The AASSC Executive would like to share the 2024 program for our upcoming virtual conference, taking place May 23 - 24, 2024. Please see the attached program here, or visit our webpage for more details.
We will send out a Zoom link in the coming weeks. Looking forward to hearing everyone's insightful presentations!
The AASSC Call for Papers deadline for our upcoming 42nd annual virtual conference has been EXTENDED to Friday March 29, 2024!
If you would like to submit a paper for the conference happening May 23 - 25, 2024, please submit your paper by the deadline. We invite submissions on any Scandinavian-/Nordic-related topic in any discipline. In recent years, our conferences have included research from the fields of anthropology, archaeology, business studies, folkloristics, geography, history, Indigenous studies, linguistics, literary studies, medieval studies, philosophy, political science, religious studies, and sociology, among others.
Please see conference and submission details below:
https://www.aassc.com/AASSC-2024-Conference
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We are excited to announce that the AASSC 42nd Annual Conference will be taking place virtually from May 23 - 25, 2024! We are also now accepting papers/proposals for this upcoming conference; see this page for more details.
The deadline to submit proposals is February 15, 2024. We hope you will consider submitting a paper for our conference!
We would like to share a new online course opportunity! DanmarksHistorien.dk is offering a free online course ”A History of Denmark from the Viking Age to the 21st Century”, and it is available translated into English at https://danmarkshistorien.dk/en/open-online-course.
The course has been produced by researchers from Aarhus University, and it is suitable for anyone who is interested in the history of Denmark. It begins with the emergence of the Danish kingdom during the Viking age, and focuses on the history of Denmark as a political entity from the 8th century to the modern day!
The course consists of a general introduction and nine modules, all of which include a mixture of text and short films featuring the authors. We hope you enjoy!
SASS 2024 will take place in Seattle, Washington at the Renaissance Seattle hotel, hosted by the University of Washington from May 9-11th, 2024. Some members of the AASSC Executive will be in attendance, and we wanted to share information about the event for all of our members in case it is of interest!
For more information on SASS' Call for Papers for the 2024 conference, click here.
The programme for the AASSC 41st Annual Conference, taking place from Monday May 29 - Thursday June 1 at York University's Keele Campus, is available now! You can view the programme on the conference webpage. We look forward to all of the interesting and exciting papers to be presented at the conference!
If you have any questions about the upcoming conference, please contact the AASSC Executive. Thank you!
Join us on Tuesday November 15 at 3:00 PM MT as collaborators Gerd Kjustad Mortensen, Dr. Daniel Sims, and Dr. Ingrid Urberg elaborate on the process and contributions to this recent critical edition of Einar Odd Mortensen Sr.’s personal narrative detailing his time as a free trader in Oxford Lake and Pine Bluff in 1920s Manitoba in The Fur Trader: From Oslo to Oxford House.
For information on how to register, please click here!
We are pleased to announce a call for papers for the upcoming AASSC 41st Annual Conference, May 29 - June 1, 2023!
For more information on conference theme, submission guidelines, and deadlines, please see our webpage.
We are pleased to present the AASSC 40th Annual Conference Program! The Conference will be taking place online May 16 - 19, 2022, and this conference is free for all AASSC members!
Program (AASSC 2022).pdf
This year the AASSC Publication Awards Adjudication Committee was pleased to receive a number of high-quality submissions for both the undergraduate and graduate publication awards. Thanks to all of the professors who nominated students, and thanks to the students for sharing their work. We are delighted to announce the following winners:
Recipient of the AASSC Gurli Aagard Woods Undergraduate Publication Award: Linnie McGuire (Bishop’s University) for “The Fragmentation of Sápmi: a Nordic Model of Settler Colonialism” / Nominated by Dr. Trygve Ugland.
Linnie McGuire is a final semester undergraduate student completing an Honours in Political Studies with minors in English and Economics at Bishop's University. Her main research interests include settler-colonialism, public policy, and political violence. She will be pursuing these interests this fall in the MA in Political Studies programme at Queen's University.
Recipient of the AASSC Marna Feldt Graduate Publication Award: Karin Filipsson (University of Washington, Seattle) for “Shadows and Silences in Göran Rosenberg’s Memoir: Jewish ‘Postmemory’ in the Swedish Welfare State” / Nominated by Dr. Marianne Stecher-Hansen.
Karin Filipsson is a PhD student and she teaches Swedish in the Department of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Washington. She has two Master’s Degrees; in English literature and in Creative Writing and she is also a literary translator and a writer. Her PhD project explores postmigrant Swedish literature; particularly the connection between cultural memory and postmemory narratives in Holocaust-memoirs. She is the winner of the Aurora Borealis Award in 2021 from the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study for best graduate student paper in Language and Literature for the paper “’Welcome to my Body’: Construction of Racialized Identity through the Transgressing of Boundaries in Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s work”. She is currently one of six fellows in the Joff Hanauer for Excellence in Western Civilization Graduate Fellowship 2021-22 at the University of Washington.
Recipient of the AASSC Marna Feldt Graduate Publication Award: Arwen Thysse 陳藹文 (University of Alberta) for "Men and Trolls: A Discussion of Race and the Depiction of the Sámi in the Hrafnistumannasögur” / Nominated by Dr. Natalie Van Deusen.
Arwen Thysse is a doctoral student in the Department of History, Classics, and Religion at the University of Alberta. Her research interests include intercultural and mixed-race relations in medieval Scandinavia, cross-cultural contacts in the global Middle Ages, as well as questions of personal and social identities. She is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
Congratulations to our three winners! We look forward to reading their papers when they are published in Scandinavian-Canadian Studies.
