Papers and conference participation
2023
1) Vortrag im Rahmen der Tagung Grafonomi og koding av runer, 13.−14.03.2023, Uppsala:
Christiane Zimmermann: „Graph types and graph-type variants of the RuneS project“.
2022
1) Papers, plenary lectures und poster presentation at the RuneS module conference Ninth International Symposium on Runes and Runic Inscriptions, ISRRI 9 with the title: Functions of runic literacy 200 to 1500 AD: Text types and historico-cultural contexts, 14.–19.06.2022, Akademie Sankelmark, Schleswig-Holstein:
- Julia-Sophie Heier: „Selected graphtypes and graphtype variants of the Viking Age runestone inscriptions in Scania“ (poster presentation). (https://www.isrri2022.uni-kiel.de/abstracts/#heier)
- Wilhelm Heizmann und Alessia Bauer: „Die Edition der nordischen Runica Manuscripta“ (plenary lecture). (https://www.isrri2022.uni-kiel.de/abstracts/#bauer-heizmann)
- Ursula Lenker: „(Maker-)Formulae in Early English Literacy: Runic and Beyond“ (paper). (https://www.isrri2022.uni-kiel.de/%20abstracts/#lenker)
- Kerstin Majewski: „The Ruthwell Crucifixion Poem and its Formulae within the Corpus of Old English Runic Metrical Inscriptions“ (paper). (https://www.isrri2022.uni-kiel.de/abstracts/#majewski)
- Edith Marold: „Runic Poetry“ (plenary lecture). (https://www.isrri2022.uni-kiel.de/abstracts/#marold)
- Sofia Pereswetoff-Morath: „Personal Names of proto-Norse origin on the island of Gotland: how long do they remain in use during the Middle Ages?“ (paper). (https://www.isrri2022.uni-kiel.de/abstracts/#pereswetoff)
- Philipp Simon: „Building Scaffolds“ (paper). (https://www.isrri2022.uni-kiel.de/abstracts/#simon)
- Gaby Waxenberger: „Why two and not one? Why we need to separate the Old English from the Pre-Old English inscriptions in our editions of the English runic inscriptions“ (plenary lecture). (https://www.isrri2022.uni-kiel.de/abstracts/#waxenberger)
- Christiane Zimmermann und Julia-Sophie Heier: „The RuneS database“ (paper at the Digital Runes Session).
2) Presentations at the conference From the Maya Script to the Germanic Runes - Case Studies on the Typology of Scripts and Research on Writing Systems (LautSchriftSprache — ScriptandSound V, LSS 5), 25.−28.10.2022, Fevik, Norway:
- Alessia Bauer: „The Icelandic Runica manuscripta: Between Tradition and adaptation“.
- Julia-Sophie Heier: „A difference in writing: The case of formulaic vs. non-formulaic words in Viking-age runic inscriptions in Scania“.
- Kerstin Kazzazi: „Attempting a typology of writing: script types, writing systems and written languages“.
- Gaby Waxenberger: „Is the perfect fit more perfect in runic writing in England?“
- Christiane Zimmermann: „Writing in/with runes: Graphetic phenomena in the runic inscriptions in the older futhark“.
3) Paper at the workshop of the eHumanities working group of the Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities with the title „Geisteswissenschaftliche Forschungsdaten“, 10.−11. November 2022, Munich:
Gregor Große-Bölting: „Graphtyp, Graphtypvariante und Graph: Einsichten in die Gruppierung von Projektdaten“.
4) Presentations at the 57. International Congress on Medieval Studies, 14.05.2022, Kalamazoo:
- Kerstin Kazzazi: Response at Round Table „Runes, Words, Texts, Contexts I and II“.
- Gaby Waxenberger: „English Runic Inscriptions and what to do with the linguistic data they offer?“
5) Presentations at the Interdisziplinäre Sommerakademie des Zentrums für Mittelalter und Renaissancestudien (ZMR) and the Historischen Grundwissenschaften of the LMU Munich, 01.08.2022, LMU Munich:
- Julia-Sophie Heier: „Geritzt, gemeißelt und gestempelt. Runeninschriften vom 2. bis ins 16. Jahrhundert“.
