Women's History Review\u00a0<\/em>27:2 (2018), pp. 54\u201375.<\/p>\n2017. \u201c\u2019Andvarp syrgjandi ekkju\u2018. Dau\u00f0inn, sorgin og tr\u00fain \u00ed br\u00e9fum Sigr\u00ed\u00f0ar P\u00e1lsd\u00f3ttur\u201d, \u00c1hrif L\u00fathers. Si\u00f0askipti, samf\u00e9lag og menning \u00ed 500 \u00e1r. [\u2018The lament of a grieving widow\u2019. Death, sorrow and faith in Sigr\u00ed\u00f0ur P\u00e1lsd\u00f3ttir\u2019s letters, in The Influence of Luther. Reformation, Society and Culture for 500 years] Ritstj. Hjalti Hugason, Loftur Guttormsson og Margr\u00e9t Eggertsd\u00f3ttir. Reykjav\u00edk: Hi\u00f0 \u00edslenska b\u00f3kmenntaf\u00e9lag, 2017, pp. 367\u2013393.<\/p>\n
2016. \u201cA Biography of Her Own.\u00a0 The Historical Narrative and Sigr\u00ed\u00f0ur P\u00e1lsd\u00f3ttir\u201d, Biography, gender and history: Nordic Perspectives. Cultural History \u2013 Kulttuurihistoria 14. Eds. Erla Hulda Halld\u00f3rsd\u00f3ttir, Maarit Leskel\u00e4-K\u00e4rki, Tiina Kinnunen og Birgitte Possing. Turku: k&h, Turku University, 2016, pp. 81\u2013100.<\/p>\n
2016. Co-author with Tiina Kinnunen og Maarit Leskel\u00e4-K\u00e4rki, \u201cDoing Biography\u201d, Biography, gender and history: Nordic Perspectives. Cultural History \u2013 Kulttuurihistoria 14. Eds. Erla Hulda Halld\u00f3rsd\u00f3ttir, Maarit Leskel\u00e4-K\u00e4rki, Tiina Kinnunen og Birgitte Possing. Turku: k&h, Turku University, 2016, pp. 7\u201334.<\/p>\n
2016. Co-author with Tiina Kinnunen, Maarit Leskil\u00e4-K\u00e4rki og Birgitte Possing, \u201cAfterword: Future Challenges\u201d, Biography, gender and history: Nordic Perspectives. Cultural History \u2013 Kulttuurihistoria 14. Ritstj\u00f3rar Erla Hulda Halld\u00f3rsd\u00f3ttir, Maarit Leskil\u00e4-K\u00e4rki, Tiina Kinnunen og Birgitte Possing. Turku: k&h, Turku University, 2016, pp. 251\u2013263.<\/p>\n
2016. \u201cGendering Icelandic Historiography\/ L\u2019historiographie du genre en Islande\u201d,\u00a0Nordic Historical Review\/Revue d\u2019Histoire Nordique\u00a0n. 20 (2015). Special issue. Eds.\u00a0Gu\u00f0mundur H\u00e1lfdanarson and\u00a0Gu\u00f0mundur J\u00f3nsson, pp. 183\u2013207.<\/p>\n
2016. \u201cHvers vegna amma? Saga og sj\u00f3narhorn\u201d, Margar myndir \u00f6mmu. Konur og m\u00f3tun \u00edslensks samf\u00e9lags \u00e1 20. \u00f6ld. Fl\u00e9tturIV. [Why grandmother? Perspectives in history, in \u00a0Grandmother\u2019s many faces. Women and the formation of Icelandic society in the 20thcentury]. Eds. Irma Erlingsd\u00f3ttir, Ragnhei\u00f0ur Kristj\u00e1nsd\u00f3ttir, Sigr\u00fan Alba Sigur\u00f0ard\u00f3ttir and S\u00f3lveig Anna B\u00f3asd\u00f3ttir Reykjav\u00edk: H\u00e1sk\u00f3la\u00fatg\u00e1fan, 2016, pp. 161\u2013187.<\/p>\n
2015. \u201cFer\u00f0 til fort\u00ed\u00f0ar & sagnfr\u00e6\u00f0ingurinn \u00ed verki s\u00ednu\u201d [A Journey to the Past & and the Historian in Her Work], SagaLIII:1 (2015), pp. 121\u2013139.<\/p>\n
\u2014. \u201c\u2018Do Not Let Anyone See This Ugly Scrawling\u2019: Literacy Practices and the Women's Household at Hallfre\u00f0arsta\u00f0ir 1817\u20131829\u201d, Life Writing 12:3 (2015), pp. 289\u2013308. DOI: 10.1080\/14484528.2015.1004352<\/p>\n
2014. \u201cEl\u00e4m\u00e4 kirjeiss\u00e4. Miten representoida jo representoitua el\u00e4m\u00e4\u00e4\u201d [\u201cLife in letters. Representing a life already represented\u201d], in\u00a0Historiallinen el\u00e4m\u00e4. Biografia ja historiantutkimus. \u00a0Eds\u00a0Heini Hakosalo, Seija Jalagin, Marianne Junila and Heidi Kurvinen. Helsinki: SKS,\u00a02014, pp. 172-185.<\/p>\n
