Conference for PhD Students and Postdoctoral Researchers in the Humanities

The third conference of the PhD Students and Postdoctoral Researchers in Humanities of the University of Iceland will take place on Friday, April 28, 2022 from 10.15 AM to 4.30 PM in Lögberg 101. The conference is organized by Hugdok, the association of doctoral students and early career scholars of the University of Iceland School of Humanities, in partnership with the School of Humanities. The goal of the conference is to create an environment where PhD students and early career scholars can present their research projects and to encourage interaction among those within the School of Humanities. The conference is open to the general public and is intended so that the PhD students can present their research to a wider audience.

The languages of the conference are Icelandic and English.

You can also find the conference on Facebook.

At the end of the conference day, we will provide refreshments and celebrate spring with Hugdok’s spring party (see here on Facebook for further informations).

Programme

10.15–10.25  OPENING OF THE CONFERENCE 

10.30­–12.00  SESSION 1. A Different Language is a Different Vision of Life: Linguistic Studies. Chair: Stefanie Bade

• 10.30 – 11.00 Súsanna Björg Vilhjálmsdóttir. Writing Education at Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Level in Iceland: The Transition from EFL to EMI.
• 11.00 – 11.30 Gregg Thomas Batson. Challenging the Status of Main Clause Phenomena in the Complement Clauses of English.
• 11.30 – 12.00 Mirko Garofalo. Clausal Nominalization in Icelandic: A Multi-layered Model.

12.00–13.00  LUNCH BREAK

13.00–13.40 SESSION 2. Northern Cultural Landscapes: Culture, Archaeology, Ecocriticism, and Folklore. Chair: Meritxell Risco de la Torre. 

• 13.00 – 13.10 Guðrún Harðardóttir. The Great Seal of Archbishop Olav.
• 13.10 – 13.20 Alexandra Louise Tyas. Underwater Archaeology in Iceland: Is Community Archaeology the Future? 
• 13.20 – 13.30 Jonas Koesling. Sjórinn forna alda: Hafrannsóknir á sviðum umhverfishugvísinda og blárrar umhverfisgagnrýnnar. 
• 13.30 – 13.40 Mariateresa Esposito. There’s Something in the Water: A Comparative Study of Supernatural Water-dwellers in Scandinavian Folklore.

13.40–14.30 SESSION 3. “A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world”: Explorations of Rights and Duties. Chair: Emma Björg Eyjólfsdóttir

• 13.40 – 13.50 Svava Sigurðardóttir. Óljós mörk klínískrar þjónustu og vísindalegra erfðarannsókna?
• 13.50 – 14.00 Sandra Lee Solomon. Tools of Engagement: A Critique of Neoliberalism Through Literature.
• 14.00 –14.30 Jóhann Helgi Heiðdal. Lýðræði og lýðræðislegir borgarar á tímum nýfrjálshyggju.

14.30–14.50 COFFEE BREAK

14.50–16.00 SESSION 4. “Cultures grow on the vine of tradition”: Explorations of Cultural Difference. Chair: Beth Rogers.

• 14.50 – 15.20 Bob Cluness. “Tune into the Signal” – Ballard, Late Capitalism, and Esotericism in Simon Sellars’ Applied Ballardianism. 
• 15.20 – 15.50 Hrannar Már Ólínusson. White Menace: When White Spectators Are Confronted by Their Own Creation.
• 15.50 – 16.00 Hongling Song. Translating the Language of Tourism. A Corpus Based Study on the Translational Tourism Chinese Corpus in Iceland

16.00  HUGDOK‘S SPRING CELEBRATION.