News from the world of Scandinavian Studies
Denna konferens handlar om grannspråk och grannspråksdidaktik från nya perspektiv. Arrangörer är lärarutbildningar i Sverige, Danmark, Norge och Island med en stark tro på grannspråkens och grannspråkskulturernas didaktiska möjligheter. Tilmeldingsfrist: Mandag d. 1. juli 2019.
Read MoreThe key purpose of the conference is to explore the concept of Nordic and arctic drama and theatre reflected in Central Europe. The conference will deal with interdisciplinary questions about the use of the notion “arctic region” in a more extended sense, and about the staging and literary receptions of Nordic drama, characterized by a wide range of artistic expressions from realism to symbolism and expressionism, as well as poetic-lyrical landscape dialogues.
Read MoreThe Society for East Norse Philology's 4th biennial international conference which will take place at the Department for Scandinavian and Finnish Studies at the University of Cologne, 12-14 June. Conference papers deal with aspects of Danish, Swedish and Gutnish medieval philology. The lectures will be held in English, Swedish, Danish and Norwegian
Read MoreThe 110th annual meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study will take place between April 29 – May 3 2020, at the Wyndham Grand Rio Mar Beach Resort & Spa, on the northeastern coast of Puerto Rico. Watch for forthcoming details on the call for streams (June) and papers (September). The conference theme is Postcolonial Entanglements.
Read MoreThis international conference is held in conjunction with the exhibition Sonja Ferlov Mancoba (9 February – 5 May 2019) at the Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen and Centre Pompidou, Paris—the largest ever showcase of the work of the pioneering Danish artist Sonja Ferlov Mancoba (1911-1984)
Read MoreI over fire tiår har UiT – Norges arktiske universitet prioritert forskning på Knut Hamsuns forfatterskap. Vi inviterer med dette cfp til å sende inn abstracts til den sjuende internasjonale Hamsun-konferansen, som går av stabelen ved UiT, Tromsø, den 19–20 september 2019.
Read MoreThis conference invites scholars of many disciplines to explore the spaces, connections, and networks of the Global North within a longer time frame and to offer new perspectives that cross the frontiers of traditional national historiographies or insular regional studies.
Read MoreCall for abstracts is now out for our conference “Scandinavian Languages and Literatures in the World – Possibilities and Challenges”, held in Lund in May 2019!
Read MoreThe 9th annual Háskóli Íslands Student Conference on the Medieval North will take place at the University of Iceland, on April 12-13th, 2019. This student organized two-day event is intended as an interdisciplinary forum for postgraduate students (MA and PhD level) of Old Norse and medieval Scandinavia. Students who have not given papers at an academic conference before are especially encouraged to submit.
Read MoreSASS 2019 will take place May 2-4, 2019, in the heart of downtown Madison WI, on the shores of Lake Monona. The conference theme “Closing the Frontiers?” is highly relevant when dealing with contemporary Scandinavia. Frontiers are borders – real and imagined, present and historical. Scandinavia, like the United States, is a place where previously open borders have started to close.
Read MoreCentre for Scandinavian Studies Copenhagen – Lund is proud to once again invite scholars from around the world to Lund university and to the next installment of our biannual international conference! The second conference will take place between May 16th-18th 2019 and it is titled "Scandinavian Languages and Literatures World Wide – Prospects and Challenges".
Read MoreThe thirty-eighth annual meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies in Canada (AASSC) will be held at the University of British Columbia from Monday, June 3– Thursday, June 6, 2019 in conjunction with the meetings of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences / Fédération Canadienne des Sciences Humaines.
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