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Leif Hammer
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Historian and museum jack of all trades
Read my review of Johan Östling's recent book on university history. It's a shame his book's only available in Swedish, but I've tried to give a summary on this excellent intro to university history
https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceaf210
#university #universityhistory #history #historians #histodons
I wrote about creating my lesson on one of the northenmost #Stolpersteine in the world, talking about Norwegian #Jewish history and the #Holocaust on my Substack. See: https://open.substack.com/pub/leifhammer/p/remembering-phillip-philipson-who
Read my review of Johan Östling's recent book on university history. It's a shame his book's only available in Swedish, but I've tried to give a summary on this excellent intro to university history
https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceaf210
#university #universityhistory #history #historians #histodons
Haven't used Mastodon in a while, but I might start posting here more
Check out the Oxford Scandinavian Studies Network programme for Winter 2024! Everything from 19th-century history writing in Norway, Norse identity in 16th-century Shetland, Henrik Ibsen, Amalie Skram, the Nobel Prize, Human Rights and Solidarity, Johannes Ewald, and 18th-century Danish university history
Read more at https://torch.ox.ac.uk/scandinavian-studies-network
Yesterday, I wrote a blog post on the darker side of Luciadagen (celebrated 13th December) in the Nordic countries. Enjoy!
[Call for Papers: Postgraduate Students]
The interdisciplinary Oxford Scandinavian Studies Network, a TORCH (The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities) at the University of Oxford is now accepting abstracts from postgraduate students for our hybrid seminars in January, February, and March 2024, as well as an in-person conference on the 17th of May!
You can find the full details in the CfP here: https://torch.ox.ac.uk/event/call-for-papers-the-oxford-scandinavian-studies-network
Deadline: December 20
Feel free to get in touch with any questions, and do join our mailing list: [email protected]
#historians #histodons #humanities #scandinavia #scandinavianstudies #socialsciences #academia
I had a great time giving my paper, on the emotional experiences of Copenhagen University in the late eighteenth century, yesterday at the History of Education Society's annual conference for 2023 #histodons #histed
Sauna time at Ribersborg Cold Bath House. Need to look up research on Nordic sauna culture. Can definitely tell the Swedish culture around it is different than the one I grew up with in Northern Norway