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Oxford Scandinavian Studies Network
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We're a @torchoxford.bsky.social Student Network, at @ox.ac.uk, run by Sarah Fengler, Leif Hammer, Marie Martine, and Tzen Sam. Our focus is on Scandinavia as a region. Read more on our website: https://torch.ox.ac.uk/scandinavian-studies-network
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We are delighted to announce our seminars for 2025! Our first seminar will be on the 31st of January. Anyone is welcome to attend, just email scandinavianstudies@torch.ox.ac.uk for the Zoom links
Reminder that Ulrik Langen's lecture takes place tomorrow (Friday 9 May) at 4:30 in the Ship Street Centre, Jesus College

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On 9 May Professor Ulrik Langen (University of Copenhagen) will be giving a paper on ‘Troubled Life Stories: Complaint Culture, Life Writing, and Urban Experiences in Eighteenth-Century Copenhagen’ at 4:30pm (GMT), Ship Street Centre, Jesus College, Oxford

You can also join online via Zoom
May 8, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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Have already posted here about this, but if you’re in Oxford 9 May do come to Prof Ulrik Langen’s talk! open.substack.com/pub/leifhamm...
Prof Ulrik Langen, “Troubled Life Stories: Complaint Culture, Life Writing, and Urban Experiences in Eighteenth-Century Copenhagen”(9 May)
Professor Ulrik Langen (University of Copenhagen) is giving a paper on 9 May for the Oxford Scandinavian Studies Network and the Oxford Court Studies Seminar
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May 2, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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April 24, 2025 at 2:05 PM
On 9 May Professor Ulrik Langen (University of Copenhagen) will be giving a paper on ‘Troubled Life Stories: Complaint Culture, Life Writing, and Urban Experiences in Eighteenth-Century Copenhagen’ at 4:30pm (GMT), Ship Street Centre, Jesus College, Oxford

You can also join online via Zoom
April 22, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Online Friday 14 Mar, 10am (GMT), join our next seminar on Environmental History. We'll hear about early modern witch trials and modern glacier tourism in Norway. Speakers: Corinna Hoffmann (Berlin) and Ekaterina Skorokhodova (Paris)

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March 11, 2025 at 6:39 PM
IN PERSON & ONLINE 10:30am GMT this Friday 7 March Professor Ulla Kallenbach (University of Bergen) will talk about her research project ‘Artistic Exchanges: The Royal Danish Theatre and Europe’ 🎭

📌 Colin Matthews Room, Radcliffe Humanities Building, Oxford OR online (email sign-up)
March 4, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Do come along to this event on Friday and hear Wanda Marcussen (UiO) and me talk about the environmental history of Scandinavia (mostly being cold in Norway ❄️)
Online on Friday 28 Feb, 10am (GMT), join our next seminar, on Environmental History. We'll hear about early modern witch trials and modern glacier tourism in Norway. Speakers: Wanda Marcussen (Oslo) and @cjdrury.bsky.social (Durham)

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February 25, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Online on Friday 28 Feb, 10am (GMT), join our next seminar, on Environmental History. We'll hear about early modern witch trials and modern glacier tourism in Norway. Speakers: Wanda Marcussen (Oslo) and @cjdrury.bsky.social (Durham)

torch.ox.ac.uk/event/enviro...

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February 25, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Thank you all for a great hybrid turnout! We all appreciated learning more about Minna Canth and her plays
Many thanks to Dr Minna Jeffery who gave a wonderful lecture on 19th-century Finnish writer Minna Canth @oxscandistudies.bsky.social today!

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February 22, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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@oxscandistudies.bsky.social is pleased to present the second lecture of its Hilary Term Lecture Series on this Friday, 21 Feb 10.30am. Speaker: Dr Minna Jeffery, Junior Research Fellow at @ox.ac.uk All welcome. Find out more here: tinyurl.com/n6akk5fd @leifhammer.bsky.social
February 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Join us Friday 14 Feb at 10am (GMT) for our second postgrad seminar of 2025.

“Postcolonial Perspectives on Scandinavian Print Culture” w/
Madelen Velasquez Howard (Independent Scholar) & Idunn Victoria Rostøl (Oslo)

Sign up by email!

#scandinavianstudies #oxford #history #skystorians
February 12, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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In under an hour (at 10am GMT) we're running our first postgraduate seminar of the year on Zoom. The topic is “Interrogating Literary Legacies”. Our fantastic speakers today are Elsa Kienberger (London) & Paula Odenheimer (Heidelberg).

