Epic and Barbarism:
The Representation of Viking Culture in Film and Television

Date: 19th of November 2024

Time: 10.15 – 12.00

Place: Uppsala Eng/ 2-2033 and on zoom

Our speaker:

Dr. Alberto Robles Delgado
Universidad de Alicante, Spain
Bernadotte Scholarship at the Department of History, Stockholm University

Poster Pdf, 18 MB.

Body-Politics of first Millennium Scandinavia: Tales from a large-scale research project

Date: 26th of November 2024

Time: 13.15 – 15.00

Place: Uppsala Eng/ 2-2033 and on zoom

We welcome two speakers for this seminar:

1. Dr. Marianne Hem Eriksen, Associate Professor of Archaeology at the School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester, and PI of the ERC Starting Grant Body-Politics.
2. Renate Larsson, PhD Researcher BODY-POLITICS | Future 100 funded, and Topic Coordinator for “Promoting the 3Fs (Freedom, Forage, and Friends) in Equine Welfare” in Frontiers of Veterinary Science. School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester. Renate’s presentation is titled: “Living with Humans: Exploring Animal Lives and Relationships in Viking Age Scandinavia Through the Lens of 'Archaeoethology'”

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Cultural Contact Zones in Viking Age and Medieval Fennoscandia

Date: 17th of December 2024

Time: 13.15 – 15.00

Place: Uppsala Eng/ 2-2033 and on zoom

Our speaker:

Dr. Gwendolyne Knight

Secretary, Societas Magica. Centre for Medieval Studies, Department of History, Stockholm University.

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The caliph and the falcons: a ninth-century history from Iceland to Iraq

Date: 21st of January 2025

Time: 10.00 – 12.00

Place: Uppsala Eng/2-K1023

Our speaker:

SAMUEL OTTEWILL-SOULSBYWIVA:

Visiting Researcher- Historian of late antiquity and the middle ages,with special interests in manuscripts, diplomacy,and urbanism- Oslo University

Poster Pdf, 22 MB.