Scott T. Shell, PhD

As an academic, I also travel quite a bit. Here you can find a list of professional presentations I have given around the world.

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“Defining Magical Communication in the Elder Futhark Period,” International Symposium on Runes and Runic Inscriptions (ISRRI 9): Functions of Runic Literacy 200 to 1500 AD: Text Types and Historico-Cultural Contexts, June 14–19, 2022, Akademie Sankelmark, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

“Heliand’s Crucifixion Scene and Óðinn on the Tree,” Sather Workshop: Mythology as a Branch of Learning in Medieval Scandinavia, March 12–13, 2020, University of California at Berkeley.

“Conventional Language, Poetry and Curse-Formulas in the Elder Futhark Period,” Semiotic Circle of California, January 26, 2019, University of California at Berkeley.

“Applying Semiotic Models of Communication to the Elder Futhark Period: DR 12 and DR 360,” 11th Annual Aarhus Student Symposium on Viking and Medieval Scandinavian Subjects, April 25-26, 2018, University of Aarhus, Denmark.

“Making Sense of Non-Sense: the Application of Peircean Semiotics and Frazer’s Model of Sympathetic Magic to the Björketorp inscription (DR 360),” Semiotic Circle of California, January 20, 2018, University of California at Berkeley.

“What Can Semiotics Do for Runological Interpretation?,” Speaking the Unspoken: Explicit vs. Implicit Structures in Germanic Literature & Linguistics, March 4, 2017, University of Indiana, Bloomington.

“Runes, Magic and Runica Manuscripta: the Function of rún in Late Medieval Icelandic,” Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable, April 1, 2016, University of California at Berkeley.

“On the Polysemy of Wicht, ” Semiotic Circle of California, January 24, 2016, University of California at Berkeley.

“Hidden Children as Represented in Germanic and Scandinavian Folklore,” The Ontology of Supernatural Encounters in Old Norse Literature and Scandinavian Folklore, December 12, 2015, University of Tartu, Estonia.

“Reading Runic Inscriptions: How Do We Interpret Ideographic Emphasis?,” Semiotic Circle of California, January 24, 2015, University of California at Berkeley.  

“Runes Used throughout History—from Sound Shifts to Semiotic Interpretation,” Invited, March 27, 2013, Theosophical Society of America.