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  • 15 Feb 2024 1:23 PM | Amy Poole (Administrator)

    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

    Please share widely!

  • 14 Dec 2023 2:13 PM | Amy Poole (Administrator)

    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!

  • 8 Dec 2023 10:57 AM | Amy Poole (Administrator)

    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!

  • 2 Oct 2023 1:43 PM | Amy Poole (Administrator)

    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.

  • 4 May 2023 5:36 AM | Amy Poole (Administrator)

    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!


  • 20 Oct 2022 5:38 PM | Amy Poole (Administrator)

    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!

  • 30 Sep 2022 7:18 AM | Amy Poole (Administrator)

    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.

  • 26 Apr 2022 4:47 PM | Amy Poole (Administrator)

    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


  • 25 Mar 2022 12:07 PM | Amy Poole (Administrator)

    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.

  • 23 Mar 2022 1:11 PM | Amy Poole (Administrator)

    We are pleased to announce a presentation by author Henry Milner in a new online session as part of the AASSC Virtual Series, which will take place on Wednesday, April 20 at 12:00 PM EDT / 10:00 AM CST / 4:00 PM GMT / 5:00 PM CET.


    Milner, author of Participant Observer: An Unconventional Life in Politics and Academia, will draw on his experience as a close observer of Nordic politics to share what he has learned about the relationship between participating in politics on the inside and observing politics from the outside. Several chapters in the memoir are set in Finland and Sweden.

    About the Speaker:


    Henry Milner has published nine books, the most recent of which is his political memoir, Participant Observer: An Unconventional  Life in Academia and Politics, and edited four others. He has written numerous articles, both scholarly and journalistic, specializing in political participation and electoral reform, notably in Inroads, a journal founded in 1991 with John Richards.

    He obtained his BA from McGill University and completed his MA and PhD at Carleton, also spending a year at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, DC. In the 1980s his interests took him to the Nordic countries and led to books focusing on social democracy in Scandinavia. Between 1999 and 2013 he spent each fall term as a Visiting Professor of Political Science at Umea University in Sweden, and in 2012 came to the l’Université de Montréal, where he is now Research Fellow at the Chair in Electoral Studies in the Department of Political Science.

    If you are interested in registering for this Virtual Series session, please first ensure you are a paid up AASSC member for 2022 and then contact Amy Poole, Webmaster, at aassccommunications@gmail.com.

    You can check your membership with your AASSC login information, or signing up at:

    https://www.aassc.com/membership

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