University of Silesia in Katowice

Events in 2025

• June 4th, 2025 – Leszek P. Słupecki (University of Rzeszów): “Słowianie i Skandynawowie w epoce wikingów”
• May 15th, 2025 – Chris Callow ​(University of Birmingham)​: ​”Place-Names and Myth-Creation in Early Iceland: ​the Case of Iceland’s ‘Celtic’ Settlers”​
• April 23rd, 2025 – Arngrímur Vídalín Stefánsson ​(University of Iceland)​: ‘Death is not the End: Icelandic Aptrgöngr meet Slavic Upiór’​
• March 21st, 2025 – Francesco d’Angelo ​​(Sapienza University of Rome): ‘A game of mirrors. The crusades of Erik Ejegod, Sigurd Jórsalafari, and Rögnvald Kali Kolsson in comparison’
• March 5th, 2025 – ​Jasmine Bria (University of Calabria)​: ‘The Giant and the King: Power, Order ​and Identity in Arthurian Historical Narratives’
• February 27th, 2025 – Siân Grønlie (St Anne’s College, Oxford): ‘The Old Testament in Medieval Icelandic Texts. Translation, Exegesis and Storytelling’
• January 14th, 2025 – Yoav Tirosh (Aarhus University)​: ‘What is Trauma in Old Norse Literature?’

Events in 2024

• October 29th, 2024 – Joel D. Anderson (University of Maine): ‘Reimagining Christendom. Writing Iceland’s Bishops into the Roman Church 1200–1350’
• October 23rd, 2024 – Marie Novotna (Charles University in Prague): ‘Between Body and Soul in Old Norse Literature’
• June 11th, 2024 – Thijs Porck (Leiden University): ‘Wealhtheow’s revenge: Failed conflict resolution in Beowulf’
• June 4th, 2024 – Hannah Piercy (University of Bern): ‘Evoking the Battlefield in Middle English Romance: Genre, Sensation, and Pain’
• May 8th, 2024 – Daniel Sävborg (University of Tartu): ‘Känslor i norrön litteratur’
• April 11th, 2024 – Tadeusz Lange (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań), ‘Kościoły klepkowe. Norweskie siostry Świątyni Wang’
• February 28th, 2024 – Sławomir Wadyl (University of Warsaw): ‘Ciepłe. Piastowski klucz do Pomorza Wschodniego?’

Events in 2023

• July 16th-30th, 2023 – International Summer School ‘Wolin/Jómsborg: a meeting point of Slavs and Scandinavians in the Middle Ages.’

• May 19th-20th, 2023 – The 3rd Jómsborg Conference. Eystra salt – the Baltic Zone in the Literatures of the Medieval North
• September 22nd-23rd, 2023 – V International H/Story Conference. Sense and Sexuality: Erotic Discourses in/of History

• December 7th, 2023 – Yoav Tirosh (University of Iceland): ‘What Is Crip Philology! [sic] – How Manuscripts and Bodies Intersect, How Doctors and Editors Intersect’
• October 19th, 2023 – Błażej Stanisławski (Polish Academy of Sciences): ‘Rusowie w Konstantynopolu „u świętego Mamy”‘
• October 12th, 2023 – Robert Cutrer (University of Sydney): ‘Í Augu Ormfrǫ́n: Snake Eyes and Norwegian Rule’
• October 27th, 2023 – Elżbieta Cherezińska: ‘Sydonia. Słowo się rzekło’
• June 12th, 2023 – Claire Poynton-Smith (Trinity College in Dublin): ‘Greater/Gryttra than the sum of its parts: how might we begin to apply approaches from corpus linguistics to the study of early medieval texts?’
• May 29, 2023 – Monika Maleszka-Ritchie (University of Highlands and Islands in Inverness): ‘Trade, exchange, standardisation and money: the interaction between Slavs, Vikings and Arabs on the early medieval trade routes of the Baltic and Eastern Europe’
• March 20, 2023 – Arngrímur Vídalín (University of Iceland): ‘The Blue Man: Dealing With Race Before Race in Old Norse Literature’
• January 19, 2023 – Niamh Kehoe (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf): ‘Slipping In and Out of Sight: Interpreting Violence in Ælfric’s Life of St. Vincent’

Events in 2022

• April 8th-9th, 2022 – Embedded Narratives in the Literatures of the Medieval North

• November 16th, 2022 – Tom Birkett (University College Cork): ‘Tolkien and Old Norse’ 
• June 2nd, 2022 – Kate Heslop (University of California), ‘Viking Mediologies. A New History of Skaldic Poetics’
• May 26th, 2022 – Michael Schulte (University of Agder): ‘On the history of two magic runic formulas and their multiple connections’
• April 21st, 2022 – Tom Morcom (University of Tübingen): ‘Intimacy and Insurrection: The Function of Þættir in Morkinskinna’
• March  17th, 2022 – Caitlin Ellis (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies): ‘Rulers and Poets: Orkney, Dublin and their networks in the eleventh century’
• February 23rd, 2022 – Erin Goeres (University College London): ‘No good song is ever sung of a traitor: the Death of Earl Waltheof in Verse and Prose’
• January 17th, 2022 – Jan Alexander van Nahl (University of Iceland): ‘Contingency and Chance in the Old Icelandic Kings’ Sagas’

Events in 2021

• December 9th, 2021 – Lucie Korecká (Charles University in Prague): ‘Magic and Power in the Old Norse Sagas’
• October 28th, 2021 – Jasmine Bria (University of Calabria): ‘The boundaries of humanity in the Exeter Book Riddles and the Wonders of the East’
• October 28th, 2021, Adam Christ (University of Silesia): ‘Emotional and religious communities in John Heywood’s and John Bale’s interludes’ 
• June 9th, 2021 – Ryder Patzuk-Russell (University of Iceland): ‘Development of education in medieval Iceland’
• May 13th, 2021 – Ilya V. Sverdlov (University of Helsinki): ‘Unfogging Icelandic (Saga) Toponyms: what’s in a name, that which we call Eyjafjallajökull, and what hides beyond’
• April 29th, 2021 – Katarzyna Anna Kapitan (Frederiksborg – The Museum of National History): ‘Tysiąc lat Hrómunda na północy: Od średniowiecznego prosimetrum do viking metalu’
• March 17th, 2021 – Carina Damm (The Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe): ‘Raiding for Love – Patterns of Polygyny among the Eastern Vikings’
• February 3rd, 2021 – Sverrir Jakobsson (University of Iceland): ‘The Varangians. In God’s Holy Fire’
• January 14th, 2021 – Marta Rey-Radlińska (Jagiellonian University): ‘Ku poetyce þáttr’

Events in 2020

• November 19th, 2020 – The 2nd Jómsborg Conference: Gesta Hammaburgensis Pontificum. Origins, reception and significance of Adam of Bremen’s account