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UPDATE: The LFG conference will be organized entirely online and the dates have been changed to July 13-16. The website of the digital conference is here:
https://typo.uni-konstanz.de/lfg2021/
This event has been cancelled to prevent spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19). Orkneyinga saga is a thirteenth-century Icelandic saga set largely in northern Britain. Sophus Bugge Annual Lecture will provide an overview of the poetry both preserved in, and associated with the saga.
The 42nd Generative Linguistics in the Old World conference (GLOW 42) will be held at the University of Oslo from May 7-11, 2019. The conference will consist of a main colloquium (May 8-10, Wednesday to Friday) and three thematic workshops (on Tuesday, May 7th and Saturday, May 11th).
Talk on nine great heroes, or "Nine Worthies" of medieval art and literature, by Professor Ruth Mazo Karras, Trinity College Dublin.
Speech by Stephen D. White, Emory University
The lecture provide a legal historical interpretation of an early 13th-century French prose-romance in order to show how so-called fantastic literature can sometimes be read as raising profound questions about law and politics.