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We invite you to a conversation with Dr. Leszek Gardeła – the manager and participant of numerous scientific projects in Denmark, Iceland, Germany, Norway, Poland, Great Britain and the Isle of Man, and the author of five monographs and nearly 170 articles. The Vikings and their contacts with the Slavs in the early Middle Ages are the subject of the Meetings with Science. Paweł Błach's guest is Dr. Leszek Gardeła, one of the leading archaeologists dealing with the Viking Age. What role did women play among the Vikings? Were the Piasts Vikings? What did Slavic-Scandinavian contacts look like in the early Middle Ages? These are the topics that are discussed at the meeting. Dr. Leszek Gardeła's research focuses on issues related to early medieval magic, funeral practices, warfare and Slavic-Scandinavian contacts. He is currently the head of the project "Slavs in the North: Foreign Elites in Viking Age Scandinavia" funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation and is also a postdoctoral fellow at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. He is also a scholarship holder of the Foundation for Polish Science, the German Academic Exchange Service, Marie Curie Fellowships and many other foreign foundations. Our guest has acted as a consultant and expert in various documentaries on the Viking Age for, among others, National Geographic, Travel Channel and Smithsonian Channel.