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Events and news from the department of Scandinavian Studies in Tübingen. This page is constantly updated.

2026

15 May 2026: Rebecca Merkelbach gave the keynote, titled ‘The Inner Lives of Trolls: Interiority,Trauma, and the Paranormal in the Sagas’, at this year's Norse in the North, which took place in Leeds. The programme can be found here.
24 July 2026: Juliane Witte successfully defended her PhD thesis.
24 September 2026: for the 27th Arbeitstagung der Skandinavistik in Greifswald, Rebecca Merkelbach and Daniela Hahn (LMU) organised a workshop entitled ‘Forum Altnordistik: Situation und Perspektiven altskandinavistischer Lehre’.
27 October 2026: for the lecture series ‘Sprachbewusstsein – Sprachenbewusstsein’ (Alma), Rebecca Merkelbach and Hilkea Bloymeyer gave a lecture entitled ‘Sprachbewusstsein und die altnordische Literatur: Reflexion, Spiel, Performativität’.

2025

18 —19 September 2025: Workshop ‘Kaleidoscopic Narration in Old Norse-Icelandic Literature’, in the context of the CRC 1391 Andere Ästhetik, organised and led by Hilkea Blomeyer, Stefanie Gropper and Rebecca Merkelbach. An edited volume with De Gruyter will follow.
September 2025: Publication of Juliane Witte's article ‘Afkár dis: Atlakviða as an Exploration of Social Tensions’ with Nordeuropaforum.
8 August 2025: Keynote lecture by Rebecca Merkelbach with the title ‘Trial Approaches: Multidisciplinarity and the Kaleidoscope of Otherness in Medieval Icelandic Literature’ at the 19. Saga Conference.
Publication of the monograph Storyworlds and Worldbuilding in Old Norse-Icelandic Literature, edited by Rebecca Merkelbach.
Publication of the Special Issue Narrative Voices: Options and Limitations in Saga Literature, edited by Anna Katharina Heiniger.
28 —29 March 2025: 20. überregionale Promovierendentagung der Skandinavistik, organised by Hilkea Blomeyer and Juliane Witte. The conference report can be found here.

2024

Publication of Rebecca Merkelbach's monograph Story, World and Character in the Late Íslendingasögur: Rogue Sagas.
25 November 2024: Lecture by Rebecca Merkelbach and Hilkea Blomeyer with the title ‘Sagas im Kaleidoskop: Kreativität und Erzählkunst im mittelalterlichen Island’, within the framework of the Ringvorlesung „Andere Ästhetik: Kunst und Gesellschaft in der Vormoderne“ of the SFB 1391 Andere Ästhetik.
24 — 26 September 2024: Arbeitskreis „Emotion in der altnordischen Literatur: Darstellung, Überlieferung, Rezeption“, organised by Rebecca Merkelbach and Juliane Witte for the 26. Arbeitstagung der Skandinavistik in Bonn.
1 — 4 July 2024: „Women in Medieval Germanic Crisis Narratives“ (Sessions 113, 213 und 313), organised by Juliane Witte for the International Medieval Congress in Leeds.
1 April – 30 September 2024: visiting lectureship by Dr. Santiago Barreiro (Buenos Aires), funded by the DAAD.

2023

9 — 11 November 2023: Winter School „Gender, Emotion and Monstrosity in the Middle Ages“, organised by Rebecca Merkelbach and Juliane Witte and funded by the Exzellenzstrategie von Bund und Ländern.

2022

21 October 2022: Workshop „miklu meira óhljóð en frá megi segja: Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der erzählerischen Gestaltung in der altnordischen Literatur“, organised by Anna Katharina Heiniger, within the context of the SFB 1391 Andere Ästhetik.