International Webinars: Mythemes of the North – Spring 2021

Published 3 February 2021
Image of old steam boat in Norway

Nord – Association pour les Etudes Nordiques is holding webinars on the mythemes of the Nordic countries during the spring of 2021. Everyone is welcome to join and to participate in the discussion.

  1. January 21st 2021, 6pm      
    Alessandra Ballotti (Lorraine University):
    Taking on the Pole.
    Mythemes of the North in Italian Adventure Novels
     
  2. February 18th 2021, 6pm        
    Maria Hansson (Sorbonne University):
    What Is Truly Swedish?
    The Changing Mythemes of Folkhem
     
  3. March 18th 2021, 6pm            
    Alexandre Zeitler (University of Strasbourg):
    A Digital Approach to the Discursive Construction of National Identity: the Example of the Sámi Council’s Declarations
     
  4. 21 April 2021, 6pm                     
    Claire McKeown (Lorraine University)
    Interiors and Interiority:
    Mytheme Theory and Herman Bang’s Impressionist Aesthetics

The webinars will be held every third Thursday of the month from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. (Central European Time) at https://unistra.adobeconnect.com/lce-mytheme. Everyone is welcome to join and to participate in the discussion. The presentations will be made available soon after on our website and on pod.unistra.fr/mythemes.

Organizers:
Alessandra Ballotti (Lorraine University), Claire McKeown (Lorraine University), Thomas Mohnike (University of Strasbourg), and Pierre-Brice Stahl (Sorbonne University).