Wednesday 23. November
18:00 Welcome beer/wine (at the pub U Rudolfína)
Thursday 24. November
9.15-10.00 Registration & Coffee (at the venue: The Emmaus Monastery)
10.00-10.30 Welcome Address by Vice-Dean Daniel Berounský and the organizers.
Session 1: Shape-shifting, polymorphy and hybridity (Chair: Marie Novotná)
10.30-11.00 Carolyne Larrington: Becoming Human, Becoming Animal: Emotions and Hybridity in Old Norse Mythology
11.00-11.30 Louise Milne: Shape-shifting and dream-cultures in the wider Norse world
11.30-12.00 Timothy Bourns: Human-Tree Hybridity and Arborescent Emotionality in Norse Myth and Legend
12:00-13:30 Lunch Break
Session 2: Borders in the divine world (Chair: Rudolf Simek)
13.30-14.00 Sigmund Oehrl: Valkyries in Bird Shape
14.00-14.30 Jens Peter Schjødt: Mythology and Binaries: Structuralism and Beyond
14.30-15.00 Judy Quinn: Mythological reactions and mythographic classification: the metamorphosis of jötunn to áss
15.00-15.30 Coffee Break
Session 3: Loki (Chair: Carolyne Larrington)
15.30-16.00 Ela Sefcikova: The God with No Boundaries: Queering Loki in Old Norse Myth
16.00-16.30 Henning Kure: Loki and the Burned Heart
17.00-22:00 Dinner (for the speakers) at Liandra Ristorante (Courtesy of the Norwegian Embassy)
Friday 25. November
Session 4: Ritual and Performance (Chair: Jan Kozák)
9.00-9.30 Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen: The Totemic Raven Hybridity
9.30-10.00 Terry Gunnell: Becoming God: The Development of the Hybrid Ruler-God in the Nordic Countries in the Second Half of the First Millenium
10.00-10.30 Coffee Break
Session 5: Approaches to Source Material (Chair: Judy Quinn)
10.30-11.00 Gwendolyne Knight: Hybridity and Magic
11.00-11.30 Jiří Dynda: Syncretism and Folklore: Approaches to cultural hybridities in the Old Norse and Old Russian context
11.30-12.00 Adele Kreager: Metamorphosis, Hybridisation and Illusion in the Language of Old Norse Transformation
12.00-13.30 Lunch Break
15.30-18.00 Visit to the National Library
19.00-21.00 Reception (for the speakers) at the Residence of the Danish Ambassador
Saturday 26. November
Poster session (Chair: Zuzana Stankovitsová)
9.30-10.00 Bob van Strijen: From National-Socialist hybrid to generic publication? The metamorphosis of Jan de Vries’ “Die geistige Welt der Germanen”
10.00-10.30 Coffee Break
Session 6: Cosmos, order and hybridity (Chair: Terry Gunnell)
10.30-11.00 John Lindow: Suppression of Hybridity in the Old Norse Mythological Conceptual World
11.00-11.30 Leszek Slupecki: Old Norse Pantheon as Societe des Invalides. What the Gods had to lost to get more power?
11.30-12.00 Frog: Transformations and Temporal Ideology: An Approach to Shifts in How the Universe Works
12.00-13.30 Lunch Break
Session 7: History and hybridity (Chair: Jiří Starý)
13.30-14.00 Eldar Heide: The late Óðinn traditions in eastern Scandinavia and German-speaking areas
14.00-14.30 Rudolf Simek: Gods, Saints, Devils and Demons as Saga Heroes: Hybrid Characters as a medieval narrative technique of integrating layers of traditions
14.30-15.00 Coffee Break
15.00-16.00 Closing Discussion
19.00 Conference Dinner for the speakers (Café Neustadt; on Google Maps)