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10.04.2025
1 Stunde 56 Minuten
Ieva Steponavičiūtė-Aleksiejūnienė, Vilnius University,
invites nordlitt to workshop around the concept of play
in two stories by Danish author Karen Blixen/Isak Dinesen. Ieva
muses with Blixen on why art cannot make us happy, and we uncover
creative connections between artistic processes, superficiality,
and cannibalism. Blixen also guides us toward a new,
gender-crossing take on theories of creative misreading.
Moreover, we encounter a family history entangled with the
history of Scandinavian Studies in the Soviet Union and
Lithuania, and we learn about the significance of Denmark for
post-communist Lithuanian scholars. Finally, Ieva encourages us
to listen to the text and emphasizes the importance of
intellectual exchange beyond national and political
borders.
Timestamps:
(00:00:00) Introducing Ieva Steponavičiūtė Aleksiejūnienė
(00:01:56) Life Patterns and Scandinavian Studies in
Lithuania
(00:13:40) Georg Brandes Skolen
(00:20:52) Introducing Karen Blixen
(00:31:38) Looking at Blixen through Play
(00:41:43) Workshop: Recurring Images and Characters in “Echoes”
(00:48:06) Metafiction, Art and Life
(00:51:34) Resurrection and Cannibalism
(00:58:54) Is Blixen difficult?
(01:03:48) The Playful Vampire-Artist
(01:11:29) Theories of Influence
(01:16:08) Navigating through “Tempests”
(01:23:27) Art Cannot Make People Happy
(01:34:23) The Tension between Symbol and Allegory
(01:39:54) Art and Transcendence
(01:42:57) The Shipwreck Versus the Floating Ship
(01:46:00) Other Research Interests: Scandinavia, Lithuania and
Beyond
(01:54:00) Advice to Student-Self
Bibliography, further information, and comments are available on
Experiment Geisteswissenschaften.
https://exgeist.hypotheses.org/category/nordlitt
Ideas and conception: Stefanie von Schnurbein
Cut: Cecilia Falkman
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20.02.2025
1 Stunde 40 Minuten
Mons Bissenbakker, Copenhagen University,
invites nordlitt to a
conversation about new Danish literature on trans
experiences. We discuss how trans writers navigate
existing narratives and seek alternative modes of expression
within a system that resists ambivalence – both its own and that
of others. We also speculate about the problem of
masculinity and find resonances between being on
testosterone and menopause. Revisiting a story by Victoria
Benedictsson/Ernst Ahlgren, Mons Bissenbakker demonstrates a
new trans reading, navigating between resonance and recognition,
and offering insights into 19th century sexology and
the figure of the invert. Last but not least, he
outs nordlitt's final question as a rather “trans”
enquiry.
Timestamps:
(00:00:00) Introducing Mons Bissenbakker
(00:03:00) Literature as a Way of Establishing Conversation
(00:06:16) Transgender Literature in a Danish Context
(00:14:37) The Relationship to Language, Narrative and Genre
(00:24:41) Gry Stokkendahl Dalgas and At performe
transkønnet vrede
(00:31:52) Luka Holmegaard and Havet i munden
(00:37:51) Understanding Pain and Suffering through the Medical
System versus SM
(00:49:35) Building Community and its Political Implications
(56:16:00) Victoria Benediction/Ernst Ahlgren through a
“Trans-Lens”
(01:04:32) ”Ur mörkret” and Reading for Resonance and Recognition
(01:10:17) The Figure of the Invert
(01:18:25) Misogynist Feminism
(00:27:42) Naming and Understanding the Author Ernst Ahlgren
(01:34:38) Future Research Projects
(01:37:04) Advice to Student-Self (“a very trans-question”!)
Bibliography, further information, and comments are available on
Experiment Geisteswissenschaften.
https://exgeist.hypotheses.org/category/nordlitt
Idea and conception: Stefanie von Schnurbein
Cut: Cecilia Falkman
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23.01.2025
1 Stunde 43 Minuten
With Karolina Drozdowska, a Polish guest from NTNU in Trondheim,
nordlitt widens its geographical range eastwards. Drawing on a
wide array of contemporary and historical texts, from new crime
novels to Romantic patriotic poems, we discuss continuities and
changes in representations of Polish people and Eastern Europeans
in Norwegian literature since the Enlightenment. We learn about
the persistence of the Iron Curtain, the demonization of Russia,
and we muse about the function of stereotypes and caricatures. We
also explore ways of combining and working with large online
corpora and close readings, while reflecting on the benefits of
working in international, interdisciplinary networks. Dreams of
new research projects take shape, accompanied by the reassuring
advice: Be not afraid of academia.
