The symposium will be held in English and there will be room for up to 13 participants. For the previous three years participants have been studying on all levels, from recently started BA students to nearly finished Ph.D. students. The Student Symposium is a great opportunity to present your research and interests to a group of academic peers working in the same field as yourself. Furthermore it is a great opportunity to network and make connections with like-minded scholars. All students that are interested are therefore encouraged to send a short abstract in English, no longer than one page, to the organiser, Bergdís Þrastardóttir, by email: norbp@hum.au.dk no later than the 15th of November 2010. The abstracts will be reviewed by the faculty at the Scandinavian Institute. The organiser and reviewers reserve the right to choose participants after the quality of their abstracts. Before the end of December 2010 you will know if your paper has been accepted.

The 2-day international conference will feature presentations on cultural and geographical connections between Scotland and the Nordic World, fostering dialogue and knowledge exchange between academia, government and the public. The theme of this event concerns cultural, geographical and historical links between Scotland and the Nordic World. However, we welcome talks on all Nordic and maritime topics, particularly comparative studies. [...] Submission guidelines: Papers will be presented to a broad, interdisciplinary audience of diverse interests and backgrounds and should therefore be engaging colleagues from a variety of subject areas. The conference language is English, and standard presentations will be 20 minutes in length. Presenters will be encouraged to submit written versions of their papers for inclusion in the conference proceedings.

The conference will present cutting-edge research on Lagerlöf in an international context. The conference will have three strands: texts by Lagerlöf; translations of her texts; and films based on her texts.

We welcome both papers focusing on a separate strand and papers combining two or three strands. Papers should preferably be given in English. We are hoping for a big turn-out and many innovative and exciting papers that will contribute to raising Lagerlöf’s international profile and to the re-positioning of her work in a global context. The organisers aim to publish a selection of considerably expanded papers.
Please send your abstract, 250 words, as an email attachment in Word, to one of the organisers, NO LATER THAN 1 NOVEMBER 2010.

The work of the congress will be organized in two correlated research trends:
1. Latgale as a phenomenon of culture and civilization – survey of Latgale culture inner regularities in the present and the past.
2. The interaction of borderland cultures (Latvian, Lithuanian, Poland, Belarusian, Russian) – survey of cultural processes in frontier area (contact zones among countries, nations, languages) – contacts and interaction. It will allow summing up both general and secondary mechanisms of culture interaction.

The following research sessions will be organized in the framework of the congress:
1) history – topical problems of Latgale region history: source studies, historiography, political and socio-economic aspects; confessional (religious) situation; perspectives in historical ethnography and regional studies;
2) ethnology – ethnoses of Latgale in a historical perspective; ethnic groups in each other’s view; native and other population;
3) language – language contacts in Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Belarus, Russia: ethnonemes, concepts, dialects;
4) literature – Latvian, Lithuanian, Belarusian and Russian literary contacts, translations, literary situation nowadays; Latgalian literature, literature about Latgale;
5) art – dynamic of art in frontier area.

Working languages: Latvian, English, and Russian. The application form and abstract submission deadline: October 15, 2010. Notification of acceptance or declining will be sent by October 25, 2010.

All presenters at the conference must be members of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies in good standing. Send panel or paper proposals attached to an e-mail or via postal mail to the address below. The deadline for abstract submission is December 3, 2010.

House and home tell who we are. They mirror practical needs, comfort and contemporary ways of living, as well as reflecting communication, reception and adaption of ideas of how to live and how to interact in social groups and as individuals.

This conference will address the rapidly changing forms of living and their social background and symbolic content in Europe over 800 years, from 800-1600 AD. It will seek to identify social strategies, cultural dynamics and international influence in relation to practical needs and local identities in a time of increasing Europeanization and flow of ideas on ‘how to live properly’. On the basis of archaeological studies of material culture, as well as pictorial and written sources, the conference will explore the interaction of innovation, display of social standing, old and new factions, international connections, regional boundaries and ‘progress’.

We invite papers examining case studies, as well as those looking at the intersections of technical, social, spatial and chronological perspectives on houses and homes. Questions may include, but are certainly not limited to: How does material culture of houses and households interact and reflect social strategies and identities? Can Europeanization be identified in certain social milieus and how? How do practical needs and local preconditions meet new ideas? How do inventions, for example in heating techniques, spread? Does the introduction of new furnishings and fixtures reflect new ways of interacting in the household and how?

Case studies on excavations and presentations on projects in progress or forthcoming projects are also welcome. Titles and abstracts are invited before 15 September 2010.

Energie ist eine Grundlage moderner Zivilisation. Ohne Energie wäre die Menschheit außerstande, ihr bisheriges Wachstum in Zahl und Wohlstand aufrechtzuerhalten. Energiesicherheit im Sinne der Gewährleistung einer stabilen und ausreichenden Versorgung mit Energie ist deshalb seit jeher eine existentielle Herausforderung, die mit dem wirtschaftlichen Aufstieg Chinas, Indiens und anderer Schwellenländer in den letzten Jahren erhöhte Dringlichkeit erhalten hat. Es stellt sich die Frage, wie die expandierende Weltwirtschaft im 21. Jahrhundert mit Energie versorgt werden kann, ohne dass sich internationale Konkurrenz über knapper werdende Ressourcen zu gewaltsamen Konflikten zuspitzt.

