Announcements

  • SDI Scandinavian Subtitle Editor position

    Posted by Scandinavian Studies Staff on Mon, 2008 at 04 at 21 18:24

    SDI 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 21:22
    Main 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 Pisa

    Please 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

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  • The Birgit Baldwin Fellowship in Scandinavian Studies

    Posted by Scandinavian Studies Staff on Mon, 2006 at 06 at 05 21:45

    The Society for Advancement of Scandinavian Study (SASS) announces The Birgit Baldwin Fellowship in Scandinavian Studies, a grant to encourage the research and writing of dissertations for the Ph.D. in fields concerned with Scandinavian (Nordic) literature or film that can be realized only by research in the archives and libraries of the Nordic countries, including Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. The stipend will be $20,000 payable in two installments for travel to and living expenses in the Nordic region during one academic year. The Birgit Baldwin fellow and an alternate will be appointed every year beginning in 2005. The application deadline is 1 November of the preceding year.

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