “‘Restless water’: British women, travel and the environment in the nineteenth century”
  – Marion Amblard, University of Grenoble: “Painting the Arctic: ice and water in Scottish art”
  
  
• 17:00-17:20 Closing remarks.
  
  
• 20:15 dinner at Kopar restaurant.
  
  

Sponsors:

• Centre for Research in the Humanities at the University of Iceland
• Rector of the University of Iceland
• University of Westminster
• Vigdís International Centre for Multilingualism and Intercultural Understanding