Webpages tagged with «literature»
The Encounters Lecture Series, established in 2025, is a joint initiative of the Norwegian Institutes in Athens and Rome.
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The term “close reading” long functioned as a shorthand for methodology in literary studies. Recently, scholars have begun interrogating what close reading entails and what alternative methods usefully challenge and expand upon it. This course provides participants an opportunity to engage with and reflect on methods of reading.
The international conference “Fabulous beasts and where to read them: Animals in Byzantine fables, proverbs, and dreambooks” will take place online on 11th June 2026. The conference will discuss the roles, figures, representations, and agency of animals in “minor” genres of Byzantine literature.
Lorenzo Ciolfi (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), affiliated researcher at the Norwegian Institute in Rome, collaborates with Przemyslaw Marciniak and Katarzyna Piotrowska from Katowice University on the organisation of the conference. Deadline for abstracts: 28th February.
Institute seminar 8 April 2025
Taran Palmstrøm Fenn (PhD-student, University of Oslo): Chronicling the Environment: Matthew Paris’ Chronica Majora and the Temporalization of Nature
Institute seminar 4 March 2025
Sunniva Berger: The Madness and Stupidity of the Venerable Ancients: Boccaccio and the Pagan Gods
Victoria Frivik: Ancient ghosts in Mussolini's Rome: The creation of memory in an urban landscape
Institute seminar 18 February 2025
Åslaug Ommundsen (Prof. in Medieval Latin philology at the University of Bergen) will present the CODECO project focusing on how books and literary networks shaped Europe
On Tuesday September 17th 2024, TOIL celebrated the 20th anniversary of Øyvind Rimbereid's poetry collection Solaris korrigert (2004), in collaboration with Litteratur på Blå. The celebration included a conversation with the author himself, led by Tomine Sandal, a Ph.D. candidate in Nordic Literature affiliated with TOIL and editorial member of Litteratur på Blå.
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A discussion of representations of flight, homelessness, border crossing, belonging and identity formation in recent as well as older literature, with an emphasis on literature's connections to the world of politics and ethics.
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Lecturer Dr. Barbara Siller, University College Cork, will give a talk on “Kafka Tales of the Twenty-First Century – Doors, Walls, and Fences in The Gurugu Pledge (2017) by Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel and Lights in the Distance. Exile and Refuge at the Borders of Europe (2018) by Daniel Trilling”.
How was it possible to collect bird songs in the Nordic regions before the invention of audio recording?
Camilla Chams approaches attachment as a synonym for love, liking, affiliation. Attachment has recently been launched as a keyword for the humanities and for literary studies (Felski, 2008, 2015). In psychology, however, attachment is a more complex form of human relationship involving both cognitive and emotional development, and physical survival (Bowlby, 1979).
Olivia Da Costa Fialho in her project develops the phenomenology, preconditions and underlying processes of how literary narrative fiction deepens and changes perceptions of self and others.
We say that literature can change your life. But is this statement supported by scientific evidence?
Karin Kukkonen, Ylva Østby and Bergljot Gjelvik explore the relations between memory, literature and mindfulness. This interdisciplinary research project investigates the phenomenology of personal episodic memory and how this relate to literary fiction and mindfulness meditation.
Recent research on migration and migration literature suggests that we can understand narratives of migration better by focusing on the temporal perspectives connected to integration, detention, trauma, crisis, and imagined futures.
