2017 Shipwrecks Conference - Vikings - Old Legends and Modern Archaeology (Day session)

 The 30th Annual UASBC Shipwrecks Symposium is April 1 at the Scandinavian Community Centre. This year’s Symposium is Vikings – featuring archaeologists and historians from around the world with new discoveries and research.

The day time symposium includes lunch (Danish open faced sandwiches)

Speakers List:

Heather Pringle,  National Geographic Journalist.  Burning Man Meets the Viking Age:  Celebrating the Dark Viking Past on Scotland’s Shetland Islands  

Rob Rondeau, Ph.D. student and Marine Archaeologist, SFU, Vikings in the New World, the lore of Vikings in the New World, separating fact from fiction.

Dr. Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson, Professor of Archaeology, Uppsala University, Sweden, Viking Warriors: archaeological discoveries of warriors from the 8th century Swedish port city of Birka

Dr. John Ljungkvist, Professor of Archaeology, Pre Vikings vessels and warrior graves - Pre Viking boat burials and new insights about sea going vessels

Andreas Hennius, PhD Student, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Uppsala University, Viking Age Tar Production, the impact of large-scale tar production on the Viking sailing ships and exploration

Dr. Gareth Williams, Archaeologist, British Museum, Making an Exhibition of Themselves: Displaying the Vikings to a diverse audience.

Dr. Ben Raffield, Professor of Archaeology, Uppsala University, The Evolution of Raiding.  Using evolutionary theory and ethnographic evidence to investigate the social conditions that underpinned the first Viking raids.

Kick off the Shipwrecks Conference by joining us for a pre-conference get to together at the Vancouver Maritime Museum

Welcome Aboard! Calling on Shipwrecks Participants - take a spot on your sea chest and grab an oar, a mug of grog and join us as we shove off for Shipwrecks Weekend!  Join us on Friday, March 31st from 6:30 pm -9:00 pm at the Vancouver Maritime Museum, 1905 Ogden Ave, Vancouver.