The Body-Politics team at the team kick-off, October 2022. From left to right: Bradley Marshall, Emma Tollefsen, Marianne Hem Eriksen, Renate Larssen, Elisabeth Aslesen, and Katherine M. Olley. 
PI Marianne giving a paper on intoxication in Aarhus, May, 2022 — possibly looking slightly befuddled herself. Photo: @noharedontcare 
PhD researcher Elisabeth Aslesen (left) at the Intersectional Bodies symposium in Leicester, June 2022. PI Marianne Hem Eriksen to the right. 
PI Marianne thrilled to be presenting papers at in-person conferences again! Reykjavik, November 2021. Photo @noharedontcare 
PhD researcher Renate Larssen (right) being interviewed about her project for Swedish television! 
Artwork in progress at the amazing workshop ‘Art and the Body’ with artist | archaeologist Dr Rose Ferraby and poet | archaeologists Prof Mel Giles, hosted by Body-Politics and Intersectional Bodies. 
PI Marianne and then postdoctoral researcher, now project friend and affiliate Dr Kate Olley visiting Nottingham to give a guest lecture, May 2023 
Project friend and affiliate Dr Claire Ratican sharing her research with the project at an internal workshop, winter 2023. 
Our postdoc Dr Emma Tollefsen during data collection in Copenhagen, Denmark 
PhD researcher Elisabeth Aslesen giving the keynote lecture at the HEI international student symposium in Oslo, 2022! 
Participants at the ‘Body and the law’ workshop, February 2025
2025
September 18–19, 2025
Time and the kaleidoscope: network, hierarchy, ontology: Universität Tübingen, Kaleidoscopic Narration workshop (Alex Wilson)
September 2-6, 2025 EAA
– DISCUSSANT for EAA session: Networks for care and neglect in the archaeological record (Renate Larssen)
– DISCUSSANT for EAA session: Human remains in settlements: Burials, non-burials and… what else? (Kevin Kay/Oddkin)
– Ancestors, accidents, or oddkin: Who can settlement remains be, and what can they do?. (Marianne Hem Eriksen & Kevin Kay)
– Between family trees and fuzzy rhizomes. (Kevin Kay & Marianne Hem Eriksen)
August 4–8, 2025
Ontologies of the unfree: intersections of slavery and outlawry in medieval Iceland. International Saga Conference, University of Katowice (Alexander Wilson (presenting author) & Brad Marshall)
July 2, 2025
Precarious lives: intersections of slavery and outlawry in medieval Iceland. Project workshop with the DoSSE project, University of Leicester (Alexander Wilson & Brad Marshall)
June 12–13, 2025
Emotions, monstrosity, and the paranormal. Háskóli Íslands, AHRC Old Norse Emotions Network (Alex Wilson)
June 3, 2025
The domestication fallacy: Rethinking the dynamics of the horse-human relationships. Equine cultures in tranistion, University of Manchester (Renate Larssen)
8 May, 2025
Horse emotions and horse-human interactions. Lecture for students on the Bachelor’s programme in animal psychology, Linköping University (Renate Larssen)
3 April, 2025
Body-Politics: Untold stories of broken bodies from Iron and Viking-Age Scandinavia. Department of Archaeology, University of Edinburgh (Marianne Hem Eriksen)
22 March, 2025
Tales from a chaotic but ultimately very satisfying research journey: the BODY-POLITICS project. ANCESTORS WORKSHOP on interdisciplinary bioarchaeology, University of Cambridge (Marianne Hem Eriksen)
27-28 February: Project workshop: Law and the Body in the Norse World. University of Leicester (organized by Alex Wilson):
– Making non-persons: Violence against unfree bodies in the Norse world. Law and the Body workshop, University of Leicester (Alex Wilson)
– Introduction to the project Body-Politics: Personhood, sexuality and death in Iron and Viking Age Scandinavia (Marianne Hem Eriksen)
2024
December 4, 2024
Marks of non-personhood: Violence against unfree bodies in medieval Iceland and Scandinavia. SAAH Research Seminar, University of Leicester (Alex Wilson).
