Preparation of Conferences and Sessions

Northern and East-Central European Architecture and Landscape of Power

Uppsala, Kungl. Gustav Adolfs Akademien, 15.-17. June 2023

Organisers: Oliver Grimm (ZBSA Schleswig) and John Ljunkvist (Uppsala universitet), with Olof Sundqvist (Stockholms universitet), Torun Zachrisson (Upplandsmuseet), Sven Kalmring (SHM) and Thorsten Lemm (ZBSA Schleswig).


Vikings! - Vikings? The Responsible use of the Term "Viking"

Schleswig, 4.-6. October 2022

Organisers: Volker Hilberg (Museum für Archäologie), Sven Kalmring, Thorsten Lemm, Franziska Lichtenstein (Universität Göttingen) 


28th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA)

Budapest, 2. September 2022

Session "The Medieval Marketplace in Europe - Interdisciplinary and Theoretical Approches to its Biographies and Developments" (MERC-Session)

Main Author: Felix Rösch (University of Göttingen)

Co-Authors: Sven Kalmring (Centre for Baltic and Scandinavian Archaeology), Maxim Mordovin (Eötvös Loránd University) 


27th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA)

Kiel, 8.-11. September 2021

Scientific Committee Member (on behalf of MERC)


27th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA)

Kiel, 7. September 2021

Session "The Archaeology of Magyar Raids in Western and Eastern Europe" (MERC-Session)

Main Author: Thorsten Lemm (Centre for Baltic and Scandinavian Archaeology)

Co-Authors: Charlotte Hedenstierna Jonson (Uppsala Universitet), Csete Katone (Central European University), Sven Kalmring (Centre for Baltic and Scandinavian Archaeology)


26th Virtual Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA)

Budapest, 30. August 2020

Session "Medieval Market Archaeologies: Methods, Cases and Concepts" (MERC-Session)

Main Author: Felix Rösch (Georg-August Universität Göttingen)

Co-Authors: Dries Tys (Vrije Universiteil Brussel, Sven Kalmring (Centre for Baltic and Scandinavian Archaeology)


37. Tværfaglige Vikingesymposium

"Hedeby/Slesvig, Danevirke and Beyond - the External Perspective. Defining the Future Research of Hedeby/Slesvig and Danevirke"

Wikinger Museum Haithabu, 1. October 2019

Organisers:  Volker Hilberg (Museum für Archäologie) Sven Kalmring, Thorsten Lemm (both Centre for Baltic and Scandinavian Archaeology)


22th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA)

Vilnius, 31. August-3. September 2016

Session "Between landing site and vicus – between emporium and town. Framing the early medieval urban development" (MERC-Session)

Main Author: Sven Kalmring (Centre for Baltic and Scandinavian Archaeology)

Co-Authors: Robin Fleming (Boston College), Dries Tys (Brussels Free University)


21th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA)

Glasgow, 2.-5. September 2015

Session "Stepping Stones in Super-Regional Networks. Landing Places within the Maritime Cultural Landscape (c. 550-1500 AD)" (MERC-Session)

Main Author: Sven Kalmring (Centre for Baltic and Scandinavian Archaeology)

Co-Authors: Natascha Mehler (Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum), Mark Gardiner (Queen's University Belfast)


21th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA)

Glasgow, 2.-5. September 2015

Session "Urban Identities in the Early-Medieval Towns of Europe: Architecture, Social Space and Sendse of Place" (MERC-Session)

Main Author: Dries Tys (Brussels Free University)

Co-Authors: Karen Milek (University of Aberdeen), Volker Hilberg (Stiftung S-H Landesmuseen Schloss Gottorf), Dirk Rieger (Archäologie und Denkmalpflege Hansestadt Lübeck), Sven Kalmring (Centre for Baltic and Scandinavian Archaeology)


New Aspects on Viking-age Urbanism, c. 750-1100

Stockholm, Historiska museet

17.–20. April 2013

Organisers: Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson (Historiska museet), Lena Holmquist (Stockholms universitet) & Sven Kalmring (Centre for Baltic and Scandinavian Archaeology)


17th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA)

Oslo, 14.-18. September 2011

Session “Theoretical and methodological approaches in archaeological investigations of harbours. Harbours as systemic phenomena”

Main Authors: Tori Falck (Norsk Maritimt Museum) & Sven Kalmring (Centre for Baltic and Scandinavian Archaeology)