MLA Commons | CLCS Nordic | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/nordic/ Activity feed for the group, CLCS Nordic. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:04:46 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 d8dea06a01f4dc4b254cae788ee7c9c5 Liina-Ly Roos started the topic CFP for MLA 2025: The Future Library, Invisible Archive? in the discussion CLCS Nordic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/nordic/forum/topic/cfp-for-mla-2025-the-future-library-invisible-archive/ Thu, 01 Feb 2024 20:02:18 -0500 2024 marks ten years since the creation of Future Library (2014-2114, Katie Paterson), a multisite artwork that comprises a forest in Norway, an anthology of literature by world renowned authors to be kept secret until its publication in 2114, and a reading room inside Deichman public library where the manuscripts are housed. In conjunction with…[Read more]

]]> 0 169096f52c34add490a9290394ead3e8 Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic new article: Osman Hamdi Bey – an Ottoman Orientalist or a Humanist Ottoman? in the discussion CLCS Nordic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/nordic/forum/topic/new-article-osman-hamdi-bey-an-ottoman-orientalist-or-a-humanist-ottoman-8/ Tue, 05 Dec 2023 17:19:58 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

Emeritus Prof. Dr. Per Bauhn from Linnaeus University, Sweden published an article titled “Osman Hamdi Bey – an Ottoman Orientalist or a Humanist Ottoman?”  in  Nordic Review of Iconography. I present the abstract of this article below and the article can be downloaded for free from the link below.…[Read more]

]]> 0 6ffb42b7c1ef6f3793f167a0dbeb2e0c Jenna Coughlin started the topic Suggestions for 2024 CLCS Nordic Executive Council Member in the discussion CLCS Nordic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/nordic/forum/topic/suggestions-for-2024-clcs-nordic-executive-council-member/ Tue, 31 Jan 2023 15:34:09 -0500 The current members of the Executive Council for the CLCS Nordic Forum are seeking nominations and/or self-nominations for a 2024 Executive Council appointee. Rather than holding elections as in the past, the Executive Council is responsible for nominating a new member whose term will begin Monday, 8 January 2024. Executive Council members serve…[Read more]

]]> 0 7d6fce4d7dade66e3f6e6c84d5b2749e Jay Paul Gates started the topic IONA Conference, April 2019, in Vancouver in the discussion CLCS Nordic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/nordic/forum/topic/iona-conference-april-2019-in-vancouver-2/ Fri, 01 Feb 2019 17:35:35 -0500 Dear Colleagues:
Registration is open for the IONA conference on early medieval Britain, Ireland, and Scandinavia. The conference is interdisciplinary, experimental, and collaborative. Seminars, labs, and workshops open to all registrants and there are four great headlining plenaries. Please consider coming to Vancouver in the spring to take…[Read more]

]]> 0 628692bae29d23363710ecb9d8d3aeaa Rebecca Jane Stanton started the topic CFP for MLA 2019: The Global Far North: Arctic Literatures in the discussion Scandinavian Languages and Literatures https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/nordic/forum/topic/cfp-for-mla-2019-the-global-far-north-arctic-literatures-3/ Thu, 15 Mar 2018 02:02:41 -0400 The Global Far North: Arctic Literatures
The Global South has challenged Eurocentric narratives; what of the Global (Extreme) North? Colonial encounters; environmental extremes; imperial and indigenous literatures in the Arctic.
200-word abstract and CV or brief bio to Rebecca Stanton (rjs19@columbia.edu) by March 18.

(Sponsored by LLC Russian…[Read more]

]]> 0 932e94972a1505684f523c48a48c2e70 Karl Steel deposited Bad Heritage: The American Viking Fantasy, from the Nineteenth Century to Now in the group CLCS Nordic https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/549792/ Tue, 09 Aug 2016 21:06:40 -0400 Here’s a key paragraph:
“This chapter will be an exploration of the heritage function of Vikings in America. It will look at their presumptive whiteness, from the early nineteenth century, through the real mania for all things Viking in the mid to late nineteenth century, and on to present day fascinations with the Norse in popular music,…[Read more]

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