- Gaby Waxenberger: „Runic Writing in General and the Inscription on the Watchfield Mount in Particular“.
6) Paper at the Internet Café: Epigraphy, Organiser: Simona Marchesini, Alteritas, 08.04.2022, University of Genoa:
Gaby Waxenberger: „The World of Runes: Objects and Inscriptions“.
7) Presentations at the International Training School Epigraphy: From Context to Meaning, September 2022 (online):
Gaby Waxenberger: „Runic Writing in the Germanic Languages with a Special Focus on the English and Frisian Inscriptions“.
Gaby Waxenberger: „The Inscription on the Watchfield Mount“.
8) Project presentation at the KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, 21.10.2022 Eichstätt:
Kerstin Kazzazi: Projektvorstellung von RuneS als Teil der interdisziplinären Co-Präsentation „Digitale Erschließung von und Forschung mit historischen Quellen“ (mit Kolleg:innen aus der Geschichte und der Handschriftenabteilung der Universitätsbibliothek).
2021
1) Presentation at the Högre seminarium, Institutionen för svenska och flerspråkighet, Stockholms universitet, 20 January 2021:
Sofia Pereswetoff-Morath: „Hur länge får man heta Botvid? Nordiska personnamn i epigrafiskt material på Gotland – en pilotundersökning“.
2) Presentation at the conference Scrivere Altrove, Scrivere Altrimenti II - ‘Scritture Esposte’, 17 April 2021 at the University of Rome (Sapienza):
Gaby Waxenberger: „Runic Writing in England after the adventus Saxonum (ca. 425–650 AD) and the composite dialectal background of Old English“.
3) Intensive seminar (20 hrs) at Háskóli Íslands (University of Iceland) as part of the Master’s program ‘Viking and Medieval Studies’, 17th–21st of May 2021, Reykjavík:
Alessia Bauer: „Runes and graphematics“.
4) Presentation at the Workshop of the Viking Studies Research Group, 15 July 2021, York:
Gaby Waxenberger (gem. mit Catherine Johnson): „The World of Runes Objects and Inscriptions“.
5) Presentation at the Oberseminar, Institut für Nordische Philologie, LMU München, October 9th, 2021:
Julia-Sophie Heier: „birla oder biula? Der Personenname auf Stora Harrie (Sk 23) und weitere Ergebnisse der Autopsiereise durch Skåne“.
6) Presentation at the 2nd Symposium on Linguistic Identities: Spelling, Writing and Identity, 29. November 2021 aht the University of Stavanger:
Gaby Waxenberger: „Graphemics Reveals Identity: the Runic Inscription on the Ruthwell Cross“.
2020
1) Runråd 102, 14 May 2020 in Uppsala, Sweden:
Sofia Pereswetoff-Morath presented her research on the Birka amulet: „Nytolkning av Birka-amuletten“.
2) Presentation at the Kollokviet för nordisk filologi, Institutionen för svenska och flerspråkighet, Stockholms universitet, 11 September 2020:
Sofia Pereswetoff-Morath: „Hur hamnar björnar och grindvalar i ens forskning? Två runnålar från Sigtuna – två etymologiska problem“.
3) Paper in the context of the TextWorlds Seminar Series, Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University, 18 November 2020:
Christiane Zimmermann: „The Runic Corpus“.
2019
1) Paper at the conference Exploring the Social and Cultural Contexts of Historic Writing Systems, 15 March 2019, Cambridge, UK:
Julia-Sophie Heier: „The visibility of runic writing and its relation to Viking Age society“.
2) Paper at the Graduate Research Day: Cultures in Contact einer University of Cambridge – Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich Collaboration, 31 May 2019, Cambridge, UK:
Julia-Sophie Heier: „The World of Runes: a short presentation of the RuneS-project“.
3) Paper at the International Medieval Congress, 3 July 2019, Leeds, UK:
Julia-Sophie Heier: „Runic Writing and Material Change: The Case of Medieval Runica Manuscripta“.
