Project-related talks and lectures

2025

Sigmund Oehrl: “The new online edition of the Gotlandic picture stones.” Forskningsseminar, University of Bergen, Norway.

2024

Michael Fergusson: Gotlandic Picture Stones: A case study for ultra-high-resolution Photogrammetry. Oslo university, 01/2024.      

Sigmund Oehrl: “Skipsreisen til dødsriket i vikingtiden. Ifølge arkeologiske, litterære og ikonografiske kilder.” Forskerforum, Arkeologisk Museum, University of Stavanger, Norway.

Sigmund Oehrl: “Gotlandic Picture Stones – The Online Editionˮ. Festlig Faglig Fredag. Research centre Roots of Europe – Language, Culture and Migrations at Copenhagen university, Denmark.

Sigmund Oehrl: “Between pragmatism, religion, and perception of identity. Spoliation of pre-Christian stone monuments im the Middel Agesˮ. Sachsensymposion in Stavanger, Norway.

Sigmund Oehrl and Michaela Helmbrecht: “Ancient Images 2.0”. Poster presentation at the Sachsensymposion in Copenhagen 2024.

Sigmund Oehrl and Michaela Helmbrecht: “Ancient Images 2.0”. Poster presentation at the European Association og Archaeologist Annual Meeting in Rome 2024.

Laila Kitzler Åhfeldt and Michael Fergusson: Gotlandic picture stones: The online edition. Heritage Science Forum, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm. 

Per Widerström: Lecture Senior university.

Per Widerström: Additional Lecture Senior university (the first one was full)

Per Widerström: Picture stones and textiles, lecture for textile enthusiasts.

Per Widerström: Government Offices, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Minister Tobias Billström and 15 other Foreign ministers and other guests.

Per Widerström: Gotland Medieval Week Seminar/Lecture

Per Widerström: Lecture for staff working with church buildings and cemeteries. “Gotlands kyrkor! Bättre än bildstenshallen - bildstenar i de gotländska kyrkorna”

2023

Michael Fergusson: Ancient Images 2.0 – digital preservation. Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA) Conference in Amsterdam, 04/2023.

Michael Fergusson: Revealing the past with Photogrammetry. Europeana conference in Stockholm, 04/2023.

Sigmund Oehrl: “Die Bildsteine Gotlands und ihre Wiederverwendung in christlicher Zeitˮ. Workshop zur Methodik der Bildforschung. Bildpraktiken zwischen Weltbildern und Normsetzungen, LEIZA Mainz.

Sigmund Oehrl: “Gotlandic Picture Stones – The Online Editionˮ. EAA European Association of Archaeologists, Annual Meeting in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Sigmund Oehrl: “The ship of the dead in Scandinavian pre-Christion religions.” Presentation to the Norwegian group promoting the inclusion of the Viking Age ship graves on the UNESCO World heritage list. University of Stavanger, Norway.

Laila Kitzler Åhfeldt: Runor på bildstenar. 22 april 2023. Kulturnatt Stockholm 2023, Vitterhetsakademiens bibliotek, Stockholm.

Laila Kitzler Åhfeldt: ”Ancient Images and Everlasting Runes – 3D-documentation of Swedish Runestones and Picture Stones”. The Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. RSAI Monuments Matter Online Series, Panel 5 Digitizing the Past. Online conference.

Per Widerström: Filming of image stones in churches for the Visby diocese

Per Widerström: Filming Picture Stones for the Swedish Television show, The History of Sweden, Serie the Art History of Sweden

Per Widerström: Tour of the Picture Stone Hall for the King Carl XVI Gustaf and the Queen of Sweden with entourage.

2022

Anders Andrén: Limestone slabs on Öland as parallels to Gotlandic picture stones? (conference contribution: Gotlandic picture stones in European contexts, Visby, Sweden)

Anders Andrén: Rune stones, picture stones, and other erected stones in Scandinavia, c. AD 400-1100 (conference contribution: Early Medieval Sculpture in its International Context, Durham, England)

Per Widerström: Ancient Images 2.0 Lecture in Fröjel Parish about the Picture stone project (Ancient Images 2.0) and finds from nearby.

Laila Kitzler Åhfeldt: New investigations on carving techniques and workshop relations based on 3D digitization. Gotlandic picture stones in European contexts. The second picture stone symposium, Visby, 22-26 August 2022.

Laila Kitzler Åhfeldt: Ancient Images 2.0: a digital edition of the gotlandic picture stones. Functions of Runic Literacy 200 to 1500 AD: Text Types and Historico-Cultural Contexts. Ninth International Symposium on Runes and Runic Inscriptions, 14-19 June 2022. Akademie Sankelmark, Germany.

