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Christian Cooijmans

Dr Christian Cooijmans
BA, MSc, PhD, FRHistS, FSA, FSAScot, FHEA

Associate Research Fellow
Languages, Cultures and Film
Part of
School of Histories, Languages and Cultures
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Contact

C.Cooijmans@liverpool.ac.uk

Humanities 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 - 2023)

Media Appearances

  • Het vuur van de Friezen, MAX, NPO2 (Invited, July 2024)
  • 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)