4) Paper at the conference Magie und Literatur. Interdisziplinäres Colloquium zur erzählkulturellen Funktionalisierung magischer Praktiken in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit, 16–18 September 2019 at the Siemens-Stiftung München:
Alessia Bauer: „Runenzauber in den Isländersagas“.
5) Poster at the 24. Arbeitstagung der Skandinavistik, 25 September 2019, Erlangen, Germany:
Julia-Sophie Heier: „Die dänischen Runensteine der Wikingerzeit: Eine graphematische Studie“.
6) Paper at the conference In the Footsteps of Fergal/Virgilius: Learned Connections between North-Western and Southern Europe in the Middle Ages, 4 November 2019, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich:
Julia-Sophie Heier: „The visibility of runic writing and its relation to Viking Age society“.
2018
1) Paper at the conference The Early History of the North-Sea Germanic Languages: Dutch, Frisian and Low German 13 March 2018, in Odense, Denmark:
Gaby Waxenberger: „The Pre-OE inscriptions in the light of the composite dialectal background of the Germanic-speaking colonists of Britain“.
2) Runråd 87 with the theme "Projektet Evighetsrunor", 27 April 2018 in Uppsala, Sweden: The event focussed on the project Evighetsrunor and on a new online platform for runic research joining and making searchable online the data of the Samnordisk runtextdatabas, Digitala Sveriges runinskrifter and other relevant archived data.
Edith Marold and Alessandro Palumbo took part as members of the RuneS project group.
3) Paper at the 13. überregionale Doktorandentagung der Skandinavistik, 27–28 April 2018, Department for Nordic Philology, LMU Munich:
Heier, Julia-Sophie: „Graphematische Studie der wikingerzeitlichen Runensteine in Dänemark – eine Projektvorstellung“.
4) Paper at the symposium Kristendom och samhällsomvandling i Norden omkring år 1000 in Göteborg, 18 May 2018:
Palumbo, Alessandro: „Runristade gravhällar i Västergötland“
5) Paper in the context of the lecture series Wissenschaft im Gespräch, 4 July 2018, at the KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt:
Kerstin Kazzazi: „Schrift und Schriftlichkeit als Kulturerbe: Runische Inschriften“
6) Paper at the conference „Geisteswissenschaftliche Forschungsdaten. Methoden zur digitalen Erfassung und Präsentation“ der Arbeitsgruppe eHumanities der Akademienunion vom 8.–10. Oktober 2018 in Leipzig:
Jens-Uwe Bahr: „Digitale Erfassung und Beschreibung runischer Funde und Schriftzeichen im RuneS Projekt“.
7) Papers at the RuneS module conference on Runic Graphemics at the LMU Munich, 08−10 November 2018:
- Bahr, Jens-Uwe: „Building a Toolset: Collection, Verification and Presentation of information in the RuneS project“
- Heier, Julia-Sophie: „In <stain> gemeißelt: orthographische und graphtypologische Varianz der wikingerzeitlichen Runensteine in Schonen“
- Marold, Edith: „Langzweig-s-Runen für /k/ in Norwegen”
- Palumbo, Alessandro: „Orthographic Parallels between Roman and Runic Script in Medieval Sweden“
- Waxenberger, Gaby: „The Runes c and g and Their Velar Counterparts in the OE fuþorc”
- Zimmermann, Christiane und Kazzazi, Kerstin: „Prozesse und Ergebnisse einer vergleichenden funktionalen Analyse der runischen Verschriftung: Fallbeispiel Älteres fuþark – Anglo-friesisches fuþorc“
- Zimmermann, Christiane und Zimmermann, Ute: „Vergleichende formale Beschreibung runischer Graphe: Fallbeispiele Älteres fuþark – Anglo-friesisches fuþorc – Jüngeres fuþąrk/fuþork“
8) Paper at the 48. NORNA Symposiums „Namn i skrift. Names in Writing“ in Göteborg, 29–30 November 2018:
Palumbo, Alessandro: „Same script, different rules? On the alleged different spelling of names compared to other words in runic inscriptions“
2017
1) Participation in the Workshop of the AG "eHumanities", 18.–20.10.2017, Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz:
Edith Marold and Jens-Uwe Bahr took part as members of the RuneS project group. Jens-Uwe Bahr presented a paper on „Digitale Erfassung und Beschreibung runischer Funde und Schriftzeichen im RuneS Projekt“.
