16th Annual Midlands Online Viking Symposium

This annual one-day event makes a return after the postponed 2020 event. As ever, it presents news of some of the latest discoveries and ideas in Viking research to members of the public. It is organised in collaboration with the universities of Nottingham and Leicester.

Please note this event will be wholly online. Registration will close at 3pm on Thursday September 22nd. 

Programme

The aim of this year’s programme is to present new research on three distinct regions of the Viking world: Britain, Eastern Europe and the North Atlantic. Confirmed speakers and topics are detailed below.

All times are British Summer Time (GMT +1:00)

Eastern Encounters

10.00

Monica White (University of Nottingham), 'Byzantine-Rus Encounters in the Ninth Century'

10.30

Agni Papamichael (University of Birmingham), ‘Remembering Exotic Deaths? Runestones and travel to the East’

Questions

Break 

Texts in the North

11.20

Cassidy Croci, (University of Nottingham), ‘Landnámabók(s): Untangling the social and textual networks of Iceland’s Book of Settlements’

11.45

Keith Ruiter (University of Suffolk), ‘From Outlaws and Transgression to Oaths and Treaties: Navigating the Legal Viking Age’

Questions

Break

Vikings in the West and beyond

2.00

Christian Cooijmans (University of Liverpool), 'Hidden in Plain Sight: Reconsidering the Roles of Viking Encampment across the Frankish Realm'

2.30

David Gange (University of Birmingham), ‘Thinking about Frayed Atlantic Edges’

Questions 

Chairs: Christina Lee (University of Nottingham), Chris Callow (University of Birmingham)

Image: The Olsbro runestone (Vg 181) in Norra Åsarp parish in Västergötland in Sweden. The inscription commemorates the death of Óláfr Guvason in Estonia.