Nordic Research

2007-2008

Details of the 2007-2008 series of Northern Scholars Lectures.

Jan Erik Rekdal: 'Scandinavian-Celtic Encounters'

Lecture title: Scandinavian-Celtic Encounters. Jan Erik Rekdal is from the Institute for Linguistics and Nordic Studies at the University of Oslo.

Tuesday 20 May 2008, 5.15pm

Professor Mart Kalm: 'Modernist Mass Housing in the Soviet Union: a Troubled Heritage'

Lecture title: Modernist Mass Housing in the Soviet Union: a Troubled Heritage.

Tuesday 13 May 2008, 5.15pm

Neuroscience Lecture Theatre, 1 George Square, Edinburgh

Read the abstract for Professor Kalm's lecture.

Professor Anssi Paasi: 'Finnish Landscape as Social Practice: Mapping Identity and Scale'

Lecture title: Finnish Landscape as Social Practice: Mapping Identity and Scale.

Thursday 1 May 2008, 5.15pm

The Old Library, Institute of Geography, Drummond Street, Edinburgh

Read the abstract for Professor Paasi's lecture.

Dr Peter Stadius: 'The Mental Mapping of the North'

Lecture title: The Mental Mapping of the North

Thursday 6 March 2008, 6.15pm

Faculty Room South, David Hume Tower, George Square, Edinburgh

Read the abstract for Professor Stadius's lecture.

Professor Birger Løvlie: 'Norwegians Studying Education in Nineteenth Century Scotland'

Lecture title: Norwegians Studying Education in Nineteenth Century Scotland.

Thursday 17 January 2008, 6.15pm

Faculty Room South, David Hume Tower, George Square, Edinburgh

Read the abstract for Professor Løvlie's lecture.

Dr Sveinn Yngvi Egilsson: 'The Independent Northerner: Ideas of the Nordic Element in Icelandic Culture'

Lecture title: The Independent Northerner: Ideas of the Nordic element in Icelandic Culture.

Thursday 22 November 2007, 5.15pm

Location: To be confirmed

Dr Jutta Jokiranta: 'Sociological Approaches to the Dead Sea Scrolls'

Lecture title: Sociological Approaches to the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Thursday 18 October 2007, 5.15pm

Martin Hall, New College, Edinburgh

Read the abstract for Professor Jokiranta's lecture.

Professor Knut Andreas Bergsvik: 'The Importance of Landscape and Landscape Perceptions to In-group and Between-group Relations among Hunter-Fishers of Neolithic Western Norway'

Lecture title: The Importance of Landscape and Landscape Perceptions to In-group and Between-group Relations among Hunter-Fishers of Neolithic Western Norway.

Thursday 11 October 2007, 5.15pm

Archaeology Lecture Theatre, High School Yards, Infirmary Street, Edinburgh

Read the abstract for Professor Bergsvik's lecture.

Professor Valdis Muktupavels: 'Latvian ethnic music: myths and traditional instruments'

Lecture title: Latvian ethnic music: myths and traditional instruments.

Thursday 4 October 2007, 5.15pm

Faculty Room North, David Hume Tower, Edinburgh

Read the abstract for Professor Muktupavels's lecture.