2022 events

Viking Age Burials in Norway: Uncharted Waters

Friday 16 December 2022

Viking Studies Research Group with Zanette Glorstad, University of Oslo

St Guthlac of Crowland’s twelfth-century Translatio cum Miraculis and its Pilgrim Audiences

Monday 5 December 2022

Ideology, Society and Medieval Religion seminar series with Emma Nuding (University of York)

A hairy woman gives birth to a bald child… Eggs, birds, mothers, and more in (mostly) early medieval Arabic, Hebrew, Norse, Latin and Greek riddles

Wednesday 16 November 2022

White Rose Medieval Lecture with Dr Alaric Hall (University of Leeds)

From Medieval to Early Modern Europe: Problems of Method for a Transregional Literary History

Tuesday 8 November 2022

Centre for Medieval Literature Seminar with Warren Boutcher (Queen Mary University of London)

The Rise of Gender in the Twelfth Century

Monday 7 November 2022

Ideology, Society and Medieval Religion seminar series with François·e Charmaille (University of Cambridge)

Sea Ivories: Tracking Global Networks of the Viking Age and Medieval North

Friday 4 November 2022

James H. Barrett, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim

Oval Brooches and Viking Graves

Friday 21 October 2022

Viking Studies Research Group with Frida Espolin Norstein, Stockholm University

"Pearl" and the pursuit of happiness

Wednesday 19 October 2022

York Medieval Masterclass with Professor Alastair Minnis (Yale University)

Phantomology: From Soul to Brain - Medieval Studies Meets Neuroscience

Tuesday 18 October 2022

Autumn term York Medieval Lecture with Professor Alastair Minnis (Yale University) & Professor Peter Brugger (University of Zurich)

The MEMO on: The Global Middle Ages and Islamicate Worlds

Thursday 13 October 2022

Dr Fozia Bora (University of Leeds) and Dr Shazia Jagot (University of York) in conversation

The Last Pagans? Paganism in the Medieval Baltic

Monday 10 October 2022

Ideology, Society and Medieval Religion with Dr Francis Young (independent scholar)

Building the world of Lex Arcana RPG. Real sources for fantasy questions

Monday 19 September 2022

Speaker: Dr Francesca Garello

The Meanings of Blackness: Medieval Commentaries of the Song of Songs

Monday 12 September 2022

Ideology, Society and Medieval Religion seminar series with Professor Miri Rubin (Queen Mary University of London)

The Sibling Studies Colloquium

Friday 8 July 2022

A virtual symposium organised by Rachel Harley

Lost objects: the Viking-age reuse of Insular metalwork from northern Britain

Friday 24 June 2022

Viking Studies Research Group

‘For he was lively in his mother’s womb … yet dead born’: Medieval Frameworks for Grieving Pregnancy Loss

Thursday 16 June 2022

Speaker: Dr Lucy Allen-Goss (Oxford Centre for Life-Writing)

Viking Studies Research Group

Friday 10 June 2022

Further details to be confirmed

Between Conflict and Cooperation: The Contrasting Image of the Ottoman Turk in Late Medieval Ragusan Sources

Tuesday 7 June 2022

Summer term York Medieval Lecture with Prof. dr. Emir Filipović (University of Sarajevo)

Norse in the North Conference - Mundanities & Mediocrities

Saturday 21 May 2022

The 2022 Norse in the North conference seeks to facilitate an interdisciplinary conversation about the potentialities and possibilities of the mundane and mediocre in medieval Scandinavia.

What do Brackets Want?

Monday 16 May 2022

The Annual Riddy Lecture with Professor Jane Gilbert, University College London

Captivity, slaving, and coercion in the early medieval North

Friday 13 May 2022

Viking Studies Research Group

In and Out of Time in the Medieval Parish Church

Wednesday 11 May 2022

Department of History of Art Research Seminar

Empires of the Saracens in High Medieval Literature

Tuesday 3 May 2022

Medieval Literatures Research Seminar with Professor Shirin A. Khanmohamadi (San Francisco State University)

Oval brooches and Viking Age graves

Friday 22 April 2022

Viking Studies Research Group with Frida Espolin Norstein (Stockholm University)

Materiality and Anachronism in the Medieval Church

Monday 4 April 2022

Ideology, Society and Medieval Religion seminar series with Dr Karl Kinsella (University of Aberdeen)

Craft collaborations and household relations at the Viking Age emporium Ribe

Friday 1 April 2022

Viking Studies Research Group

Imagining Microplaces: From Medieval into the Present

Wednesday 16 March 2022

Professor Catherine Clarke (Director of the Centre for the History of People, Place and Community at the Institute of Historical Research)

The Role of Scholarly Networks in the Preservation of Faroese Ballads

Friday 11 March 2022

Vikings Studies Research Group with Dr. Seán D. Vrieland (University of Copenhagen)

Holy Poverty and the Pulpit: Locating the Indigent in English Mendicant Homiletic Discourse

Monday 24 January 2022

Ideology, Society, and Medieval Religion: Impositions and Negotiations seminar series with Hannah Kirby Wood (University of Toronto)

Boundaries Revisited: High Crosses as Liminal Markers and Protective Monuments in Early Medieval Ireland

Wednesday 19 January 2022

Department of History of Art Research Seminar with Caitlin Hutchison

Negotiating the Steps of Faith: Dance, Lay Religion, and Gender in English Parishes, 1300-1600

Monday 6 December 2021

Ideology, Society, and Medieval Religion: Impositions and Negotiations seminar series with Dr Lynneth Miller Renberg (Anderson University)