Help expand the Oxford Scandinavian Studies Network!

Dear all,

Thank you for following our activities in the 2023-2024 academic year. Looking back, we are very pleased and grateful with what we have accomplished.

With backing from TORCH, we have generated interest in Scandinavian Studies (defined broadly) in Oxford and beyond. We sought to, and have, created an interdisciplinary forum where postgraduate Humanities scholars have shared exciting new research pertaining to Scandinavia.

We have organised public online seminars, an in-person workshop, and an exhibition this spring. These activities have fostered intellectual exchange and collaboration, and collegial relationships we believe will persist.

Following our success, we  want to continue and to expand. We plan to organise further activities to strengthen the focus on Scandinavia at Oxford and in anglophone academia. We already have a few ideas kicking around.

We are excited to continue this work and urge you to get involved! We believe that the format we developed (online sessions and an in-person workshop) is particularly effective and can be further cultivated to benefit more scholars and researchers at more advanced levels.

We would especially invite early career scholars and more seasoned scholars to get involved —your insights and advice are important and could benefit postgraduate students a great deal. We also want to see more PhD students get involved, at any stage of their PhD. Remember, if you work on anything related to Scandinavia and would like to get involved our to speak at a seminar, you are most welcome! Contact one of our convenors by email (listed below).

Get involved and keep tabs on us through this newsletter or on X/Twitter @OxScandiStudies.

Wishing you a very good summer!

Sincerely,

The Oxford Scandinavian Studies Network

Sarah Fengler (sarah.fengler@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk)

Leif Hammer (leif.hammer@history.ox.ac.uk)

Marie Martine (marie.martine@hertford.ox.ac.uk)

Tzen Sam (tzen.sam@jesus.ox.ac.uk)

Other News

Tenure-track Position at UC Berkeley

TORCH has asked us to circulate the following faculty search at UC Berkeley:

The faculty at the UC Berkeley Department of Scandinavian has been given approval to conduct a tenure-track faculty search during the coming year for a position starting in July 2025. We are especially interested in candidates who demonstrate a commitment to the advancement of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging: 

The Department of Scandinavian at the University of California, Berkeley seeks applications for an Assistant Professor (tenure-track) in the area of Swedish or Norwegian Literature, Culture, and Society, with an expected start date of July 1, 2025. For more information about the position, including required qualifications and application materials, please visit https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04495. The deadline to apply is October 14, 2024. With questions, please contact ISSAHR@berkeley.edu. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, or protected veteran status.
 

The Oxford Scandinavian Studies Network is an interdisciplinary forum for scholars working on or interested in any topic related to Scandinavia. Our goal is to strengthen interest in Scandinavia as a region for exciting new scholarship, by arranging events where new research ideas on the region can be presented, discussed, and developed. We are a part of TORCH Student Networks. 

Do not hesitate to get in touch with us with any queries.

— Sarah Fengler, Leif Hammer, Marie Martine