Midlands Viking Symposium 2008
Viking Ways: Bones to Berserks
University of Nottingham Saturday 26th April 2008, 10 a.m
A Day School introducing the latest research in Viking Studies for anyone with an interest in the history and culture of the Vikings.
The Universities of Nottingham, Birmingham and Leicester are proud to announce the fourth Midlands Viking Symposium, an event designed to bring together academics and non-academics interested in Viking Studies working in the Midlands. Talks will be given by specialists from a variety of disciplines whose work contributes to research in Viking Studies in Scandinavia, the British Isles, and further afield. This research covers topics in literature, numismatics, sculpture, history, and archaeology.
Speakers include:
- Professor Judith Jesch (University of Nottingham): ‘From Parchment to Penguin: reading the sagas’
- Dr Morn Capper (University of Sheffield): ‘Witnessing Viking Atrocity? Written Accounts of the First Viking Age’
- Dr Paul Cullen (University of Leicester): ‘Spotting Vikings in English Place-Names’
- Dr Amanda Foster (University of Birmingham): ‘From Quarry to Kitchen: making a steatite cooking vessel in the Viking period’
- Gavin Kinsley: ‘The Mercians and the Vikings: East Midlands settlements and landscapes’
- Dr Gareth Williams (British Museum): ‘Cuerdale and the Vale of York: Studying Viking Hoard Finds from the 19th and 21st Centuries’
- Ruarigh Dale (University of Nottingham): ‘The Method of Madness: Berserks’
- Kris Poole (University of Nottingham): ‘Living and Eating in Viking Age England’
There will be a lunch time demonstration of runes and runic inscriptions by Annette Jones (University of Nottingham, as well as a display by Trent & Peak Archaeology
The Venue
The Midlands Viking Symposium 2008 will take place on the University Park Campus in the Arts Lecture Theatre near the South Entrance, no 34 on the map: Campus Map
Costs
£30 per person. This includes registration, all handouts, lunch, coffee and tea. Payment can be by cheque and should be made payable to The University of Nottingham, or by credit card (please ask for a credit card form).
Download registration form: mvs-registration.doc
Please send your completed registration forms by 14th April 2008 to:
Dr Christina Lee School of English Studies University of Nottingham NG7 2RD
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