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?”, in 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”, in Bilder i Marginalen. Nordiska studier i medeltidens konst (2006); “A Royal Chapel for a Royal Relic?”, in 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”, in Kunst og kultur 90 (2007); “En gentleman fra Montreal. Christopher Landreths Ryan: et 3D-animeret ’psykogram’”, in 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”, in Med konstvetenskaplig kompass: Texter tillägnade G.W.B. (2010).

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

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

Henning Laugerud’s research interests include the medieval and early modern period: art history and cultural history, visual studies, rhetoric, mnemology and theories of interpretation. His publications include: ”To See with the Eyes of the Soul. Memory and Visual Culture in Medieval Europe”, in ARV – Nordic Yearbook of Folklore 66 (2010); “Memory Stored and Reactivated. Some Introductory Reflections”, in ARV – Nordic Yearbook of Folklore 66 (2010); Instruments of Devotion. The Practices and Objects of Religious Piety from the Late Middle Ages to the 20th. Century (2007, co-ed. w. Laura Katrine Skinnebach); Tegn, symbol og tolkning. Om forståelse og fortolkning av middelalderens bilder [Sign, Symbol and Interpretation. On understanding and interpretation of Medieval Images] (2003, co-ed. w. Gunnar Danbolt, Lena Liepe); Categories of Sacredness in Europe, 1500–1800 (2003, co-ed. w. A. B. Amundsen.

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.

Maria Husabø Oen
PhD Candidate
Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas
University of Oslo
m.h.oen@ifikk.uio.no

Maria Husabø Oen’s (b. 1984) main research interests include interrelations between religious and secular art, cult images, votive objects, ritual practices, mysticism and visual culture in the late Middle Ages and the early modern period. Oen is currently working on her PhD project entitled “Birgitta’s Images: Art and visuality in Birgittine spirituality, cult and devotion”, which is concerned with the reception and function of images in a Birgittine context. She has previously published the article “The Origins of a Miraculous Image: Notes on the Annunciation Fresco in SS. Annunziata in Florence” in Konsthistorisk Tidskrift/Journal of Art History (2011).

Elina Räsänen, PhD
Senior lecturer in Art History (act.)

Department of Philosophy, History, Culture and Art Studies

University of Helsinki
elina.rasanen@helsinki.fi

Räsänen specializes in late medieval art in Northern Europe. Her research interests include issues of spatial, corporeal and material aspects of art and multi-sensory reception processes. She is the author of Ruumiillinen esine, materiaalinen suku. Tutkimus Pyhä Anna itse kolmantena -aiheisista keskiajan puuveistoksista Suomessa [Embodied Object, Material Family. Late-Medieval Wood-Sculptures Depicting Saint Anne with the Virgin and Child in Finland](2009). She has also published articles in several collections, including: “Late-Medieval Wood Sculptures as Materialized Saints. The Embodiment of Saint Anne in Northern Europe”, in: Mind and Matter (2010) and together with Sofia Lahti, ”The Visible and the Tangible. On the Questions of Materiality in the Study of Medieval Images and Objects”, in: Methods and the Medievalist: Current Approaches in Medieval Studies (2008).

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

Skinnebach’s scholarly interests are devotional practice and spirituality during the Middle Ages and the Reformation and the position of images herein. She has been particular attention to late medieval ideas of the body and the incorporation of body and soul in devotional practice. Publications: “Forestillingen om ’periodens enhed’ og begrebet ‘habitus’ i den kunsthistoriske praksis”, in Talende Bilder. Tekster om kunst og visuell kultur (2010); “‘the solace of his image’. Images and Presence in Late medieval Devotional Practice”, in Instruments of Devotion. The Practices and Objects of Religious Piety from the Late Middle Ages to the 20th Century (2007); “Krop, sjæl og rum i senmiddelaldelig fromhedspraksis”, in Kunst og Kultur 90 (2007). 

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).

Kristin B. Aavitsland, dr. art.

Senior researcher

Faculty of Theology

University of Oslo, Norway
k.b.aavitsland@teologi.uio.no