Date	Lecturer Forename	Surname	Presentation Title
2025-02-09	Torfi	Tulinius	Mixed Emotions: The Trouble with Royal Blood in Laxdæla saga
2025-01-19	Torfi	Tulinius	Trauma, Healing, and Poetry in the Icelandic Sagas
2024-10-27	Birna	Arnbjörnsdóttir	Icelandic Heritage in North America—Where are We Headed?
2024-10-20	Birna	Arnbjörnsdóttir	Identity and Language: Icelandic Heritage in Canada and Iceland
2024-02-25	Natalie	Van Deusen	Virgin Martyrs and Women Worthies in Post-Medieval Icelandic Poetry
2023-11-19	Soffía Auður	Birgisdóttir	Recurrent Themes in Todayʼs Icelandic Literature by Women
2023-10-22	Unnur Birna	Karlsdóttir	Women Leading the Way: Women and Environmentalism in Iceland
2023-10-08	Úlfar	Bragason	Icelandic Heritage in North America: A Celebration of Cultural Inheritance
2023-09-24	Margaret	Willson	Reframing the Historical Role of Women: Icelandic Female Fishing Captains—Their Influences and Experiences on Land and Sea
2021-10-24	Peter	Stenberg	Sjón: In Conversation with Peter Stenberg
2018-11-25	Guðrún Björk	Guðsteinsdóttir	Huldufolk: Elves, Faeries
2018-10-28	Guðrún Björk	Guðsteinsdóttir	Giants and Trolls
2018-09-23	Guðrún Björk	Guðsteinsdóttir	Weird Visitations
2017-11-19	Birna	Arnbjörnsdóttir	English in Iceland: A Microcosm of Communities Affected by the Spread of English
2017-10-22	Birna	Arnbjörnsdóttir	Teaching Icelandic Online: Free and Open Language Courses
2017-09-24	Birna	Arnbjörnsdóttir	North American Icelandic: The Only Variety of Icelandic Spoken Outside of Iceland
2016-11-20	Ástráður	Eysteinsson	Searching for Iceland: A Literary Quest
2016-11-03	Margaret	Willson	What Defines Survival? The Seawomen of Iceland
2016-10-23	Ástráður	Eysteinsson	Paradise Lost: John Milton, Jón Þorláksson, and Richard Beck
2016-09-18	Ástráður	Eysteinsson	Centres and Outer Reaches: Snæfellsjökull as Magnet and its Cultural Manifestations
2016-04-27	Sturla	Sigurjónsson	Mutual Interests in the North: Iceland and Canada in the Twenty-First Century
2015-11-03	Torfi	Tulinius	Medieval Romances in Iceland: Old Norse Translations from Old French
2015-11-02	Torfi	Tulinius	Introduction to the Old Norse World Through the Saga of the Viking Poet Egill
2015-11-01	Torfi	Tulinius	The Detective Novel in Icelandic: From Jóhann M. Bjarnason to Arnaldur Indriðason
2015-03-06	Richard	Unger	Sailing the High Seas: Vikings and Other Travelers in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
2014-10-17	Guðrún	Ingimundardóttir	Icelandic Traditional Music: Rímur and Tvísöngur
2014-09-21	Fred	Woods	Icelandic Migration: To and Through Utah
2013-10-15	Ágúst	Guðmundsson	The Spectral in Icelandic Culture
2013-10-15	Ágúst	Guðmundsson	Making Movies in Iceland: A Chat with the Director
2013-10-15	Ágúst	Guðmundsson	Spooks and Spirits
