Author: Kimberly La Palm

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ACLS Webinar on K-12 Teaching

Please join us on Monday, December 13, 2021, at 4:00-5:30pm, for a career webinar for PhDs and graduate students on K-12 teaching (registration required)

ACLS will offer a virtual presentation for PhDs and graduate students to learn about teaching roles in K-12 schools from Carney Sandoe, the most well-known K-12 educational recruiting firm, and to meet people working in K-12 independent, public and charter schools.

We hope this will prepare anyone interested in applying to K-12 independent and charter schools for Fall 2022 teaching roles, which are advertised primarily in winter. Teaching at public schools is a less immediate option because of the hurdle of teaching certification, obtained as part of a teaching degree, but in case it’s of future interest, you’ll have the opportunity to learn from public school faculty during the virtual event.

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Nordic Theatre Studies

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS

Theatre and Social Responsibility

Social responsibility usually makes one think of corporations and businesses. However, if social responsibility is defined as an ethical framework and ideological notion “that organizations should not behave unethically or function amorally and should aim (instead) to deliberately contribute to the welfare of society or societies” (Planken: 2013), application of the term becomes much broader. This issue of Nordic Theatre Studies aims to investigate ways and means of making theatre in a socially responsible manner. How do ethical, legal, economic, and philanthropic elements of social responsibility function in theatre? How do theatres employ aesthetic strategies and values to reach out to a caring social responsibility? Should the ethical stance of theatre (institution, artist, production, audience) be questioned? How does the regulatory framework of the field of theatre contribute toward creating greater good for society? Is it possible to measure its sustainability? What role does financial security play (especially in the case of publicly funded performance) in theatre’s ability to address social issues and the needs of society? How do audiences approach their own position with regard to social responsibility in their engagement with performance? Finally, when, and how does theatre fulfil its part of the social contract?

We welcome articles that examine social responsibility in theatre from various aspects and angles. Possible topics include but are not limited to:

·       core values of theatre, as manifested in contemporary developments or historical perspective

·       the individual theatre maker’s social responsibility towards performance, social institutions, and political regulations

·       different models of social responsibility of theatre institutions, their historical development, and socio-cultural conditions

·       (re)definition of ethics in contemporary theatre, in its making and producing

·       differences in legal frameworks regulating openness, fairness, and accessibility of theatre in the Nordic and Baltic countries

·       issues of copyrights and authorship in theatre

·       theatre institutions’ corporate social responsibility

·       responsible and ethical training of theatre makers

·       precariousness of theatre institutions, makers, audiences

·       institutions and practices that take responsibility for ethnic and social diversity and cultural sustainability

·       theatre and wellness

In addition to these topics, we welcome papers for the open section, which are not required to follow the general theme of the issue. Suggestions for book reviews are also welcome. We especially encourage contributions from the theatre makers in the form of interviews, an essay or a statement, or a manifesto. Specializing in Nordic and Baltic theatre research, Nordic Theatre Studies prioritizes articles that relate to some aspect of Nordic or Baltic theatre and performance, or that have been written by a scholar resident in a Nordic or Baltic country.

Abstracts (200 to 300 words) and a short biography (50-100 words) should be emailed to is editor.nordictheatrestudies@gmail.com by January 1st 2022. 

Schedule for contributing:

Deadline for the submission of article proposals (abstracts): January 1st, 2022

Notification of acceptance: by February 1st, 2022

Submission of full article: April 31st, 2022

Deadline for revised articles – July 1st, 2022

Please find the NTS style guidelines at https://tidsskrift.dk/nts/author

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SASS 2020: Puerto Rico Rescheduled to 2022

Dear SASS members, friends, and 2020 conference participants,

As promised, SASS has closely monitored the Covid-19 pandemic and the measures being undertaken worldwide to mitigate it. Given widespread travel restrictions and the need to protect the health of both our members and the people of Puerto Rico, we regretfully announce that the Society’s annual meeting scheduled for April 29-May 2, 2020 in Puerto Rico has been cancelled.

We remain fully committed to dialogue about the repercussions of Nordic colonialism in the Caribbean, the cooperation with local scholars and artists, and the opportunities for networking and collaboration between Caribbean, Nordic, and American scholars that the conference aimed to foster. To that end, we have rescheduled the Puerto Rico conference for April 27-30, 2022 in the same venue, which will preserve much of the important groundwork that the conference committee has done.

Many of you have already made travel plans. All hotel reservations at the Wyndham Grand Rio Mar may be cancelled without penalty until 7 days before arrival, so please cancel. Airlines are accommodating the need to change tickets, so contact your booked air carrier to request compensation. Conference fees can be handled in three ways:

  1. Donated in full or in part to SASS;
  2. Donated in full or in part to an accredited Puerto Rican relief organization;
  3. Refunded back to the method of payment used when you registered.

Please indicate your preference on this Google sheet. Donations and refunds will be processed after May 15, 2020. We appreciate your patience and your support.

We are very sorry that we won’t have the chance to gather together as a society this year, but we hope to see you next year in Seattle and/or in Puerto Rico the year after. The 2020 conference committee, made up of Lill-Ann Körber, Melissa Gjellstad, Elisabeth Oxfeldt, and Troy Storfjell, has put in many hours of work to prepare this conference, cooperate with local artists and scholars, and put together a meaningful, balanced program. SASS is tremendously grateful for the work they have done to craft a conference that would model ethical, thoughtful engagement with the difficult topic of postcolonial entanglements and for their willingness to pick up these threads again for the 2022 annual meeting.

