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Christian Cooijmans

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

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)