2013-06-05	Jón Karl	Helgason	Clues of Authorship: Sherlock Holmes, Giovanni Morelli, and Medieval Saga Authors
2013-06-04	Daisy	Neijmann	Soldiers and Other Monsters: Icelandic Fiction of the First and Second World War
2013-06-04	Matthew	Driscoll	The Icelandic Rímur
2013-02-08	Þorgerður	Einarsdóttir	Finance Vikings, Masculinities, and the Economic Collapse in Iceland
2012-09-17	Viðar	Hreinsson	Wakeful Nights: The Poetry of Stephan G. Stephansson
2012-06-03	Egill	Helgason	Icelandʼs Road to Recovery
2012-02-28	Sigrún	Davíðsdóttir	Economic Crises: Icelandʼs vs. Europeʼs
2012-02-27	Sigrún	Davíðsdóttir	Not a Single Word: A Docu-Drama on a Country in Crisis
2012-02-26	Sigrún	Davíðsdóttir	Icelandic Cuisine: From Poverty to Pizzas
2011-09-20	Alaric	Hall	Sigurðar saga fótsʼ: Fourteenth-Century Saga to Financial Crisis Satire (Audio available)
2011-09-18	Alaric	Hall	Hvað er með álfum? Elves in Iceland Across the Conversion
2011-09-16	Alaric	Hall	Learning Old Norse in Fourteenth-Century Norway
2011-04-04	Yrsa	Sigurðardóttir	Scandinavian Childrenʼs Fiction
2011-04-03	Yrsa	Sigurðardóttir	Nordic Noir and the Writing of Crime Fiction
2011-04-01	Yrsa	Sigurðardóttir	Iceland: Pioneering Green Energy
2010-11-13	Ástráður	Eysteinsson	Narrative Crisis: History of Modernism
2010-11-09	Ástráður	Eysteinsson	Who Is the Author? On Fóstbræðra Saga, Gerpla, and Literary-Historical Struggle
2010-11-08	Ástráður	Eysteinsson	Island Transactions: The Culture of Translation
2010-03-03	Jón Karl	Helgason	Dead Poetsʼ Society: Nationalism, Literature, and Cultural Saints
2010-03-02	Jón Karl	Helgason	Bloody Runes: Uncanny Elements in Egils Saga
2010-03-01	Jón Karl	Helgason	Visual Translations of Njáls Saga
2010-01-15	Sturla	Gunnarsson	Beowulf and Grendel: The Directorʼs Take
2010-01-14	Sturla	Gunnarsson	Screening of Beowulf and Grendel with Q&A (Audio available) Article by Jasmine Johnston
2009-10-08	Þorvaldur	Gylfason	Iceland in Crisis: From Boom to Bust, Big Time
2009-03-24	Bjarki	Sveinbjörnsson	ÍSMÚS: The Iceland Music Database
2009-03-23	Bjarki	Sveinbjörnsson	Nine Hundred Years of Icelandic Music in Fifty Minutes
2009-03-22	Bjarki	Sveinbjörnsson	Icelandic Folk Music, Past and Present
2009-01-28	Bo	Almqvist	The Vikings in Irish Folk Tradition
2009-01-27	Bo	Almqvist	Rumours and Reality? Gaels in Greenland and America in the Viking Age
2009-01-26	Bo	Almqvist	The Power of the Poets: Extempore Incantations in Iceland and Ireland
2008-10-28	Rósa Kristín	Júlíusdóttir	Face to Face with Art Works: Aesthetic Experience and Young Children
2008-10-27	Rósa Kristín	Júlíusdóttir	Kalli and Me: Art and (Dis)Ability
2008-10-26	Rósa Kristín	Júlíusdóttir	Artists among the Early Icelandic Immigrants
2008-06-06	Ágúst	Guðmundsson	A Very Personal Approach to the History of Icelandic Cinema
2008-04-10	Richard	Perkins	The Settlement of Iceland: Landnámabók and Its Poetry
