NAAS • Nordic Association for American Studies
Website of the Nordic Association for American Studies
DAAS • Danish Association for American Studies
FASA • Finnish American Studies Association
IAAS • Icelandic Association for American Studies
ASANOR • American Studies Association of Norway
SAAS • Swedish Association for American Studies
Individual Websites:
DAAS: https://sites.google.com/site/daasstudies/
FASA: https://sites.google.com/site/fasafinnishamericanstudies/
ASANOR: www.asanor.org
SAAS: www.saasinfo.se
President: Alf Tomas Tønnessen
Associate professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Translation, University of Agder, 4630 Kristiansand, Norway
Phone +47 918 76566
Email: alf.t.tonnessen@uia.no
Board Member from Denmark: Niels Bjerre-Poulsen
Associate Professor, Center for American Studies, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M, Denmark
Phone: +45 6550 3133
E-mail: nbp@sdu.dk
Board Member from Finland: Janne Lahti
Researcher, Department of Philosophy, History, Culture and Art Studies, 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland
Phone: +358 +358 40-7444275
Email: janne.lahti@helsinki.fi
Board Member from Iceland: [vacant]
Board Member from Norway: Cassandra Falke
Professor, Department of Language and Culture, University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway, 9019 Tromsø, Norway
Phone: 77645726
Email: cassandra.falke@uit.no
Board Member from Sweden: Jenny Bonnevier
Senior lecturer, School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences, Orebro University, 702 81 Orebro, Sweden
Phone: +46 19 303080
E-mail: Jenny.Bonnevier@oru.se
Editor of American Studies in Scandinavia: Anders Bo Rasmussen
Associate Professor, Center for American Studies, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M, Denmark
Phone: +45 6550 4664
E-mail: ras@sdu.dk
Upcoming and Recent activities:
June 10, 2020
Zoom webinar on the upcoming US presidential election, with Niels Bjerre-Poulsen, Hilde Restad, and Frida Stranne. Commentator: Janne Lahti. Organizer and moderator: Alf Tomas Tønnessen
May 21, 2021
NAAS Digital Symposium and NAAS general meeting, Uppsala University. The NAAS conference at Uppsala is postponed until 2023.
CONFERENCES:
2019
The 26th Biennial NAAS Conference, "Monuments," takes place in Bergen, April 25-27, 2019.
2017
NAAS 25th biennial conference in 2017 (Denmark)
2016
The 16th ML&E conference in Helsinki (U of Helsinki & FASA): http://blogs.helsinki.fi/mapleleafeagle/
SAAS 9th biennial conference in 2016: http://sprak.gu.se/forskning/konferenser/saas-2016/call-for-panels-and-papers
2015
"American Values: Public Virtues, Private Vices?"The 24th Biennial NAAS conference, University of Oulu, Finland, May 11-13, 2015. The conference is organized by the Nordic Association for American Studies (NAAS) and it will offer papers - by approximately 100 speakers from over 10 different countries - on how America has defined its central values in politics, history, literature, architecture, film, the media, popular culture, and everyday living. Conference website: https://sites.google.com/site/fasafinnishamericanstudies/naas-2015-conference
”The Machine in the Garden: Energy, Industry, and Technology in American Culture.” The 40th Annual Conference of the American Studies Association of Norway (ASANOR), 23-25 October 2015, Stavanger. Conference website: http://www.asanor.com/index.php?artID=561&navB=1
2014
The Eight Biennial Swedish Association for American Studies (SAAS) Conference was held at Örebro University, Sweden, 26-27 September, 2014. The plenary speakers were Bo G Ekelund (Stockholm University), Cheryl Glenn (Penn State University), and Sharon Monteith (University of Nottingham).
OTHER ACTIVITIES:
As a rule, the Danish Association for American Studies (DAAS) does not organize its own conferences but contributes to and advertises other conferences and seminars of relevance to American Studies.
