Announcements

  • Call For Papers

    Posted by swalter on Tue, 2008 at 07 at 08 21:03

    The Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Colorado at Boulder invites abstracts for papers on the topic:

    Constructing Nation: From Modernity to the New Millennium

    March 13-14, 2009

    The concept of the nation-state as shaped by Enlightenment ideology has been repeatedly problematized and reshaped in the course of the last two centuries. However, the historical and cultural experience of the world since the late 1980s has challenged this concept with unprecedented intensity. The end of the Cold War and the beginning of the “war on terror,” the collapse of the Soviet Empire and the formation of the European Union, and globalization and the increasing number of ethnic and religious clashes all over the world reveal the contradictions and tensions within modernity’s vision of nation and its historically-proven practices of nation-building. On the one hand, the traditional borders and frontiers between nation-states shift and disappear; on the other hand, new national communities and ideologies arise at an exponential rate within seemingly unified nations. The rapid growth of globalization suggests a universal acceptance of the ethos of modernity and at the same time creates ideal conditions for uncontrollable clashes between different, if not incompatible, versions of modernity. While violence in the processes of nation-building seems to belong to the past, familiar channels for violence reappear in new practices of “othering” and new discourses on “national security.”

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  • Lectureship

    Posted by Steve on Mon, 2008 at 05 at 19 22:02

    The University of Aberdeen, School of Divinity, History and Philosophy wishes to appoint a full-time lecturer in Scandinavian Studies from September 2008 for three years, to replace Professor Stefan Brink, who has been awarded a Leverhulme Fellowship. Applicants should have research interests in any aspect of early Scandinavian Studies, especially Early Scandinavian language, culture and/or history. An ability to teach language history would be welcome. The successful candidate would be also expected to teach on sub honours courses in Scandinavian Studies, offer an option at honours level, and contribute teaching to the postgraduate MLitt in Scandinavian Studies, as well as to undertake appropriate administrative duties.

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  • Call for papers

    Posted by Steve on Mon, 2008 at 05 at 19 21:56

    CODEX AND CODE:

    AESTHETICS, LANGUAGE AND POLITICS IN AN AGE OF DIGITAL MEDIA

    (NorLit 2009)

    Stockholm, August 6-9, 2009

    The Nordic Association for Comparative Literature (NorLit) organizes every two years an international scholarly conference. The aim of NorLit is to develop the study of Comparative Literature through Nordic collaboration both in its own discipline and in Modern Language and Cultural studies. The next conference will take place in Stockholm, August 6-9, 2009. The conference is organized by the Department of Comparative Literature, Stockholm University, the Department of Communication and Culture, Södertörn University College, and the School of Computer Science and Communication, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.

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  • SDI Scandinavian Subtitle Editor position

    Posted by Scandinavian Studies Staff on Mon, 2008 at 04 at 21 18:24

    SDI Media group is in search of qualified candidates to fill positions of Scandinavian Stubtitle Editors. SDI Media group is a subtitling company in North America and is responsible for subtitling movies, video games, television shows, etc. More information is available at their website located at www.sdimediagroup.com

    They are looking specifically for candidates who have an expert level at writing Danish, Norwegian, Dutch, Finnish or Swedish, as well as a high level of English comprehension.

    A simple explanation of the Subtitle Editing is: Workers will watch movies or TV shows in English while Spotting/Quality Controlling the Danish, Norwegian, Dutch, Finnish or Swedish subtitles, looking for errors and making corrections.

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  • Second International Georg Brandes Conference

    Posted by Scandinavian Studies Staff on Tue, 2008 at 04 at 08 21:22
    Main Trends in Exchanges of Ideas: Georg Brandes, France, Germany and England
    Nancy, 13-15/11/2008
    A conference arranged by the University Nancy 2 in partnership with the University of Pisa

    Please send abstracts for papers to :

    Annie Bourguignon (Annie.Bourguignon@univ-nancy2.fr)
    Jørgen Stender Clausen (stenderclausen@ling.unipi.it)
    Konrad Harrer (Konrad.Harrer@univ-nancy2.fr)

    by 01/05/2008

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  • The Birgit Baldwin Fellowship in Scandinavian Studies

    Posted by Scandinavian Studies Staff on Mon, 2006 at 06 at 05 21:45

    The Society for Advancement of Scandinavian Study (SASS) announces The Birgit Baldwin Fellowship in Scandinavian Studies, a grant to encourage the research and writing of dissertations for the Ph.D. in fields concerned with Scandinavian (Nordic) literature or film that can be realized only by research in the archives and libraries of the Nordic countries, including Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. The stipend will be $20,000 payable in two installments for travel to and living expenses in the Nordic region during one academic year. The Birgit Baldwin fellow and an alternate will be appointed every year beginning in 2005. The application deadline is 1 November of the preceding year.

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