During the Viking Age (c. 700 - 1050 AD), Scandinavians suddenly enter the scene of the world known at that time. They were to leave their mark all over Europe and beyond, and contributed to shaping the world we live in today. The Viking Age (c. 700 - 1050 AD) stands as an essentially formative
This course aims to educate students to succeed in an environment where Information Technology (IT) is changing the cost structure of products and services around the world. With the competitive landscape being transformed by information technologies, it is critical to take a systematic look at how
During the course, the student will be introduced to, and gain confidence with, the structure, principles and rules of the CISG and at the end of the course must be able to apply the CISG to concrete cases. The whole convention and its rules will be examined and the interplay between the general
The course will provide a basic overview over Scandinavian modern history and society. It will do so by focusing on the concept, The Scandinavian model. The course will look into the creation, development and functioning of, as well as the present challenges to, the Scandinavian model and further
Almost every current Western democracy can be characterized by cultural, religious, and ethnic diversity. These "circumstances of multiculturalism" has given rise to a number of identity and recognition political conflicts. Citizens, politicians and commentators fiercely debate the
Recent large-area sky surveys have shown our hosting Galaxy to be a complex and dynamic structure, still being shaped by mergers of smaller satellites as well as internal processes, far from a smooth simple component. The aim of the course is to give a comprehensive view of the physical, chemical,
The Midsummer Dream School will take place as event within the frame of Centre for Theatre Laboratory Studies, CTLS. The first part will take place in the theatre spaces at Aarhus University, the second part in the spaces at Odin Teatret in Holstebro, Denmark. As part of AU Summer University, The
Nowhere is the Viking Age more vividly described as in the Medieval sagas. Why was the past so important to medieval authors? What was meant to represent reality in medieval sagas and what was meant to be fictional? In what sense are monsters and trolls part of the Medieval world-view? What is the
This course is an introduction to the Gospel of John in light of three major approaches in present-day research: The narratological perspective (Culpepper et al.), the history-of-genres approach (Attridge et al.), and the study of second century receptions of the Fourth Gospel (Nagel, Hill et al.).
The Italian Renaissance (c. 1350-1550) is a key period in European cultural history. Italian Renaissance writers and artists were instrumental in modeling our view of the individual, of nature and the surrounding world, and by reviving a number of the literary and artistic idioms of classical
