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Swedish-American Quarterly Inviting Submissions

Swedish-American Historical Quarterly is seeking article submissions!

Since 1950 the Quarterly has been a central academic journal in North America for research related to Swedish-American immigration and history, as well as Swedish and American relations. The Quarterly is published by the Swedish-American Historical Society based at North Park University in Chicago. Back issues of the Quarterly have been digitized and are available online thanks to a generous grant from the Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation. The collection is fully searchable and is maintained by the Swedish-American Archives of Greater Chicago, housed in modern, temperature-controlled quarters at the Paul and Bernice Brandel Library at North Park, under the direction of professional archivist Andy Meyer.

The Swedish-American Historical Quarterly is a peer-reviewed academic journal published four times a year, in January, April, July, and October. We invite submissions of article-length manuscripts that advance the understanding of North American immigration history with emphasis on the exchange of people and ideas between the United States and Sweden, as well as the ongoing history of relations between those countries. Comparative and interdisciplinary topics are welcome and encouraged.

Reach out to editor, Mark Safstrom at marksafstrom@augustana.edu for more information.

The society also supports research through three funds:

Nils William and Dagmar Olsson Research Fund – providing grants to defray expenses for original research in Swedish-American history; Franklin D. Scott Prize – honoring the best article by a writer previously unpublished in the Quarterly; and
Emerging Scholars Prize – recognizing the best article among those submitted by currently enrolled undergraduate and graduate students, all of whom receive a one-year society membership.

The Quarterly also includes book reviews, and readers who know of a book they would like to see reviewed, or who would themselves like to write a book review, are also invited to contact the associate editor, Adam Hjorthén at adam.hjorthen@engelska.uu.se

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CSS Conference 2022: Nordic humour in the world – 24-27 August, Lund and Copenhagen

As the pandemic finally begins to let go of our lives, we at the Centre for Scandinavian Studies Copenhagen-Lund-Hankuk (CSS) want to once again welcome all scholars of Scandinavia around the world to Öresund and to our third international conference in Scandinavian Studies!

The conference will take place on 24-27 August, mostly at the Language and Literature Centre for Languages and Literature at Lund university, but we will also spend an afternoon in Copenhagen through a collaboration with the Frederiksberg Museums’ department for Danish humour and satire – STORM.

This year’s theme is Nordic humour in the world, an under-explored field that we expect will stimulate new and creative perspectives on the cultural and linguistic spheres of the Nordic countries. Our list of keynotes include distinguished researchers in this field, from Scandinavia but also from Korea and the US. And we are especially proud to be able to include renowned English philosopher Simon Critchleyamong them!

Read more and submit abstract on the conference website: https://www.css.lu.se/css-conference-2022-english/
Due to the pandemic, the deadline for submitting abstracts has been extended to 15 March.

Once again, a warm welcome to Scandinavia and to Öresund this summer! And please spread the word to anyone who may be interested.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Cambridge Scholars Publishing are inviting proposals for academic books and edited collections in Humanities and Social Sciences. We publish in all major fields of academic research and practice, including Humanities and Social Sciences, Physical Sciences, Life Sciences, and Health Sciences. To submit a book proposal, please visit our website, where you can complete a Book Proposal Form, and find out more about us.

Since our foundation in Cambridge, UK, 20 years ago, Cambridge Scholars Publishing have grown to be one of the world’s leading scholarly book publishers, with a backlist of more than 8000 titles, and more than 700 academic books due to be published this year. Though we remain proud of our roots, Cambridge Scholars Publishing Limited is not affiliated to, or associated with, Cambridge University Press or the University of Cambridge.

We always aim to put our authors first in our work, and we bring that ambition into our publishing operations with our Author Promises:

  • Fast, fair, and friendly proposal review;
  • Publication in handsome hardback, as well as eBook formats, for our academic library customers;
  • Worldwide distribution to research and study centres across the globe, via our international network including Amazon, EBSCO/GOBI, ProQuest, and Ingram;
  • A book published with us is always in-stock, and always available for sale, thanks to our unique Print on Time global distribution system;
  • An escalating royalty payment—the more titles sold, the higher the royalty rate, from the first copy sold;
  • No charges for publication.

Our authors also can contribute to our unique Book in Focus series, which you can read about on our website.

In 2022, we are continuing our drive to encourage books on issues relating to Social Justice, and we hope to publish the results of our collaborative research project with a UK University on the important issues of Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI). You can read more about our approach to how academic publishing intersects with social justice issues in the No Shelf Required online magazine.

You can also get some ideas on how to publish with us from these guidelines.

