The Háskóli Íslands Student Conference on the Medieval North is an interdisciplinary forum for postgraduate students (masters and doctoral level) and early career researchers working in the broad field of medieval northern studies, held every April in Reykjavík, Iceland. Students who have not given papers at an academic conference before are especially encouraged to submit. The conference will be held April 10th-12th, 2025, online and in-person at the Háskóli Íslands campus. We remain committed to holding a hybrid conference so as to best suit the needs of graduate students.
This conference seeks proposals on the theme of “Other Things.” The Other has been a perennial subject in the study of the medieval north. We ask: what constitutes an Other? What Others have been ignored? How is Otherization expressed across the field’s subdisciplines? We playfully consider the double meaning of “things,” seeking consideration of objects forgotten or buried beneath academic attentions. What critical lenses have been neglected? What ”Other Things” are there left to discover?
We accept abstract submissions on a wide range of topics connected to this theme, including but not limited to art history, archaeology, digital humanities, folklore, gender and queer studies, literary studies, manuscripts and paleography, philology, reception of the medieval period, and religious studies. We ask that submissions address the theme.
Presenters will have the opportunity to submit their papers for a conference proceedings volume, to be published as an e-book in the autumn of 2025.
Interested student scholars should email an abstract of 250-300 words, along with a brief biography containing name, pronouns, institution, and program of study, to histudentconference@gmail.com by December 2nd, 2024. Please indicate whether you intend to attend the conference online or in person. The Committee reserves the right to make selections based on quality of written abstracts, adherence to submission guidelines (see website), and timely submission. The languages of the conference are Icelandic and English. Individual paper presentations will be 20 minutes in length, followed by 10 minutes for discussion. There is also a Poster Session for students to present their material in poster form. Students may apply for either a paper or a poster. The conference committee may offer a poster presentation to some paper applicants.
Please share the attached Call for Papers with interested students. We kindly ask that established researchers and researchers who have presented two or more times at the conference pass this information on to their more junior colleagues. We invite those interested to follow our social media pages for updates on the conference:
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Með bestu kveðju,Colin Fisher
Conference Committee
Háskóli Íslands / University of Iceland