Gleichzeitig kann Energiesicherheit im globalen Maßstab nicht länger auf Versorgungssicherheit und Verteilungsgerechtigkeit reduziert werden. Da die Weltwirtschaft primär auf fossilen Energieträgern beruht, würde die erfolgreiche Befriedigung des rasant steigenden Energiebedarfs schwerwiegende Folgen für die Umwelt und das Weltklima nach sich ziehen. Die Energiesicherheit der Zukunft besteht daher nicht nur in der Herausforderung, mehr Energie zu fördern, sondern auch darin, umweltverträgliche und nachhaltige Formen der Energiegewinnung zu entwickeln und in die Entwicklung neuer, im Energieverbrauch deutlich sparsamerer Technik und Fahrzeuge zu investieren.

Die Sommerschule der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin beschäftigt sich mit beiden Aspekten globaler Energiesicherheit aus der Perspektive Europas. Zum einen ist Europa, von wenigen Ausnahmen abgesehen, ein rohstoffarmer Kontinent, dessen Versorgungssicherheit folglich zu einem hohen Grad von Einfuhren aus dritten Ländern abhängt. Zum anderen zählt Europa zu den Weltregionen mit dem höchsten Energieverbrauch, woraus sich eine besondere europäische Verantwortung für den globalen Umweltschutz ergibt. Am Beispiel Europas lässt sich also exemplarisch studieren, wie die Herausforderungen der Energiesicherheit im 21. Jahrhundert – stabile Versorgung und ökologische Nachhaltigkeit – miteinander in Einklang gebracht werden können. Dies lässt sich sowohl auf Makro- als auch auf Mirkoebene verfolgen:
(1) Stand und Perspektiven der Energiesicherheit in den Staaten Europas

(2) Energiepolitik der Europäischen Union

(3) Energie und Umwelt

(4) Europas Hoher Norden als Testfall für Energiesicherheit im 21. Jahrhundert

(5) Nachhaltigkeit als Herausforderung für Stadtentwicklung, Konsumenten und Produzenten

Nähere Informationen zu organisatorischen Details der Sommer-Universität finden Sie unter dem angehängten Link.

The Societas Linguistica Europaea and the Vilnius Local Organizing Committee invite you to the next annual SLE meeting. SLE meetings give a forum to high-quality scientific research from all (sub) domains of linguistics. Every year local organizers pay special attention to one specific topic. Though the next annual meeting particularly welcomes papers on "Language contact: at the crossroads of disciplines and frameworks", workshops, posters and individual papers are invited on various topics belonging to all fields of linguistics.

Conference on professional translating and interpreting by the association www.tcbaltic.com. Registration starts: at March 15th, 2010. Registration ends: August 27th, 2010.

http://www.kotus.fi/index.phtml?l=sv&s=3200

Fredag 3. september ønsker Tekstlaboratoriet velkommen til konferansen "Technological, dialectological, theoretical: Linguistics at the Text Laboratory" med spennende nasjonale og internasjonale forskere som David Adger, Eckhard Bick, Elisabet Engdahl, Marit Julien, Joakim Nivre, Cecilia Poletto, Floyd A. Reed, Joe Salmons, Øystein A. Vangsnes og Tor Anders Åfarli. [...] Minikonferansen arrangeres i forbindelse med professor Janne Bondi Johannessens 50-årsdag.

Ein zentrales Element in der Geschichte und Gegenwart des Ostseeraums ist die kulturelle Vielfalt, Ergebnis komplexer und Jahrhunderte währender Migrationsbewegungen. Der Zweite Weltkrieg und die Bevölkerungsverschiebungen auf Grundlage des Konzeptes eines ethnischen Nationalismus zerrissen historische Verbindungen, zerstörten viele Kulturräume und hatten eine gewaltsame Homogenisierung der Bevölkerung im Ostseeraum zur Folge. Doch die Spuren der durch Migration und Kulturaustausch geprägten sprachlich vielfältigen Kulturräume sind noch sichtbar. Unser Workshop will am Beispiel Danzigs und Stockholms die Spuren von Migrationsprozessen und kulturellen Transfers innerhalb des Ostseeraums dokumentieren.

The purpose of the Retrospective Methods Network is to promote and develop retrospective methods in historical studies in a wide sense. The background is the growing interest in folklore and other 19th and 20th century evidence as a supplement in studies of pre-Christian Scandinavian beliefs (cf. the manifesto by Heide 2009 at http://www.saga.nordiska.uu.se/preprint/). Methodologically this is highly problematic, however; we must not use late evidence in the same naïve way as the scholars of the early 20th century. Therefore, a renewed effort in the development of retrospective methods is required, hence the network and the conference. The organizers hope that a renewed discussion of retrospective methods can lead to a higher level of methodological consciousness and a stronger demand for explicitness in claims, methods and reasoning in Old Norse studies. [...] The conference is open to all. If you wish to attend the conference without giving a paper, please register by e-mail to post@cms.uib.no, as soon as possible and no later than 1 May 2010.

The International Forum is part of the programme Geschichtswerkstatt Europa by the Foundation “Remembrance, Responsibility and Future” and takes place from September 14th to September 19th 2010 in Vilnius.

The one-week event is to includes seminars, lectures, city tours and exhibition visits. Scholars from a diverse background of disciplines from different parts of Europe will debate the current processes of remembrance in Europe. Convenors of the International Forum are the historians Matthias Middell and Stefan Troebst from Leipzig and the partners in Vilnius “The Lithuanian Institute of History”, the “Centre for Studies of the Culture and History of East European Jews” and the “Vilnius Yiddish Institute” of the University of Vilnius.

