Day 1: Monday, 24 November 2014, HumLab-X of Umeå University
09:00 – 10:00 Welcome, introductions, workshop goals
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 – 12:00 Session 1
Anna Foka & Lewis Webb (Umeå University), From Thule to Hyperborea: The Shifting Definitions of the North in Classical Thought
Eleanor Barraclough (Durham University), North of the Northmen: Visions of the Arctic North in the Old Norse-Icelandic Sagas
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch
13:00 – 14:30 Session 2
Federico Barbierato (University of Verona) & Helena Wangefelt Ström (Umeå University), Omne malum ab Aquilone. Images of the Evil North in Early Modern Italy and their Impact on Cross-Religious Encounters
Mateo Ballester Rodriguez (Complutense University of Madrid), Nordic Europe as a Supernatural and Mysterious Terra Incognita in Early Modern Spain
14:30 – 15:00 Coffee break
15:00 – 17:00 Session 3
Barbara Auger (Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bernay), Medieval Normandy: Mythological Cultivation and Acculturation of a Scandinavian Settlement
Stefan Donecker (Austrian Academy of Science), Officina gentium aut vagina nationum. The North as the Origin of Migration in Early Modern Thought
Kim Simonsen (University of Amsterdam), Elevating the Early Modern North. Images of the North and the Use of Ballads and Sagas by Early Modern Scholars
18:00 Conference Dinner
Day 2: Tuesday, 25 November 2014, Västerbottens museum
08:30 – 10:00 Session 4
Päivi Maria Pihlaja (University of Helsinki), Old Rudbeck resurrected in Paris! Visions of the Arctic Origins of Civilisation and Science in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Virginia Langum (Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study), Complexion and Character in a Cold Climate: Medicine and Geography in the Medieval Imaginary
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 – 12:00 Session 5
Jeremy DeAngelo (University of Connecticut), Making Saami of the Scots: Britain’s and Scandinavia’s Near Norths
Dawn Jackson Williams (University of St. Andrews), The Contours of the North? British Mountains and Northern Peoples, 1600-1800
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch
13:00 – 14:30 Session 6
Vicki E. Szabo (Western Carolina University), Northern Seas, Marine Monsters, and Perceptions of the Pre-modern North Atlantic in the Longue Durée
Dolly Jørgensen (Umeå University), Beastly Belonging in the Premodern North
14:30 – 15:00 Coffee break
15:00 – 16:00 Sami rock art exhibit guided tour
16:00 – 17:00 Discussion and workshop wrap-up