2015.05.21 - International Conference ''YEAST FOR CHANGES. Vikings and their impact on Medieval Europe'' Wrocław – POLAND /May 21-22 , 2015
YEAST FOR CHANGES
Vikings and their impact on Medieval Europe
Conference 21-22 May 2015,
Wrocław, Poland
PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME:
1st DAY, 21of May
10.00-11.00 – REGISTRATION
11.00-11.45 – OPENING CEREMONY
Welcome by prof. Andrzej Buko
Welcome by prof. Sławomir Moździoch
Welcome by prof. Władysław Duczko
Welcome
by prof. Przemysław Wiszewski
11.45-14.00 – SESSION 1
Władysław Duczko
(Pułtusk): Scandinavian impact on the
Viking-Age Eastern Europe
Alexander Musin
(St. Petersburg) & Olga Tarabardina (Novgorod): The Scandinavian settlements in the
Eastern Europe and the rise of Novgorod
Andrzej Buko (Warsaw): Some features and peculiarities of structural elements and funeral
rites identified in the cemetery at Bodzia (Poland)
Heidi M. Sherman (Wisconsin): Staraia
Ladoga and the Emporia Thesis: The Anatomy of a “Non-Place” in Viking-Age
Russia
Discussion
14.00-15.00 – Lunch
15.00-16.30 – SESSION 2
Gitte Tarnow Ingvardson (Copenhagen): The Earliest Viking Age hoard and the
Reorganisation of Trade of Bornholm (Denmark)
Zbigniew Kobyliński & Kamil Rabiega (Warsaw): Symbolic role of boats and ships in Medieval
Europe: Scandinavia and beyond
Christoph Jahn, Norbert Goßler (Berlin): Vikings at the Lower Memel? A critical look at the material culture from the cemetery of Linkuhnen/Rževskoe (Russian Federation)
Discussion
16.30-17.00 – Coffee break
17.00-19.00 – SESSION 3
Vladimir Zorić (Palermo): La Cappella Palatina di Palermo – paradigma del clima culturale multietnico nel Regno normanno di Sicilia.
Błażej Stanisławski
(Wrocław): Rus’ quarter in Constantinople
Błażej Stanisławski
(Wrocław): Rus’ quarter in Constantinople
Torbjorn Brorsson (Lund): Analyses of Viking age Scandinavian and Slavonic pottery in the Baltic region – Thin section analyses and ICP-analyses
Thomas Kersting (Brandenburg): Baltic Region Impacts on Slavic middle-age Brandenburg
Discussion
19.30 – Welcome dinner
2nd DAY, 22 of May
10.30-12.30 – SESSION 4
Karolina Czonstke (Bornholm): Early medieval slavic jewellery from Bornholm against
a slavic-scandinavian contacts
Mateusz Bogucki
(Warsaw): Polish-Danish contacts in the late
tenth century in the light of numismatic finds
Santa
Jansone & Artis Āboltiņš (Riga): Vikings before Vikings. Scandinavian
expansion in Eastern Baltic area during Late Iron Age (5th-7th
centuries)
Marie
Brinch (Nykøbing): The
Fejø cups
Discussion
12.30-13.00 – Coffee break
13.00-14.30 – SESSION 5
Marcin Böhm (Opole): Malta – as a base of fleet
of Sicilian Normans between 1091 and 1194? Another voice in the
discussion
Tomsz Pełech
(Wrocław): "And anyone seeing him
ride, would have conjectured that he was not a Roman but had come from
Normandy" – interpretation of rhetorical figure from the Xth Book of
Alexiad of Anne Komnene
Remigiusz Gogosz
(Rzeszów): From Vikings to Crusaders. The influence of
crusading ideas on Scandinavia at the end of the Viking Age and its impact on
Crusading movements in Europe
Discussion
14.30-15.30 – Lunch
15.30-17.00 – SESSION 6
Leszek Gardeła (Rzeszów): Thor's hammers, miniature weapons and supernatural beings.
