Projects
Projects relating to Scandinavian Studies
Call for Papers: Health and Happiness in Nordic Literature and Culture, Tromsø, 2-5 August 2023
UiT – The Arctic University of Norway is hosting the 34th conference of the International Association for Scandinavian Studies.
Online Author Panel: Bringing Scandinavian Children’s Voices into English
Contemporary Scandinavian children’s and young-adult literature is full of stories that combine a playful joy of storytelling with important socio-cultural themes, but how does this translate?
Call for Papers: “Cultural Representations of the Region in Transnational Contexts, c. 1840-1940,” Radboud University, 11-13 January 2023
The interdisciplinary conference “Cultural Representations of the Region in Transnational Contexts, c. 1840-1940” will take place at Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, from 11 to 13 January 2023. Extended deadline for submission of abstracts: 1 July 2022.
NORDIK Conference of Art History in the Nordic Countries, 24-28 October 2022 (online)
Call for papers on the topic of “COLLECTIONS” for the 13th triennial NORDIK Conference of Art History in the Nordic Countries (virtual via zoom).
CSS News: Seminar on "Swedish Women's Writing on Export. Tracing Transnational Reception in the Nineteenth Century"
Forskarseminariet i litteraturvetenskap på SOL-centrum och CSS arrangerar seminarium med Yvonne Leffler, Åsa Arping, Gunilla Hermansson och Birgitta Johansson Lindh från Göteborgs universitet.
Call for Papers: Nordiska mytologiska gestalter i vår samtid
Universitetet i Caen arrangerar ett heldagssymposium på franska den 18 november i samarbete med Les Boréales-festivalen och Alexis de Toqueville-biblioteket.
Call for Papers: Translation/Transmission/Transgression
Drawing on recent developments in gender, queer and trans theory, the Komplitt symposium TRANSLATION/TRANSMISSION/TRANSGRESSION will address complex forms of difference that are inevitably actualized when literature is translated and circulated beyond its origins.
CSS Conference 2022: Simon Critchley confirmed keynote speaker and extended deadline for abstracts!
We are happy to announce that the renowned English philosopher Simon Critchley will be part of our line-up of keynote speakers at this summer's CSS conference on Nordic humour in the world! Also, extended deadline for abstract submissions because of the recent developments in the COVID-19 pandemic.
Call for papers: 22nd International Strindberg Conference (June 2022 in Kaunas, Lithuania)
Since 1973, the Strindberg Society has organized international Strindberg conferences. The 22nd conference is being organized by the Strindberg Society and the Department of Theatre Studies at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania. The conference will mark the anniversary of one hundred and ten years of Strindberg‘s death and will be a part of the programme "Kaunas – European Capital of Culture 2022".
Call for papers: Teaching Ecocriticism in Scandinavian Studies
Fifth Workshop of the Ecocritical Network for Scandinavian Studies (ENSCAN). University of Bonn, Germany, and online, 9-10 June 2022