\u2014. \u201c\u2018Don\u2019t you forget your always loving sister\u201c. Writing as a social and cultural capital\u201d,Vernacular Literacies \u2013 Past, Present and Future. Eds. Ann-Catrine Edlund, Lars-Erik Edlund and Susanne Haugen. Northern Studies Monographs 3. Vardagligt skriftbruk 3 Ume\u00e5 University and Royal Skyttean Society: Ume\u00e5 2014, pp. 181\u2013192.<\/p>\n
\u2014. Erla Hulda Halld\u00f3rsd\u00f3ttir and Sigr\u00fan P\u00e1lsd\u00f3ttir, \u201cHuglei\u00f0ing um b\u00f3kina Fjarri hl\u00fdju hj\u00f3nas\u00e6ngur. \u00d6\u00f0ruv\u00edsi \u00cdslandssaga eftir Ingu Huld H\u00e1konard\u00f3ttur\u201d, [Reflections onOutside of marriage. A different history of Icelandby Inga Huld H\u00e1konard\u00f3ttir], SagaLII:2 (2014), 99\u2013107.<\/p>\n
2013.\u00a0\u201dKvennabr\u00e9fin \u00e1 Hallfre\u00f0arst\u00f6\u00f0um. Hagn\u00fdting skriftarkunn\u00e1ttu 1817\u20131829\u201d [The Women\u2019s Letters at Hallfre\u00f0arsta\u00f0ir. Literacy Practices 1817\u20131829], SagaLI:2 (2013)<\/p>\n
\u2014. \u201cT\u00e1knmynd e\u00f0a einstaklingur? Kynja\u00f0 sj\u00f3narhorn s\u00f6gunnar og \u00e6vi Sigr\u00ed\u00f0ar P\u00e1lsd\u00f3ttur\u201d [A representative or an individual? The gendered perspective of history and the life of Sigr\u00ed\u00f0ur P\u00e1lsd\u00f3ttir], Sk\u00edrnir, Journal of The Icelandic Literary Society, Vol. 187 (spring) 2013). pp. 80\u2013115.<\/p>\n
\u2014. \u201cEr fort\u00ed\u00f0in \u00f6ll \u00fear sem h\u00fan er s\u00e9\u00f0?\u201d [Is the past as it seems?], SagaXLIX:1 (2011), pp. 7\u201311.<\/p>\n
2010. \u201cBaldvin\u2019s Tear. The Materiality of the Past\u201d, in Making Sense, Crafting History. Practices of Producing Historical Meaning. Eds. Izabella Agardi, Berteke Waaldijk, Carla Salvaterra. Pisa: Plus-Pisa University Press, 2010, pp. 207\u2013219.<\/p>\n
\u2014. \u201cThe Narrative of Silence.\u201d Life Writing7:1 (2010), pp. 37\u201350.<\/p>\n
2009. \u201cSem einn ma\u00f0ur. Or\u00f0r\u00e6\u00f0a um hj\u00f3naband \u00e1 n\u00edtj\u00e1ndu \u00f6ld\u201d, Kvennabar\u00e1tta og kristin tr\u00fa. Eds. Arnfr\u00ed\u00f0ur Gu\u00f0mundsd\u00f3ttir, Krist\u00edn \u00c1stgeirsd\u00f3ttir. Reykjav\u00edk: JPV, 2009, pp. 87-106. [\u2018As one man. Discourse on marriage in the nineteenth century\u2019, in Women\u2019s movement and Christianity].<\/p>\n
\u2014. \u201cSagnfr\u00e6\u00f0in, fem\u00ednisminn og fe\u00f0raveldi\u00f0\u201d, vi\u00f0tal vi\u00f0 Judith M. Bennett [History, Feminism and Patriarchy. An interview with Judith M. Bennett], Saga, the journal of the History Society], Saga XLVII:2 (2009), pp. 39-54.<\/p>\n
2008. \u201cEarning one\u2019s living. Debates on femininity in Iceland in the 1880s\u201d, Rhetoric of work. Eds. Dimitra Lambropoulou, Yannis Yannitsiotis og Carla Salvaterra. Pisa: Plus-Pisa University Press, pp. 44\u201362.<\/p>\n
2007. \u201cFragments of Lives\u2014The Use of Private Letters in Historical Research\u201d, NORA. Nordic Journal of Women\u2019s Studies(15:1) 2007, pp. 35\u201349.<\/p>\n
\u2014. \u201c\u2019Jeg j\u00e1ta a\u00f0 jeg er opt \u00f3\u00fe\u00e6gileg\u2019. Kona \u00ed r\u00fdmi and\u00f3fs og hugmynda\u201d [\u2019I admit that I am often uncomfortable.\u2019 A woman in the space of resistance and ideas], Riti\u00f02\/3 2007, pp. 219\u2013241.<\/p>\n
