M. J. Driscoll
Invited lectures and conference papers,
1997 to the present
1997
- 19-21 June, Háskóli Íslands, Reykjavík, Dansk-islandsk håndskriftsymposium; paper:
Den virtuelle genforening af Den Arnamagnæanske Håndskriftsamling
.
1999
- 6-9 May, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, Wassenaar, European Science Foundation Workshop
Making Texts for the Next Century
; paper: Encoding Old Norse/Icelandic primary sources using TEI-conformant SGML
.
2000
- 24-25 May, Library of Congress, Washington D.C., conference on
Saga literature and the shaping of Icelandic culture
; paper: The long and winding road: Manuscript transmission in post-medieval Iceland
.
- 2-7 July, University of Sydney, Australia, 11th International Saga Conference; plenary paper:
From minuscule to megabyte: Old Norse philology in the digital age
.
2001
- 31 August-1 September, Institionen för nordiske språk, Uppsala Universitet, conference on
Fornaldarsagornas struktur och ideologi
; paper: Fornaldarsögur Norðurlanda: The stories that wouldn't die
.
2002
- 21 March, Dipartimento di ricerca linguistica, letteraria e filologica, Università degli studi di Macerata; guest lecture:
From minuscule to megabyte: The development of the Scandinavian written tradition and its digitisation today
.
2003
- 12-14 June, Deutsches Seminar, Abteilung für Nordische Philologie, Universität Zürich: Tagung zum thema
Text, Reihe, Transmission. Unfestigkeit als Phänomen skandinavischer Erzählprosa 1500-1800
; paper: Magnús í Tjaldanesi
.
2004
- 12 February, Department of Anglo Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge; guest lecture (Departmental Lecture Series):
The true history of lies: Prose fiction in late medieval and early modern Iceland
.
- 3-6 June, Univerzitet u Beogradu, Third International Conference
New Technologies and Standards: Digitization of National Heritage
; plenary paper: The Text Encoding Initiative
.
2005
- 13-15 April, Senter for middelalderstudier, Universitetet i Bergen, seminar on
Creating the medieval saga - versions, variability & editorial approaches
; paper: Where are we, how did we get here, and where do we go now? Thoughts on Old Icelandic scholarly editing
.
2006
- 17 May, 京都大学 (Kyoto University),
TEI Day 2006 in Kyoto
; paper: XML markup of biographical and prosopographical data
.
- 6-7 June, Deutsches Seminar, Abteilung für Nordische Philologie, Universität Zürich, seminar on
Inszenierungen von Schrift: Übersetzung, Vokalität, Schriftbewusstsein in den skandinavischen Literaturen des Mittelalters
; paper: Sagan af Skanderbeg
.
2007
- 10-11 May, Institutionen för utbildning, kultur och medier, Uppsala Universitet, European Science Foundation Exploratory Workshop
Exploring New Methods for Prosopography in the Humanities and the Social Sciences
; paper: XML markup of prosopographical data
.
- 19 June, Department of English, University of Victoria, B.C., The Richard and Margaret Beck Lecture on Icelandic Literature:
The value of books: Magnús í Tjaldanesi and the end of manuscript culture in Iceland
.
- 20 June, Humanities Computing and Media Centre, University of Victoria, B.C., Digital Humanities Summer Institute; keynote paper:
Everything but the smell: Towards a more artefactual digital philology
.
- 20-21 July, Cambridge University, conference on
Learning and Understanding in the Old Norse World
; paper: Skanderbeg: An Albanian hero in Icelandic clothing
.
2008
- 14-15 February, Università di Trento - Dipartimento di Studi Letterari, Linguistici e Filologici, conference
On Editing Old Scandinavian Texts: Problems and Perspectives
; paper: A new edition of the Fornaldarsögur Norðurlanda
.
- 19-20 June, Università di Pavia - Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia,
Medieval Texts - Contemporary Media: the art and science of editing in the digital age
; paper: Some thoughts on editorial theory and practice in the digital age
.
- 21 November, University College London, Viking Society General Meeting; honorary lecture:
Of fragments shored against ruins; of Magnús í Tjaldanesi
.
2009
- 4-5 June, Helsingin yliopisto, NOS-HS Explorative Workshop,
The common people and the processes of literacy in the Nordic countries: Excursions to the scribal and print cultures in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
; paper: The relation between scribal and print cultures in 18th- and 19th-century Iceland
.
- 9 June, Nordeuropa-Institut, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; guest lecture:
Magnús Jónsson: Last man standing
.
2010
- 3-5 March, Università degli Studi di Verona, conference
III Incontro di Filologia Digitale
; paper: Mapping the manuscript matrix
.
- 27-28 March, Fordham University, New York City, conference
New directions in medieval Scandinavian studies
; plenary lecture: Tristan in Iceland: The continuing saga
.