The aim of the Forum is to highlight the conflicting recollections of the European 20th century and to familiarise participants with recent research results in the area of collective and cultural memory. The International Forum is dedicated to the multilayered history of Vilnius/Wilno/Vil´na/Wilna. The many names attributed to the city indicates, from the outset, the culturally and religiously multifaceted character that Vilnius displays. Time and again Lithuanians, Poles, and Belarusians have all made national demands during the past thereby shaping the city making it what it is today.

Nästa OFTI-konferens "OFTI-28" arrangeras i Linköping, 16-17 september 2010.

Information och löpande uppdateringar kommer att annonseras via konferensens egen webbsida under våren.

Preliminära kontaktpersoner
Lotta Plejert
Matthias Broth
Nigel Musk

I forbindelse med prosjektet om norsk i Amerika arrangerer Janne Bondi Johannessen sammen med professor Joe Salmons workshopen "Workshop on Immigrant Language in America" 16. og 17. september. Arrangementet er støttet av Norges forskningsråd, og tanken er at det skal utvikles forskningssamarbeid mellom de to institusjonene.

Seeing, Hearing, Reading and Believing. Authorities in the Middle Ages will be arranged in Helsinki 20-23 September 2010. This international conference seeks to offer a multidisciplinary forum for researchers and academics, enhance interdiscpilinary discussion, promote scholarly networking, and set up an innovative platform for scholars who engage with questions of power and authority.

The conference is aimed at established researchers, doctoral studens and those working on their master"s thesis in medieval history or art history, archaeology, theology, philosophy or literature. Conference sessions will be open to the public. The conference will be held in English.

The aim of our conference "Language Contact and Change – Grammatical Structure Encounters the Fluidity of Language" is to bring together researchers from different camps in linguistics in order to elucidate theoretical questions as well as the seeming vagaries of a broad range of phenomena of language contact and change. In particular, we wish to bring together grammarians and sociolinguists, i.e. linguists doing research on the structure and system of language and linguist doing research on the use and function of language, in order to try to bring new perspectives into the field. By bringing together researchers from different theoretical and methodological camps in this way, we wish to contribute to meaningful scientific interaction between researchers with different perspectives, thus facilitating fruitful dialogue and cross-fertilisation that may lead to fresh insights and scientific advances. We sincerely believe that a satisfactory understanding of the dynamic and often extremely complex processes of language contact and language change requires a joint effort by both grammarians and sociolinguists.

Das Jahr 1710 markiert eine wichtige Zäsur in der baltischen Geschichte. Die schwedischen Garnisonen in Riga, Reval/Tallinn, Pernau/Pärnu und Dünamünde/Daugavgrīva, die Magistrate der baltischen Städte sowie die Ritterschaften von Estland, Livland und Ösel/Saaremaa unterzeichneten Kapitulationen gegenüber der russischen Armee, die später vom Zaren bestätigt wurden. Diese Kapitulationen übertrugen nicht nur die Herrschaft über die Ostseeprovinzen vom schwedischen König auf den russischen Zaren, sondern sicherten den Provinzen auch einen halb autonomen Status im Russischen Reich. Sie dienten als eine verfassungsähnliche Grundlage für die Organisation des Innenlebens der Provinzen (Verwaltung, Kirche, Gesetze), weshalb ihre unterschiedliche Interpretation nicht verwundert. Besonders deutlich wurde die Kluft der zwischen den deutschbaltischen Eliten und der Regierung: Während die einen ihrer Privilegien wegen den Vertragscharakter der Kapitulationen betonten, verstand St. Petersburg sie als Dekret Peters des Großen, das jeder folgende Herrscher nur freiwillig bestätigt hatte, um sich die Möglichkeit vorzubehalten, die Autonomie der Provinzen zu beschneiden.

Die Konferenz soll an Kapitulationen erinnern, die vor 300 Jahren vereinbart wurden, und ihren Kontext, ihre Wirkung sowie ihre Interpretationen analysieren. Die Konferenz wird gemeinsam organisiert von
- der Baltischen Historischen Kommission
- dem Institut für Geschichte und Archäologie der Universität Tartu
- der Juristischen Fakultät der Universität Tartu
- dem Historischen Institut der Universität Tallinn.

2nd international conference of applied linguistics, "marking the 20th anniversary of the Department of Lithuanian Studies" of the University of Vilnius. "The Conference aims at bringing together various aspects of research that goes on under the umbrella of applied linguistics: a variety of ways, a range of disciplines and sub-disciplines, including sociolinguistics, language policy, discourse analysis, translation and interpretation, language teaching and learning, language testing, corpus linguistics, psycholinguistics, pragmatics etc." It "will be hosted by the Department of Lithuanian Studies, Faculty of Philology, Vilnius University, Institute of the Lithuanian Language and the Lithuanian Association of Applied Linguistics." Programm und nähere Angaben unter der URL.

Auf dieser Konferenz sollen Fragestellungen u.a. zu folgenden Themenbereichen diskutiert werden: Soziolinguistik, Sprachpolitik, Diskursanalyse, Übersetzungswissenschaft, Sprachvermittlung, Textlinguistik und Psycholinguistik.

Die Deutschbaltische Studienstiftung plant die Durchführung eines zweiten Baltischen Kongresses mit dem Oberthema "Europäische Werte - historische Gerechtigkeit". Die Auswertung des letzten Kongresses hat ergeben, dass der Wunsch nach mehr persönlichem Austausch besteht. So wird der Ablauf vollkommen anders stattfinden als beim Kongress 2008. Wir wollen beim nächsten Kongress mehr die persönliche Erfahrungs- und Erlebniswelt und den gegenseitigen Austausch mit einbeziehen. So ist geplant, dass die Teilnehmer die Themen und die Ergebnisse z.B. in Theaterstücken, Sketschen, Zeitungen, Broschüren, etc. umsetzen können. Natürlich wird auch Zeit für Singen, Klönen und Tanzen bleiben. Es können bis zu 80 Teilnehmer dabei sein. Anmeldeschluss ist der 20.07.2010.