2006. \u201cConstructing Identity. A Critical Assessment of the Gender Perspective in Icelandic Historiography.\u201d Professions and Social Identity. New European Historical Research on Work, Gender and Society. Eds. Berteke Waaldijk. Plus-Pisa: Pisa University Press, 2006, pp. 135\u2013151.<\/p>\n
\u2014. \u201cPrivate letters.\u201d Teaching with Memories: European Women\u2019s Histories in International and Interdisciplinary Classrooms. Eds Andrea Pet\u00f6 and Berteke Waaldijk. Galway: Women\u2019s Studies Centre, 2006, pp. 66\u201374.<\/p>\n
2003. \u201cAf br\u00e9faskriftum kvenna \u00e1 19. \u00f6ld.\u201d Al\u00fe\u00fd\u00f0umenning \u00e1 \u00cdslandi 1830-1930. Rita\u00f0 m\u00e1l, menntun og f\u00e9lagshreyfingar. Eds. Ingi Sigur\u00f0sson og Loftur Guttormsson. Reykjav\u00edk, 2003, pp. 247\u2013267. [\u2018On the letter writing of women in the nineteenth century\u2019, in Popular culture in Iceland 1830\u20131930: Writing, education and social movements].<\/p>\n
\u2014. \u201cFr\u00e6\u00f0slu- og menntavi\u00f0leitni kvenf\u00e9laga 1870-1930.\u201d Al\u00fe\u00fd\u00f0umenning \u00e1 \u00cdslandi 1830-1930. Rita\u00f0 m\u00e1l, menntun og f\u00e9lagshreyfingar. Eds. Ingi Sigur\u00f0sson og Loftur Guttormsson. Reykjav\u00edk, 2003, pp. 269-290. [\u2018The Efforts of Women\u2019s Societies in the Field of Education 1870\u20131930\u2019, in Popular culture in Iceland 1830\u20131930: Writing, education and social movements].<\/p>\n
Selected papers at conferences, seminars, workshops<\/h4>\n
2023, \u201eBecoming independent citizens. Women in Iceland, 1915-1970\u201c. Fyrirlestur haldinn \u00e1 m\u00e1l\u00feinginu S\u00e5 blev Island v\u00e4rldens mest j\u00e4mst\u00e4llda land, Playhouse Teater, Stockholm, 27 februari 2023<\/p>\n
2022, with Ragnhei\u00f0ur Kristj\u00e1nsd\u00f3ttir, \u201e\u201eGenomf\u00f6randet \u2013 politiken, institutionerna, valdeltagandet\u201c. Paper presented at Letterstedtska f\u00f6reningens medlemsseminarium: Kvinnlig r\u00f6str\u00e4tt i Norden. Kampen \u2013 genomf\u00f6randet \u2013 forts\u00e4ttningen, Piperska Museet, Stokkh\u00f3lmi, 17.\u201318. mars 2022.<\/p>\n
2021, with\u00a0Ragnhei\u00f0ur Kristj\u00e1nsd\u00f3ttir, \u201ePracticing the Right to Vote. Female Voters and Male Inertia in Iceland, 1915\u20131944\u201c.\u00a0Paper presented at Suffrage Now, Stockholm's University, 13-14 August 2021.<\/p>\n
2021, with\u00a0Ragnhei\u00f0ur Kristj\u00e1nsd\u00f3ttir, \u201eBecoming Modern. WWII, women\u2019s work, and gendered citizenship in Iceland\u201c. Paper presented at the 13th Nordic Women\u2019s and Gender History Conference, Aarhus, 19 to 21 August 2021.<\/p>\n
2021, with\u00a0Ragnhei\u00f0ur Kristj\u00e1nsd\u00f3ttir. \u201eA Century of Working Women in Iceland\u201c. Paper presented at the Nordic Labour History Network webinar, 18. ma\u00ed 2021.<\/p>\n
2021. \u201eMarginal histories? Reflections on subjects and places \u2013 Iceland in the long 19th century\u201c. Paper presented at The Long Nineteenth Century Seminar Trinity Term 2021, Competing\/Contesting Identities, hj\u00e1 Oxford University, 26. ma\u00ed 2021.<\/p>\n
