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Research on women of the Viking world has gained momentum in recent years, with new perspectives and possibilities being introduced. There is growing evidence to suggest women enjoyed more active and varied societal roles which are far more significant than have previously been considered. Thus, this conference aims to bring together scholars from all disciplines of the field to deliver this new broader perspective on women of the Viking world.
Day 1 – 27th August 2024.
09:00 Registration
09:45 Opening Remarks
10:05 Session 1: Exploring identity
10:05 Dr Chelsi Slotten – Unearthing Identities: An Investigation of Gender and Status in the Danish Viking Age
10:25 Costanza Miccichè – Beyond the Warrior Women: Lesbians, Men-Women and Female Practices in the Viking Society
10:45 Ambra Ventura – Transgression and typecasting: overcoming women stereotypes in the Íslendingasǫgur
11:05 Questions
11:20 Tea Break
11:40 Session 2: Settlements and Migration
11:40 Dr Stephen H Harrison – Forgotten Vikings? Women and Landnám in Britain and Ireland.
12:00 Eleanor McDonald-Dick – Varangian Wives: The Role of Women in the Emergence of Staraia Ladoga and Early Rus
12:20 Dr Pragya Vohra – Age and Agency: Women’s Roles in Family Migrations to Viking Age Iceland
12:40 Questions
12:55 Lunch
13:55 Session 3: Viking Women in Britain and Ireland
13:55 Dr Danica Ramsey-Brimberg – Viking Age Women: Bearers of Two Religious Torches in the British-Irish Isles
14:15 Genna Scott – Women and settlement in the Scandinavian Outer Hebrides
14:35 Elizabeth West - Women alongside Viking fighting forces: re-examining the Viking encampment of Aldwark and beyond.
14:55 Questions
15:10 Tea Break
15:30 Session 4: Emotion and Consciousness
15:30 Elías Carballido González - Viking widows facing death-vulnerability, social challenges and emotional navigation
15:50 Juliane Witte - Angry She Became: A Script for Female Anger in Old Norse-Icelandic Literature
16:10 Francesca Squitieri – Beastly minds: animalism in the prophetic dreams of women in Völsunga Saga
16:30 Questions
16:45 Closing remarks.
Day 2 – 28th August 2024.
09:00 Building Opens
09:25 Opening Remarks
09:30 Session 5: Space, work and trade
09:30 Dr Rebecca Boyd - Women’s work and women’s worlds in Ireland’s Viking-Age Towns
09:50 Tara Athanasiou – Female hierarchies, danger and the supernatural – a re-examination of the dyngja as a feminine space
10:10 Georgia Gould – Textiles in trade: reassessing the role of the women in the Oseberg Ship Burial
10:30 Questions
10:45 Tea Break
11:05 Session 6: Powerful Women and Leadership
11:05 Shanna Bryman – Herstory in the Making: Identifying Female Leadership in the Viking Age
11:25 Patrick Herbage & Mark Louth – ‘Girl Power in the Viking Age’: Aud the deep-minded and examples of powerful Viking women in Ireland from a social, political and legal perspective.
11:45 Jacquelyn Truitt – Secured through Stone: The Artifactual Afterlife of Queen Thyra and the Jelling Dynasty
12:05 Questions
12:20 Poster Session
12:50 Lunch
13:50 Keynote Lecture -
‘All the Different Women’, Dr. Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson, University of Uppsala.
14:50 Tea Break
15:10 Session 7: Influence and agency of women in the Literature.
15:10 Dr Irina Manea – Female agency and transgression in Hrólfs saga kraka
15:30 Sarah Vincent – ‘Hann var sonr Óláfs kvárans; moðir hans hét Kormlöð:’ Intermarriage and alliances in Viking-Age Ireland
15:50 Kim Bergqvist – Women in Contentious Politics in the Viking World
16:10 Questions
16:30 Closing Remarks and End of Conference
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
