Scottish Society for Northen Studies Day Conference [Edinburgh]
26 November 2016, Starts: 10:30, Ends: 16:15
Scottish Society for Northern Studies Day Conference
50 George Square, (University of Edinburgh), Edinburgh, EH8 9LH
Conference fee (includes coffee/tea and light lunch): £25; Registered Student £10
Reduced to £20 and £8 for students, if paid by 12th November, 2016.
Details and bookings from SSNS website
Programme:
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee/tea and registration
11.00 – 12.00 Marika Mägi (University of Tallinn)
'Vikings in the Eastern Baltic: War, Trade, or Shared Cultural Values?'
12.00 – 12.45 Bill Stephens
'Bruneburh/ Bronneburh/ Bruneberk: Where Scotland (and England) was Made?'
1245 Presentation of the SSNS Magnus Magnusson Memorial Essay Prize for 2016
12.50 – 14.00 Sandwich lunch
14.00 – 14.30 SSNS AGM
14.45 – 15.30 Gemma Cruikshanks (National Museums of Scotland)
‘Iron in the Scottish Iron Age: a regional approach to production, use and deposition’
15.30 – 16.15 Stephen Harrison (University of Glasgow)
'Forgotten Vikings? Female burial rites in Britain and Ireland'