University of Southern Denmark, Institute of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics, Department of Political Science and Public Management, and Center for American Studies, December 12, 2014: Lecture and seminar featuring Robert Putnam, Harvard University: "Bowling Alone Or Bowling Together: Twenty Years of Research in Social Capital"
University of Copenhagen, December 11, 2014: Seminar and book launch: "History Across Borders: What Is the Impact of Place when Writing and Teaching History?," featuring
Nicolas Barreyre, EHESS & CENA, France; Lecturer in North American History Max Edling, King's College London; Professor of American History Manfred Berg, University of Heidelberg; Professor Helle Porsdam, Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen; Professor of American Studies David Nye, University of Southern Denmark
University of Southern Denmark, Center for American Studies, December 5, 2014: PhD defense: Anne Mørk successfully defended her PhD dissertation, "Fifteen Minutes of Fame Every Decade: Presidential Politics and National Service"
University of Southern Denmark, Center for American Studies, November 20-21, 2014: Conference: "Visualizing War: The Power of Emotions in Politics," featuring keynotes by W.J.T. Mitchell, Professor of English and Art History, University of Chicago; Jan Mieszkowski, Professor of German and Humanities, Reed College; Lene Hansen, Professor of Political Science, Copenhagen University; Sten Rynning, Professor of International Relations and Leader of the Center of War Studies, University of Southern Denmark; Christine Kanz, Professor of German, University of Ghent; Stephan Jaeger, Professor of German Studies, University of Manitoba
University of Southern Denmark, Center for American Studies, November 6, 2014: Lecture by David Ryan, University College Cork, Ireland: "Remembering Vietnam in the Wars for Iraq and the Wider Middle East"
University of Southern Denmark, Center for American Studies, October 24, 2014: Lecture by David Hollinger, University of California, Berkeley: "John F. Kennedy and the Dynamics of American Anti-Catholicism"
University of Southern Denmark, Center for American Studies, September 24, 2014: The Annual Honora Rankine-Galloway Lecture by Jeffrey Bolster, University of New Hampshire: "The Mortal Sea: An Environmental History of North Atlantic Fish and Fishermen"
University of Southern Denmark, Center for American Studies, August 28, 2014: Seminar on "Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and His Dream," featuring talks by Associate Professor Niels Bjerre-Poulsen, Ph.D. Student Anne Mørk, Associate Professor Jan Nordby Gretlund, Professor David E. Nye, and Associate Professor Jørn Brøndal
Danish Institute for Human Rights, May 28, 2014: Lecture by Barbara J. Keys, University of Melbourne: "Reclaiming American Virtue – The Human Rights Revolution of the 1970s"
University of Southern Denmark, Center for American Studies, May 9, 2014: Lecture by Winfried Fluck, Freie Universität Berlin: "Reading for Recognition"
University of Southern Denmark, Center for American Studies, April 28, 2014: Lecture by Gareth Davies, Oxford University: "Fatalism and Mastery in U.S. Disaster Management, 1800 to the Present"
University of Copenhagen, Saxo Institute: Lecture by Karen V. Hansen, Brandeis University: "Illuminating the Encounter between Scandinavian Settlers and Dakota Indians, 1890-1930"
PUBLICATIONS:
Rani-Henrik Andersson, Markku Henriksson & Mikko Saikku: Pohjois-Amerikan kansallispuistot [North American National Parks] (Tampere: Mediapinta, 2014)
http://www.mediapinta.fi/isbn/978-952-235-705-2
Rani-Henrik Andersson & Saara Kekki, eds.: North American Studies Crossroads: An Anthology of Finnish Perspectives (Univ. of Helsinki, Dept. of World Cultures, 2014)
Rani-Henrik Andersson, Riku Hämäläinen & Saara Kekki: Intiaanikulttuurien käsikirja [Handbook of Native American Cultures] (Helsinki: Gaudeamus, 2013):
http://www.gaudeamus.fi/andersson-intiaanikulttuurien-kasikirja/
Ari Helo: Thomas Jefferson's Ethics and the Politics of Human Progress (Cambridge University Press, 2013):
http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Jeffersons-Ethics-Politics-Progress/dp/1107040787
Ari Helo: Yhdysvaltain demokratian synty [The Birth of American Democracy] (Helsinki: Gaudeamus, 2014):
http://www.adlibris.com/fi/product.aspx?isbn=9524953226
Johan Höglund. The American Imperial Gothic: Popular Culture, Empire, Violence. Farnham : Ashgate, 2014.
http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409449546
Maria Holmgren Troy, Elizabeth Kella, and Helena Wahlström. Making Home : Orphanhood, Kinship, and Cultural Memory in Contemporary American Novels. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2014.
http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9780719089596
Jan Nordby Gretlund, Heads on Fire : Essays on Southern Fiction, Odense: University Press of Southern Denmark, 2014
Anders Bo Rasmussen, I krig for Lincoln : Dansk blod i Den amerikanske Borgerkrig, Copenhagen: Informations Forlag, 2014
Sirpa Salenius. Rose Elizabeth Cleveland: First Lady and Literary Scholar, New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
http://us.macmillan.com/roseelizabethcleveland/SirpaSalenius
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