2024
February/March, 2024:
Title TBC In the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge
February 1-2, 2024 Title TBC In the Department of the Study of Religion, University of Aarhus2023
September 1, 2023
The politics of aesthetics: Making bodies in Iron and Viking Age Scandinavia. The European Association of Archaeologists’ Conference, Belfast
August 31, 2023
Sex and the Vikings: Gender, power, violence, joy? The European Association of Archaeologists’ Conference, Belfast
May 26, 2023
Society for Medieval Research New Thinking in Viking Archaeology Panel Debate with Dr Rebecca Boyd and Dr Marianne Moen (online)
May 11, 2023
Body-Politics: Personhood, Sexuality and Death in first millennium Scandinavia at the Dept. of Archaeology, University of Cardiff
May 4, 2023
Body-Politics at the Centre for Viking Studies, University of Nottingham
2022
30th September, 2022
Dwelling with the dead: The politics of bodies in first millennium Scandinavia at Jernalderseminar 2022, Moesgaard (PI Marianne Hem Eriksen & Dr Emma Tollefsen).
15-17th September, 2022:
Change, politics and the body: Intimate histories on multiple scales. Keynote address at the Human Agency and Global Challenges: Re-Centering Social Change in Archaeology conference (PI Marianne Hem Eriksen)
31 August-3 September: ‘Make mappings, not muddles’: Gender archaeology and the new materialisms (with Kevin Kay), European Association of Archaeologists Conference, Budapest
16-17 June: Trauma is material: Situating structural and domestic violence in archaeologies of affect, Intersectional Bodies Symposium, University of Leicester
20 May, 2022: Bodies of Intoxication, 39. Tværfaglige Vikingesymposium, University of Aarhus
4 May, 2022: Alcohol and Intoxication in late prehistoric Scandinavia, Intersectional Bodies workshop, University of Leicester
21-23 April, 2022: The archaeology of dehumanisation: less-than-human bodies in the more-than-human-worlds of the Scandinavian Iron Age, Nordic TAG Conference, Oslo
20 April, 2022: Body-Politics: Personhood, Sexuality and Death in first Millennium Scandinavia, Department of Archaeology, University of Iceland
31 March, 2022: Body-Politics: Personhood, Sexuality and Death in first Millennium Scandinavia, Centre for Scandinavian Studies, University of Aberdeen
2021
30 November, 2021: Children and personhood in first millennium Scandinavia, Medieval Research Centre, University of Leicester
25-27 November, 2021 Grounding bodies in Late Iron Age worlds: A view from archaeology. Anchor paper for conference Doing Things with Old Norse Myth: A Cultural & Research Symposium on Mythological Processes, Reykjavik, Iceland.
9-11 September, 2021 ‘Animate objects, emotion, and the non-person: Depositional practices in Scandinavia from the Bronze Age to the Vikings’ EAA Kiel (online)
22 June, 2021: The diversity and capacities of bodies in first millennium Scandinavia, Medieval Research Centre, University of Leicester (PI Marianne Hem Eriksen)
29 April, 2021 Building personhood: Lives and longhouses in late prehistoric Scandinavia. Research talk: Dept. of Archaeology, University of Lund
24 March, 2021 ‘Body-Politics’ School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester. Invited by SAAH Research Seminar Committee.
2020
September 2020 ‘Dream-houses of the Late Iron Age: The house and the self’ EAA Budapest (online).
2019
16-18 December, 2019 ‘Grievability, households, and violence in the Iron and Viking Ages’ Theoretical Archaeology Group conference, UCL.
16-18 December, 2019 ‘House-dreams of the Viking Age: Undisciplined explorations of architecture, personhood, and dreaming in the past’ Theoretical Archaeology Group conference, UCL.
5 December, 2019 Aust-Agder County Archaeological unit: ‘Dead children in houses and bogs’
23 November, 2019 Norwegian Archaeological Society’s annual dinner: keynote address: ‘Dead children in houses and bogs: people-things in the Iron and Viking Ages’].
26 August, 2019 “Archaeology of Dwelling” Did people in the past dream of houses, too? Paper given at the seminar Celebrating research at the Museum of Cultural History.
25 April, 2019: ‘Building personhood: The longhouse as lifework in late prehistoric Scandinavia’. Invited lecture for workshop on Spatial Ontologies, University of Aarhus, Denmark.
4-5 March, 2019: Introduction and paper at workshop Where the Wild Things Are: From the comfortable domus to glimpses of past ontologies, organized by MHE, Cambridge.
February 15, 2019: ‘Imbuing shadow-houses with life: Late prehistoric Scandinavia 1600 BCE-1000 CE’. Workshop on archaeological and architectural illustration, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL.
