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)

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

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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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)

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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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!

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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!

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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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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

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)

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

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 📥

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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 📥

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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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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

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!