Dr Christian Cooijmans BA, MSc, PhD, FRHistS, FSA, FSAScot, FHEA
Associate Research Fellow Languages, Cultures and Film
- Work email C.Cooijmans@liverpool.ac.uk
- Personal WebsiteHumanities Commons
Professional Activities
Event Roles
- "Shipborne Subversives: Towards a Viking History 'from Below'", by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, Norwegian Honorary Consulate General - Edinburgh, 2024)
- "The Afterlives of Dorestad: Late Medieval Memories of an Erstwhile Emporium", by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, Fourth Dorestad Congress - Leiden, the Netherlands, 2024)
- Co-organiser - Seminar Series - Scottish Society for Northern Studies (Talk/Lecture, 2021 - 2023)
- "Vikings in the Frankish Realm", Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, Department of Occidental History - University of Tokyo, 2023)
- "Just off the Mark: (Re)Imagining Viking Activity in Late Medieval Breda", Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, Viking Society for Northern Research - Student Conference, 2023)
- "On Familiar Shores: Viking Hydrarchy and Community across the Frankish Realm", Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, Richard Hall Symposium - Jorvik Viking Festival, 2023)
- "'They Search for Fortune by Ship, and Inhabit the Sea': Viking Hydrarchy in Francia and the North Sea World", by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, Pictish Arts Society Seminar Series, 2022)
- "Hidden in Plain Sight: Reconsidering the Roles of Viking Encampment across the Frankish Realm", by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, 16th Midlands Viking Symposium, University of Birmingham, 2022)
- "A Place of Contact and Contradiction: The Socially Constructed Space(s) of Viking Encampment" (Talk/Lecture, 19th Viking Congress, University of Liverpool, 2022)
- "Pillage People? Considering the Continental Politics of Viking Endeavour", by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, Europa-Universität Flensburg, 2022)
- "Memories of Malevolence: Viking Endeavour in the Later Medieval Saints’ Lives of the Low Countries" (Talk/Lecture, The Viking Age as a Foreign Place, University of Oslo, 2021)
- "Local Myth, Local Memory: (Re)Conceiving Viking Endeavour in Late Medieval Breda" (Talk/Lecture, International Medieval Congress, Leeds, 2021)
- "Texts, Traditions, Tropes: Vikings in the Late Medieval Saints’ Lives of the Low Countries", by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, University of Liverpool, 2021)
- "Hostile in Tent: The Logistics of Viking Encampment across Atlantic Europe", by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, University of Liverpool, 2020)
External Administrative or Committee Roles
- Committee Member, Invited (Scottish Society for Northern Studies, 2015 - present)
- Contributor, Invited (International Medieval Bibliography, 2019 - present)
Internal Administrative or Committee Roles
- Research Staff Association Steering Committee - HLC Liaison (University, 2020 - present)
Media Appearances
- Vikings, les premiers rois, Planète+ (Invited, April 2023)
- Viking Encampments, The History of Vikings Podcast (Invited, January 2023)
- Vikings: The Rise and Fall, National Geographic (Invited, June 2022)
- The Franks: everything you wanted to know, BBC History Extra Podcast (Invited, March 2022)
- Vikings in the Frankish Kingdom, Gone Medieval Podcast (History Hit) (Invited, January 2022)
- Vikings and Franks, BBC History Extra Podcast (Invited, August 2021)
- Vikings in the Frankish Empire, The History of Vikings Podcast (Invited, May 2020)
Professional Body Memberships
- Advance HE (Fellow, 2024 - present)
- Society of Antiquaries of London (Fellow, 2022 - present)
- Royal Historical Society (Fellow, 2020 - present)
- Society of Antiquaries of Scotland (Fellow, 2017 - present)
- Viking Society for Northern Research (Member, 2013 - present)