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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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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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08.05.2025 08:04 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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

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...

02.05.2025 08:23 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1

Join in person or or sign up by this link if you want to join online events.teams.microsoft.com/event/30e421...

24.04.2025 14:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Ulrik Langen

To read more about Ulrik Langen, check out his faculty webpage researchprofiles.ku.dk/en/persons/u...

22.04.2025 08:15 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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)

22.04.2025 08:15 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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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

22.04.2025 08:15 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 3
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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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11.03.2025 18:39 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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04.03.2025 15:57 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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)

04.03.2025 15:57 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Conversation with Ulla Kallenbach

Read more about the conversation here: torch.ox.ac.uk/event/conver...

04.03.2025 14:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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 ❄️)

25.02.2025 13:32 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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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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25.02.2025 10:06 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 3

Thank you all for a great hybrid turnout! We all appreciated learning more about Minna Canth and her plays

22.02.2025 08:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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

19.02.2025 14:26 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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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!

#scandinavianstudies #oxford #history #skystorians

12.02.2025 09:20 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 2
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Interrogating Literary Legacies

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...

31.01.2025 09:13 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Join us tomorrow for this seminar at 10 am (GMT). Come support postgraduate students and hear about their exciting research!

30.01.2025 16:48 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

*10 am (not 10:30). Apologies!

27.01.2025 19:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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!

#scandinavianstudies #oxford #scandinavia #literarystudies #literature

27.01.2025 19:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 2
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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

#scandinavianstudies

21.01.2025 09:50 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Scandinavian Studies in Hungary: Short History, Present Possibilities and Future Challenges

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

torch.ox.ac.uk/event/scandi...

20.01.2025 10:07 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

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

14.01.2025 10:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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

11.01.2025 12:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 2
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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)

11.01.2025 12:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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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

10.01.2025 21:55 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 2

We’ve received truly great submissions to the @oxscandistudies.bsky.social this year. I’m so pleased we continue to grow!

22.12.2024 14:27 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Call for Papers – Oxford Scandinavian Studies Network, 2024- 2025 Academic Year

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...

19.12.2024 13:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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

17.12.2024 14:06 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

Don't forget to submit your abstract to present at our Scandinavian Studies seminars (late January to March). Deadline 20th December

16.12.2024 13:59 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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 📥

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

#humanities #socialsciences #scandinavianstudies #oxford #cfp #phd

10.12.2024 15:19 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

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