With SASS’s sincere hopes for your well-being and that of your communities,

Julie K. Allen

SASS President 2019-2021

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Julie K. Allen

Don R. and Jean S. Marshall Professor of Comparative Arts and Letters, Brigham Young University

President, Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study

Treasurer, Global Mormon Studies Research Network

Editor of The Bridge. Journal of the Danish American Heritage Society

Alexander von Humboldt Experienced Research Fellow at Goethe University-Frankfurt, 2019-2020

Brigham Young University

3025 JFSB

Provo, Utah 84602

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Regarding COVID-19 and our Upcoming Meeting

Dear SASS members and conference attendees,
          In light of the constantly evolving situation around the Covid-19 outbreaks, the SASS leadership wanted to provide an update on the current state of our upcoming 110th annual meeting in Puerto Rico in six weeks. The health and safety of SASS participants and the people of Puerto Rico are our top priorities as we have considered our options for navigating this public health crisis. We have been paying close attention to information and advice from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in the US and similar institutions and governmental agencies in relevant countries with regard to travel to Puerto Rico at the end of April 2020. 
          After much deliberation and consultation with local officials in Puerto Rico, we have decided to continue to move forward with plans for the conference while taking best practice precautions and offering remote participation options for any attendees who may be unable to attend in person. If the situation should change in any way that would entail either probable harm to our participants from attending the conference or to the Puerto Rico community from our coming there, that decision may change, but for now, cancelling the conference does not appear to be necessary, particularly given the relatively small size of our meeting, which falls well below the threshold at which cancellation has been recommended.  
          We want to assure you that we are taking this situation very seriously and doing all we can to minimize both health risks and possible financial harm to the society, our members, or greater Puerto Rico. The conference hotel, the Wyndham Grand Rio Mar, has implemented additional safety measures, including hand sanitizer stations in high traffic areas, frequent disinfection of all non-porous general hand contact surfaces, and on-site medical professionals and supplies. For those of you who may be more directly affected by the coronavirus due to geographic location, age, or health situation and therefore unable to join us in Puerto Rico, we are able to offer various options for remote participation (via Skype, Zoom, or pre-recorded video with live Q&A). We strongly encourage any participant who becomes ill shortly before the conference or comes in direct contact with an infected person to withdraw from in-person participation. If you would like to take advantage of this option for remote participation, please get in touch with the conference organizers or Kimberly LaPalm, SASS’s executive director, to make appropriate arrangements. 
          Given the fluid nature of this situation, we are not processing any refunds until after the conference, to allow each of you the maximum flexibility with your plans, since the situation may be very different in five or six weeks. Most airlines are waiving change fees for rescheduling flights, and reserved hotel rooms at the Wyndham Grand Rio Mar can be cancelled without penalty up to seven (7) days before arrival. If you know for sure that you will be unable to attend the conference, please inform the conference organizers so we can note your withdrawal from the program or schedule you for a virtual presentation. After the conference, we will process partial refunds of registration fees to remote presenters, or full refunds to presenters who were forced by coronavirus-related circumstances to cancel their participation entirely.

Sincerely,
Julie

CDC Recommendations for travel to Puerto Rico

The Puerto Rican Department of Health (in Spanish)

CDC Recommendations for community events and large gatherings

CDC Recommendations for Colleges and Universities

CDC Situation Summary

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Instructor – CU Boulder

The Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Colorado – Boulder seeks a full-time instructor of Scandinavian literature and culture. Three-year appointment with possibility of renewal, starting August 2020. A strong generalist background is required, with ability to teach core curriculum courses in English on topics including Icelandic sagas, the Vikings, mythology, and the cultures of the Nordic region.  Required:  M.A. in Scandinavian Studies or a closely related field; at least one year of college-level teaching experience, which may be attained during graduate study; native or near-native proficiency in one of the Nordic languages expected.  Review of applications will begin on March 30, 2020 and will continue until the position is filled.  Additional information, including information on applying, can be found at CU Jobs.

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NEH Public Scholars Positions

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) invites applications for the 2020 round of the Public Scholars program, which supports the creation of well-researched nonfiction books in the humanities written for the broad public. The program welcomes projects in all areas of the humanities, regardless of geographic or chronological focus. The resulting books might present a narrative history, tell the stories of important individuals, analyze significant texts, provide a synthesis of ideas, revive interest in a neglected subject, or examine the latest thinking on a topic. Books supported by this program must be written in a readily accessible style, must clearly explain specialized terms and concepts, and must frame their topics to have wide appeal. They should also be carefully researched and authoritative, making appropriate use of primary and/or secondary sources and showing appropriate familiarity with relevant existing publications or scholarship. Applications to write books directed primarily to professional scholars are not suitable.

The Public Scholars program is open to independent writers as well as applicants with an institutional affiliation. It offers a stipend of $5,000 per month for a period of six to twelve months. The maximum stipend is $60,000 for a twelve-month period. Applicants must have U.S. citizenship or residency in the U.S. for the three years prior to the application deadline. In addition, they must have previously published a book with a university or commercial press or at least three articles and essays in publications reaching a large national or international audience.

More information (including a full statement of the eligibility requirements) is available on the NEH’s website at http://www.neh.gov/grants/research/public-scholar-program.  The application deadline for this cycle is February 5, 2020. Recipients may begin the term of the grant as early as September 1, 2020 or as late as September 1, 2021.

An informational video, a list of previously funded projects, and five examples of successful applications are also available on the webpage linked above. Questions may be directed to publicscholars@neh.gov.