Recent Events

Saturday 26 November 2011, Edinburgh, Day Conference & AGM

Theme: ‘New Research into Material Culture around the Norse Atlantic’

Includes the 2011 Hermann Pálsson Memorial Lecture
Location: Augustine Centre, 41 George IV Bridge, Edinburgh EH1 1EL

Saturday 28th June 2011, King’s College, Aberdeen
(in conjunction with the Centre for Scandinavian Studies, University of Aberdeen)

Theme: 'Aberdeen, Scandinavia and the Baltic'

Dr Tarrin Wills
(co-director of the Centre for Scandinavian Studies, University of Aberdeen) ‘Introduction’

Thomas Brochard
(University of Aberdeen) 'Relations between Scotland's Northern Territories and the Baltic and Scandinavia from the mid-16th to the mid-17th Centuries'

Claire McLoughlin(University of St Andrews)
Past the Perimeters: Aberdonian merchant activities beyond Aberdeen 1603-1707

Book Launch by the Scottish Place-Name Society:
In the Beginning was the Name: Selected Essays by Prof. W.F.H. Nicolaisen

Sally Garden (University of Aberdeen)
”Freedom is the fight for freedom” – new light on the Scottish ancestry of Norwegian composer and nation-builder Edvard Grieg

Robert Millar (University of Aberdeen)
The Scots dialects of the Northern Isles and their connections to Norn

Barry Robertson (University of Aberdeen)
Northeast Sojourns in Northern Continental Europe: the example of the Gordons

Thursday-Friday 14-15 April 2011, Kirkwall, Orkney (UHI/CNS)

This two-day international conference focuses on cultural and geographical connections between Scotland and the Nordic World. It seeks to encourage dialogue and knowledge exchange between academia, government and the wider public.
For further details, please see: http://www.nordic.uhi.ac.uk/?q=node/114

Saturday 27th November, 2010: Day Conference and Annual General Meeting

Theme: ‘New research into northern folklore, storytelling, customs and traditions’

HERMANN PÁLSSON MEMORIAL LECTURE
Rósa Þorsteinsdóttir (Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, Reykjavík, Iceland) '"So is all the world a story" : An Icelandic Storyteller’s Life and Stories'

Rune Blix Hagen (University of Tromsø, Norway)
'The Large Black Cat from Northern Russia: Some strange cultural encounters with the Sami people in 1599’

Presentation of the Magnus Magnusson Memorial Prize for 2010 + AGM

Lizanne Henderson (University of Glasgow, Crichton Campus, Dumfries)
'Witchcraft and Shamanism in Northern Communities: A View from Scotland'

Peter Maxwell-Stuart (University of St. Andrews)
'Appearances of Satan in Mediaeval and Early Modern Europe'

Andrew Jennings (Centre for Nordic Studies, UHI, Shetland Campus)
'Frolics and Freuteries: Norse Magic in Norn Words'