- 30 September-3 October, Universität Freiburg, conference
Dreams of fame and honour: Late medieval prose fiction 1400-1700
; paper: Tistran & Indiana in Iceland
.
- 14-15 October, University of Wisconsin, Madison, conference
Riddarasögur colloquium: Exploring French-Scandinavian literary relations in the Middle Ages
; paper: Some lesser-known post-medieval Icelandic romances
.
- 5 November, Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen, CERL (Consortium of European Research Libraries) seminar
Virtual visits to lost libraries
; paper: handrit.is and the virtual reunification of the Arnamagnæan manuscript collection
.
- 9 December, Selskab for nordisk filologi, Copenhagen; paper:
Tristans kyske kærlighed: En dansk trivialroman fra det 18. århundrede på Island
.
2011
- 25 February, Universitetet i Stavanger; lecture:
Towards a more artefactual philology
.
- 28-29 April, Università degli Studi Ca' Foscari, Venezia; lectures on Old Norse-Icelandic subjects.
- 2-3 May, Vilniaus Universitetas; lectures on Old Norse-Icelandic subjects.
- 20-21 May, Københavns Universitet,
Interdisciplinary Symposium on Literature and Identity Formation
; paper: ± Icelandic: Defining Íslenzk menning
.
- 15-16 September, Narodna Biblioteka Srbije, Beograd, EMBARK Workshop; paper:
The TEI Gaiji module: Representing non-standard characters and glyphs
.
- 21 October, Maison de la Recherche en Sciences Humaines, Université de Caen Basse-Normandie, Séminaire:
TEI et encodage des sources
; paper: Using the 'Choice' and 'Gaiji' mechanisms to produce multi-level representations of primary sources
.
- 28 October, Maison de la Recherche en Sciences Humaines, Université de Caen Basse-Normandie, Séminaire:
Les manuscrits post-Gutenberg
; paper: Manuscript culture in post-Reformation Iceland
.
- 17-18 November, Københavns Universitet,
Supporting Digital Humanities
; paper (with Eric Haswell): XML for quantitative codicology
.
- 8-9 December, Εθνικό Ίδρυμα Ερευνών (National Hellenic Research Foundation), Athens, COMSt Team 2 Workshop:
Specific issues in Oriental philology
; paper: Old and new philology
.
2012
- 20 January, Centre de Recherche Bretonne et Celtique, Faculté des Lettres et Sciences sociales de l'Université de Bretagne occidentale, Brest, Séminaire:
Histoires des Bretagnes : les conservateurs de la mémoire
; paper: Arthurian material in some lesser-known post-medieval Icelandic romances
.
- 27 January, Maison de la Recherche en Sciences Humaines, Université de Caen Basse-Normandie, Séminaire:
Exploration et exploitation des sources encodées en TEI
; paper (with Eric Haswell and Silvia Hufnagel): Quantitative codicology
.
- 3 February, Maison de la Recherche en Sciences Humaines, Université de Caen Basse-Normandie, Séminaire:
Autour de la collection arnamagnéenne : expériences dans les domaines de la conservation, de la valorisation et de l´exploitation du patrimoine écrit
; paper: The Arnamagnæan manuscript collection
.
- 17 February, Maison de la Recherche en Sciences Humaines, Université de Caen Basse-Normandie, Séminaire:
La valeur des sagas comme documents historiques
; paper: What's truth got to do with it? The Icelandic school of saga studies
.
- 29 March, Université de Caen Basse-Normandie, Séminaire: Encodage de documents et de collections; paper:
The handrit project
(with Örn Hrafnkelsson).
- 27 April, Université de Caen Basse-Normandie, Séminaire: L'emprunt dans les sagas; paper:
The matière de Bretagne in late- and post-medieval Icelandic romances
.
- 18 June, Svenska Forskningsinstitutet i Istanbul; paper:
Alexander the Great in Old Norse-Icelandic
.
- 10 August, 15th International Saga Conference, Aarhus universitet; keynote lecture:
Why we should care about rímur
.
2013
- 13-15 February, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, symposium:
New approaches to historical collections
; paper: Old wine in new bottles? Digital resources and research questions
.
- 3-6 June, University of Victoria, B.C., Association for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies in Canada Conference; The Richard and Margaret Beck Lecture on Icelandic Literature:
The Icelandic rímur
.
- 13-15 June, Nordeuropa-Institut, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, colloquium:
The agents and artefacts of vernacular literacy practices in late pre-modern Europe
; lecture: Reading and writing in late pre-modern Iceland
.
2014
- 28-30 March, Hólar í Hjaltadal, seminar:
Sr. Hallgrímur og Hólar í 400 ár: Málþing um prent- og handritamenningu á Íslandi
; lecture: Handritamenning á Íslandi
.