December 1, 2024
Body-Politics: Bodies on the margins and the politics of personhood in Iron and Viking Age Scandinavia. Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic Dept., University of Cambridge (Marianne Hem Eriksen and Alex Wilson).
November 26, 2025
Body-Politics of first Millennium Scandinavia: Tales from a large-scale research project. University of Uppsala (Marianne Hem Eriksen, Renate Larssen)
November 18, 2024
Marks of non-personhood: Violence against unfree bodies in medieval Iceland and Scandinavia. University of Nottingham, CSVA (Alex Wilson)
November 15, 2024
Untold stories: ‘body-objects’ in settlement contexts in Iron and Viking Age Scandinavia. Department of Archaeology, University of York (Marianne Hem Eriksen and Emma Tollefsen)
September 28, 2024
The horse-human bond? Historic and scientific perspectives.. Equine Welfare Days, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (Renate Larssen)
August 28-31, 2024: EAA conference, Rome
– Teeth as material culture: Ritual deposition of teeth in Iron Age Scandinavia (Emma Tollefsen and Marianne Hem Eriksen)
– Untold stories: ‘body-objects’, politics, and personhood in late prehistoric Scandinavia (Marianne Hem Eriksen and Emma Tollefsen)
– Beaded Identities: the Constructive Powers of Jewellery in Danish Viking Age Burials (Emma Thompson)
– Archaeoethology – a new framework for interpreting past animal-human relationships (Renate Larssen)
– Doubly Marginalised? Unfree, parahuman and socially dead ‘body object’ children in Late Iron Age Scandinavia (Brad Marshall)
August 2024
Playing a Viking: the synthesis of mechanical classes from archetypes in Old Norse tabletop roleplaying settings, MARRI Stavanger (Emma Thompson)
August 15-16, 2024
Reading emotions in epigraphic sources. Old Norse Emotions Network workshop, University of Oxford (Alexander Wilson)
June 19, 2024
Legal fiction and the body. Keynote address at the Norse in the North Twelfth Annual Conference, Durham University (Alexander Wilson)
May 24, 2024
Body-Politics of the Scandinavian Iron and Viking Ages. Intimate histories on multiple scales. School of Archaeology, University of Oxford (Marianne Hem Eriksen)
May 2, 2024
Horse emotions and horse-human interactions. Lecture for students on the Bachelor’s programme in animal psychology, Linköping University (Renate Larssen)
March 27, 2024
Living with humans: exploring past animal lives through the lens of ethology. Digging Deeper – School of Archaeology and Ancient History Annual Postgraduate Conference, University of Leicester (Renate Larssen)
February 1-2, 2024
Grounding bodies in Viking Worlds. Department of the Study of Religion, Aarhus University (Marianne Hem Eriksen)
2023
December 18-20, 2023
Session at TAG2023: States of Being(s): The politics of bodies in archaeology
– Multispecies Vikings: Disrupting the human/non-human binary in archaeology (Renate Larsen & Marianne Hem Eriksen)
– The archaeological posthuman child: Exploring a new approach to studies of childhood in the past (Brad Marshall)
– The cost of gendered death in Viking-Age Denmark (Emma Thompson)
– The pregnant body and archaeologies of absence (Kate Olley, Emma Tollefsen, Brad Marshall and Marianne Hem Eriksen)
September 1, 2023
The politics of aesthetics: Making bodies in Iron and Viking Age Scandinavia. The European Association of Archaeologists’ Conference, Belfast: (Marianne Hem Eriksen & Elisabeth Aslesen)
August 31, 2023
Sex and the Vikings: Gender, power, violence, joy? The European Association of Archaeologists’ Conference, Belfast: (Marianne Hem Eriksen)
August 16, 2023
How Animals Experienced Life in Iron and Viking Age Scandinavia. The Behaviour 2023 conference, Bielefeld University, Germany (Renate Larssen)
June 21, 2023
Vǫlundarkviða and the Icelandic Ballad Tradition. Old Norse Poetry in Performance conference, Oxford (Kate Olley)
May 26, 2023
Society for Medieval Research New Thinking in Viking Archaeology Panel Debate with Dr Rebecca Boyd and Dr Marianne Moen (online): (Marianne Hem Eriksen)
May 11, 2023
Body-Politics: Personhood, Sexuality and Death in first millennium Scandinavia at the Dept. of Archaeology, University of Cardiff (Marianne Hem Eriksen)
May 10, 2023
Horse emotions and horse-human interactions. Guest lecture on horse-human interactions, Linköping University (Renate Larssen)
May 4, 2023
Body-Politics at the Centre for Viking Studies, University of Nottingham (Marianne Hem Eriksen)
January 7-8, 2023
Can a horse love its owner? The social capacities of horses from a scientific perspective. Keynote address at the BHIS-conference 2023. (Renate Larssen).
