Archive for February, 2009

London, UK: Jens-Peter Schjødt at the Viking Society

Published by Chris Abram on February 19, 2009 under Events

March 13, 2009
5:15 pmto6:15 pm
5:15 pmto6:15 pm

Viking Society for Northern Research: General Meeting

Speaker: Jens-Peter Schjødt, ‘Reflections on dealing with pre-Christian religion in Scandinavia. The limits of philology’

Birkbeck, University of London.

MA in Medieval Icelandic Studies at Háskóli Íslands

Published by Chris Abram on February 19, 2009 under Institutions and Courses, Teaching and Learning

I received a reminder that the University of Iceland is still accepting applications for its excellent MA programme in Medieval Icelandic Studies for the year 2009/10:

MA in Medieval Icelandic Studies
University of Iceland in cooperation with the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies Reykjavík, Iceland

The programme is aimed at providing postgraduate students with the necessary tools to study Old/Medieval Icelandic Texts in the original and in their manuscript context, with a special emphasis on interdisciplinary study.

Deadline for application is March 15th each year.

For more information visit:
Háskóli Íslands: MA in Medieval Icelandic Studies

Jobs for Runologists!

Published by Chris Abram on February 10, 2009 under Jobs and Funding

The Riksantikvarieämbetet in Visby, Sweden, is looking for two post-doctoral runologists to work on a new research project. Rather than take the risk of trying to translate it myself, I’ll just post the description in Swedish:

Med stöd från Stiftelsen Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) och Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien (KVHAA) utlyses två anställningar inom runforskningsområdet för forskare med avlagd doktorsexamen. Anställningarna är placerade vid Riksantikvarieämbetet, Visby, och är femåriga, uppdelat i två perioder om två respektive tre år.

Full details are available here: utlysning-runanstallningar-090128. The closing date is 1 April.

Hull, UK: Viking Society Student Conference

Published by Chris Abram on December 8, 2008 under Events

February 28, 2009

The 2009 Viking Society Student Conference

Theme: Making History: the Legendary Sagas

Location: University of Hull, UK

Speakers: Ármann Jakobsson, Carolyne Larrington, Tom Shippey, Elizabeth Ashman Rowe, Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir and Andrew Wawn.

Further details, registration information, and full programme