Questions regarding this stream can be directed to: Claus Elholm Andersen (ceandersen2@wisc.edu), Julie Allen (julie_allen@byu.edu), and Tosten Bøgh Thomsen (tbt@sdu.dk)

KEYWORDS: 19TH CENTURY, LITERATURE, 

As teachers, we are constantly building bridges: between ourselves and our students, between course concepts, and between our instruction and the world. Those of us who teach Nordic studies outside of the Nordic countries also build linguistic and cultural bridges for our students, including for those who may never visit the places about which we teach. In teaching, we also have the potential to burn bridges, or to miss opportunities to build them.

This stream welcomes panel proposals and individual paper proposals that explore the theme/figure of bridges in a pedagogical context, including but not limited to: 

• The potential and limits of the bridge as metaphor for linguistic and cultural instruction, including in a political context in which that symbol can be negatively charged.

• Helping students understand and construct bridges across genres, media, and disciplines, including through successful assignments.

• How AI can help, hurt, and/or complicate ethical, relational, and intellectual bridge-building in teaching and learning.

• Bridging the classroom with the community, through projects, field trips, community engagement, cross-campus collaborations, and more.

• How to build collegial bridges within and across departments, fields, and institutions.

• Theories of pedagogy that employ the bridge, explicitly or implicitly, as a metaphor in teaching and learning, and how these influence your work. (Examples: Peter Elbow wants student writers to bridge the gap between felt sense and the written word; John Dewey suggests students must bridge new ideas to prior knowledge; bell hooks wants to build bridges between academic knowledge and lived experience.)

Questions regarding this stream can be directed to: Ida Moen Johnson (imjohnson@wisc.edu), Maren Mecham (maren_mecham@byu.edu), Marcus Cederström (cederstrom@wisc.edu), Anna Rue (rue@wisc.edu), Jason Schroeder (jschroeder3@wisc.edu), Melissa Gjellstad (melissa.gjellstad@umd.edu), and Lotta Weckström (lotta.weckstrom@berkeley.edu)

Keywords: 21ST CENTURY,  CULTURAL STUDIES, PEDOGOGY

This stream aspires to promote new multi-disciplinary histories and narratives of Swedish migration that unsettle and complicate the dominance of Vilhelm Moberg’s Emigrant series and its cultural afterlives. We seek scholarship that expands and troubles the geographies, chronologies, methodologies, and ideologies of the traditional saga of Swedish emigration to the Midwestern United States in the second half of the nineteenth century. 

The analytic of the Swedish Atlantic enables a perspective on Swedish migration embedded in the Atlantic as a site of concurrent and entangled histories connecting Europe, the Americas, and Africa from first contact through the present. This perspective addresses the general disconnection between migration studies and colonialism to focus attention on the colonial logics and practices that contour Swedish migration of people, objects, texts, and ideas, including transatlantic slavery, Indigenous dispossession, settler colonialism, and heteropatriarchy. 

Possible topics include but are not limited to:

• Sweden and Atlantic modernity
• Swedes and racial capitalism
• Swedish transatlantic adoption
• Swedish involvement in the Atlantic slave trade and systems of chattel slavery in the Atlantic world
• Swedish settler colonialism in North America, South America, Africa and the Nordic countries
• Swedes, whiteness, and Atlantic racial hierarchies
• Swedish Sami histories
• Swedes and Atlantic feminisms, patriarchy and gender identities
• Swedish migrants in the Atlantic world, including Sami and transimperial elites
• Swedes in the Caribbean, including in Saint Barthélemy
• Swedish immigration experiences and policies
• Afro-Swedes and Afro-Swedish culture
• New Sweden
• Narratives of Swedish travel in the Atlantic world

Questions regarding this stream can be directed to: Lucia Hodgson (luciakhodgson@gmail.com), and Marie Bennedahl (marie.bennedahl@lnu.se)

Keywords: COLONIALISM/SETTLER COLONIALISM, MIGRATION STUDIES, SWEDEN

Sponsored by the Ibsen Society of America (ISA)

All proposed papers relevant to Ibsen studies will be considered for the Annual Ibsen Society of America (ISA) panel at SASS. The ISA panel aims to support the field of Ibsen studies by showcasing cutting edge research on Ibsen from a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives. All approaches and themes are welcome, including (but not limited to) new research on Ibsen guided by the theme “Bridges.” Papers in Ibsen studies not selected will be considered for other relevant streams and panels at SASS.

Questions regarding this panel can be directed to: Olivia Gunn (ogunn@uw.edu)

Keywords: IBSEN, THEATRE, PERFORMANCE