2022
October 19-20, 2022
Encountering the body: Personhood and iconography in the Scandinavian Iron Age. Keynote address at the Heritage Experience Initiative International Student Conference, University of Oslo. (Elisabeth Aslesen)
30th September, 2022
Dwelling with the dead: The politics of bodies in first millennium Scandinavia at Jernalderseminar 2022, Moesgaard (Marianne Hem Eriksen & Emma Tollefsen).
15-17th September, 2022:
Change, politics and the body: Intimate histories on multiple scales. Keynote address at the Human Agency and Global Challenges: Re-Centering Social Change in Archaeology conference (Marianne Hem Eriksen)
31 August-3 September:
Body-Politics of the Viking Age, European Association of Archaeologists Conference, Budapest (Marianne Hem Eriksen)
31 August-3 September:
‘Make mappings, not muddles’: Gender archaeology and the new materialisms (with Dr Kevin Kay), European Association of Archaeologists Conference, Budapest (Marianne Hem Eriksen)
16-17 June:
Parts are to be assembled: transient personhoods and body-imagery in first millennium Scandinavia, Intersectional Bodies Symposium, University of Leicester (Elisabeth Aslesen)
16-17 June:
Trauma is material: Situating structural and domestic violence in archaeologies of affect, Intersectional Bodies Symposium, University of Leicester (Marianne Hem Eriksen)
20 May, 2022:
Bodies of Intoxication, 39. Tværfaglige Vikingesymposium, University of Aarhus (Marianne Hem Eriksen)
4 May, 2022:
Alcohol and intoxication in late prehistoric Scandinavia, Intersectional Bodies workshop, University of Leicester (Marianne Hem Eriksen)
21-23 April, 2022:
The archaeology of dehumanisation: less-than-human bodies in the more-than-human-worlds of the Scandinavian Iron Age, Nordic TAG Conference, Oslo (Marianne Hem Eriksen)
20 April, 2022:
Body-Politics: Personhood, Sexuality and Death in first Millennium Scandinavia, Department of Archaeology, University of Iceland (Marianne Hem Eriksen)
31 March, 2022:
Body-Politics: Personhood, Sexuality and Death in first Millennium Scandinavia, Centre for Scandinavian Studies, University of Aberdeen (Marianne Hem Eriksen)
2021
30 November, 2021:
Children and personhood in first millennium Scandinavia, Medieval Research Centre, University of Leicester (Marianne Hem Eriksen)
26 November, 2021:
Grounding bodies in Late Iron Age worlds: A view from archaeology, Doing Things With Old Norse Myth Conference, University of Iceland (Marianne Hem Eriksen)
10 September, 2021:
Animate objects, emotion, and the non-person, European Association of Archaeology Conference (Marianne Hem Eriksen)
22 June, 2021:
The diversity and capacities of bodies in first millennium Scandinavia, Medieval Research Centre, University of Leicester (Marianne Hem Eriksen)
29 April, 2021:
Building personhood: Lives and longhouses in late prehistoric Scandinavia, Department of Archaeology, University of Lund (Marianne Hem Eriksen)
24 March, 2021:
Presenting BODY-POLITICS, School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester (Marianne Hem Eriksen)
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