Der Übergang der skandinavischen Gesellschaften von absolutistisch organisierten zu liberal-bürgerlichen Gesellschaften vollzieht sich im Laufe des 19. Jahrhundert. In diesem Prozess spielen zwei Diskurse eine entscheidende Rolle, die zueinander in einem spannungsvollen Verhältnis stehen. Da ist zum einen der monetäre Diskurs, der nach Niklas Luhmann sogar als der entscheidende Motor bei der Herausbildung der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft fungiert. Da ist zum anderen der Vertrauensdiskurs, dessen wechselnde Semantisierungen und symbolische Inszenierungen Ute Frevert in verschiedenen Studien rekonstruiert hat. Dabei weist sie auf einen entscheidenden Bedeutungswandel im 19. Jahrhundert hin. War Vertrauen zuvor noch überwiegend theologisch eingefärbt, wird es im bürgerlichen Zeitalter zu einem zentralen Begriff, der Ökonomie, Politik, Religion, familiäre Strukturen und (im „Selbstvertrauen“) das bürgerliche Selbstverhältnis verbindet.

Die Tagung nimmt sich vor, beispielhaft zu rekonstruieren, 1) wie der Vertrauensdiskurs die Literatur des nordischen Idealismus grundierend durchzieht und welche anderen Diskurse auf dieser Basis aufbauen, 2) wie die Literatur die Omnipräsenz des Geldes (bzw. des Mangels an Geld), seine Rolle als Medium und kontingenzreduzierende Formel, sowie seine gesellschafts- und diskursformende Macht bearbeitet; und 3) wie der ökonomische Diskurs notwendig vom Vertrauensdiskurs flankiert wird.

European Ecotourism Conference “Balancing Sustainability and Profitability”. The European Ecotourism Conference aims to serve as a European-wide forum where stakeholders involved in ecotourism can gain insight into the current state of ecotourism development and future challenges, as well as opportunities, facing European destinations and communities.

University of Latvia and Latvian Language Institute invite to attend the XI Baltistica Congress: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE OF THE BALTIC LANGUAGES. The working languages of the congress: Latvian, Lithuanian, English, German, Russian.

Participation fee: 60 EUR – till 1st of June 2010, 80 EUR – after.

The address of the Scientific Committee of the congress:
University of Latvia
Latvian Language Institute
Akadēmijas laukums 1 (floor 8 and 9)
Rīga, LV–1027
Phone: +371 67227696, + 371 67213606
e-mail: baltistukongress@gmail.com

Institutet för språk och folkminnen och Seminariet för nordisk namnforskning vid Uppsala universitet inbjuder härmed till ett symposium 29 september till 1 oktober 2010 i uppländsk bruksmiljö på Älvkarleö herrgård (www.alvkarleoherrgard.com). Bidrag som behandlar binamn i Norden ur olika aspekter från äldsta tid till dagens bruk är välkomna. En formell inbjudan kommer att gå ut i september/oktober 2009.

It is our pleasure to invite all interested scholars to take part in this interdisciplinary conference on Emotions, Media and Crime in Aarhus. The aim of the conference is to highlight the relationship between emotion, media and crime in contemporary culture. [...] Lately, scholars have called attention to the role of emotions in crime fictions. The melodramatic element has been enhanced, and sentimentality and mediated crime have been combined. This point of view has emerged in a search for another history of crime fiction, highlighting the role of supernatural, gothic and hardboiled sentimental genres. The emotional appeal also seems to be important for real as well as mediated crime scenes, just as crime audiences seem to appreciate this kind of appeal. In crime journalism, sensations have an important impact.

"the Central Baltic INTERREG IV A Programme 2007-2013 will arrange its second annual Showcase Conference in Riga, Latvia. The conference is a platform to show the achievements of the programme so far, see how the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region is developing and to discuss what may come after the year 2013. Participants will be invited to discuss if and how the Programme is reaching its visions through the financed projects. The conference will also start the discussions about life after the present programme period 2007-2013. The conference will reflect on projects’ impacts on the fulfilment of the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region as well as on its impact on a local and regional level."

The conference is dedicated to the closely related Icelandic genres of the original riddarasögur and viking romances. Together the two constitute a large group of narrative texts, the late medieval Icelandic romances, that developed in this form since the Middle Ages and were productive until modern times. (...) The late medieval Icelandic romances will be discussed, and their position in literary history more clearly thought out, from different perspectives of varying philological fields, according to philological and socio-historical criteria as well as criteria relating to the history of mentalities.

De Svenska Historiedagarna 2010 kommer att hållas i Jönköping 1-3 oktober. Programmet är under planering och beräknas vara klart i månadsskiftet februari/mars. Vill du beställa ett program, vänligen skicka ett mail till: info@dsh.se

Die Tagung will das Phänomen „Spiel und Sport“ in interdisziplinärer und komparatistischer Perspektive ergründen. Das Spektrum denkbarer Themen umfasst Würfel-, Brett- und Kartenspiel – letzteres erst nach 1400 in Skandinavien bezeugt –, die ritterlichen íþróttir einschließlich vom Schwimmen bis zur (Beiz-)Jagd, Ballspiele, Kampfsport, Pferderennen, Schiffswettfahrten …

Zentrale Themen sollen sein: die Kulturgeschichte von Spiel und Sport im europäischen Vergleich und Kontext, das Problem der Rekonstruierbarkeit fragmentarisch überlieferter Spiele und Sportarten (wie dem Brettspiel hnefatafl und dem Schlagballspiel knattleikr), die Rezeption und Darstellung von Spiel und Sport in Literatur und Ikonographie, archäologische und anthropologische Aspekte. Vielfältige, innovative theoretische und methodische Zugänge sind ausdrücklich erwünscht, ebenso komparatistische Ansätze und Beiträge zur Spiel- und Sportkultur Nordwesteuropas und der Britischen Inseln, des nördlichen Kontinentaleuropa und der Ostseeregion im Mittelalter (wobei mit J. Le Goff der Begriff des „langen Mittelalters“ angesetzt werden darf).