2007-09-27	Árni	Björnsson	Wagner and the Volsungs
2007-09-26	Árni	Björnsson	False Myths concerning Iceland
2007-09-25	Árni	Björnsson	Everyday Life in Traditional Iceland: Marking the seasons
2007-06-20	Matthew	Driscoll	Everything But the Smell: Toward a More Artefactual Digital Philology
2007-06-20	Ragnheiður	Mósesdóttir	The Publications of the Arnamagnæan Commission 1772–1936
2007-06-19	Matthew	Driscoll	The Value of Books: Magnús í Tjaldanesi and the End of Manuscript Culture in Iceland
2007-03-02	Colleen	Batey	Aspects of Material Culture of the Norse North Atlantic
2007-03-01	Colleen	Batey	The Origins and Adaptations of the First Settlers of Iceland
2007-02-28	Colleen	Batey	New Light on the Settlement of the Land of the Sagas
2006-10-20	Anatoly	Liberman	Icelandic Words Recorded Late
2006-10-19	Anatoly	Liberman	The Truth about Berserks
2006-10-18	Anatoly	Liberman	Baldr and the Mistletoe
2006-04-25	Helga K.	Hallgrímsdóttir	Gender, Elitism and Democratic Professionalism within Medicine
2006-04-24	Þorgerður	Einarsdóttir	Paternity Leave in Iceland
2006-03-07	Ólafur	Pétursson	Beyond The Thickest Veils—Erlaʼs Vision
2006-03-06	Ólafur	Pétursson	Digital Illustration: An Icelandic Artist’s Perspective
2006-03-05	Ólafur	Pétursson	I Picked Up The Runes: A Rune Workshop
2006-01-31	Kristín	Aðalsteinsdóttir	Teachers in Classrooms: An Icelandic Study
2006-01-29	Kristín	Aðalsteinsdóttir	Portraits from Daily Life in Iceland
2005-04-07	Hannes	Lárusson	Structural Aspects of the Old Icelandic Farmhouse: A First Hand Experience
2005-04-06	Hannes	Lárusson	Time, Space, and Language: A Presentation of the Artistʼs Own Work
2005-04-05	Hannes	Lárusson	Artifacts: Function and Art in Traditional Icelandic Turf Houses
2005-03-04	Birna	Bjarnadóttir	Beauty at the Outskirts of Europe: Njáls Saga and the Aesthetic Challenge of the Saga Heritage.
2005-03-03	Birna	Bjarnadóttir	Magical Forces in Old Norse Mythology
2005-03-02	Birna	Bjarnadóttir	Next to the Bible: St. Augustineʼs City of God and Snorri Sturlusonʼs Edda
2004-11-20	John	Tucker	Saga Chapters: A Reconsideration
2004-11-20	Helgi Skúli	Kjartansson	Native Speakers of a Dead Language? The Icelandic Claim to Expertise in Old Norse
2004-11-20	Patricia	Conroy	An Attempt, for Better or Worse, at an Integrated Interpretation of Njalʼs Saga
2004-11-20	Helga K.	Hallgrímsdóttir	Mothers and Workers? Gender & Social Citizenship in Canada, Sweden, and Iceland
2004-11-20	Christopher	Hale	Transferring Icelandic Naming Customs to Canada
2004-11-20	Keneva	Kunz	Language Administration: Investing in and Maintaining Knowledge Assets
2004-11-20	Kristín Margrét	Jóhannsdóttir	Aspect in Icelandic
2004-11-20	Gunnar Ólafur	Hansson	Preaspiration in Icelandic: an Archaism of the NW European Periphery?