2021. \u201eIndependent Citizens? The Local Experiences and Transnational Ideologies of the Housewife in Iceland c. 1940-1970\u201c. Fyrirlestur haldinn 25. mars \u00e1 rafr\u00e6nni r\u00e1\u00f0stefnu The European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC) 24.\u201327. mars 2021.<\/p>\n
2019. \u201cHistorical Agents and Extras. Gender and National Historiography\/ies. The Case of Iceland\u201d. Paper presented at Feminism, History, and Theory:\u00a0Reflections on Women, Gender, Labour, and Colonialism.\u00a0University of Trent, Peterborough, Ontario, 21-22 June 2019.<\/p>\n
2018. \u201eThe Cold War, the Pill, and the (un)happy housewife in Iceland, 1945\u20131970\u201c, paper presented atthe IFRWH Conference, Transnationalisms, Transgressions, Translations, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver 9\u201312 August 2018.<\/p>\n
2018. \u201cHousewives in crisis. Conflicting ideologies 1945\u20131970\u201c. Paper presented 9 June 2018 at the 12th Nordic Women's and Gender History Conference. University of Oulu, Finland, 7\u20139 June 2018.<\/p>\n
2018. With Ragnhei\u00f0ur Kristj\u00e1nsd\u00f3ttir, \u201cIn the Wake of Suffrage.\u00a0Icelandic Women as cultural and political agents,\u00a01915-2015\u201d. Paper presented 21 February 2018 at Histories of Gender and Sexuality Seminars,\u00a0University of Edinburgh.<\/p>\n
2017. Invited speaker. \u201c\u2019As it happened not as it turned out\u2019. Reflections on letters, biography and life writing.\u201d Paper presented at the seminar Biography and History at the Research Unit for Life Writing, Department of History and Classical Studies, Aarhus University 26 October 2017.<\/p>\n
2017. \u201cBiography and historiography\u201d. Paper presented at the Roundtable Gender and the Reformation of Biographical Writing, 29th Congress of Nordic Historians, Aalborg University, Denmark, 15-18 August 2017.<\/p>\n
2017. With Ann-Catrine Edlund, \u201cGendering Historical literacy.\u00a0Two Cases of Vernacular Writing in 19th and 20th Century Sweden and Iceland\u201d. Paper presented at the annual conference of HiSoN (Historical Sociolinguistics Network),\u00a0Examining the Social in Historical Sociolinguistics: Methods and Theory. City University of New York\u2019s Graduate Center and\u00a0New York University 6-7 April 2017.<\/p>\n
2016. \u201eMerkiskonur. Tilraunir til \u00feess a\u00f0 skrifa s\u00f6gu kvenna.\u201c [Outstanding Women. Women writing Women\u2019s history]. Paper presented at the Annual Humanities Conference, University of Iceland, 11-12 March 2016.<\/p>\n
2015. \u201cWomen\u2019s History as Biography. Reflections on the Gender of History in Iceland, Past and Present\u201d.Paper presented at the sessionGenre conventions, gender and the new biographies, 20 August, at the XI. Nordic Women\u2019s and Gender Historian Conference, University of Stockholm, 19-21 August 2015.<\/p>\n
2015. [Invited] Panel presentation & discussion at the panel \u201cDe Nordiska Kvinno- och Genushistorikererm\u00f6tenas framtid och organiseringsformer f\u00f6r nordiska genushistoriker\u201d, 20 August, at the XI. Nordic Women\u2019s and Gender Historian Conference, University of Stockholm, 19-21 August 2015.<\/p>\n
2015. [Invited] \u201cHistory on the margins. The gender of Icelandic historiography\u201d. Paper presented at a seminar for the history department, University of Oulu Finland, 25 February 2015.<\/p>\n