2) Paper at the ISAS 2017, Bi-annual conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, 02.08.2017, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA:
Waxenberger, Gaby: „Project Report RuneS“.
3) Paper at the Symposium Medieval Language Studies in Germany Today, Dictionary of Old English, 15.08.2017, Toronto, Canada:
Waxenberger, Gaby: „Runic Inscriptions and Runology“.
4) Paper at the 23. Arbeitstagung der Skandinavistik (ATdS), 27.–29.09.2017 in Kiel:
Krüger, Jana: „Die Dichtung der Wikinger: Skaldische und Runische Dichtung im Vergleich“.
5) Paper in the lecture series Digital Humanities and the Study of the Past, 08.11.2017, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic:
Majewski, Kerstin: „Runic Writing in the Germanic Languages (RuneS) and A Reconstruction of the Ruthwell Cross's Runic Text“.
2016
1) Presentation of the RuneS project (in co-operation with the research units Kiel and Eichstätt-München) at the Convention of Academies 2016 in Hamburg (Akademientag 2016) on 18 May 2016:
The project was represented by a stand in the "project street", enabling visitors to gather information about runic writing in all its facets via visual material on various runic inscriptions, replicas of objects with runic inscriptions and information material on the different rune rows. In talks with the project members and hands-on activity in writing runes, visitors were able to gain a deeper insight into runological work.
2) Paper at the conference Epigraphics in an intermedial context, 16–18 November 2016, Oslo:
Bauer, Alessia: „Manuscript runes in an intermedial perspective“.
3) Paper at the conference Anglo-Saxons 2016: Exchange: Cultures, Ideas and Materials, Edinburgh:
Roschdi, Livia: „Runic Links between Anglo-Saxon England and Frisia: The Case of the Combs“.
4) Paper at the ICEHL, University of Duisburg-Essen, September 2016:
Roschdi, Livia: „Frisian Combs – Linguistic Explorations“.
5) Workshop at the conference Seafaring. An Early Medieval Conference on the Islands of the Atlantic, University of Denver, 3–5 November 2016:
Roschdi, Livia: „Workshop on Old English and Old Frisian Runes. Part I: Introduction to OE Runes; Part II: Franks Casket“.
6) Paper at the conference Digital Britain, Harvard University, Boston, March 2016:
Robins, Jenny: „Presentation of the RuneS Project“.
7) Presentation of the RuneS project in the „Haus des Geistes“ of the Academy Göttingen for a group of students from the University of Bremen, 17 November 2016, by Kerstin Kazzazi and Elke-Ronneberger-Sibold.
8) Participation in the Workshop der AG „eHumanities“, 9–11 November 2016 in Düsseldorf:
Edith Marold took part as member of the RuneS project group.
2015
1) Papers at the conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists (ISAS), 3–7 August 2015, Glasgow:
Kazzazi, Kerstin: „Project Presentation“.
Lenker, Ursel: „Anglo-Saxon Micro-Texts: Language and Communicative Functions“.
2) Paper at the International Medieval Congress, Leeds, 9 July 2015, Session 1640: Runic Reform: Manuscripts and Epigraphy, II:
Bauer, Alessia: „Connections and Interrelations between Manuscript Runes and Epigraphy: Icelandic runica manuscripta between Renewal and Epigraphic Tradition“.
3) Paper and Workshop in the context of the 'Norwich 2000' project, 6 March 2015:
Roschdi, Livia: „Connecting the Continents – Anglo-Saxon Runes in Norfolk“.
