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Publication: Maternal Abandonment and Queer Resistance in Twenty-First-Century Swedish Literature
Jenny Björklund's latest book questions why so many mothers leave their families in twenty-first-century Swedish literature, analyzing literary representations of maternal abandonment in relation to…
Call for Papers: "Emotions on the Fringes: Marginalised, Monstrous, and Supernatural Emotions" for International Medieval Congress
The congress will be held 4th-7th July 2022 in Leeds, and puts its own spin on the IMC 2022 thematic strand 'Borders'.
Online Conference: Hyggnaþing - Old Norse Graduate Conference
Hyggnaþing is a one-day conference on the 11th of August with the aim to overcome the difficulties of isolation by bringing postgraduate students together virtually.
Available position: Research Assistant for the Departement of History´s Chair of Nordic History at the University of Greifswald
At the University of Greifswald´s Faculty of Arts and Humanities there is a job vacancy expected to be available from 01.10.2021 for a full-time Research Assistant.
Invitation to the 25th ATdS in Munich, 6-8 Sept 2022 - save the date
Announcing the 25th ATdS (Arbeitstagung der Skandinavistik) in Munich in September 2022.
Call for papers: Georg Brandes’s Impact on the Arts and Politics beyond Denmark
The next Scandinavian issue of Acta Universitatis Carolinae – Philologica will focus on Brandes’s impact on national literatures and cultures globally.
Publication: Scandinavian Exceptionalisms
Based on papers delivered at the 2018 IASS Conference in Copenhagen, this volume contains 24 articles on themes such as Nordic Identities, Nordic Dystopias, Nordic Postcolonialism, Scandinavian Places…