Announcements
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SASS President’s Grants
Posted by swalter on Fri, 2008 at 11 at 14 21:48There are a limited number of small grants available for graduate students and independent scholars wishing to present papers at the SASS Meeting in Madison in 2009.
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SASS 2009 - Call for Papers
Posted by swalter on Fri, 2008 at 11 at 14 21:39The Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study will be holding its 99th annual meeting in Madison, Wisconsin from April 30 to May 2, 2009.
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UCLA Scandinavian Studies
Posted by swalter on Wed, 2008 at 11 at 05 23:13The Scandinavian Section at UCLA encourages applications to our graduate
program for Fall 2009.More information about the Section, and graduate application procedures can be found at our website:
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Harvard University seeks full-time Preceptor
Posted by swalter on Fri, 2008 at 10 at 24 19:57Harvard University. The Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures seeks a full-time Preceptor in Scandinavian to teach five courses a year on beginning and intermediate language and culture courses in Swedish. The position will begin in the fall term of 2009 and is renewable on a yearly basis based on review. Applicants should have extensive classroom experience, strong and proven commitment to language teaching, and native or near-native fluency in Swedish.
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Lecturer or Teaching Specialist Positions
Posted by swalter on Fri, 2008 at 10 at 24 19:54The College of Liberal Arts, Department of German, Scandinavian and Dutch
The Department of German, Scandinavian and Dutch (GSD) maintains a pool of lecturers and teaching specialists to teach lower-division language skills courses in the less-commonly-taught languages offered in the Department (Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Icelandic, Norwegian, and Swedish) that cannot be staffed by regular faculty or graduate teaching assistants. These positions, which are temporary and are generally part-time, are contingent upon student enrollment, performance, and availability of funding. They may be renewed in subsequent years if funding is available. During the regular academic year each course is usually considered to be 33% time for the semester. Salaries for 2008/09 will be approximately $6,000 per five-credit course. Applications from Finnish and Swedish instructors for Spring 2009 especially welcomed.
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Call For Papers
Posted by swalter on Tue, 2008 at 07 at 08 21:03The Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Colorado at Boulder invites abstracts for papers on the topic:
Constructing Nation: From Modernity to the New Millennium
March 13-14, 2009
The concept of the nation-state as shaped by Enlightenment ideology has been repeatedly problematized and reshaped in the course of the last two centuries. However, the historical and cultural experience of the world since the late 1980s has challenged this concept with unprecedented intensity. The end of the Cold War and the beginning of the “war on terror,” the collapse of the Soviet Empire and the formation of the European Union, and globalization and the increasing number of ethnic and religious clashes all over the world reveal the contradictions and tensions within modernity’s vision of nation and its historically-proven practices of nation-building. On the one hand, the traditional borders and frontiers between nation-states shift and disappear; on the other hand, new national communities and ideologies arise at an exponential rate within seemingly unified nations. The rapid growth of globalization suggests a universal acceptance of the ethos of modernity and at the same time creates ideal conditions for uncontrollable clashes between different, if not incompatible, versions of modernity. While violence in the processes of nation-building seems to belong to the past, familiar channels for violence reappear in new practices of “othering” and new discourses on “national security.”
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Lectureship
Posted by Steve on Mon, 2008 at 05 at 19 22:02The University of Aberdeen, School of Divinity, History and Philosophy wishes to appoint a full-time lecturer in Scandinavian Studies from September 2008 for three years, to replace Professor Stefan Brink, who has been awarded a Leverhulme Fellowship. Applicants should have research interests in any aspect of early Scandinavian Studies, especially Early Scandinavian language, culture and/or history. An ability to teach language history would be welcome. The successful candidate would be also expected to teach on sub honours courses in Scandinavian Studies, offer an option at honours level, and contribute teaching to the postgraduate MLitt in Scandinavian Studies, as well as to undertake appropriate administrative duties.
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Call for papers
Posted by Steve on Mon, 2008 at 05 at 19 21:56CODEX AND CODE:
AESTHETICS, LANGUAGE AND POLITICS IN AN AGE OF DIGITAL MEDIA
(NorLit 2009)
Stockholm, August 6-9, 2009
The Nordic Association for Comparative Literature (NorLit) organizes every two years an international scholarly conference. The aim of NorLit is to develop the study of Comparative Literature through Nordic collaboration both in its own discipline and in Modern Language and Cultural studies. The next conference will take place in Stockholm, August 6-9, 2009. The conference is organized by the Department of Comparative Literature, Stockholm University, the Department of Communication and Culture, Södertörn University College, and the School of Computer Science and Communication, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.
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SDI Scandinavian Subtitle Editor position
Posted by Scandinavian Studies Staff on Mon, 2008 at 04 at 21 18:24SDI Media group is in search of qualified candidates to fill positions of Scandinavian Stubtitle Editors. SDI Media group is a subtitling company in North America and is responsible for subtitling movies, video games, television shows, etc. More information is available at their website located at www.sdimediagroup.com
They are looking specifically for candidates who have an expert level at writing Danish, Norwegian, Dutch, Finnish or Swedish, as well as a high level of English comprehension.
A simple explanation of the Subtitle Editing is: Workers will watch movies or TV shows in English while Spotting/Quality Controlling the Danish, Norwegian, Dutch, Finnish or Swedish subtitles, looking for errors and making corrections.
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Second International Georg Brandes Conference
Posted by Scandinavian Studies Staff on Tue, 2008 at 04 at 08 21:22Main Trends in Exchanges of Ideas: Georg Brandes, France, Germany and England
Nancy, 13-15/11/2008
A conference arranged by the University Nancy 2 in partnership with the University of PisaPlease send abstracts for papers to :
Annie Bourguignon (Annie.Bourguignon@univ-nancy2.fr)
Jørgen Stender Clausen (stenderclausen@ling.unipi.it)
Konrad Harrer (Konrad.Harrer@univ-nancy2.fr)by 01/05/2008