Announcements
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President's Grants Deadline
Posted by swalter on Mon, 2010 at 01 at 11 22:15Deadline for President's Grants
Graduate students and independent scholars participating the annual conference of SASS in Seattle in April 2010 may apply for a President's Grant for travel support. Applications are due 22 February and are to be sent to SASS President Jason Lavery - jason.lavery@okstate.edu
The application must include a summary of the proposed paper, a budget of travel expenses, as well as an account of other possible and other outside funds for travel to the conference.
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SASS 2010 Call For Papers
Posted by swalter on Fri, 2009 at 10 at 16 20:27We would like to encourage you to visit the SASS 2010 Conference website http://www.sass2010.org/
There you will find information on the Call for Papers.
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THE 2010 SUSAN SONTAG PRIZE FOR TRANSLATION
Posted by swalter on Mon, 2009 at 10 at 05 22:23This $5,000 grant will be awarded to a proposed work of literary
translation from Swedish, Norwegian, Danish or Icelandic into English and
is open to anyone under the age of 30. The translation must fall under the
category of fiction or letters, and the applicant will propose his or her
own translation project. The project should be manageable for a five-month
period of work, as the grant will be awarded in May 2010, and the
translation must be completed by October 2010.Acceptable proposals include a novella, a play, a collection of short
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Seeking Full-Time Professor
Posted by swalter on Wed, 2009 at 09 at 30 21:46University of Tartu, Estonia seeks a full-time Professor of Scandinavian
Studies. Closing date for submission of applications October 15, 2009.More information about the position, the department, and the application
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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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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.