Projects
Projects relating to Scandinavian Studies
Online Meeting with Dr. Ryder Patzuk-Russell, author of "Development of education in medieval Iceland”
The Centre for Nordic and Old English Studies at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Silesia in Katowice invites to a meeting with Dr. Ryder Patzuk-Russell on June 9th.
Online Conference: Anxiety in Danish Literature
17-18 juni 2021 afholder Dänisches Seminar ved Europa-Universität Flensburg en to-dages online konference om Angst i dansk litteratur.
Symposium: Cross-border connectivity in Nordic–Baltic Art (online, 17–18 May)
This symposium explores a new and critical Nordic–Baltic research front on cross-border relations and the artistic connectivity of the Nordic–Baltic realm and relations to European neighbours, in the late 19th and 20th centuries.
Call for papers: Love and Emotions in Old Norse Literature
The symposium “Love and Emotions in Old Norse Literature. Patterns, Formulae, Reality” will be held on 28-29 January 2022 at the University of Tartu, organized by the Department of Scandinavian Studies.
Call for Conference Contributions: "Doing Things with Old Norse Myth: A Research & Cultural Symposium on Mythological Processes"
The latest in the annual series of Aarhus Old Norse Mythology conferences, jointly organised by researchers at The University of Iceland and ReykjavíkurAkademían, will take place in Reykjavik on 25-27 November 2021.
Call for papers: International conference on Selma Lagerlöf
Sorbonne University is organizing a conference in Paris in February 2022 around the work of Selma Lagerlöf.
Book Launch: Modern Women Artists in the Nordic Countries, 1900-1960
This transnational volume examines innovative women artists who were from, or worked in, Denmark, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Sápmi, and Sweden from the emergence of modernism until the feminist movement took shape in the 1960s. The book launch will be on April 26th.
International Webinars: Mythemes of the North – Spring 2021
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.
Föredrag online: Regionen som försvann?
Det började så fint. Inför Öresundsbrons byggande var optimismen hög både bland politiker, forskare och hos allmänheten. Danmark och Sverige skulle mötas och integreras, och Öresundsbron skulle upplösa gränserna mellan oss. 20 år senare är visionerna väsentligt blekare, medan gränsen står stark. Vad var det som hände? Och kan vi göra något åt det?
SASS Conference 2021 in Seattle (virtual event), May 2021
Current and prospective members of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study are invited to propose papers or presentations for SASS 2021. Next year’s meeting will be held online May 6-7, 13-14, 20-21. The conference will be organized on the Cvent platform, offering many exciting ways for colleagues to share their work.