Viking Studies Research Group

Our research group is growing very fast and we're excited to have so many interested in our talks! To clarify, all of them are hosted online and are primarily aimed at a student and academic audience. However, if you're still interested in attending please do get in touch.

This Wednesday (18 Oct) Dr Steve Ashby and Dr Stephen Harrison, two leading Viking artefact specialists, will give a public lecture in York titled 'The York-Dublin Axis Reconsidered – 21st-century approaches to Viking Towns'. Not to be missed! More info: york.ac.uk/medieval-studi…

@iamharrietjean Sorry to hear that, Harriet! Yes, we're definitely looking at hybrid options as well, so keep a lookout!

@VikingStudiesRG Ah no! Just happens that Friday is the afternoon I have no childcare so need to pick kiddo up at 3 😭 will there be any possible hybridity?

New term, new us!🍂✨ After years of online only activity, the UoY VSRG is going face-to-face. This Friday (13 Oct) we'll be hosting our startup meeting at King's Manor in York. If you're a scholar of the Viking-Age and interested in attending, please get in touch!

Why not start your week with an excellent podcast series on the Viking-Age cemetery in Cumwhitton, Cumbria, featuring the brilliant @eblueaxe 🎧open.spotify.com/episode/3qiuNM…

📣 HAPPENING TOMORROW: Our #BodyPoliticsERC PI @mariheri (@ArchAncHistLeic) will be joining @DrRebeccaBoyd (@IACArchaeology) and Dr Marianne Moen (@UniOslo) to discuss: “New Thinking on Viking Archaeology” 🛡️⚔️ #Viking #Archaeology #Theory #DiscussionPanel #OnlineEvent

Today at 2pm! This is will be our last seminar of the term and there's still time to sign up! Please email cms-office@york.ac.uk

Next Friday, 21 April, we're excited to be hosting Dr. Torun Zachrisson of Stockholm University who will be giving an online talk about 'Harbours, royal manors and early church sites - The runestones of Viking Age Östra Aros'. Please email cms-office@york.ac.uk to sign up!

@Tancred1098 Hi, this is an online event however it's not being recorded. Hope that helps!

@VikingStudiesRG Will this be online at some point?

This Friday we're super excited to have Swedish archaeologist Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson speaking about 'Varangian Warriors and Byzantine Court Ladies - Exploring the Population of Early Kyiv'. You simply do not want to miss this! Email cms-office@york.ac.uk to sign up.

This is happening online tomorrow at 2pm (UK time) and we can't wait! If you haven't already there's still time to sign up. Please email cms-office@york.ac.uk

Today at 2pm (UK time)! There's still time to sign up for this interesting talk. Please email cms-office@york.ac.uk

@iamharrietjean We look forward to hosting you and Karen, Harriet!

Now I'm back to work I can say that I'm very excited (and slightly terrified) to be talking about our project (with Prof. Karen Milek) tomorrow! There will be goats (and cattle and other animals)...

This Friday we're excited to host a talk by Dr Harriet Evans Tang & Prof Karen Milek, Durham University, who will be talking about ´Living and dying with Vikings: Interdisciplinary perspectives on human-animal relations in the Viking Age. Email cms-office@york.ac.uk to sign up!

Please note a minor change in this spring's speaker schedule. The talk by Swedish archaeologist Charlotte Hedenstierna Jonson has been moved from 3 to the 31 March. Our next talk is now on 24 March. Please email cms-office@york.ac.uk to sign up We hope to see you there!

We're looking forward to Dr. Merkelbach's talk today, and there's still time to sign up if you haven't already!

Don't miss this exciting online sneak peek tomorrow Friday! If you'd like to join us, please email cms-office@york.ac.uk.

@yorkmedieval @UoYArchaeology

This Friday, 17 Feb at 2pm (UK time), we're excited to be hosting Dr. Rebecca Merkelbach from Tübingen University, who will be talking on the subject of Trauma and Transformation in the ‘Post-Classical’ Sagas of Icelanders. Please email cms-office@york.ac.uk to sign up

@eblueaxe @iamharrietjean Thanks for your input, Adam. We'll make sure to look into the option of recording in the future, as the interest in attending/watching it growing rapidly.

@iamharrietjean @VikingStudiesRG None of them have been at times I can watch with a job in archaeology, and no recordings, my reenactment and commercial pals are just as frustrated. It's a shame online events haven't really opened up access outside of academia/independant specialists much more, not just VSRG ofc

We're very much lookng forward to Prof David Griffith's talk 'New perspectives on the Early Viking Age in the Northern Isles' at 2pm this afternoon. There's still time to sign up if you haven't already: cms-office@york.ac.uk 📸Longhouse under excavation, Bay of Skaill, Orkney.

Thank you to Professor @davegrifx for a fascinating talk on the Early Viking Age in the Northern Isles! Thanks also to everyone who attended. Our next talk will be on 17 February when we hope to see you all again!