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Joachim Trier: The Oslo Trilogy now playing at Lincoln Center

Fifteen years after their first feature-length collaboration, Reprise (Q&A with Joachim Trier and Anders Danielsen Lie tomorrow!), and 10 years after its follow-up, Oslo, August 31st (Q&A with Trier and Danielsen Lie this Sunday), director Joachim Trier and his longtime co-writer Eskil Vogt turned their gaze back on the Norwegian capital city with NYFF59 Main Slate selection The Worst Person in the World (opening next Friday, Feb. 4). 


Playful yet melancholy, intricately observed yet bracingly deft, and centering on three exhilarating performances from actor (and practicing physician) Anders Danielsen Lie, the films that comprise the newly christened Oslo Trilogy deliver lyrical, unflinching meditations on memory, self-knowledge, and the mutability of identity in today’s Europe.


In celebration of the new film’s American release, Film at Lincoln Center is excited to host the filmmaker for live Q&As and present the Trilogy alongside a selection of companion films curated by Trier and Vogt.

  • Sunday, Jan. 30 with special introduction from Trier: My Sex Life… or How I Got into an Argument (1996), a breathlessly inventive film starring Mathieu Amalric as a navel-gazing academic who bounces between lovers as he struggles to break things off with his girlfriend. An NYFF34 selection.
  • Monday, Jan. 31st: A mid-career triumph for Rohmer, the winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, The Green Ray (1986), follows a depressed, newly single Parisian secretary as she spends her summer vacation looking for happiness and true love.
  • Wed. Feb 2nd and Thurs. 3rd: Ukrainian-Soviet filmmaker Larisa Shepitko was only 28 when she directed her second feature, Wings (1966), a searing & quietly impassioned character study of a woman caught between two ways of being, in the early aftermath of Khrushchev’s Thaw.

The full lineup can be found here.

Use the discount code NORWAY ($5 off in person screenings), eligible for any screening during The Oslo Trilogy (Jan. 28-Feb. 3)

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ACLS Emerging Voices Fellowships

Scholars of color, scholars from unconventional backgrounds, scholars working for change, and scholars enriching fields & institutions: please apply by Jan 12 9 pm Eastern!  Open to recent PhDs in the humanities and interpretive social sciences.  

For more information and to apply, visit the ACLS website here: https://www.acls.org/competitions/acls-emerging-voices-fellowships/

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Call for Panels: 5th Nordic Challenges Conference | Nordic Neighbourhoods: Affinity and Distinction in the Baltic Sea Region and Beyond

1 – 3 June, 2022 Södertörn University, Stockholm

In the past two years, neighbourly interactions have become a major challenge for countries, territories, and peoples. In the Nordic states as well as globally, the Covid-19 pandemic has amplified tendencies of bordering and political or social disengagement with the surrounding world. At the same time, efforts to curb the pandemic have given rise to new forms of virtual communication. The 5th Nordic Challenges Conference, organised as an on-site event by the ReNEW university hub, follows current developments and sheds light on the topic of Nordic neighbourhoods from various humanities and social science perspectives.

Panel proposals are expected to address recent schisms and rapprochement, or ingrained affinities and differences. Inter-Nordic relationships and Nordic entanglements with the Baltic Sea Region, Eastern and Central Europe, the EU, the UK, and the Arctic are of special interest to the neighbourhood theme of the conference. In addition, the 5th Nordic Challenges Conference offers a forum for any research dealing with the Nordic countries in an evolving world that fits under one of the ReNEW hub’s six research streams: 

– Nordic cooperation and region-building
– Democracy, governance, and law
– Public policy, gender equality, and labour markets
– Imagining Norden – branding and Nordic reputation 
– Multiculturalism and globalisation 
– Nordic culture, education, and media


Website: https://airpages.se/clients/fifthnordicchallenges/

Date Call Closes: 2022-01-08

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UCLA European Languages and Transcultural Studies 2nd Annual Graduate Student Conference

Call for Papers


In celebration of the newly-formed UCLA Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies (ELTS), the graduate students of the former Departments of French and Francophone Studies, Germanic Languages, Italian, and the Scandinavian Section invite submissions to the 2nd Annual ELTS Graduate Student Conference.
Tensions between permanence and decay are constitutive features of European culture. Periods during which cultural and political conventions appeared as though they would endure have alternated with periods of crisis and widespread instability. There can be many interpretations of permanence and decay: they can refer to the physical nature of artifacts or materials and their durability, but also to the cyclical nature of thought (as the ideological crises in present-day Europe have brought to the fore), as well as to the unstable nature of social, interpersonal, and political frameworks (as the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic shows us).
We seek to ask questions such as: How has the permanence of geopolitical and cultural borders reconstructed our understanding of history and its relationship to national or cultural identity? How have ideas of stability or change in literary canons shaped our cultural landscapes over time? How has our understanding of environmental and sustainability issues developed over time? Which cycles of permanence and decay can we identify in our natural surroundings, as well as their relationship to social, economic, and political norms? How have changing (or unshakeable) beliefs on sexuality, gender, birth, death, memory, and truth influenced each other and shaped European culture, literature, and politics?


