INS Research Seminars

The INS Research Seminar is usually held online, and is open to students and staff at the University of Nottingham.

Future

October 2024:

Special in-person seminar with Professor Mariana Dolynska and Dr Orysia Vira (Ukrainian Catholic University). Date to be confirmed soon.

Autumn 2024:

Peter McClure (University of Nottingham) (date to be confirmed)

Richard Jones (University of Leicester) (date to be confirmed)

Spring 2025:

Chris Callow (University of Birmingham) (date to be confirmed)

Richard Coates, 'The Naming of Archaeological Sites: The Case of Hampshire Hillforts'

Per Vikstrand, ‘Swedish tuna and Anglo-Saxon tūn - is there a connection?’

Paul Cavill, 'Addenda and Corrigenda to A New Dictionary of English Place-Names'

Joshua Neal, ‘The Anglo-Scandinavian by(r)-names Corpus: Groups and Outliers’

Paul Cavill, 'Addenda and Corrigenda to A New Dictionary of English Place-Names'

David N. Parsons, ‘Loanwords in Place-Names: Some Reflections (Mostly) from the Anglo-Welsh Borderlands’

Kathryn Bullen, ‘Axholme Place-Names: Community Engagement’

Jeremy Harte, ‘Phantom Footprints: Tracing the Supernatural in Place-Names’

David Pelteret, ‘Some Problematic Bynames in the Exeter Quittance Records’

Susan Kilby, ‘More on mōr’

Ayokunmi Ojebode, ‘Quest for Alter/Native: At Crossroads of African and English Names in Love’s Unlike Lading: A Comedy from Shakespeare’

James Chetwood, ‘Personal names, community identity and collective memory in medieval England’

Jessica Treacher, ‘Timber Toponyms: place-name evidence for the use of trees as a managed resource in Early Medieval England’

Oliver J. Padel, ‘Suspicious proximity in English place-names’