2018
December 12, 2018: ‘Within four walls: Personhood and domestic violence in the Viking Age’. Weaving War conference, University of Oslo.
October 29, 2018: ‘The lives and deaths of houses in Iron and Viking Age Scandinavia’. Invited lecture at the University of Oxford, UK.
October 22, 2018: ‘How to fail the PhD.’ Invited talk at the PhD training seminars, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo.
October 17, 2018: ‘Dørringer, deponeringer og livsløp i jernalder og vikingtid’ [transl. ‘Door-rings, deposition, and the life-course in the Iron and Viking Ages’]. Invited talk at the Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo.
September, 2018: ‘Dwelling in place: The longhouse bundling past, present, and future in later prehistoric Scandinavia’, EAA 2018, Barcelona.
May 31, 2018: Body objects in domestic space in Iron and Viking Age Scandinavia. Postdoc forum ‘Research Highlight’, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
May 23, 2018: ‘Dwelling with the dead in Iron and Viking Age Scandinavia: Human-house relationality’. Invited lecture at the University of Reading, UK.
May 18, 2018: ‘Living Architecture.’ Contribution in workshop organized by the Material Culture Lab, University of Cambridge, UK.
May 11, 2018: ‘Things as people, people as things: Personhood in the Iron and Viking Ages’. 3 Slide Talk, Clare Hall, Cambridge, UK.
January 24, 2018: ‘Longhouses as temporal assemblages in the Iron and Viking Ages.’ Invited paper given at the conference Time and Temporality in the Viking Age, University of Oslo, Norway.
January 23, 2018: ‘Å finne en livsverden i et stolpehull. Nye perspektiver i skandinavisk bosetningsarkeologi’ [‘transl. Finding a life-world in a posthole: New perspectives in Scandinavian settlement archaeology’]. Invited lecture at the Museum of Archaeology, University of Stavanger, Norway.
2017
October 25, 2017: ‘Bodies and body-objects in domestic space: Atmospheric presence in Scandinavian prehistory’. Invited lecture at the University of Chester, UK.
October 12-13, 2017: ‘Processing, curating, and fragmenting skulls in Iron and Viking Age Scandinavia’. Invited lecture at the Norwegian Institute in Rome, Italy.
August 30-September 3, 2017: ‘Deposited infants as animate objects in Iron-Age Scandinavia’ Paper to be given in the session Burials as complex features: Exploring new approaches to death and burial in archaeology at the EAA 2017, Maastrich.
August 30-September 3, 2017: ‘Can we trace ontology from postholes? A view from Scandinavia’s later prehistory’ Paper to be given in the session Do you see what I see? Theoretical approaches to understanding ancient worldviews at the EAA 2017, Maastrich.
June 8, 2017: ‘House assemblages and domestic space through deep time’. Paper given at Contrasts of Bronze Age Societies – the 14th Nordic Bronze Age Symposium, University of Oslo.
May 31, 2017: ‘The longhouse of Iron-Age Scandinavia: Death, commemoration, and infant deposition’. 31.5.2017. Invited lecture at the McDonald Institute lunch seminars, University of Cambridge, UK.
May 11-14, 2017: ‘Assembling houses, house assemblages: How can we study prehistoric buildings from household perspectives?’ Paper to be given at the Buildings in Society International III conference, Swedish History Museum, Stockholm.
March 23, 2017:
‘Five strategies to fail as a researcher’ Invited talk at the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research, Norway.
March 6, 2017:
‘Archaeology of Dwelling’. Lunch talk given at the Material Cultural Lab, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, UK.
2016
November 2, 2016:
‘Don’t all mothers love their children? On the deposition of infants and children in the Iron and Viking Ages’. Invited seminar given at Uppsala University, Sweden.
September, 22-23, 2016:
’Traces of resistance, resistance of trace. Architecture, memory, and lived space through deep time in Scandinavia’. Paper given at the On the Trace conference, Copenhagen, Denmark.
September 21, 2016:
‘På terskelen til fortiden: Hus og hall i yngre jernalder’ [trans. ‘On the threshold to the past. House and hall in the late Iron Age’]. Invited lecture given at Midgard historiske senter, Vestfold.
April 22, 2016:
Presentation of the NFR project ‘Archaeology of dwelling’. Invited lecture given at the department seminar series Fredagsseminar, Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History, University of Oslo.
March 10, 2016:
‘Doorways: Social mnemonics and narrative spaces in the Viking Age’. Invited paper given at the workshop Memory and Narrative Perspectives on Architectural Spaces in the Old Norse Tradition, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany.
Dr Marianne Hem Eriksen 