CSS Conference

One of the objectives of CSS is to promote the collaboration between Scandinavian or Nordic-oriented institutions the world over and initiate cross-national research projects in Scandinavian studies. To that end, every other year CSS organize an international conference in Scandinavian Studies at Lund university.

The first conference took place in June, 2017 and had the theme "Rethinking Scandinavia", and the second in May 2019 with the theme "Scandinavian Languages and Literatures in the World – Prospects and Challenges". The Nordic Humour in the World conference was postponed until August 2022, due to the Covid 19 pandemic, and took place in both Lund and Copenhagen. In 2025 CSS organized, together with The Strindberg Society in Stockholm and the Strindberg Association in Lund, the 23rd International August Strindberg Conference. Our upcoming international conference Nordic Romanticism and Viking Culture will be held in Lund 10–13 June 2026. 

CSS and IASS conference coordination

As CSS is in close collaboration with the International Association for Scandinavian Studies (IASS), both of our conference schedules is arranged in such a way as to never coincide with each other. Instead, the aim is that our organizations together will provide the international community of Scandinavian Studies with an opportunity to meet every year. One year in Scandinavia, in Lund/Copenhagen. And the next, somewhere else in the world of Scandinavian Studies.