Austmarr VII Programme

Crossing Disciplinary Borders in Viking Age Studies
Problems, Challenges and Solutions
The 7th Austmarr Symposium

Tartu 1–3 December 2017

Thursday 30 November

20.00-22.00

Welcome reception at restaurant Püssirohukelder (Lossi 28)

Friday 1 December
Main building of Tartu University, room 139 (Ülikooli 18)

8.15-9.00	Registration
9.00-9.30	Opening of the symposium
9.30-10.30	Keynote lecture. Jens Peter Schjødt: Óðinn – the pervert? Chair: Stephen Mitchell.
10.30-11.00	Coffee
11.00-13.00	Session I. Chair: Kirsi Kanerva Maths Bertell: Using theory from Religious studies on Archaeological sources: problems and wet dreams. Anna P.F. Wessman & Frog & Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonsson: A völva or seiðmaðr in Finland? Cultural Creolization as a Problem for Interpretations. Sabine Walther: Leo the Deacon on the Religion of the Rus’. A Contextualizing Literary Perspective. Klas af Edholm: Interdisciplinary research in the study of human sacrifices.
13.00-14.30	Lunch at restaurant Püssirohukelder (Lossi 28)
14.30-16.00	Session II. Chair: Maths Bertell Jessie Yusek: Monstrous Women: Exploring Gender in Medieval Icelandic Literature and Society. Kirsi Kanerva: Stories of medieval men killed by supernatural beings: post-medieval folklore as a key to their interpretation? Vykintas Vaitkevicius: Archaeology and Folklore: Case of Samogitian Hill-forts (W Lithuania).
16.00-16.30	Coffee
16.30-17.30	Special session: Female Viking Warriors. Introduction by Charlotte Hedenstierna Jonson and Daniel Sävborg. Chair: Frog.
18.00-19.00	Guided tour at the exhibition “Viking Era Treasures from Estonia” at Tartu City Museum (Narva mnt 23).

Saturday 2 December

Main building of Tartu University, room 139 (Ülikooli 18)

9.00-10.00	Keynote lecture. Henrik Janson: Old Norse Religion and the Troublesome Quest for an Interdisciplinary Approach. Chair: Agneta Ney.
10.00-10.30	Coffee
10.30-12.00	Session III. Chair: Jakub Morawiec Sebastian Wärmländer: The longhouse at Hrísbrú, Iceland: an interdisciplinary study. Alexandra Sanmark: Assembly Sites: Methodology and Theory. Ragnar Saage: Metallographical analysis of Vendel/Viking Age iron amulet rings.
12.00-13.30	Lunch at restaurant Püssirohukelder (Lossi 28)
13.30-15.00	Session IV. Chair: Tatjana N. Jackson Laila Kitzler Åhfeldt: Archaeology and runology – a happy marriage? Sirpa Aalto & Ritva Kylli & Anna-Kaisa Salmi & Tiina Äikes: Reconciliation of sources: investigating food culture in Ostrobothnia (northern Finland) in pre-modern era. William Pidzamecky: “Many big ships and excellently well fitted…”: A Case Study of Norse Vessels in the Saga of King Hakon c.1204-1263.
15.00-15.30	Coffee
15.30-16.30	Session V. Chair: Ragnar Saage Marika Mägi: Place names and archaeological districts in Viking Age Eastern Baltic. Jakub Morawiec: Viking raids on territories of Western Slavs – research problems and challenges.
16.30-16.45	Break
16.45-17.45	Special session. The Salme mass burials in ships – archaeology outdoors and indoors. Introduction by Jüri Peets, Marge Konsa, Raili Allmäe, Liina Maldre and Reet Maldre. Chair: Laila Kitzler Åhfeldt.
17.45	Wine reception hosted by the Swedish ambassador (in room 140, Ülikooli 18)
20.00	Symposium Dinner at restaurant Püssirohukelder (Lossi 28)

Sunday 3 December

Main building of Tartu University, room 139 (Ülikooli 18)

9.00-10.00	Keynote lecture. Anne-Sofie Gräslund: Interdisciplinarity – the hardships of an archaeologist, from the 1970s and onwards. Chair: Leszek Slupecki.
10.00-10.30	Coffee
10.30-12.30	Session VI. Chair: Alexandra Sanmark. Elena Melnikova: The invitation of Varangian princes in the light of interdisciplinarity. Stanislav Belskiy: The newly-discovered boat-grave of Viking Age in Karelia (Russia). Results of current research. Tatjana N. Jackson: Saga studies and Slavic-Finnish archeology: “bilateral cooperation.” Leszek Slupecki: Old Norse Runic inscriptions on wooden stocks and Old Russian birch bark writing. Chance for comparisons never used.
12.30-14.00	Lunch at restaurant Püssirohukelder (Lossi 28)
14.00-15.30	Session VII. Chair Sirpa Aalto. Maria Cristina Lombardi: Intersections among disciplines: a kenning for ‘sword.’ Miriam Mayburd: Old Norse philology meets metaphysics: on limits of epistemology and (re)turn to φαινόμενον. Anna Solovyeva: Text and Context in Skáldatal: Reading a Written Document of an Oral Tradition (via skype).
15.30-16.00	Coffee
16.00-17.30	Session VIII. Chair: Maria Cristina Lombardi. Luke John Murphy: Reasoning our way to privacy: towards a methodological discourse of Viking studies. Agneta Ney: Interdisciplinary Studies and Historiographical Changes. Denis Sukhino-Khomenko: Crossing Disciplinary Borders: Thegns in Northern Europe (the British Isles and Scandinavia).
17.30-17.45	Break
17.45-18.45	Austmarr Network Business meeting