4) Paper at the conference SoundScriptLanguage – Recent trends in the research of written languages and media from the runes to cyberspace. An interdisciplinary seminar at Prestegården, Lindesnes, Norway, 16–18 October 2015:
Waxenberger, Gaby: „Recent Research on the Anglo-Frisian fuþorc“.
5) Papers in the context of university events:
Roschdi, Livia: „The Question of Anglo-Frisian: Archaeological and Runological Insights“ (SEM in Rostock, March 2015).
6) Participation in the Workshop of the AG „Elektronisches Publizieren“, 14–16 September 2015 in Heidelberg:
Edith Marold took part as member of the RuneS project group.
2014
1) Graphonomy meeting, 17 February 2014, CAS, Oslo:
In the framework of the Norwegian CAS project (Center of Advanced Studies at the Royal Academy of Sciences in Oslo) Reading and interpreting runic inscriptions: the theory and method of runology, Christiane Zimmermann and Gaby Waxenberger took part in a workshop on graphemics.
Waxenberger, Gaby: „The Old English fuþorc in the light of a graphonomical framework“.
2) Papers at the 27th Annual Meeting of Field Runologists with the topic The theory and method of runology, 4–6 April 2014, Oslo:
Bauer, Alessia: „Runica manuscripta. Methodologische Überlegungen: Probleme und Lösungen“.
Marold, Edith: „Vers oder nicht Vers? Argumente und Kriterien für eine Klassifikation“/„Poetry or not? Implications for interpretation“.
Zimmermann, Ute: „Interpretation von Brakteateninschriften: Methode und Überlegungen“/„Interpretation of Bracteate Inscriptions: Methods and Considerations“.
Zimmermann, Christiane: „Interdisziplinäre Interpretation“.
3) Papers at the conference Across the North Sea. North Sea Connections from AD 400 into the Viking Age. Second Interdisciplinary Symposium on Runes and Related topics in Frisia , 5–8 June 2014, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden:
Kazzazi, Kerstin: „Methodological and Linguistic Perspectives on the Definition of the Frisian Runic Corpus“.
Waxenberger, Gaby: „Sounds and Forms in the Frisian Runic Corpus“.
Zimmermann, Christiane: „Cultural contact between the Western Baltic and the North Sea – the evidence of the comb with runic inscription from the emporium reric“.
4) Papers at the 8th International Symposium on Runes and Runic Inscriptions with the topic „Reading Runes: Discovery, Decipherment, Documentation“, 1–6 September 2014, Nyköping, Schweden:
At the symposium selected issues from the field of graphemics were presented and discussed from a general theoretical perspective as well as in more practically oriented individual studies.
Bauer, Alessia: „The case study of Icelandic Runica manuscripta”.
Fischnaller, Andreas/Hofmann, Anne: „The Documentation of Runic Inscriptions using Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI)“.
Kazzazi, Kerstin/Zimmermann, Christiane: „Structural and Terminological Challenges of a Bilingual German-English RuneS-Database“.
Krüger, Jana: „Der Gebrauch von punktierten Runen in dänischen Runeninschriften”.
Marold, Edith: „Normalisierung und Transkription, ihre Funktion und Anwendungsmöglichkeiten“.
Waxenberger, Gaby: „The Grapheme Inventory of Pre-OE and the Grapheme-Phoneme Relation“.
5) Participation in the workshop of the work group „Elektronisches Publizieren“, 20–21 October 2014 in München:
Edith Marold took part as member of the RuneS project group.
2013
1) Minisymposium om runer og runesprog, Institut for Sprog og Kommunikation of Syddansk Universitet, Odense, 21 March 2013:
Marold, Edith: „Bahuvrīhi-Bildungen in den Inschriften des älteren fuþark“.
Zimmermann, Christiane: „Text und Raum: Textstrukturierung und Fokussierung in ausgewählten Runeninschriften“.
Zimmermann, Ute: „Women in the Scandinavian inscriptions in the older fuþark“.
