CSVA Mission
The Centre advances knowledge and understanding of the languages, literatures, history, and material and visual cultures of the Viking Age and its aftermath, in both Scandinavia and the Viking diaspora, for the benefit of academics, students and the general public.
Public engagement and knowledge exchange with non-academic audiences are important to us, and are based on the high-quality individual and collaborative research carried out by our members. We participate in collaborative projects, publications, conferences, seminars and networks with other academics across Britain and the world, and we train the scholars of the future by offering a Master's course and supervising PhD students.
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Events
Events
- Fell-Benedikz Lecture: How will they fare? Runes, manuscripts, books in the digital world
- 17th Annual Midlands Viking Symposium
- Date
- 17/05/2025
- Description
- In collaboration with the University of Leicester, the CSVA is delighted to announce the return of the Midlands Viking Symposium on Saturday 17th May 2025, 10am-5pm in Senate Chamber, Trent Building, University Campus.This one-day Symposium is an opportunity to share the latest Viking research with the public and other colleagues in the Midlands. This year we are delighted to be welcoming guest speaker Prof. Clare Downham from the University of Liverpool, current President of the Viking Society for Northern Research. The programme also features contributions from the University of Leicester's ERC-funded BODY-POLITICS project, headed by Dr Marianne Hem Eriksen, papers by PhD students at the University of Nottingham and a creative writing workshop led by Dr James Aitcheson. Come along to browse stalls from the English Place-Name Society, Brepols, Bookwise and BlueAxe Reproductions and hear the latest in Viking research.
News
- School of English scores 94% in NSS 2016
- Description
- The University of Nottingham's results for the 2016 National Student Survey (NSS) are in. The results are the University's best to date and its strongest year-on-year improvement since the NSS began in 2005. School of English scored 94% for 'overall satisfaction'.
- Dr Christina Lee awarded Vice Chancellor's Medal
- Description
- Congratulations to Dr Christina Lee, who has been awarded the Vice-Chancellor's Medal in recognition of her pioneering work in developing interdisciplinary research, notably between the arts and the sciences, where she has played a leading role in the development of an international cross-disciplinary network of historians, philologists and microbiologists to investigate the efficacy of medieval remedies in relation to antibiotic resistance.
- Hayden Ashby Goes the Extra Mile
- Description
- Hayden Ashby won one of the Student Union's 'Going the Extra Mile' Volunteer Awards.
- The Weird and Wonderful Sounds of Place-Names
- Description
- A podcast on the pronunciation of place-names.
- Viking World: free public events
- Description
- Registration is now open for the free public events as part of the prestigious Viking World 2016 conference. Attendance is free but places are limited so you need to book in advance.
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