Timestamps:
(00:00:00) Introducing Karolina Drozdowska
(00:04:37) Scandinavian Studies in Poland
(00:13:45) Representations of Eastern Europeans in Norwegian
Literature
(00:19:18) Method: Building a Corpus
(00:24:45) Work Migration, Exoticization, and the Shadow of the
Iron Curtain
(00:32:50) Caricatures and Postcolonial Readings
(00:47: 37) Shifting Images and Imaginations
(00:51:20) Otherness and “Grey People”
(00:58:05) Lithuania and Lithuanians in Norwegian Crime Fiction
(01:07:45) Research Networks
(01:13:00) The Research Project ImagiNation
(01:18:12) Poland in 19th Century Scandinavian Literature
(01:27:26) Comparisons: Representations of Ukrainians and Jewish
Migration
(01:34:37) Connecting Research and Translation Work
(01:39:44) Advice to Student Self
Bibliography, further information, and comments are available on
Experiment Geisteswissenschaften.
https://exgeist.hypotheses.org/category/nordlitt
Idea and conception: Stefanie von Schnurbein
Cut: Cecilia Falkman
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09.12.2024
58 Minuten
Nach einer kreativen Pause ist nordlitt zurück mit
einer Spezialfolge. Am 16. Oktober waren Stefanie und Cecilia zu
Gast an der Europa-Universität Flensburg und haben beim „Tag der
Fakultät II“ ein Gespräch über das Podcasten geführt. Es ging um
Inspirationen, die Freude am Experimentieren, dumme Fragen und
darum, was ein gutes Gespräch eigentlich ausmacht. Und wir warfen
einen Blick hinter die Kulissen und sprachen darüber, wie eine
Podcastfolge entsteht – von der Idee bis zur Aufnahme. Im
Austausch mit dem Flensburger Publikum erkundeten wir auch die
Verbindungen zwischen Lehre, Forschung und Vermittlung.
Timestamps:
(00:00:00) Einführung ins Gespräch
(00:04:20) ”Gespräch als Methode: Der
Podcast nordlitt in Forschung, Lehre und Vermittlung”
(00:06:18) Über die Entstehung von nordlitt
(00:14:58) Warum ein Audiopodcast?
(00:19:10) Der Podcast in der Lehre
(00:27:22) Über Risiken und das Experimentieren
(00:30:40) Merkmale eines guten Gesprächs
(00:32:56) Wissenschaftliches Podcasten
(00:41:30) Scheitern und Ausprobieren
(00:44:45) Fragen aus dem Publikum
Alle Literaturanagaben, weitere Kommentare auf dem Experiment
Geisteswissenscahften-Blog.
https://exgeist.hypotheses.org/category/nordlitt
Idee und Konzeption: Stefanie von Schnurbein
Schnitt: Cecilia Falkman
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25.04.2024
1 Stunde 32 Minuten
Kristina Malmio, University of Helsinki, shares her research on
local and global tendencies in Finland-Swedish literature with
the help of two complex novels by Monika Fagerholm (The American
Girl) and Hannele Mikaela Taivassalo (In Transit). We muse about
the status of a privileged minority literature and discuss the
shifting locations of centers and peripheries. We explore
in-between-spaces and other metaphors of literary spaces and look
at movements of novels and their characters between countries,
continents and cultures. Finally, we are encouraged: Trust
yourself! Literature takes you everywhere.
Timestamps:
(00:00:31) Kristina Malmio’s Way to Literature Studies and
Scandinavian Studies
(00:05:00) The Society of Swedish Literature in Finland
(00:09:21) Historical and Contemporary Finland-Swedish Literature
(00:18:10) Minor Literature and World Literature
(00:23:02) Introducing Monika Fagerholm and The American
Girl
(00:30:45) Postmodern Literature and Kaleidoscopic Collaging
(00:37:32) Fagerholm’s Constructing of Space
(00:34:48) Reconstructing the Belief in
Narration
(00:41:11) The Reception in the US
(00:48:00) The Polycentric and Networked Novel
(01:01:12) Fagerholm on the Scandinavian Literature Scene
(01:04:43) Introducing Hannele Mikaela Taivassalo and In
Transit
(01:14:13) The Chronotope of the Road and Bodily Experiences
(01:22:19) Anchoring in Space
(01:24:06) The Image of the North Pole Explorer
(01:29:33) Space in Contemporary Poetry
(01:30:40) Advice to Student Self
(01:31:43) An Announcement
Bibliography, further information, and comments are available on
Experiment Geisteswissenschaften.
https://exgeist.hypotheses.org/
Idea and conception: Stefanie von Schnurbein
Cut: Cecilia Falkman
Do you have questions or comments for us at nordlitt? Please
contact us at: niexgeis@hu-berlin.de
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nordlitt lässt Sie Bekanntschaft stiften mit Epochen, Autor:innen
und Texten der nordeuropäischen Literaturen und diskutiert
theoretische Ansätze in der skandinavistischen
Literaturwissenschaft. nordlitt ist Unterrichtsmaterial vom ersten
Semester an oder einfach Bildungs-Stoff. Stefanie v. Schnurbein,
Professorin am Nordeuropa-Institut der Humboldt-Universität zu
Berlin führt in nordlitt Gespräche mit Vertreter:innen der
Skandinavistik. Unterstützt wird sie von ihrer studentischen
Hilfskraft Cecilia Falkman.
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