2) LautSchriftSprache III – Third International Conference on Comparative Historical Graphemics, Verona, 25–28 September 2013:
Bauer, Alessia: „Orthophonic Spelling: A Different Kind of ‘Perfect Fit’?“.
Kazzazi, Kerstin: „Between universality and individual creativity in spelling – examples from multilingual language acquisition and historical writing systems“.
Waxenberger, Gaby: „Graphemes: (Re)construction and Interpretation“.
3) Paper for the Linguistic Colloquium of the Faculty of Linguistics and Literature of the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, 5 January 2013:
Kazzazi, Kerstin: „Sprachen und Schriften auf der Isle of Man“.
4) Project presentation at the ISAS-Konferenz in Dublin:
Participation by U. Lenker, G. Waxenberger, K. Kazzazi and presentation of RuneS on August 1, 2013 by Gaby Waxenberger and Kerstin Kazzazi.
5) Session chair at the conference Early Germanic Languages in Contact, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, 22–23 August 2013:
Participation by E. Ronneberger-Sibold and K. Kazzazi and Session Chair by Elke Ronneberger-Sibold.
6) Participation in the workshop of the Academy Best Practice: Digitale Korpora« – Workshop der AG „Elektronisches Publizieren“, 8–9 October 2013 in Berlin:
Edith Marold participated as member of the RuneS project group.
2012
1) Old English Runes Workshop: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Methodology, 15–17 March 2012, at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt; organized and hosted by the RuneS research unit Eichstätt-München:
Bammesberger, Alfred: „The Ruthwell Crucifixion Poem Revisited: From Various Angles“.
Kazzazi, Kerstin: „Methodology: Definition, Approaches, Perspectives“.
Waxenberger, Gaby: „The Chronology of the Early Sound Changes: How dependent Are We on Archaeology? “
Waxenberger, Gaby: „Dating and Provenance of the Auzon/Franks Casket from a Linguistic Point of View“.
2) Papers in the context of co-operations with German universities and Antiquities and Monuments Offices:
Düwel, Klaus: „Runeninschriften in Mittel- und Süddeutschland unter bes. Berücksichtigung des Kammes von Frienstedt“ (Weimar, 12 April 2012, Antiquities and Monuments Office)
Düwel, Klaus: „Runen – Germanische Schriftkommunikation von den Anfängen bis zur Wikingerzeit“ (University of Regensburg, 20 June 2012)
Düwel, Klaus: „Runen und Runeninschriften von den Anfängen bis ins Mittelalter“ (University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, 28 November 2012)
3) Paper and project presentation at the 63rd International Sachsensymposion, 1–6 September 2012, at St. John’s College, Durham University, Great Britain:
Kazzazi, Kerstin: Poster presentations: 1. „RuneS-Project“, 2. „The Franks Casket“.
Waxenberger, Gaby: „The Franks Casket: Questions of Provenance and Dating“.
4) Project presentation, paper and workshop in the context of a visit by Gaby Waxenberger to the co-operation partner Dr. Lilla Kopár, Catholic University of America, Washington D.C., 19–27 September 2012:
Waxenberger, Gaby: „Named Celebrities and Unnamed Masses: Text and Image on the Franks Casket“.
Waxenberger, Gaby: „Old English Runes and Runology“ (Workshop).
5) Inauguration lecture at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, 4 July 2012:
Kazzazi, Kerstin: „Schreiben zwischen Kreativität und Konvention: Beispiele aus dreifachem Erstspracherwerb und historischen Schriftsystemen“.
6) Participation in the workshop of the Academy: „Rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen der Akademievorhaben“ – Workshop der AG „Elektronisches Publizieren“, 8–9 Oktober 2012 in Göttingen:
Edith Marold took part as RuneS member.
2011
1) Runen-Workshop, 3–4 February 2011 at the Zentrum für Baltische und Skandinavische Archäologie (ZBSA) in Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig:
Bauer, Alessia: „»Jütländische« Runenfibeln im südgermanischen Bereich. §Runologisches“.
Düwel, Klaus: „Runenkenntnis als Oberschichtenmerkmal“.
