FEAST, PLAY
AND
PUZZLES
IN
SCANDINAVIAN STUDIES
The 20th Anniversary Conference of the Centre of Scandinavian Studies
Venue: Vilnius University, Faculty of Philology, V. Krėvės room
Time: May 10-12, 2012
Language: Scandinavian and English
Program
THURSDAY, MAY 10
08 30- 09 10
09 15
Registration
Official opening
Welcome words by:
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Rimantas Vaitkus, Vice Rector for International
Affairs, Vilnius University
Gintaras Steponavičius, Minister of Education and
Science of the Republic of Lithuania
Vytautas Leškevičius, Vice Minister of Foreign
Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania
Leif Arne Ulland, Norway’s Ambassador to Lithuania
Erika Sausverde, head of the Centre of Scandinavian
Studies: 20 years of Scandinavian Studies at Vilnius
University
10 05-11 05
11 05- 11 35
11 35 - 11 55
11 55 -12 15
12 15- 12 35
12 35 – 12 55
Plenary lecture: Thomas Bredsdorff (University of
Copenhagen) «FEMINISM WITH A GOOD LAUGH Holberg, Irony and Equal Rights»
Coffee break
Loreta Vaicekauskienė (Vilnius University) «Standard
against Dialect: League tables from Denmark and Lithuania»
Jens Normann Jørgensen (University of Copenhagen)
«Sprog i superdiversiteten: struktur, brug og ideologi»
[Language in superdiversity: structure, use and ideology]
Elena Krasnova (St. Petersburg University)
«Sammensætning i dansk» [Compounding in Danish]
Daniel Sävborg (Tartu University) « Gåtor och gåtfullhet i
sagalitteraturen» [Enigmas in the saga literature]
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12 55 – 14 00
14 00 – 14 20
14 20– 14 40
14 40-15 00
15 00 – 15 20
15 20 -15 50
15 50- 16 10
16 10 -16 30
Lunch
Ieva Steponavičiūtė (Vilnius University) «Precious play in
Morten Søndergaard‘s Ordapotek»
Sturla Berg-Olsen (University of Oslo) «Leik, spel og moro i
Norsk Ordbok» [Play, game and fun in the Norwegian
Dictionary]
Aurelija Griškevičienė (Vilnius University)« „Lystige (og
mindre lystige) utfordringer i arbeidet med norsk-litauisk
ordbok“» [Jolly and less jolly challenges in working at the
Norwegian-Lithuanian dictionary]
Else Ryen (University of Oslo)
«Språkregler til besvær. Skriving av sammensatte ord i
norsk - og de andre skandinaviske språkene»
[Troublesome language rules. The writing of compound
words in Norwegian - and the other Scandinavian Languages]
Water break
Šarūnas Radvilavičius (Vilnius University) «Playing with
identities: Lithuania and the Nordic card»
David Östlund (Stockholm University) «'Laissez-faire
under a bell jar': Marquis Childs and the Sweden-fad of the
Roosevelt Era »
19 00
Banquet at the university cafe
FRIDAY, MAY 11
09 00- 10 00
Plenary lecture: Anatoly Liberman (University of Minnesota)
«The Indo-European Ancestors of the Scandinavian Gods? »
Aurelijus Vijūnas (National Kaohsiung Normal University,
Taiwan) « On the Old Icelandic Riddle Collection
Heiðreksgátur»
Jurij Kusmenko (Institute for Linguistic Studies, Saint
Petersburg / Humboldt University of Berlin) «Samer som
jättar och dvärgar i fornnordisk tradition» [The Sámi as
giants and dwarves in the Old Norse tradition]
Coffee break
Axel Holvoet, Birutė Spraunienė (Vilnius University).
«Towards a typology of definite adjectives: the evidence of
Scandinavian and Baltic»
Ugnius Mikučionis (Vilnius University) «Expression of
complex attitude in Norwegian»
Sirke Happonen (Helsinki University) «Feasts in Moomin
10 00 – 10 20
10 20 – 10 40
10 40 -11 10
11 10 -11 30
11 30 – 11 50
11 50- 12 10
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12 10- 12 30
12 30 -14 00
14 00 -15 00
15 00-15 20
15 20-15 40
15 40-16 00
18 00
Valley»
Erika Sausverde (Vilnius University) «”Pyttipanna” and
other serious matters in lexicography»
Lunch
coffee and STUDENT POSTER SESSION
Asta Čekaitė (Linköping University) «Att skapa en
gemensam grund på andra/främmande språk:
Orddefinitioner och ordbetydelser » [Creating common
ground: word definitions and word meanings in second
language teaching]
Giedrius Tamaševičius (Vilnius University) « At synde mod
sprogets sjæl og nationens ånd: nogle bemærkninger om
sprognationalisme i Danmark og Litauen»
[To sin against the soul of language and the spirit of nation:
Some remarks on linguistic nationalism in Denmark and
Lithuania ]
Tomas Riad (Stockholm University) « Högt och lågt i
skandinaviska dialekter » [Get high, get low in Scandinavian
dialectology]
Bellman evening with Jennie Nell, Martin Bagge and other
most delightful personalities at Aula Parva (in the central
building of Vilnius University)
SATURDAY, MAY 12
Minibus leaves for Nida at 08 30. Back to Vilnius Sunday late afternoon.
Those not taking it can have a guided tour in Vilnius on Saturday.
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