Glacial Archaeology is concerned with the global phenomenon of prehistoric and historical remains that emerge from a variety of frozen contexts. These vary from glaciers and snow patches as to other alpine and permafrost contexts. In its modern form, Glacial Archaeology is inherently multidisciplinary in nature and has intimate ties to a broad range of sciences such as climatology, glaciology and conservation science. The finds that emerge from these contexts are often of excellent quality and are of considerable archaeological, historical and ethnographical interest, as are the past activities that lie behind there deposition. The key aim of ‘Frozen Pasts’ is to gather together researchers, managers and others from these interrelated contexts and disciplines in a forum where results, observations and problems from different regions can be shared and discussed.

Die Konferenz „Between the Islands – and the Continent: Hiberno-Scandinavian-Continental Contacts in the Early Middle Ages” ist (nach Oslo und Cambridge) die dritte in einer Reihe von Workshops, die sich den hiberno-skandinavischen Kultur- und Literaturkontakten im Früheren Mittelalter widmet, diesmal aber mit speziellem Fokus auf den Querverbindungen zum Kontinent, besonders zum Frankenreich. Das Format des Workshops mit Impulsreferaten und umfangreicher Diskussion wird beibehalten. Die Organisation liegt bei der Skandinavistischen Abteilung des Instituts für vergleichende Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft der Universität Bonn in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Bonner Mittelalter-Zentrum, die Teilnehmer kommen aus Großbritannien, Irland, Island, Norwegen, Dänemark und Deutschland.

Eine Anmeldung zur Tagung ist bis zum 15.09.2010 unter "between-the-islands@uni-bonn.de" möglich. Die Konferenzgebühr beträgt 30.-/10.- Euro (erm.). Für Bonner Studierende fällt keine Gebühr an.

Das Homburger Gespräch 2010 findet vom 7. bis 10. Oktober in Bad Homburg v.d.H. statt. Das Thema der Tagung ist: Badeorte und Bäderkultur an der Ostsee im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Architektur, gesellschaftliches Leben und ihre Darstellung in Bild und Wort.

Wir hoffen durch die Vorträge ein Bild des Phänomens Badeorte und Bäderkultur in seinen verschiedenen Prägungen und Entwicklungen in allen Ländern an der Ostsee zu gewinnen.

"The main aim of the conference is to provide a forum for the sharing of new ideas and recent advances in human language processing and to promote cooperation between the research communities of computer science and linguistics from the Baltic countries and the rest of the world. The conference aims to bring together scientists, developers, providers and users to discuss state-of-the-art of HLT in the Baltic countries, to exchange information and to discuss problems, to find new synergies and to promote initiatives for international cooperation. Central themes of the conference are: - Language resources and technology for the Humanities - Building and using corpora for Machine Translation" Early registration possible until August 15, 2010, regular registration until September 27, 2010

Nähere Informationen folgen unter dem Link.

Conference on “Violence and Societies in East Central Europe, 18th to 20th centuries” to be presented in Vilnius, on October 14.-16., 2010. The conference is organized by the Herder-Institut (Marburg), the Lithuanian Institute of History (Vilnius), the Nordost-Institut (Lüneburg) in association with the research network “Gewaltgemeinschaften” (Organised Bodies of Violence) at the Justus-Liebig-University (Giessen), which is financed by the German DFG foundation.

Im August 1939 schlossen das Deutsche Reich und die Sowjetunion einen Nichtangriffspakt. Das geheime Zusatzprotokoll regelte die Aufteilung Ostmitteleuropas in Einflusssphären. Infolgedessen wurden nur wenige Monate später Litauen, Lettland und Estland von sowjetischen Truppen besetzt. Auf die Inkorporation der drei Staaten in die Sowjetunion 1940 folgte die deutsche Besatzung. Während Juden und Andersdenkende verfolgt wurden, hofften die Angehörigen der baltischen Nationen, mit deutscher Hilfe ihre Unabhängigkeit wiederzugewinnen. 1944/45 wurden die baltischen Staaten von den Deutschen befreit – und von der Sowjetunion erneut in Besitz genommen. Wir fragen nach den Zielen der Besatzer, nach Widerstand, Anpassung und Kollaboration sowie den politischen Folgen der Besatzungszeit.

We are pleased to announce the International Vinland-seminar in Chicago, a three day event dedicated to the Norse discovery of America and Scandinavian Viking Culture, 15th – 17th October 2010. This is an excellent opportunity for anyone with an interest in the topic to learn from some of the top researchers in the field from Norway, Iceland, Canada and the US, such as Gisli Sigurdsson (Iceland), Torgrim Titlestad (Norway), Birgitta Wallace (Canada) and more. Seminar patrons will also have the opportunity to meet the Norwegian artist Jarle Rosseland whose Vinland-suite will be exhibited during the seminar.

