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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
Langen's paper is co-hosted by @oxfordcourtstudies.bsky.social. In addition to their otherwise fantastic programme, they have another Scandinavian history paper on 12 May by Dustin Neighbors (University of Helsinki)
April 22, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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)

torch.ox.ac.uk/event/femini...

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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
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...

@torchoxford2013.bsky.social
February 25, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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
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
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 11, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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
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
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...

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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
Call for Papers: The Oxford Scandinavian Studies Network (@torchoxford.bsky.social) invites doctoral students to present at our online seminars (Jan-Mar 2025) and in-person workshop (June 2025). Topics on Post-Reformation Scandinavia welcome. Apply by 20 Dec 2024
December 5, 2024 at 2:51 PM
Help us continue creating interest in Scandinavian Studies at Oxford and beyond! We've had a great start to our network and are excited for its future. If you're in the Humanities and work on Scandinavia, get involved!
December 5, 2024 at 2:40 PM