Wednesday 26 October
Medieval and Early modern archaeology in Denmark and the Nordic Countries
Registration at The Aula. Coffee and tea
Welcome
Medieval and Renaissance Archaeology in Aarhus
Professor emer., State Antiquarian Olaf Olsen: In the beginning
Professor Else Roesdahl: 40 years of Medieval Archaeology in Aarhus and Denmark
Associate professor Mette Svart Kristiansen: The Future for the Past
Assistant professor Rainer Atzbach: Europe in Denmark
PhD research student Poul Baltzer Heide: Communication, landscape and society: New Trends in North Atlantic Archaeology
PhD research student Sarah Croix: Gender and social space in Viking Scandinavia
Lunch at The Richard Mortensen Room
Medieval and Renaissance Archaeology in Denmark
Head curator Michael Andersen, The National Museum of Denmark: Medieval Archaeology and the National Museum of Denmark
Head curator Lennart Madsen, Museum Sønderjylland – Arkæologi Haderslev: The professionalization of Medieval Archeology in Denmark. From the enthusiastic amateur to a medieval archeologist at every museum
The Nordic countries
Professor Ingvild Øye, University of Bergen: Medieval archaeology in Norway - from field work to academic discipline
Coffee in Vandrehallen
Professor Jes Wienberg, University of Lund: From the Middle Ages to Modernity - new archaological challenges
Professor Jussi-Pekka Taavitsainen, University of Turku: Historical Archaeology - A Threat to the Diversity of Archaeology?
Reception with snacks at Moesgård
Poster-presentations by students at Medieval and Renaissance Archaeology
Thursday 27 October
Book presentations
The Archaeology of Medieval Europe vol. 2. Twelfth to Sixteenth Centuries AD by professor emer. Martin Carver, York
Silver Economy, Monetisation & Society in Scandinavia, 800-1200 by professor emer. James Graham-Campbell, London
Scandinavia abroad. The North Atlantic in the Middle ages
Professor Orri Vésteinssson, University of Reykjavík: Managing marginality. The archaeology of medieval Iceland
Head of Archaeological Department Símun V. Arge, National Museum of the Faroe Islands: Medieval Kirkjubøur – contacts and influences in the Faroe Islands
Coffee
Senior Researcher Jette Arneborg, The National Museum of Denmark: Greenland - found and lost
Medieval Archaeology in Europe
Professor Neil Price, University of Aberdeen: Viking Archaeology in the 21st century
Prof. Dr. Manfred Gläser, Hansestadt Lübeck, Bereich Archäologie und Denkmalpflege: The Development of Lübeck into a medieval metropol
Lunch at The Richard Mortensen Room
Professor emer. Frans Verhaeghe, Brussels: Little Things and Daily Life. Medieval Material Culture Issues then, now and tomorrow
Dr. Christof Krauskopf, Brandenburgisches Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologisches Landesmuseum: Castles, nobles and living conditions. Sources for and interrelations between aspects of daily life
Senior Lecturer Mark Gardiner, Queens University, Belfast: How the late medieval house in England found its plan
Coffee
Lecturer Alexander G. Pluskowski, University of Reading: The tame and the wild
Professor Niels Lynnerup, Dept. of Forensic Medicine, University of Copenhagen: The bare bones of Medieval Archaeology
Prof. Dr. Matthias Wemhoff, Museumsdirektor und Landesarchäologe, Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte im Neuen Museum / Museumsinsel Berlin: Archaeology as a Medium to make visible the Recent, but Forgotten Past: The Berlin Wall and Further Examples
Final Discussion
Conference dinner and dance
Friday 28 October
Excursions and visit to Moesgård Museum
1. Excursions to Øm and other monasteries in the region by Hans Krongaard Kristensen
2. Town walks in Viking and Medieval city centre in Aarhus
3. Visit the exhibitions at Moesgård Museum