Sign up info on: torch.ox.ac.uk/event/interr...
Interrogating Literary Legacies
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January 31, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Join us tomorrow for this seminar at 10 am (GMT). Come support postgraduate students and hear about their exciting research!
This Friday at 10:30 am (GMT) we're running our first postgraduate seminar of 2025. Join us as we hear from Elsa Kienberger (London) & Paula Odenheimer (Heidelberg) on “Interrogating Literary Legacies”

Email us to sign up!

#scandinavianstudies #oxford #scandinavia #literarystudies #literature
January 30, 2025 at 4:48 PM
This Friday at 10:30 am (GMT) we're running our first postgraduate seminar of 2025. Join us as we hear from Elsa Kienberger (London) & Paula Odenheimer (Heidelberg) on “Interrogating Literary Legacies”

Email us to sign up!

#scandinavianstudies #oxford #scandinavia #literarystudies #literature
January 27, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Here is our lecture programme for the coming months! If you want to join just send us an email to get the Zoom link

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January 21, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Join us this Friday (24th Jan) for our first event of 2025. We'll hear an exciting lecture by Dr Attila Gábor Csúr (Eötvös Loránd University) on “Scandinavian Studies in Hungary: Short History, Present Possibilities and Future Challenges”

#scandinavianstudies #oxford

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Scandinavian Studies in Hungary: Short History, Present Possibilities and Future Challenges
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January 20, 2025 at 10:07 AM
If you're interested in attending Dr Csur Gabor Attila's lecture on Scandinavian Studies in Hungary on the 24th of January then email scandinavianstudies@torch.ox.ac.uk
Our first lecture will be online on the 24th of January at 10-12 GMT, where we'll hear from Dr Csur Gabor Attila (Assistant Professor, Eötvös Loránd University). His lecture is titled: "Scandinavian Studies in Hungary: Short History, Present Possibilities and Future Challenges". Sign up by email
January 14, 2025 at 10:56 AM
In addition to our seminars we are running a series of LECTURES! The full schedule (w/ all details) will soon be released. Our speakers are: Dr Csur Gabor Attila (Eötvös Loránd), Dr Minna Jeffery (Oxford), Prof Ulla Kallenbach (Bergen), Prof Ulrik Langen (Copenhagen)
January 11, 2025 at 12:52 PM
We are delighted to announce our seminars for 2025! Our first seminar will be on the 31st of January. Anyone is welcome to attend, just email scandinavianstudies@torch.ox.ac.uk for the Zoom links
January 10, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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We’ve received truly great submissions to the @oxscandistudies.bsky.social this year. I’m so pleased we continue to grow!
December 22, 2024 at 2:27 PM
The deadline for submitting an abstract for our online seminars in 2025 is tomorrow (20th of December). To submit, send us your abstract (max 250 words) and a short bio to scandinavianstudies@torch.ox.ac.uk

Read our full CfP here: torch.ox.ac.uk/event/call-f...
Call for Papers – Oxford Scandinavian Studies Network, 2024- 2025 Academic Year
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December 19, 2024 at 1:53 PM
Doctoral students: are you interested in presenting your research at one of our seminars (late January to early March)? Submit your abstract and bio by the 20th of December 📥

#scandinavianstudies #scandinavia #nordicstudies #nordic #literature #history #humanities #socialsciences #phd #scholarship
December 17, 2024 at 2:06 PM
Don't forget to submit your abstract to present at our Scandinavian Studies seminars (late January to March). Deadline 20th December
Know a doctoral student working on a Scandinavia-related topic? We hope you'll share our Call for Papers with them. Click the link below for full details.

10 days left to submit 📥

torch.ox.ac.uk/event/call-f...

#humanities #socialsciences #scandinavianstudies #oxford #cfp #phd
December 16, 2024 at 1:59 PM
Know a doctoral student working on a Scandinavia-related topic? We hope you'll share our Call for Papers with them. Click the link below for full details.

10 days left to submit 📥

torch.ox.ac.uk/event/call-f...

#humanities #socialsciences #scandinavianstudies #oxford #cfp #phd
December 10, 2024 at 3:19 PM
Hello! We are the convenors of the Scandinavian Studies Network. Here pictured at an exhibition we put together as part of our workshop in May 2024. From the left: Tzen Sam, Sarah Fengler, Leif Hammer, and Marie Martine

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December 9, 2024 at 1:45 PM