2004-11-20	Patricia	Baer	Translating Gunnlaðar Saga
2004-11-20	Russell	Poole	How Olaf of Norway Became Saint Olaf, and the Power of a Poetʼs Advocacy
2004-02-07	Tom	Shippey	Beowulf and the Origins of England
2004-02-06	John	Lindow	Talking Ships
2004-02-05	Tom	Shippey	From Book to Screen: Problems Tolkein set for Jackson
2004-02-05	Andrew	Wawn	Victorian Viking Novels
2004-02-04	Andrew	Wawn	Versions of Vatnsdæla Saga: School, Stage, and CIA
2003-11-08	David	Arnason	David Arnason Reading from his Work
2003-11-07	David	Arnason	Stephanssonʼs Canadian Reception
2003-11-05	David	Arnason	Stephan G. New Iceland Revisited
2003-03-21	Vésteinn	Ólason	Snorri Sturluson: Viking Mythographer and Historian
2003-03-20	Vésteinn	Ólason	The Book of the Icelanders
2003-02-28	Kristín Margrét	Jóhannsdóttir	Canadian-Icelandic in a Multicultural Context
2003-02-27	Kristín Margrét	Jóhannsdóttir	The Immigrant Ghost
2002-11-08	Robert G.	Cook	Orality and Literacy in Njalʼs Saga
2002-11-07	Robert G.	Cook	Translating Njalʼs Saga
2002-11-06	Robert G.	Cook	Translating Njalʼs Saga
2002-10-29	Keneva	Kunz	Icelandic Manuscripts: Medieval Heritage Preserved in Vellum
2001-08-18	Böðvar	Guðmundsson	Journey to New Iceland: Letters, Fiction, Film
2001-08-18	Keneva	Kunz	Journey to New Iceland: Letters, Fiction, Film
2001-08-17	Böðvar	Guðmundsson	The Icelandic America Letters (a lecture)
2001-07-13	Helgi Skúli	Kjartansson	History in Search of a Geographical Dimension
2001-07-11	Helgi Skúli	Kjartansson	The Saga of Ingvarr The Far-Travelled: Icelandic Preservation of Scandinavian Memory at the Crossroads of Oral and Written Culture
2001-07-09	Helgi Skúli	Kjartansson	Nation and Nature: Unequal Partners in Shaping the History of Iceland
2001-06-17	Fríður	Ólafsdóttir	Icelandic National Costume Information Workshop
2001-01-17	Helga	Arnalds	Leif the Lucky One (a performance)
2001-01-15	Helga	Arnalds	Leif the Lucky One (a performance)
2001-01-14	Helga	Arnalds	Leif the Lucky One (a performance)
2000-11-21	Nelson	Gerrard	Myth and the Supernatural in Iceland and Canada
2000-11-19	Nelson	Gerrard	Icelandic Family Research: Genealogy
2000-11-18	Nelson	Gerrard	New Iceland: From Dream to Reality
2000-03-03	Brad	Leithauser	Growing a Novel in Icelandic Soil; or, How I Came to Write The Friends of Freeland
2000-03-02	Brad	Leithauser	A Giant from a Small Country: Icelandʼs Halldór Laxness
2000-03-02	Brad	Leithauser	Finding the Book of Your Life: Laxnessʼs Independent People
2000-02-12	James	Graham-Campbell	From Pagan to Christian in Iceland and Greenland
2000-02-10	James	Graham-Campbell	The Vikings in the North Atlantic
1999-09-30	Páll	Stefánsson	Images of Iceland
1999-01-29	Þórir	Sigurðsson	Modern Arts and Crafts in Iceland
1999-01-28	Þórir	Sigurðsson	Arts and Crafts in Iceland: A Historical Perspective
1999-01-27	Þórir	Sigurðsson	Icelandic Calligraphy: Ancient and Modern
1998-10-10	Gísli	Pálsson	The Anthropology of Halldór Laxness