- 3-5 April, Det Teologiske Fakultet, Københavns Universitet, conference:
Material philology and the Dead Sea Scrolls: New approaches for new text editions
; keynote lecture: Toward a more artefactual philological praxis
.
- 20-22 August, Helsingin yliopisto, conference:
Reading and writing from below: Exploring the margins of modernity
, paper: Herdís & Ólína: The poetry of everyday life
.
2015
- 9 May, Landsbókasafn Íslands-Háskólabókasafn, Reykjavík, seminar:
Handritamenning síðari alda
; paper: Til gamans og dægrastyttingar: Handrit Guðbrands á Hvítadal
.
- 10-14 August, Zürich, conference:
15th International Saga Conference
; roundtable convener: New directions in Fornaldarsaga studies
.
- 10-11 September, Ulster University, Derry, conference:
Post-print manuscript culture in Ireland, Scotland and Iceland
; keynote paper: Writing in the twilight: Icelandic scribes on the cusp of the modern era
.
- 16 October, Uppsala Universitet, seminar:
Medieval short narratives between languages and cultures: The Miracles of the Virgin Mary
; paper: The miracles of Mary: The Icelandic tradition
.
- 24 November, Latvijas Nacionālā bibliotēka, Riga, seminar:
Translating Edda songs
; paper: The early editions and translations of the Poetic Edda
.
2016
- 22-23 February, Technische Universität Darmstadt, seminar:
Maschinen und Manuskripte: Forschung mit Schriftquellen im digitalen Zeitalter
; paper: The legendary legacy: Crunching 600 years of saga manuscript data
.
- 29 February, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, Cambridge, ASNC Graduate seminar; paper:
Stories for all time: The transmission and reception of the Fornaldarsögur Norðurlanda
.
- 3 November, Ulster University, Derry, Leverhulme lecture:
Gaelic influence in medieval Iceland
.
- 25-26 November, University College Cork, conference:
Rediscovering the Vikings
; paper: Stories for all time: The Icelandic Fornaldarsögur
.
- 2 December, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies; lecture:
Manuscript culture in late pre-modern Iceland
.
2017
- 2 March, Aberystwyth University, Leverhulme lecture:
The legend of Tristan in saga, ballad and rhyme
.
- 10-11 March, Ulster University, Derry, conference:
An Fhiannaíocht
; keynote lecture: The Icelandic rímur
.
- 29-31 March, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, conference:
Miracles of the Virgin Mary: Medieval narratives through time and space
; lecture: Miracles of the Virgin in Old Icelandic
.
- 6-7 April, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien, conference:
Manuscript after print: The influence of print on post-Gutenberg manuscript culture
; lecture: Print features in the manuscripts of Magnús í Tjaldanesi
.
- 28 April, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies; lecture:
Iceland's medieval manuscripts
.
- 26-27 May, University College Cork, conference:
The paper manuscript
; paper: The paper manuscript in post-medieval Iceland
.
- 15-16 June, Université de Caen Normandie, Deuxième congrès de l'Association pour les études nordiques; keynote lecture:
The French connection: Translations of French literature in Icelandic manuscripts, ca. 1400-1900
.
- 3-6 July, Leeds, International Medieval Congress, paper:
Icelandic manuscripts in 18th-century Ireland: The collection of the Rev. James Johnstone
.
- 27 October, Københavns Universitet, inaugural lecture:
Writing in the twilight: The manuscripts of Magnús í Tjaldanesi
.
- 30 November, Miðaldastofa Háskóla Íslands, lecture:
Writing in the twilight: The manuscripts of Magnús í Tjaldanesi
.
2018
- 18-20 April, Sapienza Università di Roma, conference:
Textual philology facing liquid modernity: Identifying objects, evaluating methods, exploiting media
; paper: Textual and generic fluidity in Late Medieval and Early Modern Iceland
.
- 12-17 August, Reykjavík,
17th International Saga Conference
; paper: Magnús Jónsson and the Íslendingasögur
.
- 18 October, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies; lecture:
The Icelandic rímur
.
2019
- 24 January, Københavns Universitet,
Perspectives on textual scholarship and editorial practice: A seminar of the research group textual scholarship
; paper: The genesis of the Arnamagnæan method
.
- 7 November, Miðaldastofa Háskóla Íslands, lecture:
Kæri Fiðr: Assessing the legacy of Finnur Jónsson
.
- 15-17 November, Københavns Universitet,
Literature and Formats
; paper: Sizes and formats of Icelandic manuscript books, ca. 1200-1900
.
- 21-23 November, Philadelphia,
12th Annual Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age
; paper: Keeping track of every book on every subject in every language, anno 1539
.
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