Centre for Nordic Studies - 2017/2018 Public Seminar Dates
Below are a list of dates for the public seminars.
Monday 6th November 7.30pm at Orkney College
Dr Colleen E Batey PhD, MIFA, FSA, FSA (Scot), Honorary Reader
Senior Lecturer in Archaeology, University of Glasgow
Honorary Professor, Hunter College, New York
‘The Late Norse Economy of Orkney: an evolving story’
Wednesday 22nd November 7.30pm at Orkney College
Brian Smith, Honorary Research Fellow,
Archivist at Shetland Museum and Archives
‘The Unst Lay: ancient verse, or the earliest modern Shetland dialect poem?'
December (date to be arranged)
Professor David Gray, Visiting Professor
Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture, Dalhousie University, in Nova Scotia.
Title tbc
April 2018 (date to be arranged)
Dr Natascha Mehler, Visiting Reader
Senior Researcher at the German Maritime Museum (Leibniz Institute for German Maritime History) Bremerhaven Docent at the Department of Prehistory and Historical Archaeology, University of Vienna
Title tbc
May 2018 (date to be arranged)
Prof Barbara Crawford MA, PhD, FRSE, FSA, FSA Scot, Honorary Professor
Member of the Norwegian Academy
Title tbc
Date to be arranged
Professor Michael Barnes, Honorary Research Fellow
Emeritus Professor of Scandinavian Studies, University College London
‘Runic inscriptions in the Isle of Man’