Participants

Margrete Syrstad Andås PhD Candidate Danish National Research Foundation’s Centre for the Study of the Cultural Heritage of Medieval Rituals University of Copenhagen msa@teol.ku.dk Andås’ (b.1972) main fields of interests are medieval architecture and architectural sculpture, in particular the relationship between liturgy and architecture, and liturgy and imagery. Publications include: Architectural and Ritual Constructions. The Medieval Cathedral of Trondheim in a European Context (2007, co-ed. with Øystein Ekroll, Andreas Haug and Nils Holger Petersen); “The Octagon Doorway: A Question of Purity and Danger?”, Ornament and Order. Essays on Viking and Northern Medieval Art for Signe Horn Fuglesang (2008); “Hvor marginal er marginen. Om blottere i sentrum og konger i periferien”, Bilder i Marginalen. Nordiska studier i medeltidens konst (2006); “A Royal Chapel for a Royal Relic?”, Senter for Middelalderstudiers Skrifter (2004).

Rognald Heiseldal Bergesen, Cand. Philol. PhD candidate Deptartment of Culture and Litterature (IKL) University of Tromsø rognald.bergesen@hum.uit.no

Jan von Bonsdorff Professor of art history Department of Art History Uppsala University, Sweden jan.von.bonsdorff@konstvet.uu.se The research areas of Jan von Bonsdorff (b. 1959) are the trade and transfer of church art in the medieval Baltic sea area, medieval wooden sculpture in the same area, 19th century Scandinavian painting, and general issues concerning pictorial conventions, visual narration and images as carriers of meaning. Some publications: Kunstproduktion und Kunstverbreitung im Ostseeraum des Spätmittelalters (1993); Det vet jag inte med ord, det vet jag med mitt öga: Jan von Bonsdorff samtalar med Kajsa Zetterqvist (2006); “Innovation och individuation: Några betraktelser över senmedeltida konstnärer i Nordeuropa”, Kunst og kultur (2007); “En gentleman fra Montreal. Christopher Landreths Ryan: et 3D-animeret ’psykogram’”, Kosmorama. Tidsskrift for filmkunst og filmkultur (2007); “Det sköra förhållandet mellan betraktare och bild hos Caspar David Friedrich”, Caspar David Friedrich: den besjälade naturen (2009); “Höviskhetens sista suck: Karl Knutsson, Sten Sture och Sankt Göranskulten i Danzig”, Med konstvetenskaplig kompass: Texter tillägnade G.W.B. (2010).

Ingvild Flaskerud Post Doctoral research fellow Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion University of Bergen, Norway ingvild.flaskerud@ahkr.uib.no Dr. Ingvild Flaskerud has specialised in the study of Shiism in Iran and Europe. Her research interests include Muslim visual material culture and aesthetics, gender issues, ritual studies, and Shia migration to the West. She has produced an ethnographic film presenting Iranian Shia women as ritual performers, Standard-bearers of Hussein (2003), and she is the author of Visualizing Belief and Piety in Iranian Shiism (2010). Flaskerud is a Post. Doctoral research fellow at the University of Bergen.

Hans Henrik Lohfert Jørgensen, PhD Associate professor of art history and visual culture Department of Aesthetic Studies University of Aarhus, Denmark kunhhlj@hum.au.dk

Henning Laugerud, Dr. Art. Associate professor in Art History and Visual Culture Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies University of Bergen, Norway henning.laugerud@lle.uib.no

Lena Liepe, Fil. dr. Professor of art history Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas University of Oslo, Norway lena.liepe@ifikk.uio.no Liepe (b. 1962) is professor og art history at the University of Oslo, Norway. Her main research area is Nordic and North European medieval art and architecture. Publications: Medeltida träskulptur i Skåne: Produktion och förvärv (’Medieval Wooden Sculpture in Scania: Production and Acquisition’; diss., Lund University, Sweden, 1995); Medieval Stone Churches of Northern Norway: The Interpretation of Architecture as a Historical Process (2001); Den medeltida kroppen: Kroppens och könets ikonografi i nordisk medeltid (’The Medieval Body: The Iconography of Body and Gender in Medieval Scandinavia’) 2003; Studies in Icelandic Fourteenth Century Book Painting (2009); articles on theoretical and methodological issues connected to the interpretation of medieval imagery.

Ragnhild M. Bø PhD candidate Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas University of Oslo, Norway r.m.bo@ifikk.uio.no

Kristin B. Aavitsland, dr. art. Senior researcher Faculty of Theology University of Oslo, Norway

Laura Katrine Skinnebach
 PhD candidate
 The Cultural History Collections at Bergen Museum, Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies University of Bergen, Norway laura.skinnebach@bm.uib.no

Margrethe C. Stang Associate Professor of Art History Department of Art and Media Studies Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway margrethe.stang@hf.ntnu.no Stang’s PhD dissertation Paintings, patronage and popular piety. Norwegian altar frontals and society c.1250–1350 (2009) discussed the iconography of medieval panel painting in relation to the question of lay patronage of ecclesiastical furnishings. Other publications include “De fremmede i norsk middelaldermaleri. Jøder og muselmaner blant fjord og fjell” (2006); “Body and Soul. The Legend of St Margaret in Torpo Stave Church” in Ornament and Order. Essays in Viking and Northern Medieval Art for Signe Horn Fuglesang (2008) and “Olavsskulpturer i tre, 1200–1350”(1997).