Conferences and open lectures
Upcoming events
V International H/Story Conference Sense and Sexuality: Erotic Discourses in/of History
conference
Upcoming events
The 3rd Jómsborg Conference: Eystra salt – The Baltic Zone in the Literatures of the Medieval North
conference
Wolin, Poland, 19th-20th May 2023
You can download the programme in PDF format here.
Events in 2021
„The Varangians. In God’s Holy Fire”
meetings
Professor Sverrir Jakobsson (the University of Iceland in Reykjavik) was the guest of the Centre on 3 February 2021. Prof. Marcin Böhm from the University of Opole hosted an interview with Prof. Sverrir Jakobsson. The interview was a discussion of Prof. Sverrir Jakobsson’s latest book on the history of the Varangian Guard in Constantinople.
Carina Damm: „Raiding for Love – Patterns of Polygyny among the Eastern Vikings”
online lectures
On 17 March 2021 the Centre hosted an online lecture by Carina Damm from the University of Leipzig. Carina Damm’s lecture was concerned with the issues of polygamy and the common-law marriage as tools in the matrimonial policy of Scandinavian elites in the age of Vikings.
Events in 2020
Events in 2019
Events in 2018