Events Chaired and Organised

Networks of Care and Neglect in the Archaeological Record – 31st European Association of Archaeologists conference. Online, September 2025.

Viking Economics – An international workshop held in Seville, Spain, June 2023.

Beyond Barbarians: Premodern Polities in Comparative Perspective – An international workshop held at Uppsala University, May 2023.

Beyond Barbarians: Premodern Polities on the Move (co-organiser) – 88^th Society for American Archaeology Conference, March 2023.

Vikings! Current research on the early medieval North – Symposium organised at Simon Fraser University, March 2017.

Captivity and Slavery in Viking Age Scandinavia – 81^st Society for American Archaeology Conference, Orlando, April 2016.

Conflict and Society in Viking Age Scandinavia – 80^th Society for American Archaeology Conference, San Francisco, April 2015.

Presentations

I have presented several dozen papers at workshops, conferences, and university departments worldwide. Themes include:

• Conflict and military organisation during the Viking Age.
• Viking Age social networks and relationships.
• Viking-Age childhood.
• Captivity and slavery in the Viking world.
• Cross-cultural approaches to the study of slavery.
• Bioarchaeologies of inequality and structural violence in Viking-Age Scandinavia.
• Viking raiding and settlement in northwestern Europe.
• Religious belief and cooperation in Viking-Age Scandinavia.
• The archaeology of the Pacific War.
• Landscapes of conflict in early medieval England.