Old English Student Conference

16/01/2026

We are happy to have received many abstracts already, but we are still waiting for those that are written last minute!
Just a gentle reminder that today is the last day when you can submit your abstract!

09/01/2026

07/01/2026

We are excited to announce one more special guest! 📣📣

Łukasz Neubauer is a researcher and lecturer at the University of Szczecin, Poland. In addition to publishing numerous articles on medieval, as well as Christian, influences and resonances in The Lord of the Rings, he has also written on The Battle of Maldon, Beowulf, The Dream of the Rood, Hêliand, Icelandic sagas, and the ​‘beasts of battle’ trope.

Learn more about his research and publications here: https://szczecin.academia.edu/%C5%81ukaszNeubauer

02/01/2026

Happy New Year everyone! :) To begin this year on a good note, we have a gift for you! We are exting the deadline for the submission of paper proposals!
We are very happy to have received several proposals already, but we also want to give others a bit more time to work on their abstracts. Make sure that writing an abstract for 8OESC lands on your New Year's Resolutions list!

20/12/2025

Today we have the pleasure of announcing the second special guest of our conference 📣📣

Lindy Brady is currently Reader in Medieval History at Edge Hill University (Ormskirk, United Kingdom), having previously taught at the University of Mississippi in America and University College Dublin in Ireland. She is an editor of the journal Early Medieval England and its Neighbours and the author of Writing the Welsh Borderlands in Anglo-Saxon England (Manchester University Press, 2017), The Origin Legends of Early Medieval Britain and Ireland (Cambridge University Press, 2022), and Multilingualism in Early Medieval Britain (Cambridge University Press, 2023). During the 2025-26 academic year, she is the recipient of a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship for her project Multilingualism in the Global Viking Age.

You can find out more about her research and publications here:
https://www.edgehill.ac.uk/person/dr-lindy-brady/staff/

18/12/2025

It is our great pleasure to reveal the first special guest of 8OESC! 📣📣

Thijs Porck is Senior University Lecturer (Associate Professor) of medieval English at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society, the Netherlands. He has published on Old English language and literature, cultural history of early medieval England, English historical linguistics and medievalism (esp. Tolkien). He is the current President of the International Society for the Study of Early Medieval England (ISSEME) and PI of the ERC-project “Early Medieval English in Nineteenth-Century Europe” [EMERGENCE].

You can find out more about his research and publications here:
https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/thijs-porck -1

We are extremely happy to host him in Kraków in May!

17/12/2025

Hwaet! Tomorrow we will start revealing the names of the special guests of our conference! Make sure to regularly check our profile!
We would also like to remind you about the approaching deadline for abstract submission: 5 January!
Remember to fill the registration form on our website (link in the comments).

07/11/2025

Hwaet!
We are happy to announce that we are back with the next edition of our conference!
You can find the Call for Papers on our website:

Old English Student Conference is organised by Old English Student Society KNA UJ in association with the JU Institute of English Studies.

14/04/2019

The 7th Old English Student Conference is officially over.

Over the last 3 days we heard 18 talks about everything Anglo-Saxon; we took part in 3 workshops, listened to 3 keynote speakers, and met for 2 social events after the conference.

First and foremost we would like to thank our volunteers. Around 40 members of KNA UJ worked behind the scenes of OESC, not only during the conference, but weeks, even months prior, making sure everything runs as smoothly as possible, and solving real, difficult problems as they appeared. We wouldn't have been able to do it without you - thank you so very much.

Thank you to all our speakers, guests, and participants: you make the conference what it is. Thank you for your contributions, questions, (long (extending over the coffee break (and beyond))) discussions and good company.
Thank you for your kind words, support, and understanding in moments, where things were not going the way they were supposed to.

We are extremely happy to have seen new friendships, connections and plans being made at OESC. We witnessed a new, exciting initiative emerge during 7OESC; we hope all of that will contribute to the growth and further improvement of Anglo-Saxon studies in Poland.

Last but not least, thank you for debating over the etymology of Polish 'smok', fighting over kennings, bonding over Proto-Indo-European, inventing the new Polish word for 'garlic', and the Old English for 'rozkminiać' and 'vegetarian', and many, many more.

We hope you enjoyed the 7thOESC. See you in Kraków next year! 🦖

Mid miclum lufe,
Jagoda, Ania, Krysia and the 7OESC Team

PS. We kept tally of things being said and done regularly at OESC. Enjoy.

08/04/2019

Coming soon!
Please remember that the conference is absolutely free of charge and open to everyone! Come and join us!

05/01/2019

remember that you can also participate in the conference as a volunteer!

Hi! Thank you for being willing to help us organise the 7th Old English Student Conference. Please fill in this form so that we know what you'd like to help out with. We will send you information about your team assignment and your team coordinator details as soon as we can :)