The aim of this interdisciplinary Nordic conference to be held in Aalborg, Denmark from 17th - 19th November 2010 is to bring together doctoral students and researchers in the Nordic and Baltic region who investigate discourse and interaction from different disciplinary perspectives. The conference will highlight research that explores how text, discourse, talk and social interaction are structured, organised and constituted. Thus, this conference welcomes contributions by scholars and doctoral students in a range of fields of inquiry, including but not limited to discourse studies, conversation analysis, discursive psychology, critical discourse analysis, interaction analysis, rhetoric, narrative analysis, discourse theory, political discourse analysis, social semiotics, multimodal discourse analysis, applied linguistics, gesture studies and communication activism, as well as approaches to discourse and interaction to be found in sociology, political science, environmental science, economics, media studies and cultural studies.

The first and second conferences on the history of Nordic computing, organized in Trondheim (2003) and Turku (2007) respectively, were very successful and acquired a great deal of interest from information and communication technology (ICT) professionals and academics as well as from historians of technology. Therefore, these conferences will now be followed by a third one, which will take place in Stockholm, October 2010. The conference will also honour the successful completion of a project on Swedish ICT history. Called “From Computing Machines to IT”, the Swedish Computer Society initiated the project with the support of the Division of History of Science and Technology at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) and the National Museum of Science and Technology.

Internationale Konferenz zur Archäologie im Ostseeraum.

"Kaunas University of Technology Panevezys Institute organizes international scientific conference on Nation and Language: Aspects of Socio-Linguistic Development for academic researchers and PhD students. (...) The aim of the conference is to activate language research and to share the experience on language teaching and learning in different countries (...) to provide a forum to exchange knowledge, experience, results and information related to aspects of socio-linguistic development."

Conference in honour of the 100th anniversary of the publication of Frančis Kemps’ cultural historical sketch “Latgalieši” (“Latgalians”)
This conference will not focus exclusively on Latgalian, but will shape a broader range of topics in which Latgalian will appear in the context of other regional languages in the ecology of the Baltic Sea region (Samogitian, Võru, Kashubian, Sami, North Frisian, Low German, Livonian, Ingrian, Votic, Karelian, Ingrian Finnish, Meänkieli, Kven, Sønderjysk, Skånska).
Main topics of the conference:
— How do regional languages interact with their socio-political, economic and cultural environments?
— How can regional languages develop in an eco-system alongside other languages (national and international) in times of globalization?
— What consequences do these developments have for giving voice and agency to the speakers of small languages?
— Which are current issues in status and corpus planning of Latgalian and other languages and in language maintenance efforts?
— How have regional cultures developed in a historical perspective of language contact?

"The Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT) will play host to the 17th Inuit Studies Conference, during the last week of October 2010 (dates to be confirmed). The event will be held at the First Peoples Pavilion on the UQAT Val-d’Or campus in Quebec, Canada." The theme will be "The Inuit and the Aboriginal World: relations between the Inuit peoples and the other Aboriginal peoples around the world, in particular their neighbours, the First Nations, the Inuvialuit and the Samí. Organizations which represent the Inuit (Inuit Circumpolar Conference, Greenland Home Rule, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, Makivik Corporation and others) have a determining role to play in the future of these peoples and their interactions have local, regional, and international consequences."

Interdisziplinäre wissenschaftliche Fachtagung zum Projekt "Schleswig-Holsteinisches und Hamburgisches Klosterregister/Klosterbuch" des Kieler Lehrstuhls für Regionalgeschichte

Det tvaerfaglige seminar søger at komme rundt om tid, sted og hjemstavn inden for litteratur, kunst, etnologi, folkloristik og lokalhistorie.

"The medieval and renaissance understanding of the world evolved from faith, magic and science, and provided the framework for human knowledge. However, these ideas were not homogeneous. They changed from one period to the next, from region to region, even from city to city, but within common frames of interpretation. It is the purpose of this symposium to shed new light on medieval and renaissance (c. 1400-1650) perceptions of the universe by challenging traditional disciplinary and chronological boundaries." Lectures on theories and cases from Scandinavia and the world.

The work of the congress will be organized in two correlated research trends:
1. Latgale as a phenomenon of culture and civilization – survey of Latgale culture inner regularities in the present and the past.
2. The interaction of borderland cultures (Latvian, Lithuanian, Poland, Belarusian, Russian) – survey of cultural processes in frontier area (contact zones among countries, nations, languages) – contacts and interaction. It will allow summing up both general and secondary mechanisms of culture interaction.

Religion and the mythologies associated with it have always involved a strong sense of liminality. They involve a meeting of worlds, the seen and the unseen, and offer a means of communication between the two, by means of word, image, action and the use other senses (including smell, taste, induced ecstasy and music). In their attempt to explain the complexities of the world, myths constantly deal with temporal and geographical border-crossings of various kinds, ranging from the obvious journeys between worlds and the conflicts that take place between them, to other kinds of meetings between genders and between beings, and the deeper questions of the beginnings and endings of existence and the creation of place out of space. At the same time, while rituals help to maintain borderlines, they also assist believers to cross them in safety.

In this conference, the intention is for key scholars from various disciplines - ranging from the fields of Old Norse literature to archaeology, place name studies, and religious history - to present papers that will initiate new discussion into how these questions were dealt with in Old Norse religion.