Heizmann, Wilhelm: Moderation der Diskussion und Zusammenfassung der Ergebnisse der philologischen Beiträge zum Runen-Workshop.
Krüger, Jana: „Die sprachliche Zuordnung der Inschrift auf dem Ortband von Thorsberg“.
Marold, Edith: „Die Inschrift von Tune als religionsgeschichtliches Zeugnis“.
Zimmermann, Christiane: „Inschriften auf nordeuropäischen Fibeln: Versuch über eine ausschließlich sprachlich-runologische Betrachtung der Runeninschriften unter sozialgeschichtlichen Aspekten“.
2) The use of carved stone monuments in Scandinavia and the Insular area. First workshop of the “International Research Network Runes, Monuments and Memorial Carvings (RMMC)”, Uppsala 1-2 September 2011:
Kazzazi, Kerstin: „The Academy Project “Runic Writing in the Germanic Languages (RuneS)” and the Old English Runic Corpus“.
Waxenberger, Gaby: „Old English Runic Stone Monuments in England“.
3) The Picture Stone Symposium, 7–9 September 2011:
The symposium dealt with the picture stones in Gotland. These are to be regarded as memorial stones with pictorial ornaments, found between c. 400 to 1100 and forming an iconographical source that is unique in Germanic antiquity. The later finds bear runic inscriptions. This was the first specialist conference on the topic ever. Scholars from different disciplines (archaeology, philology, runology etc.) from Scandinavia, Germany, Great Britain and America participated in this historic event. The contributions are published in the journal Gotländskt Arkiv (84, 2012):
Oehrl, Sigmund: „New iconographic interpretations of Gotlandic picture stones based on surface re-analysis“.
4) Papers in the context of further events and conferences:
Heizmann, Wilhelm: „Die Goldbrakteaten. Ikonographie und Religion der Völkerwanderungszeit“, on invitation of Prague University.
Heizmann, Wilhelm: „Der zweite Merseburger Zauberspruch und die Ikonographie der völkerwanderungszeitlichen Goldbrakteaten“, Guest Lecture at Regensburg University.
5) Participation in the workshop of the Academy: Die Digitalisierung von Schriftzeichen aus nicht-lateinischen Schriftkreisen at Mainz Academy, 10–12 October 2011:
The RuneS project group was represented by: Edith Marold, Sigmund Oehrl, Elisabeth Magin.
2010
1) Project presentation and papers at the Seventh International Symposium on Runes and Runic Inscriptions: „Runes in Context“, Oslo, August 2010:
Zimmermann, Christiane, Waxenberger, Gaby, Kazzazi, Kerstin, Bauer, Alessia: Research project „Runische Schriftlichkeit in den germanischen Sprachen – Runic writing in the Germanic languages (RuneS)“.
Bauer, Alessia: „Recent Finds from the Continent: Problems and Perspectives of the Alamannic ‘Runic Province’“.
Krüger, Jana: „Zur archäologischen und runologischen Interpretation der sog. Schrap- bzw. Schabmesser (norw. kjøttkniv)“.
Waxenberger, Gaby: „The development of the Old English fuþorc and the Perfect Fit“.
Zimmermann, Ute: „Bier, Runen und Macht – ein Formelwort im Kontext“.
2) Project presentation and paper at the conference LautSchriftSprache II – ScriptandSound II: „The (Dis)ambiguity of the Grapheme“, München, September 2010:
Kazzazi, Kerstin: „Runische Schriftlichkeit in den germanischen Sprachen – Runic Writing in the Germanic Languages (RuneS)“.
Waxenberger, Gaby: „Grapheme, phoneme and the ‘perfect fit’ of the Old English fuþorc“.
3) Project presentations in the context of university lecture series:
Düwel, Klaus: Project presentation at Göttingen University, in the context of the lecture „Germanische Altertumskunde/Epigraphik (Runen)“.
Zimmermann, Christiane: Project presentation at the Scandinavian Seminar at Göttingen University, in the context of the lecture „Runenschrift und Runeninschriften“ in the winter term 2009/10).