We seek abstracts for 20-minute presentations that will explore these themes through any theoretical and disciplinary approach connected to Francophone, Italian, Germanic, and Scandinavian cultures. We encourage a variety of disciplinary angles including recent and emerging disciplines such as environmental humanities, digital humanities, and medical humanities.


In an effort to accommodate our local and international colleagues’ travel and health restrictions, as well as to be mindful of our environmental impact, the conference will adopt a hybrid in-person + online format (details will follow). In your application, let us know if you have a strict preference for either format.

Applicants are invited to submit a 250-word abstract of their conference paper by January 7th, 2022 to ucla.elts.conference@gmail.com. Acceptance decisions will be made known by February 28th, 2022.


Website: https://elts.ucla.edu


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Summer 2022 Field School in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula May 31-June 24

Michigan Technological University’s Department of Social Sciences will offer a field school in vernacular architecture and cultural landscapes this summer. The course, Barns and Beaches: People and Landscapes of Southern Houghton County, is a 3-credit hour immersive course open to advanced undergraduate and graduate students. Join us along the shores of beautiful Lake Superior for an experience like no other!

Students will study cultural landscapes through multiple disciplines including history, folklore, and more. They will do community-engaged field research investigating Finnish American agriculture, logging, and vacation landscapes. 

The course experience will include one week camping at a field site in the Finnish logging and farming village of Toivola on the shore of Lake Superior where we will engage in historic site documentation, digital modeling, and oral history and ethnographic interviewing. Work produced during this field school will be used in the guidebook for the 2024 Vernacular Architecture Forum conference which will take place at Michigan Technological University in Houghton and the surrounding area.

The course will be co-taught by material culture specialist Dr. Sarah Fayen Scarlett (MTU), folklorist Dr. Hilary Virtanen (Nordic Studies, Finlandia University) and Dr. John Arnold (Historical Architect, Keweenaw National Historical Park). Students may enroll in either SS5800: Documentation or Historic Structures or SS4990: Special Topics in American History. The registration deadline is March 15, 2022.

For more information, contact Dr. Scarlett at sfscarle@mtu.edu.

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The American Council of Learned Societies Announces Third and Final Round of Emerging Voices Fellowship Competition 

Program supporting outstanding early-career humanistic scholars now welcomes applications for two-year posts with select ACLS Research Consortium Universities
The American Council of Learned Societies is pleased to announce the third and final round of the Emerging Voices Fellowship program.

Following the success of the first two competitions of the program, which supports early-career scholars in the humanities and interpretive social sciences facing a challenging academic job market, both the competition and fellowship have been redesigned to best serve those who have received their doctorates just before or during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“The Emerging Voices Fellowship has been distinguished for its rapid response approach in supporting new and recent PhDs during a time of great economic uncertainty,” noted ACLS President Joy Connolly. “In addition to providing funding to help strengthen humanistic disciplines, we have also incorporated feedback from scholars and partner institutions from the first two rounds on how best to use our resources to make the program a success for everyone involved.”

For its final round of competition, the Emerging Voices Fellowship program invites applications from qualified PhDs whose voices, perspectives, and broad visions will strengthen institutions of higher education and humanistic disciplines in the years to come. Nominations are no longer required and will not be accepted. We welcome applications from scholars whose PhDs were conferred between January 1, 2018 through December 31, 2021. Students who anticipate receiving the PhD degree after December 31, 2021 are not eligible. Learn more in the Emerging Voices Fellowship FAQ.

Scholars of color, from low-income and unconventional backgrounds, and those who have taken on extraordinary roles in graduate school (organizing public art exhibits, teaching in prison education programs, coordinating research groups, to name just a few), are especially encouraged to apply.

The fellowship will now offer two-year in-person posts at participating institutions from the ACLS Research University Consortium during the 2022-23 and 2023-24 academic years.

Applications are due Wednesday, January 12, 2022, 9 PM EST. 

Questions? Email us at EVFapplications@acls.org