The Image of Virgin Mary in Words and Art: Praising the God-mother in Fifteenth-Century Sweden at the Words and Matter: The Virgin Mary in Late Medieval Parish Life – A Marcus Wallenberg Symposium. Umeå University 8-10, November 2012
Knutbymadonnan som text. Intertext i medeltida konstverk och handskrifter om Jungfru Maria at Østnordisk filologi. Nu og i fremtiden. Uppsala, 20-21. september 2013
”Virgin Mary and the Annunciation: A Feminist Reading”, at the International Medieval Congress, Leeds 12 July, 2006. Arr: International Medieval Congress, Leeds University.
”Gestures and Expression — The Annunciation in Medieval sculpture from Gotland”, at the conference Cultural History of Emotions in Pre-Modernity, Umeå 24 October, 2008. Arr: Cultural History of Emotions in Pre-Modernity, Umeå University.
”Interdiscipinary frames and a preposterous history” vid internationell workshop Gender Theories in Premodern Studies, Umeå University 8 May, 2012. Arr: Umeå Group of Premodern Studies, Umeå University
”The Image of Virgin Mary in the Paintings by the Passionsmästaren of Gotland”, at the international symposium Words and Matter: The Virgin Mary in Late Medieval Parish Life, Umeå university 9 november 2012. Arr: Imitatio Mariae-project andUmeå Group of Premodern Studies, Umeå University
”Questions of materiality in the Pietà”, at the international and interdisciplinary workshop, Gender, emotions and material culture in Scandinavian history, Umeå 28 maj 2013. Arr: Umeå Center for Gender Studies, Umeå Group for Premodern Studies at Umeå university and ARC-Centre for History of Emotions, Perth University.
”Scener från Jesu födelse”, lecture at Västerbottens konstförening, Umeå 14 december 2010. Arr. Västerbottens konstförening.
”Bilden av Jungfru Marie bebådelse”, public lecture at Kvinnobiblioteket, Luleå 27 mars 2011. Arr. Kulturföreningen Kulturälvorna and Sensus
”Jungfru Marie bebådelse i konsten”, public lecture at Västerbotten Museum, 17 april 2011. Arr. Sveriges Konstföreningar, Västerbotten
”Bebådelsemotivet i konsten”, public lecture at Mariakyrkan, Umeå, 25 mars 2012 Arr: Konst i Kyrka (co-arrangement by Umeå kommun, Konstfrämjandet, Västerbottens konstförening, Svenska kyrkan, Sensus and Bilda)
”Julen i konsten: Scener från Jesu födelse”, public lecture, Umeå 12 december 2012. Arr: Konstföreningen Arte at Umeå university
Keynotes
”Digital Ductus. Medieval Materiality in Digital Installations and Archives”, keynote, Nebraska Forum on Digital Humanities, Nebraska Univ., april 2015
”Digital Ductus. Medieval Material Culture and the Interplay of the Senses”, keynote, Challenge the Past/Diversify the Future, Göteborgs universitet, mars 2015.
”The Rethinking of Medieval Space in Digital Environments”, keynote, Edinburgh University, maj 2013.
Invited speaker
“Curating Mary Digitally: Representations of Medieval Material Culture in Installations and Online Archives, Conference: Materiality within museums, archives, cities and households in local, global and future perspectives, CHS, University of Gothenburg,14–15/10, 2015.
“Curating Mary Digitally”, Archives, Art and Activism symposium, London 3-5 September, 2015.
Media Archaeology and the Humanities Lab – a Symposium: http://www.liu.se/forskning/foass/esper-olsson/activities/activities?l=en
“Aesthetic Theory and Medieval Materiality through the Digital Lens”, Design Research Society’s Conference, Umeå University, May 2014.
“Screening Mary: Rethinking Medieval Church Spaces in Digital Environments”, at The Swedish Institute in Rome, February 2014.
“Historical Empathy and Digital Spaces”, Challenges in Teaching: Historical Thinking and Digital History, Umeå & Stanford Conference on History Education 2014, Umeå University, May 2014
“Screening Mary: Medieval Materiality in Digital Installations”, Stanford University, September 2013, invited speaker.
”The Rethinking of Medieval Space in Digital Environments”, keynote lecture, Digital Scholarship: day of ideas, the University of Edinburgh, May 2013, invited keynote speaker.
“Ekfras och medeltida materialitet i digitala gränssnitt”, [“Ekphrasis and Medieval Materiality in Digital Interfaces”], Department of Literature and History of Ideas, Stockholm University, november 2013, invited speaker.
“Pekandets arkeologi: Medeltida materialitet i digitala miljöer” [An Archaeology of Touch: Medieval Materiality in Digital Environments”], Department of Literature, History of Ideas and Religion, Gothenburg University, October 2013, invited speaker.
“Pekandets arkeologi: Medeltida materialitet i digitala miljöer”, [“An Archaeology of Touch: Medieval Materiality in Digital Environments”], Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences, Lund University, september 2013, invited speaker.
”Maria och Memoria: Medeltida gränssnitt och digitala miljöer”, Minne, makt, moral: Historia i samtidsperspektiv, Symposium, University of Linköping, April 2013, invited speaker.
”Medieval Interfaces and Digital Environments”, Media Places. Infrastructre/Space/Media, A Peter Wallenberg Symposium, Umeå Universitet, december 2012, invited speaker.
”Medieval Interfaces and Digital Environments”, Chalmers, The Department for Applied Information Technology, Gothenburg, november 2012, invited speaker.
Conference Presentations
”Ekphrasis through the Digital Lens”, Ekphrasis: from Paragone to Encounter, University of Hull, juli 2013.
”Mary and Memoria. Medieval Materiality Reconsidered through Digital Interfaces”, Words and Matter. The Virgin Mary in Late Medieval Parish Life, Umeå University, 2012.
”Medieval Materiality Reconsidered through Digital Interfaces”, The 3rd U21 Digital Humanities Workshop, Lund University, 2012.
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