Amalia Rubin
University of Leeds

Establishing, Recreating, and Shifting Locations in the Geography of the Tibetan Epic of King Gesar of Ling

Connor Toole
Indiana University

An Táin Bó Flidhais: The Meeting of Memory, Landscape, and Saga in County Mayo, Ireland

Twalha Abbass
Indiana University

Epic Geographies and Ecological Memory: The Case of Utenzi wa Nyakiiru Kib

Rebecca Manring
Indiana University

Travelling the Pre-modern Epic Bengali Landscape: Rūparāma Cakravartī’s Dharma-maṅgala

Aida Vidan
Tufts University

Mapping the Feminine Power: Stambol in Ballads from the Milman Parry Collection

Marie-Luise
Theuerkauf
Harvard University

Geography as Epic: Theorizing the Irish Dindshenchas tradition

Dwight Reynolds
University of California

The Epic Journey of the Bani Hilal Bedouin Tribe

Emily Lethbridge
Árni Magnússon Institute
for Icelandic Studies

Icelandic Saga Geographies and Tradition-Bearers: A Consideration of Understudied Written and Oral Sources

Gísli Sigurðsson
Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies

Mapping the World – with Stories and Poetry

Dorian Jurić
Indiana University

How Did Western Balkan Singers Learn Epic Geographies?

Stephen Mitchell
Harvard University

Brünhild’s Castle and Other Topographic Fantasies in the Sigurd/Siegfried Tradition

Jonathan Ready
University of Michigan

Place Names in Homer’s Iliad

Nataliya Yanchevskaya
Princeton University

The Realms of the Dead and the Netherworld in the Mahābhārata

Ben Storsved
Indiana University

Heroic and Shamanistic Geographies in the Kyrgyz Epic Er Töštük

Gregory Schrempp
Indiana University

Myrmecological Pleonexia? The Epic of the Ants

Mark Bender
Ohio State University

Lands and Lives in Yi epics and Popol Vuh: Juxtapositions

Nora Kauffeldt
University of Basel & Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

Mapped in Memory: Saga Narratives and the Knowledge of Place

Jo Ann Cavallo
Columbia University

Reimagining the World: Global Geography from Italian Renaissance Epics to Folk Performance Traditions

Narges Nematollahi
Indiana University

A City in the Heavens, A City on the Earth: Kangdiz and Seyavashgard in Persian Epic

Carole Newlands
University of Colorado

The Geopoetics of Imperial Epic: Thule in the Roman Imagination

Natasha Mikles
Texas State University

Gesar’s Tibet in the Twentieth-century Theosophical Works of Nicholas Roerich and Alexandra David-Neel

John D. Niles
University of California
& University of Wisconsin

Before Beowulf and Sutton Hoo: Looking Eastward

Daniel Prior
Miami University

Geography and Heroic Epic Traditions: Existential Dimensions

John W. Johnson
Indiana University

The Acquisition of Power by Sun-Jata Keïta, Founder of the Manden Empire in the 13th Century

Margaret Beissinger
Princeton University

Expressing “Us” Versus “Them” Through Geography in Romanian Oral Epic: The Danube River as Boundary in Heroic Songs of the Ottoman Period

Frog
University of Helsinki

Otherworlding, Geography, and the Linguistic Encoding and Narrative Entanglement of Knowledge

Christopher Atwood
University of Pennsylvania

Acting Out Gog and Magog: The Alexander Romance, Syriac Apocalyptic Narrative and Turco-Mongolian Origin Narratives

Timothy Thurston
University of Leeds

Authenticating Tibetan Epic Geographies in Modern China

Cassidy Croci
University of Tübingen

Shed, Axe, Trout: Practical Routes in Landnámabók ‘The Book of Settlements’

Robert Mann
Independent Scholar

Geographical Puzzles in the Igor Tale

Jonathan Burgess
University of Toronto

Geography and Travel in the Odyssey