Dr. Martin Rundkvist is a Swedish archaeologist, journal editor, public speaker, skeptic, atheist, lefty liberal, bookworm, and father of two.
Around the time when a senior academic retires, she will, if she's lucky, receive a Festschrift. The word is German and means "celebration publication": typically, it's an anthology put together by her colleagues and students. The contents of a Festschrift often vary wildly in quality and level of ambition: solid research papers occur alongside humorous reminiscences of travels and travails endured while the august old professor was still a lanky undergrad.
Now, here's something unusual from Norway: archaeologist Jenny-Rita Næss's Festschrift is being published as a web site. So far, seven of twenty-eight papers in the table of contents are available on-line. Lots of really heavy names in Norwegian archaeology, including several friends of mine such as the charming opponent at my 2003 viva. I look forward to reading the remaining twenty-one contributions.
Thanks to Jan-Peder Lamm for the tip-off.
[More blog entries about archaeology, Norway; arkeologi, Norge.]