1998-10-09	Gísli	Pálsson	The Said, the Unsaid, and the Unspeakable: The Artic Expedition Diaries of V. Stefansson
1998-10-08	Gísli	Pálsson	Nature and Society in the Age of Postmodernity
1998-03-24	Már	Jónsson	Electronic Editing: The Letters of Árni Magnússon, Manuscript Collector
1998-03-24	Már	Jónsson	Saga Heritage: Árni Magnússon and the Collecting of Icelandic Manuscripts
1998-03-23	Már	Jónsson	Incest in Iceland: History and Law 1500–1900
1998-03-19	Hjördís Björk	Hákonardóttir	Law in Iceland: Með lögum skal land byggja
1998-03-18	Hjördís Björk	Hákonardóttir	Legal Language, Power, and Justice
1998-03-18	Hjördís Björk	Hákonardóttir	Human Rights and Icelandic Law
1997-12-02	Ari Trausti	Guðmundsson	The Eruption of Vatnajökull
1997-12-01	Ari Trausti	Guðmundsson	Volcanism in Iceland
1997-11-30	Ari Trausti	Guðmundsson	The Glaciers of Iceland
1997-10-31	Aðalstein	Ingólfsson	The Transformation of Icelandic Landscape Painting 1900–1989
1997-03-10	Bill	Holm	Transforming Personal Experiences into Literature
1997-03-08	Bill	Holm	The Heart Can Be Satisfied Anywhere on Earth
1997-02-06	Judith	Jesch	Lives of Women in the Viking Age
1996-05-23	Thomas	Bredsdorff	Speech Acts in the Icelandic Sagas
1996-03-01	Ágúst	Guðmundsson	The Icelandic Film Industry: Birth of a National Cinema
1996-02-29	Ágúst	Guðmundsson	The Filming of Nonni and Manni Growing Up Icelandic
1996-02-27	Ágúst	Guðmundsson	Outlaw: The Saga of Gísli
1996-02-26	Ágúst	Guðmundsson	Land and Sons
1995-09-29	Þórdís Alda	Sigurðardóttir	New Sculptures from Iceland and Its Historical Background
1995-09-27	Þórdís Alda	Sigurðardóttir	Sculptures by Thórdís Alda Sigurdardóttir
1995-03-16	Helga	Kress	Waiting for Passage: Júlíanna Jónsdóttir and the Emergence of Womenʼs Poetry in Iceland
1995-03-14	Helga	Kress	Gender, Gossip, and the Grotesque in the Sagas
1995-03-13	Helga	Kress	Mighty Maidens: Gender as the Source of Narration in the Sagas
1994-11-01	Einar G.	Pétursson	About Icelandic Books and Manuscripts in North America
1994-05-04	Viðar	Hreinsson	The Philosophy of Integrity: The Icelandic Academy, Stephan G. Stephansson, Halldór Laxness, and Bill Holmʼs Music of Failure
1994-05-03	Viðar	Hreinsson	Pegasus in the Cow Shed, or Heifer Rump Poetics: Stefan G. Stephansson, K. N. and Guttormur J. Guttormsson
1994-05-02	Viðar	Hreinsson	Praise, Scorn, and Sorrow: Western Icelandic Literature 1877–1990
1994-02-24	Guðrún Björk	Guðsteinsdóttir	Visions in the Dark
1994-02-23	Guðrún Björk	Guðsteinsdóttir	The Tell-Tale Heritage
1994-02-22	Guðrún Björk	Guðsteinsdóttir	Icelandic-Canadian Literature in Iceland
1994-02-15	Elsa	Guðjónsson	The National Costume of Icelandic Women, Past and Present
1994-02-14	Elsa	Guðjónsson	With a Shining Needle: Icelandic Embroidery 1600–1900
1994-02-12	Elsa	Guðjónsson	A Heritage in Wool: Medieval Textiles in Iceland
1994-01-12	Bill	Holm	Coming Home Crazy: from China, Iceland, or even North Dakota
1994-01-11	Bill	Holm	Is there a sleeping rattlesnake in the spaces where words donʼt go all the way to the end of the page?
