Arts Lecture Theatre, University Park Campus

Midlands Viking Symposium

9th April 2005

Arts Lecture Theatre, University Park Campus

University of Nottingham

Programme

9.30 am Coffee and Registration, Foyer of the Arts Lecture Theatre

10.00am Welcome Dr Christina Lee (University of Nottingham)

Session 1: Finding Vikings

10. 10 am ‘Rape and Pillage: Vikings in Historiography’;

Dr Julia Barrow (University of Nottingham)

10. 40 am ‘Multi-period landscapes; picking out the Vikings’;

Professor John Hunter (University of Birmingham)

Session 2: From the Cradle to the Grave – everyday life in the Viking Age

11. 10 ‘An early meal a man shall eat: Food and feasting in

the Viking Age’; Dr Christina Lee (University of

Nottingham)

11. 40 ‘Cape Wrath to Cape Farewell: Vikings go West’;

Professor Judith Jesch (University of Nottingham)

12. 10 ‘The Archaeology of Death in the Viking Age Iceland’;

Dr Chris Callow (University of Birmingham)

1 pm Lunch: Arts Centre

During the break there will be a show of Viking crafts by the re-enactment group of the Vikings outside the Arts Lecture Theatre (inside if the weather is bad) and a bookstall in the Arts Centre.

Session 3: What did the Vikings ever do for us?

3.00 pm ‘Thor and thorpe: Vikings and English Place

names’; Dr Paul Cavill (University of Nottingham)

3. 30 pm ‘The Viking Legacy: A Linguistic Perspective’, Dr

Sara Pons Sanz (University of Nottingham). Note:

This is a change to the previous programme

4.00 pm ‘ The Wirral and West Lancashire Viking DNA

project’; Professor Steve Harding (University of

Nottingham)

4.30 pm Tea

5 pm Close

Venue:

The Midlands Viking Symposium will take place in the Arts Lecture Theatre on the University Park Campus of the University of Nottingham (near the south entrance). Bus lines Rainbow 5 (to Derby), NCT12 and 13 stop outside the entrance. A map of the campus can be found at:

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/campuses/university-park/

Costs:

£25 per person. This includes registration, all handouts, a buffet lunch, coffee and tea.

Cheques should be made payable to The University of Nottingham.

Registration forms are available from our website:

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/conference/index.htm

Or contact:

Dr Christina Lee

School of English Studies

University of Nottingham

Nottingham

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