Scandinavian-style amulets in Poland
Felix Biermann
(Göttingen): The Viking Impact in
Liutician Lands
Marek Jankowiak
(Oxford): From slaves to states. The
Scandinavian slave trade and the emergence of states in Northern and Central
Europe
Discussion
17.00-17.30 – Coffee break
17.30-19.00 – SESSION 7
Jakub Morawiec (Katowice): Viking exploits and legitimization of royal
power in early medieval North
Jacek Mianowski (Bydgoszcz): The Stories Untold – Extra-linguistic Dimension of Early Welsh
Literacy
Łukasz Neubauer
(Koszalin): ‘Ne þurfe we us spillan’: The
Anglo-Saxon Depiction of the Vikings as Cold-Blooded Tacticians and Skilful
Negotiators in The Battle of Maldon and Other Documents Relating to the
Dramatic Events of the Summer of 991
YEAST FOR CHANGES
Vikings and their impact on Medieval Europe
Conference 21-22 May 2015, Wrocław, Poland
In
European historiography it is customary to see beginning of the Viking Age in
the year 793, when a group of Norwegians came on their drakkar and plundered holy monastery on the
island of Lindisfarne. Two years later similar event happened once more, this
time on more grandious scale: Norwegian ships attacked several insular monasteries
repeating previous success and opening the gate for the future similar
activities in whole Europe.
Year 2015
will be 1219 years since these events happened, so even if it is not round
number it is a good occasion for gathering on the conference about
Scandinavians which were moving around making not only usual Viking stuff –
plundering and killing – but, as we can see it now more clearly, introducing
changes into societies they were encountering. In the conference we would like
to summarise decades of research and try to give an answer to the question:
What kind of impact Vikings and their descendants had on Europe during
the long Viking Age?
It is an
important question as those hundred years of Scandinavian attacks and
colonisation were a time when Europe was in the process of creation.
Scandinavians were effective warriors, but also effective tradesmen, creators of states and talented artisans. In these capacities they influenced
many societies at which they were appearing and where they left still visible
traces.
The
planned conference will concentrate on topics like political organizations,
economics, crafts, language and art. Looking again at the topic of our conference it can be defined best as "from the
Vikings to the Crusaders", but we do not want to repeat the title of the
renowned exhibition and publication (1992). Over 22 years have passed since
that event came out a lot of new information and studies resulting from
archaeological research, especially in Central Europe.
We would
like to make this conference to a meeting of scholars working not only with the
“Viking Age” but with scholars interested in mentioned topics in their
countries.
Deadline for registration of the paper is 1.04.2015
Organized by:
Centre
for Late Antique and Early Medieval Studies of the Institute of Archaeology and
Ethnology Polish Academy of Sciences in Wrocław
Department
of Archaeology and Anthropology of the Pułtusk Academy of Humanities
Institute
of History of the University of Wrocław
Scientific Committee:
Prof.
Dr. Andrzej Buko
Prof.
Dr. Władysław Duczko
Prof.
Dr. Sławomir Moździoch
Prof. Dr. Przemysław Wiszewski
Dr. Błażej Stanisławski
Organizing Committee:
Dr. Błażej Stanisławski
Anna Kubicka
Anna Czerepok
Joanna Orłowska
Olga Węglarz
Oskar Struzik
Tomasz Pełech
Konrad
Szymański
Papers:
All speakers are requested to observe a 20 minute limit for presented
papers. Presentations will be given as Power Point presentations.
Abstracts and registration:
Abstracts
must be written in English and should be approximately 3000 characters in
length (Title 200 characters).
Submission
of abstracts: From 1 January to 1 April of 2015
The registration fee for speakers is 50 €.
How to come:
The Organizing Committee
cordially invite you to come to Wroclaw – the captivating city in the
South-West Poland, the centre of science and culture. More information about
the city at www.wroclaw.pl.
By car: The highway E 40 (A4)
By train: The connections with Warsaw, Dresden, Berlin, Hamburg, Kiev, Lviv and
via Warsaw with Moscow, more international and local connections of Polish railway
at www.pkp.pl
By plane: Airport Wroclaw (www.airport.wroclaw.pl) – the connections (with cheap airlines: Wizzair and Ryanair, and LOT,
Lufthansa and Qatar Airlines) with Warsaw and Germany, England, Greece, Italy,
Ireland, Spain, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and charter airlines with Turkey,
Greece, Italy and Spain; and many air connections via air ports in Warsaw,
Poznan, Katowice and Kraków
Accommodation:
Wroclaw is offering the different kinds of accommodation. More
information at www.booking.com/city/pl/wroclaw.pl
Contact:
Dr. Błażej Stanisławski,
Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology Polish Academy of Sciences,
Więzienna St. 6, 50-118
Wrocław, Poland
Tel. +48 71 344 16 08,
Fax +48 71 344 33 52
e-mail st-wski@wp.pl
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