The Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies holds a symposium
under the heading
New research on Icelandic folk religion in the later centuries

in the National Library, lecture hall on the 2nd floor,
Saturday, February 14, 2015.
The symposium begins at 1:30 PM and ends no later than 4:30 PM.

Four talks will be given as follows:

Disabled people with special and supernatural abilities
Eva Þórdís Ebenezersdóttir, ethnographer

Followership following a moral change
Hrefna Sigríður Bjartmarsdóttir, ethnographer

COFFEE BREAK

Classification of the unclassifiable. Natural science and ethnography in the 19th century
Ármann Jakobsson, professor of ancient Icelandic literature

About spirits in history and time
Aðalheiður Guðmundsdóttir, Associate Professor of Ethnology

Moderator: Gunnar Þór Bjarnason, historian