Laila Kitzler Åhfeldt: Gotland Picture stones c. 400-1100. Poster presentation 2022. Worked in Stone Conference. Early Medieval Sculpture in its International Context 31st August — 4th September, Durham University, England.

Sigmund Oehrl: “Ancient Images 2.0 – background and aims of the projectˮ. The Second Picture Stone Symposium in Visby, Sweden.

Sigmund Oehrl:“Dokumentationen av de gotländska bildstenarna, från 1600-talet till den nya digitala utgåvanˮ. Årsmöte Svenska Fornminnesföreningen in Stockholm, Sweden.

2021

Laila Kitzler Åhfeldt: Ancient Images and Everlasting Runes. 3D-documentation of Swedish runestones and picture stones. Online-presentation. Monuments Matter. Panel 5: Digitising the Past, 30 June 2021. Council for the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland (RSAI).

Per Widerström: Filmed live broadcast for EU Europass Europe, Swedish Council for Universities and Higher Education. 

Per Widerström: Picture stones on Gotland, recording for SVT, UR, Länsmuseerna berättar (Tales from Local Museums)

Per Widerström: Research Friday, film recording from the Picture stone hall.

Per Widerström: Fomu-seminar- Picture stones and research. Research at Museums, FOMU, is a network that brings together museums that conduct research.

Per Widerström: Lecture/display of picture stones in the picture stone hall for textile workers

Sigmund Oehrl: Aquatic birds and the afterlife journey in the imagery of the Gotland picture stones”. Annual Conference of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) in Kiel, Germany. Session: Between Bones and Beliefs: Human-Bird Relations in Central and Northern Europe in the 1st Millennium AD. Online conference.

Sigmund Oehrl: ”The new digital edition of Gotland’s picture stones”. Seminar in the course ”Digital Methods for the Humanities: Space, Image and Object”, Doctoral School in the Humanities, Digital Humanities, Stockholm university, Sweden. Online seminar.

2020

Sigmund Oehrl: “Ancient Images 2.0. Project Presentationˮ. Annual Conference of the European Association of Archaeologists in Budapest, Hungary (online).

Per Widerström: Lecture/Picture stone hall tour for the Canadian Ambassador and Gotland County Governor with company

Per Widerström:  Lecture/Picture stone hall tour for the Director of the National Museum of Lithuania and the Ambassador to Sweden

Per Widerström: Live Lecture/Picture stone hall tour from the Picture Stone Hall. Gotlands Museum talks about picture stones and the ongoing project.

2019

Sigmund Oehrl: “Re-Interpretations of gotlandic picture stones based on 3D-modelling and the Reflectance Transformation Imaging method (RTI).ˮ Presentation of the book Myth, Materiality, and Lived Religion in Merovingian and Viking Scandinavia, organized by the Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies, given at the university library Stockholm, Sweden.

Sigmund Oehrl and Michael Fergusson: “Ancient Images 2.0 – a digital edition of the gotlandic picture stonesˮ. New Narratives for the First Millennium? The 70th International Sachsensymposion, Braunschweig.

Sigmund Oehrl and Michael Fergusson: “Ancient Images 2.0 – a digital edition of the gotlandic picture stonesˮ. Workshop on Digitization of Carved/Sculptured Stones and Rock Art – Projects and Approaches, Visby, Sweden.

Sigmund Oehrl: “Forntida bilder 2.0. En digital utgåva av de gotländska bildstenarna”. Uppstartsmöte för programsatsningen Digarv, Vår Gård Saltsjöbaden, Sweden.

Sigmund Oehrl: “Forntida bilder 2.0. En digital utgåva av de gotländska bildstenarna”. Forskarseminarium, Institutionen för arkeologi och antikens kultur, Stockholms universitet, Sweden.

2018

Sigmund Oehrl: “Re-evaluation and digital re-edition of Gotland’s picture stones.” Public lecture. Arkeologisk Museum, Universitetet i Stavanger, Norway.

2017
Sigmund Oehrl: “Equestrian Saints in pagan Scandinavia? Hidden figures on Gotlandic picture-stones detected with digital methods”. Lands and Seas: Post-Roman transitions and relations across the Channel, North Sea and Baltic worlds. The 68th International Sachsensymposion, Canterbury, England.

Sigmund Oehrl: “Verborgene Figuren auf gotländischen Bildsteinen und die Frage nach ihren Rezipienten”. Über alle Kanäle. Aspekte von Kommunikation in Spätantike und Frühmittelalter. Sitzung der AG Spätantike und Frühmittelalter im Rahmen des 9. Deutschen Archäologiekongresses in Mainz, Germany.

Sigmund Oehrl: “Documenting and interpreting Gotland’s picture stones: Old problems and new approaches”. Early North European Seminar (ENES), Uppsala Universitet Upplandsmuseet, Uppsala, Sweden.