Viking Historian | Research Fellow @uio.no | Assoc. Researcher @livunihss.bsky.social | vikings in continental Europe | medieval(ism) | histor(iograph)y
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Christian Cooijmans
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A brilliant encounter with one of the Hyakumantō darani, a Buddhist invocation printed in Nara (Japan) during the 760s (some 700 years pre-Gutenberg). Commissioned by Empress Shōtoku, it is one of an alleged million copies, each encased in a miniature wooden pagoda.
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A veritable Where's Waldo of threadbare viking tropes, in which everyone and everything is Waldo.
Excellent piece from Ted Chiang:
'Employing philosophers might endow LLM companies with an air of respectability that slot-machine makers don’t get from the behavioral psychologists they hire, but in both cases, the companies are preying on people’s tendency to see something that’s not there.'
Christian Cooijmans
Christian Cooijmans
Many congratulations to our friends at the Museum of Danish America for a successful first month of Vikingmania! We were very happy to contribute survey data and videos to the exhibition. In Elk Horn, IA until Apr 2027; on tour afterwards!
www.danishmuseum.org/exhibition/v...
📸 Adam Bierstedt/MoDA
Please join us to celebrate, remember, and raise a glass to Anna Ritchie and her work as archaeologist, author, and lifelong advocate of Scotland’s premodern history and heritage
25th June @15:30-17:45 Room 1.06 (Project Room), School of Literatures, Languages & Cultures, University of Edinburgh.
Really can't cope with the fact that Nottingham's now departed VC (now VC at Leeds - god help them) wasted £80 MILLION on a building it is now selling at a crushing loss (£14m), and is attempting to recoup some of that by sacking 100s of academics and decimating the institution. Absolutely criminal.
Christian Cooijmans
New open access paper by Dr Cooijmans (former Liverpool postdoc) in Proceedings of the 19th Viking Congress, (Liverpool Uni. Press) "A Place of Contact and Contradiction: the socially
constructed space(s) of viking encamp" #medievalsky #archaeology www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/pb-assets/OA...
I recently came across this IG video by Dan Snow, talking about the viking attack on Zutphen. While it's always good to see more attention drawn to this particular part of the viking world, this is an example of this history being unhelpfully sensationalised out of proportion.
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So many happy faces at @pedalonparliament.org over the weekend!
Video
Making a Warrior
Christian Cooijmans
Christian Cooijmans
Scottish Society for Northern Studies
Emilie K. M. Murphy
Clare Downham
Shedding 608 academic posts but creating 75 new managerial posts. No clear answers as to what those posts are, who they will go to, and why we need them.
Onni Gust
Today's vikingism: this composite photograph of Norway's national football team dressed as pop-culture vikings ⚽
📸 David Yarrow
Making a Warrior
Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning.
2,700 letters sent last month warning staff that they are at risk of redundancy, with Nottingham senior management's goal to shed 608 academic posts, following the 350 professional services staff lost last year. 1/3
With hundreds of jobs on the line and dozens of courses at risk, staff living through one of the biggest university restructuring projects of recent years fear they are shouldering the blame for wider...