1994-01-10	Bill	Holm	Not Quite an American: the adventures of a Minnesota Western Icelander who doesnʼt find much of a mirror on television or among the box scores
1993-08-05	Sverris	Hólmarssonar	Icelandic Cultural Identity, Rural versus Urban
1993-08-03	Sverris	Hólmarssonar	The Present State of Media and the Arts in Iceland
1993-05-13	Rory	McTurk	Writing Men and Women in Modern Icelandic Literature
1993-05-12	Rory	McTurk	Kings and Chieftains in the Icelandic Sagas
1993-02-26	Birgitta Linderoth	Wallace	Norse Archaeology in Greenland: New Findings
1993-02-26	Birgitta Linderoth	Wallace	LʼAnse Aux Meadows
1993-02-11	The	Aquarius Trio	Recent Icelandic Composers (a performance lecture)
1992-06-19	Haraldur	Bessason	Law and Mortality in Old Icelandic Historical and Semi-Historical Literature
1992-06-18	Haraldur	Bessason	Immortality: Its Bestowal and Attainment in Old Icelandic Heroic Literature
1992-06-17	Haraldur	Bessason	Some Distinguishing Features of Icelandic-Canadian Literature
1992-03-19	Þorkell	Sigurbjörnsson	Travelling without Passport or Visa
1992-03-18	Þorkell	Sigurbjörnsson	Composer in a Small Society
1992-02-15	Hermann	Pálsson	Where is Vinland?
1992-02-13	Hermann	Pálsson	The Ghost of Grettis Saga
1992-02-12	Hermann	Pálsson	Love and Learning in Hávamál
1991-10-11	Njörður P.	Njarðvík	A Singing Stone—and then Silence
1991-10-10	Njörður P.	Njarðvík	Questions to an Icelandic Writer: How does it feel to be so far away and to write for so few?
1991-10-08	Njörður P.	Njarðvík	Laxdæla Saga: A Different Kind of Saga
1991-02-15	Christopher	Sanders	Making an Entry: The Dictionary of Old Norse Prose
1991-02-14	William	Miller	Getting at the Foundation of Heroic Iceland
1991-02-14	William	Miller	Icelandic Blood Feuds in the Law Schools
1990-10-24	Kristjana	Gunnars	Some Observations on Womenʼs Culture in Iceland
1990-10-24	Kristjana	Gunnars	Discovery Literature in Canada
1990-10-23	Kristjana	Gunnars	Writings of Second-Generation People
1990-08-17	Árni	Þórarinsson	Recent Icelandic Films
1990-08-10	Böðvar	Guðmundsson	Icelandic Writing: The Last Ten Years
1990-08-03	Maureen	Thomas	The Outlaw: Filming Gísliʼs Saga
1990-05-27	Lars	Lönnroth	The Reception of Old Norse Poetics
1990-02-09	Sigurður A.	Magnússon	Icelandic Music Since the Turn of the Century
1990-02-07	Sigurður A.	Magnússon	The World of Halldór Laxness
1990-02-06	Sigurður A.	Magnússon	Postwar Dramaturgy in Iceland
1989-11-08	Aðalstein	Ingólfsson	Developments in Contemporary Icelandic Art
1989-11-07	Aðalstein	Ingólfsson	Recent Developments in Icelandic Art
1989-11-07	Aðalstein	Ingólfsson	The Emergence of Modernism
1989-06-23	Vilhjálmur	Árnason	Morality and Structure in the Icelandic Sagas
1989-03-01	Vésteinn	Ólason	Modernism and the Icelandic Novel
1989-02-28	Vésteinn	Ólason	Literary Background of the Scandinavian Ballad
1989-02-27	Vésteinn	Ólason	Fable and Meaning on Some Fornaldar Sögur
1988-11-30	Ulfar	Bragason	Sexual Insult in Njáls Saga
1988-11-30	Ulfar	Bragason	Sturlu Þáttr: An Icelander Confronts the Norwegian King
1988-11-29	Ulfar	Bragason	The Composition of Njáls Saga
1988-10-28	Finnbogi	Gudmundsson	Stephan G. Stephanssonʼs Visit to the West Coast, February–March 1913
1988-10-26	Finnbogi	Gudmundsson	The Role of the Book in Iceland
1988-10-25	Finnbogi	Gudmundsson	Food and Drink in Icelandic Literature
1988-02-15	Carol	Clover	The Politics of Scarcity: Sagas and the Sex-Ratio
1988-02-14	Carol	Clover	Cold are the Counsels of Women: A Lecture on the Icelandic Sagas