Session: #602

Round table (without formal abstracts, only list of confirmed discussants / session co-organisers to be provided)

It is more than a decade since Dr Cecilia Ljung and Dr Marjolein Stern founded the International Research Network Runes, Monuments and Memorial Carvings to build up and strengthen an interdisciplinary research environment for researchers working with different aspects of carved stone monuments from the Viking Age and the early Middle Ages in Scandinavia, the British Isles, Ireland and Northern Europe. The focus on stone monuments, preferably with a commemorative function, provides coherency within the network, which encompasses a variety of research topics along a broad chronological and geographical spectrum. It is an important characteristic of the network that the participants have an interest in approaching the research material from a cross-disciplinary angle. The Network was aimed initially at postgraduate students and early career researchers, but it received a large interest among scholars beyond this stage, and welcomes researchers at any stage of their career, although young academics remain an important target audience. The Network has in the past arranged three successful thematic workshops, and is seeking to organise new productive encounters in the future. The Roundtable will provide an opportunity for current or prospective members of the network, and anyone interested in Runes, Monuments and Memorial Carvings of this period, to come together for the first time in a number of years, to discuss recent developments in the field and to identify potentially fruitful avenues of research and future collaboration.

Carved stones, Runes, Commemoration, Early medieval, Viking Age, Northern Europe

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Anouk Busset (Switzerland) ¹

Cecilia Ljung (Sweden) ²
Katherine Forsyth (United Kingdom) ³