Scandinavian History

Dear all on the Scandinavian Politics list,

This message about a Discussion List in Scandinavian History might
well be of interest to some of us. Thanks to Christine Agius of
Salford University for passing it on.

Best,

Nick Aylott.
--
Dr Nicholas Aylott, senior lecturer (docent) in political science
School of Social Sciences, Södertörn University College
SE-141 89 Huddinge, Sweden
www.sh.se/samhallsvetenskaper

Please feel free to forward this message to anyone who might be
interested. To join the Scandinavian Politics mailing list, send a
message to me, the convenor (nicholas.aylott@sh.se). If you want to
send something to the list, or if you don't want to receive these
occasional messages, just let me know. See also
www.psa.ac.uk/spgrp/scandinavia/

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From: Andrew Newby [mailto:anewby@staffmail.ed.ac.uk]
Sent: Tue 16-Oct-07 13:38
Subject: H-SKAND Discussion List in Scandinavian History

Dear potential H-SKAND subscriber,

As you may be aware, a new editorial team has recently taken over
H-SKAND from Matthew Gilmore, who served as list editor (and ensured
the very survival of the list) for a number of years. We are:

Katarina Andersson (Halmstad College)
Andrew G. Newby (University of Edinburgh)
Erik Thomson (University of Chicago)

We are writing to you in the hope that you would consider signing up
to the H-SKAND discussion network, as we believe that a network of
this type can only be successful with the widest possible membership.
You have been approached because (i) we (the editors) know you
personally; (ii) because a colleague has suggested your name as
someone who might be interested in H-SKAND, or (iii) because you are
on the existing membership / subscription list but with an outdated
email address.

We would be extremely grateful if you could also forward this message
to anyone you know who may be interested.

In order to subscribe, please email any of the above editors, or enter
the website directly at: http://www.h-net.org/~skand/

In recent months, we have made an attempt to "renew" H-SKAND, but
publishing reviews, calls for papers and other information which is of
relevance to scholars of the Nordic countries worldwide.

As a part of this renewal process, we hope to achieve various goals,
and would like to take this opportunity to set out what we consider to
be some of the most important aims of H-SKAND.

H-SKAND should be a forum for discussion and debate about the Nordic
region and its people, in the broadest sense (including the Nordic
Diaspora). This means individual states / regions / self-governing
areas, as well as holistic treatments of "Norden" as a single entity.
H-SKAND, although described as a board for "Scandinavian History",
should be treated as inter- and multi-disciplinary. Thus, all topics
of academic interest, including (but certainly not limited to)
literature, archaeology, art history, and music history relating to
the region will be considered for publication. We would also like to
state at this point that we welcome the
participation of archivists, librarians, local historians and other
scholars who do not have an affiliation with a particular college or
university.

As with all other H-NET sites, discussion is supplemented by notices
of books, publications, dissertations in progress, conferences and
seminars, prizes and other news of relevance to the community. We
particularly encourage scholars to contribute with such information,
so the list may come to serve as a central clearing house for
information about scholarship on the Nordic region.

We highlight the following as especially useful in developing H-SKAND
as a vibrant forum for the global "Nordic" community:

-Funding opportunities: from individual Nordic states / regions,
pan-Nordic, circumpolar, etc. etc. Again the brief is very broad:
anything from PhD studentships to visiting professorships, bilateral
arrangements, visits from the Nordic countries to "overseas", or
vice-versa.

-Conference Calls: it is great to see who is working on what around
the world, even if we don't get the chance to see the papers "live" or
speak at a given conference. We would also encourage members to
highlight papers that they have seen, relevant to H-SKAND, at
conferences we may have missed (for example, because the conference
was not strictly relating to "Norden".) We would also hope to publish
notices of one-off seminars, or seminar series, dealing with relevant
topics.

-Journal Papers: Similarly, we have been given the contents of some
Scandinavian History Journals, but what about individual articles on
the region in other journals - colleagues could submit their
sightings.

-We hope to see discussion / debate on our own research, getting
(hopefully constructive) feedback from peers. H-SKAND could help
hugely in this area, suggesting readings, and commenting on the
viability of a project.

H-SKAND contributors may use any of the Nordic languages for their
postings, or indeed any other relevant language. Although we recognise
that English is often used as an international language, this is not
always the case, and contributors should feel free to use the language
they feel most appropriate to their message.

For your information, the following leads to a list of posts which
appeared on H-SKAND during the month of September 2007.

http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl"trx=lx&list=H-Skand&user=&pw=&month=0709

As you will observe, there is plenty of information, but provided by a
handful of people. A larger number of subscribers would assist in
developing international dialogues, as well as increasing the "basic"
information flow.

We look forward to hearing from you,

With best wishes,

Katarina, Andrew, Erik H-SKAND Editors