{"id":728,"date":"2021-08-06T09:28:13","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T09:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/jvannahl\/?p=728"},"modified":"2021-08-15T09:42:03","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T09:42:03","slug":"medieval-scandinavian-studies-call-for-papers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/jvannahl\/2021\/08\/06\/medieval-scandinavian-studies-call-for-papers\/","title":{"rendered":"(Medieval) Scandinavian Studies: Call for Papers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-741\" src=\"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/jvannahl\/files\/2021\/08\/mdpi-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/jvannahl\/files\/2021\/08\/mdpi-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/jvannahl\/files\/2021\/08\/mdpi-1-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/jvannahl\/files\/2021\/08\/mdpi-1-768x440.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/>Abstracts welcome! <\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">(deadline for submitting an abstract is October 31st)<\/span><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Medieval) Scandinavian studies have been subject to <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">cutbacks in recent years. This current state asks for <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">individual assessment within different contexts. Old Norse <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">literature, as one example, is a favorite among laymen, yet <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">the employment of experts who make these sources <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">available is more precarious than ever. Even more <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">troublesome, Old Norse lore is regularly used as a source <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">for allegedly age-old pagan customs, and populist groups <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">as well as social media are quick to exploit connotations far <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">from any scholarly state of knowledge. Specialists in <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Scandinavian studies face the challenge to counteract the <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">misinterpretation of their objects of study, but they also <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">have to deal with the apparent disinterest of (university) <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">politics to maintain their expertise in times of sociopolitical <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">challenges. This special issue seeks to bring together <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">opinions on this complex status quo, including recent <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">developments at certain universities or in certain countries, <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">the role of individuals in shaping the field, the (mis)use of <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Old Norse sources in politics and society, adaptions in <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">modern media, as well as ideas of the North in public <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">perception.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/journal\/humanities\/special_issues\/medieval_Scandinavian\">More info here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">This peer-reviewed publication is free of charge!<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Please let me know in case you have any question!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstracts welcome! (deadline for submitting an abstract is October 31st) (Medieval) Scandinavian studies have been subject to cutbacks in recent years. This current state asks for individual assessment within different contexts. Old Norse literature, as one example, is a favorite among laymen, yet the employment of experts who make these sources available is more precarious &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/jvannahl\/2021\/08\/06\/medieval-scandinavian-studies-call-for-papers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"(Medieval) Scandinavian Studies: Call for Papers\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1502,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[759],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oflokkad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/jvannahl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/jvannahl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/jvannahl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/jvannahl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1502"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/jvannahl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=728"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/jvannahl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":743,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/jvannahl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions\/743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/jvannahl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/jvannahl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/jvannahl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}