Project-related talks and lectures

16. September 2021
Sigmund Oehrl: ”The new digital edition of Gotland’s picture stones”. Seminar in the course ”Digital Methods for the Humanities: Space, Image and Object”, Doctoral School in the Humanities, Digital Humanities, Stockholm university, Sweden. Online seminar.

9. September 2021
Sigmund Oehrl: Aquatic birds and the afterlife journey in the imagery of the Gotland picture stones”. Annual Conference of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) in Kiel, Germany. Session: Between Bones and Beliefs: Human-Bird Relations in Central and Northern Europe in the 1st Millennium AD. Online conference.

30. June 2021
Laila Kitzler Åhfeldt: ”Ancient Images and Everlasting Runes – 3D-documentation of Swedish Runestones and Picture Stones”. The Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. RSAI Monuments Matter Online Series, Panel 5 Digitizing the Past. Online conference.

28. August 2020
Sigmund Oehrl: “Ancient Images 2.0. Poster Presentationˮ. Annual Conference of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) in Budapest, Ungary. Session: Pre-Christian Beliefs of Central and Northern Europe. Interdisciplinary Investigations. Online conference.

12. November 2019
Sigmund Oehrl: “Re-Interpretations of gotlandic picture stones based on 3D-modelling and the Reflectance Transformation Imaging method (RTI).ˮ Presentation of the book Myth, Materiality, and Lived Religion in Merovingian and Viking Scandinavia, organized by the Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies, given at the university library Stockholm, Sweden.

25. September 2019
Sigmund Oehrl/Mike Fergusson: “Ancient Images 2.0 – a digital edition of the gotlandic picture stonesˮ. New Narratives for the First Millennium? The 70th International Sachsensymposion, Braunschweig, Germany.

12. September 2019
Sigmund Oehrl/Mike Fergusson: “Ancient Images 2.0 – a digital edition of the gotlandic picture stonesˮ. Workshop on Digitization of Carved/Sculptured Stones and Rock Art – Projects and Approaches, Visby, Sweden.

27. August 2019
Sigmund Oehrl: “Forntida bilder 2.0. En digital utgåva av de gotländska bildstenarna.” Uppstartsmöte för programsatsningen Digarv, Vår Gård Saltsjöbaden, Sweden.

10. April 2019
Sigmund Oehrl: “Forntida bilder 2.0. En digital utgåva av de gotländska bildstenarna.” Forskarseminarium,Institutionen för arkeologi och antikens kultur, Stockholms universitet, Sweden.

30. May 2018
Sigmund Oehrl: “Re-evaluation and digital re-edition of Gotland’s picture stones.” Public lecture. Arkeologisk Museum, Universitetet i Stavanger, Norway.

6. September 2017
Sigmund Oehrl: “Equestrian Saints in pagan Scandinavia? Hidden figures on Gotlandic picture-stones detected with digital methods”. Lands and Seas: Post-Roman transitions and relations across the Channel, North Sea and Baltic worlds. The 68th International Sachsensymposion, Canterbury, England.

7. Juli 2017
Sigmund Oehrl: “Verborgene Figuren auf gotländischen Bildsteinen und die Frage nach ihren Rezipienten”. Über alle Kanäle. Aspekte von Kommunikation in Spätantike und Frühmittelalter. Sitzung der AG Spätantike und Frühmittelalter im Rahmen des 9. Deutschen Archäologiekongresses in Mainz, Germany.

5. April 2017
Sigmund Oehrl: “Documenting and interpreting Gotland’s picture stones: Old problems and new approaches”. Early North European Seminar (ENES), Uppsala Universitet Upplandsmuseet, Uppsala, Sweden.