CSS International Conference: Nordic Romanticism and Viking Culture
We at the Centre for Scandinavian Studies, Lund University, are delighted to announce the next CSS International Conference, Nordic Romanticism and Viking Culture, which will be held in Lund 1–4 October 2025.
The conference is jointly organized by CSS, Kulturen in Lund, and Tegnérsamfundet, and connects to CSS’s recurring series of international conferences and seminars focussing on Nordic culture in the world. The theme, Nordic Romanticism and Viking Culture, welcomes participants from the widest range of interdisciplinary fields and diverse historical perspectives of international Scandinavian Studies.
One of the important aims of the conference is to highlight the bicentenary of Esaias Tegnér's Frithiof's saga (1825), by far the most influential literary export from Scandinavian Romanticism to the world – and also the first international success of Swedish literature.
The conference will take place in the beautiful halls of Kulturen in Lund. We are very pleased to announce that Alessia Bauer (École Pratique des Hautes Étudesand Sorbonne, Paris) and Rikard Schönström (Lund University) have already kindly accepted to be among our keynote speakers. Other lectures, panels, and events will be continuously presented as the planning of the conference advances.
A Call for Papers and an official website will be launched in early Fall 2024.
So, save the days in your calendars. We look forward to welcoming you to Lund in October next year.
Sincerely,
Conference Committee CSS, Kulturen i Lund, and Tegnérsamfundet