The Centre for Medieval Studies invites you to a lecture by Alice Raw entitled "Pleasure-as-Method. Reading Sources for Women's Sexuality in Later Medieval England" 📍 Edda Auditorium 📅 15 October, 16:30-17:30 midaldastofa.hi.is/is

The Háskóli Íslands Student Conference on the Medieval North has published its Call for Papers for its 16th annual conference, themed "Between Worlds". Open for applications from postgraduate students, Early Career Researchers and independent scholars in Old Norse 👇

HI Student Conference on the Medieval North@histudentcon.bsky.social · last wk.

Hear ye, hear ye! We bring good news today - the 16th Háskóli Íslands Student Conference on the Medieval North will be held on April 19-21, 2027, both in Reykjavík and online. This year’s theme is Between Worlds. More information and submissions here: histudentconference.wordpress.com #medievalsky

Three days left to apply for our third training year! ⏰️

ANTIDOTE - Advanced Training in Digitization of Older Texts@antidote-network.bsky.social · 4w ago

📢 Applications are now open for the 3rd Year of the #ANTIDOTE training programme! Learn to model digital editions in Klosterneuburg 🇦🇹 and Prague 🇨🇿 Application deadline: 7 October antidote.hi.is/apply

Tomorrow - Open hybrid lecture in Archaeology 🏛️ Prof. David Griffiths (University of Oxford & UHI) "The 'Southern Route' and hidden histories of the Viking Age in the North Atlantic." 📆 1 October 2026, 17-18 UTC 📍 Oddi 206 & Zoom More info, Zoom link and abstract below

📢 Applications are now open for the 3rd Year of the #ANTIDOTE training programme! Learn to model digital editions in Klosterneuburg 🇦🇹 and Prague 🇨🇿 Application deadline: 7 October antidote.hi.is/apply

The Centre for Medieval Studies invites you to a lecture by Kathrin Chlench-Priber entitled "Runes, Medicine, and the Devil: The Storage of Secret Knowledge in a Late Medieval Pharmacopoeia (Prague, Národní knihovná, XXIII.F.129)" 📍 Edda Auditorium 📅 15 September, 16:30-17:30 midaldastofa.hi.is/is

Six students in Medieval Icelandic Studies and Viking and Medieval Norse Studies defend their Master's theses today from 13:00–16:00 in Edda 209. Warmest congratulations to all of our presenters on reaching this milestone and on a job well done! Links to the theses and abstracts in 🧵

The University of Iceland Centre for Medieval Studies invites you to a lecture by Tarrin Wills and Ellert Þór Jóhannsson entitled "From Normalisation to Understanding: AI and the study of Old Norse." 📍 Edda Auditorium 📅 8 September, 16:30-17:30. The lecture is open to all. hi.is/vidburdir/mi...

First week successfully done! ✨ Our VMN, MIS, and Erasmus students spent a day exploring Þingvellir, a site of incredible natural beauty and rich history. We toured the tectonic rift valley, the 10th-century Alþingi site at Lögberg, Öxarárfoss, and the ruins of Viking Age booths.

First week successfully done! ✨ Our VMN, MIS, and Erasmus students spent a day exploring Þingvellir, a site of incredible natural beauty and rich history. We toured the tectonic rift valley, the 10th-century Alþingi site at Lögberg, Öxarárfoss, and the ruins of Viking Age booths.

Welcome to the new VMN/MIS cohort! This time, 17 students from the United States, Canada, Mexico, Australia, Germany, Sweden, Finland, France and Italy are starting their studies in the international master's program in Viking and Medieval Studies and Icelandic Medieval Studies.

Welcome to VMN/MIS! This international Master’s programme offers an interdisciplinary approach to Viking and Medieval Scandinavia by drawing on expertise in literature, linguistics, history, textual criticism, palaeography, runology, folklore, religion, art & archaeology at 4 Nordic universities.