Provisional programme

9.00 Registration
9.45 Welcome and Introduction
10.00 Viking genes of northern England (Turi King)
10.30 Viking age links of the north west with Dublin and Yorkshire (David Griffiths)
11.00 Tea/Coffee
11.25 The Battle of Brunanburh (Paul Cavill)
12.05 The Vikings and the Victorian North West (Andrew Wawn)
12.35 Lunch (with exhibition tour – Liz)
14.15 The Bidston Hogback and other Viking hogback tombstones (Jenny Whalley)
14.45 The Neston Cross reconstruction: an exercise in community engagement (Roger White)
15.15 Tea/Coffee
15.40 Viking farm at Irby (Rob Philpott)
16.10 Viking Age Women (Christina Lee)
16.45 Closing Remarks

Med detta utskick vill vi inbjuda till ett nordiskt tvadagarssymposium i Stockholm och Uppsala i november 2010, arrangerat av Kungl. Gustav Adolfs Akademien for svensk folkkultur och Kungl. Skogs] och Lantbruksakademien. Symposiet behandlar vaxternas namn i vidaste bemarkelse samt relationen mellan namn och vaxter i saval natur] som odlings] och tradgardssammanhang. Amnesomradet ar sant tvarvetenskapligt och inrymmer till exempel diskussioner om namnens etymologi och historia, om folklig respektive vetenskaplig namngivning, om identifieringsproblem och symbolik, och om vad namnen kan avsloja om vaxternas etnobotaniska betydelse och geografiska ursprung. Dartill kommer en rad botaniska ingangar till fragestallningarna. [...] Under symposiet kommer särskilt inbjudna forskare att medverka med dels några längre, övergripande föredrag, dels ett drygt dussintal kortare, mer avgränsade och ämnesspecifika inlägg med i huvudsak språklig eller botanisk inriktning, men alltid med växternas namn i fokus.

Mange har hatt sterke meninger om Bjørnson. Med de hundre årene som er gått, har vi fått avstand til det ideologiske landskapet som preget den tidlige Bjørnson-resepsjonen. Selv om det nasjonsbyggende engasjement har mistet motiverende kraft, kan Bjørnson fremdeles vekke interesse, fascinasjon og undring. Dagens forskere bør kunne møte Bjørnson med avspent nysgjerrighet. Det er utviklet tilnærmingsmåter innenfor humaniora og samfunnsvitenskap som kan avdekke nye sammenhenger i og omkring hans verk og virksomhet. Ikke bare som skjønnlitterær forfatter, men også som journalist, teatermann, brevskriver, taler og ideolog er Bjørnson lite utforsket. Her er nok av oppgaver.

Vi inviterer til tre dagers Bjørnson-dugnad som avslutning på Bjørnson-året 2010. Slik Bjørnsons produksjon selv er mangslungen, ønsker vi velkommen et bredt spekter av bidrag fra forskere ved universitetet, høyskoler og andre forskningsinstitusjoner.

The Baltic Sea Region Programme conference […] will gather policy makers and representatives of national, regional and local authorities from all those countries bordering the Baltic Sea and beyond. We are also expecting participants from Non-Governmental Organisations, researchers and academics, project partners and interested project promoters – and all those dedicated to further developing the Baltic Sea region towards a model region in Europe.

Wichtige Themen der Konferenz sind u.a.:
- lettische Literaten und traditionelle Religionen,
- religiöse Ideen in der lettischen Literatur und Kunst,
- die Ideen der Dievturi-Bewegung in Texten zur lettischen Literatur und Kultur,
- die lettische Literatur als religiöses und kultisches Phänomen,
- Literatur und Religion der Deutschbalten und
- religiöse Motive und Bilder in der deutschen, russischen und jüdischen Kultur Lettlands.

Call for Papers: 25.10.2010

House and home tell who we are. They mirror practical needs, comfort and contemporary ways of living, as well as reflecting communication, reception and adaption of ideas of how to live and how to interact in social groups and as individuals.

This conference will address the rapidly changing forms of living and their social background and symbolic content in Europe over 800 years, from 800-1600 AD. It will seek to identify social strategies, cultural dynamics and international influence in relation to practical needs and local identities in a time of increasing Europeanization and flow of ideas on ‘how to live properly’. On the basis of archaeological studies of material culture, as well as pictorial and written sources, the conference will explore the interaction of innovation, display of social standing, old and new factions, international connections, regional boundaries and ‘progress’.

The symposium will be held in English and there will be room for up to 13 participants. For the previous three years participants have been studying on all levels, from recently started BA students to nearly finished Ph.D. students. The Student Symposium is a great opportunity to present your research and interests to a group of academic peers working in the same field as yourself. Furthermore it is a great opportunity to network and make connections with like-minded scholars.

The Child and the Book is an international conference which offers graduate/post graduate scholars the opportunity to present papers on their current research in the interdisciplinary field of children’s literature. The Child and the Book Conference is an annual event which attracts delegates from all over the world and provides a unique opportunity for postgraduate students to meet, present and discuss their research. [...] The main theme of this year’s conference is Picture books in the new millenium, and we welcome proposals on the following topics:
* Picture books in the new millenium
* Young adult fiction
* Picture books for young adults
* Digital texts and computer games
* Religion in children’s literature
* Children’s literature in the post-secular society
* Historical events transformed into children’s literature
* Nation building in children’s literature of the new millenium

The 2-day international conference will feature presentations on cultural and geographical connections between Scotland and the Nordic World, fostering dialogue and knowledge exchange between academia, government and the public. The theme of this event concerns cultural, geographical and historical links between Scotland and the Nordic World. However, we welcome talks on all Nordic and maritime topics, particularly comparative studies.

The final program will be announced in the beginning of 2011.