2015. [Invited] \u201c\u2019As it happened not as it turned out\u2019. Reflections on letters, biography and life writing\u201d. Paper presented at a seminar on biographies, University of Oulu Finland, 24 February 2015.<\/p>\n
2015. \u201cGendered Letter Writing in Iceland, 1820-1840. Reflections\u201d. Paper presented at the workshop Local Identities \u2013 global (literacy) practices. Vernacular writing in a textually mediated social world, Ume\u00e5 University, 16-17 February 2015.<\/p>\n
2015. \u201cFer\u00f0 til fort\u00ed\u00f0ar & sagnfr\u00e6\u00f0ingurinn \u00ed verki s\u00ednu.\u201d [A Journey to the Past & the historian in her work]. Paper presented at the The Historical Association\u2019s lecture series, The National Museum of Iceland, 27 January 2015.<\/p>\n
2015. \u201cHvers vegna amma? Saga og sj\u00f3narhorn\u201d. [Why Grandmother? Perspectives in history]. Paper presented in the series \u201cGrandmother\u2019s many faces\u201d, orchestrated by RIKK, University of Iceland, celebrating the centenary of women\u2019s right to vote, The National Museum of Iceland, 16 January 2015.<\/p>\n
2014. \u201cWriting, scribbling, scrawling. Writing (literacy) practices in the 19th century Iceland.\u201d Paper presented atSpr\u00e5kvetenskapliga seminariet, Ume\u00e5 Universitet, 9 December 2014.<\/p>\n
2014. \u201cLocal or Global? The Life and Letters of Sigr\u00ed\u00f0ur P\u00e1lsd\u00f3ttir (1809-1871).\u201d Work in progress seminar, IASH, Edinburgh, 21 May 2014.<\/p>\n
2014. \u201cThe unforeseeable narrative. Turning a lifelong correspondence into a life story.\u201d International conference, Writing women\u2019s lives: Autobiography, life narratives, myths and historiography, Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey, 19\u201320 April 2014.<\/p>\n
2013. \u201cA Biography of Her Own. The Historical Narrative and Sigr\u00ed\u00f0ur P\u00e1lsd\u00f3ttir.\u201d Work in progress series, Gender History Network, Edinburgh, University of Edinburgh 23 October 2013.<\/p>\n
2013. \u201cOne life story. Writing from the margins\u201d. International Federation for Research in Women\u2019s History & Women\u2019s History Network in UK: \u2018Women\u2019s Histories: The Local and the Global\u2019, 29 August to 1 September 2013, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK.<\/p>\n
2013. \u201cLetters to My Brother. Sigr\u00ed\u00f0ur P\u00e1lsd\u00f3ttir\u2019s life 1809\u20131871\u201d. The Agents and Artefacts of Vernacular Literacy Practices in Late Pre-Modern Europe, International Colloquium, Berlin, 13\u201315 June 2013.<\/p>\n
2012. \u201cAn \u2018Ordinary\u2019 Woman\u2019s Life and the Historical Narrative. The Case of Sigr\u00ed\u00f0ur P\u00e1lsd\u00f3ttir.\u201d A paper in the session The Methodologies of Gendered Historical Biographies: Aims, Uses, Sources, and Ethics, The 10thConference of Nordic Women\u2019s and Gender Historians, Bergen, Norway, 9-12 August 2012.<\/p>\n
2012. \u201c\u2019Don\u2019t you forget your always loving sister.\u2019 Writing as a social and cultural capital\u201d.Vernacular Literacies \u2013 Past, Present and Future, June 13-15 2012 \u00ed Ume\u00e5, Sweden.<\/p>\n
2011. \u201cLetters to my brother: How to represent a life already represented?\u201d Paper presented atRepresenting Lives: A Workshop on Biographical Research\u00a029-30 September 2011, University of Oulu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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