Enheten för nordiska språk vid Vasa universitet hälsar välkommen till Vasa och den 13:e sammankomsten för Svenskan i Finland i maj 2011. Sammankomsten äger rum 5–6.5.2011 vid Vasa universitet med start ca kl. 9 på torsdag och avslutning ca kl. 15 på fredag. Konferensens specialtema är Svenska i ett specialiserat samhälle. Även andra teman är välkomna. Konferensens plenarföredrag hålls av professor Paula Rossi (Uleåborgs universitet) och av FD Anders Björkvall (Stockholms universitet).

In 2011 the University of Oslo is celebrating its 200 years anniversary and Department of Special Needs Education its 50 years anniversary. The 7. Nordic Disability History Conference is part of the marking of both of these two occasions. Key note speakers will be addressing the past and future of Nordic special needs education - learning, quality of life and citizenship.

Med temat Historia i Sverige – fångad i nationen? vill arrangörerna fästa uppmärksamhet på de nationella traditioner och geografiska ramar som präglar svensk historisk forskning och historieförmedling. Med nationen och nationalstaten som grundläggande tolkningsram bidrar både forskning och historieförmedling till att skapa och legitimera nationella identiteter. I dag utmanas emellertid det nationella perspektivet, både politiskt och vetenskapligt, av regionala och globala frågor och problem. I vilken omfattning och på vilka sätt svenska historiker och historieförmedlare tar till sig dessa utmaningar är några av de frågor som konferensen vill belysa.

Svenska Akademiens ordboksredaktion, Nordiska föreningen för lexikografi och Språkrådet i Norge har nöjet att inbjuda till den 11:e Konferensen om lexikografi i Norden, som äger rum i maj 2011 i Lund, Sverige. Vi ser fram emot att träffa många nordiska och längre utifrån kommande lexikografer i en av Sveriges äldsta universitetsstäder.

Målet med det vetenskapliga programmet är att ge en så bred bild av den nordiska lexikografin som möjligt. På konferensen hålls plenarföredrag av John Simpson, chef för Oxford English Dictionary, Godelieve Laureys, professor i skandinavistik i Gent, och Bo Ralph, professor i nordiska språk, Göteborg. Vi erbjuder deltagarna möjlighet att hålla sektionsföredrag. Alla föredrag med anknytning till lexikografi är välkomna. Vi ser också gärna deltagare som presenterar posters och håller softwaredemonstrationer. Det kommer även att finnas möjlighet att presentera nyutkommen litteratur. För sektionsföredragen reserveras 20 minuter + 10 minuter för frågor och diskussion. Under konferensen håller Nordiska föreningen för lexikografi också sin generalförsamling.

Dagene 25.-28. maj 2011 holdes den tiende konference om forskning i Nordens sprog som andet- og fremmedsprog. Konferencen har tre overordnede temaer, nemlig kompleksitet, motivation og output (herunder undervisning og tilegnelse af ordforråd, samt CA og CALL i sprogindlæringen).

The 11th NNDR conference will be arranged on Iceland in May 27. - 28. 2011. The venue for the conference will be the Grand Hotel Reykjavik in Reykjavik. So mark your calander today. Updated information will bepublished here later.

"Södertörn University and the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies CBEES, has volunteered to organize the 9th Baltic conference in Europe. The conference will be held in Stockholm, Sweden on 12-15 June 2011. The Call for Papers will be issued in September 2010. For more information, contact the Director of CBEES, Professor Anu Mai Kõll, anu-mai.koll@sh.se. Further details will be forthcoming."

The Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies, University of Oslo hosts the 8th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB8) from 15 June to 18 June 2011. The call for papers will be launched on this website. We will keep you informed about ISB8 through regular updates on this website.

The conference marks the publication by Norvik Press (UCL), from spring 2011 onwards, of a series of new translations of Lagerlöf’s major texts. The first translations in the series are being funded by the Swedish Academy.

The conference will present cutting-edge research on Lagerlöf in an international context. The conference will have three strands:
* texts by Lagerlöf
* translations of her texts
* films based on her texts.

Approximately every second year the University of Faroe offers a summer institute in Faroese for foreign language students and other interested. The course offers about 60 lessons and lectures in Faroese language, literature, history and culture.

Institutt for historie og religionsvitenskap ved Universitetet i Tromsø vil i august 2011 være vertskap for Det 27. nordiske historikermøtet. Vi ønsker historikere fra hele Norden velkommen til dette tradisjonsrike møtet. For noen vil historikermøtet bli en anledning til å besøke Tromsø på nytt, for andre byr muligheten seg nå til å se vår vakre by og landsdel for første gang. Denne hjemmesiden vil bli bygd ut etter hvert som program og praktiske opplysninger om konferansen blir klargjort.

Es wird gebeten, Themenvorschläge für Arbeitskreise und Projektpräsentationen bis 31.5.2010 an das Organisationskomitee zu richten

The main theme of the conference will be Bilingualism and Globalization. The conference will be organized with a daily plenary lecture and parallel paper sessions. Suggestions for workshops will also be considered. Scholars are kindly invited to submit abstracts for papers and proposals for workshops to the organizers. All proposals will be subjected to peer review. A Second Circular will be issued late in the spring of 2011.

The general theme of the conference will be Sagas and the use of the past, and the aim of the conference is to clarify some of the problems arising when literature tries to describe a distant past. It is obvious that whether Old Norse texts are read as literature or as sources for past periods, it is necessary to appreciate that the texts that constitute the saga genre are both a consideration of the past as well as of the contemporary situation. It is the hope of the organizers that the conference will throw light on this relation and its consequences for our view of the texts, whether we are for instance, literary scholars, historians, philologists or something else, through inspiring discussions of the use of the past in Old Norse Literature.