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Vizita Excelenței Sale Ambasadorul Estoniei la București, Doamna Ingrid Kressel Vinciguerra, la sediul Asociației Române pentru Studii Baltice și Nordice
Excelența Sa Ambasadorul Estoniei la București, Doamna Ingrid Kressel Vinciguerra, însoțită de adjunctul său, Primul Secretar al Ambasadei, Domnul Mihkel Metsa, va efectua miercuri, 13 ianuarie 2021, o vizită la sediul Asociației Române pentru...
Multiculturalism, multilingualism and cultural diplomacy in Scandinavia and the Baltic Sea Region. The 12th international conference on Baltic and Nordic studies
Târgu Mureș, May 27-28, 2021 Acronym: RethinkMulti-Kulti2021 Small Hall of the Palace of Culture of Târgu Mureș Conference website https://balticnordic.hypotheses.org/conference2021 Abstract registration deadline February 15, 2021 Submission deadline April 30, 2021 Aims of the...
Museum and Historical Culture: How is Jewish History Included in the Museum Narrative of Lithuania?
The aim of this article is to reveal the dynamics of the museum narrative of Jewish history in the contexts of Lithuanian historical culture in the period 1990–2020. Seeing the tensions between ethnocentric and...
Paths to Learning Second Languages in Finland
This article is concerned with comparative approaches to second language instruction and second language choices in Finland and describes the challenge of preserving Finland’s language and culture while facing the globalization process. The article...
SKAM – The Language Terminator (Språkterminatoren)? Norwegian, English and Global Success
Language has both a social and a cultural significance for a community of speakers. It inevitably undergoes constant changes in order to adapt to the requirements of a particular discursive practice (spoken or written...
Combining soft power with the geopolitical approach – how difficult is for the EU to change its attitude?
After gradually evolving from an economic project to a political one, European Union leaders declare nowadays that it is time to go forward and to build a geopolitical actor on the international stage. This...
The sense of space and Arctic nature in Cora Sandel’s Kranes konditori: interiør med figurer (Krane’s Café: An Interior with Figures)
The paper combines the close reading technique of the novel Kranes konditori: Interiør med figurer (Krane’s Café: An Interior with Figures, 1946), written by the classic Norwegian writer Cora Sandel (1880-1974) with a spatial...
Modernization and Language Loss in the Meänkieli Community
The Finns living in the Torne/ Tornio Valley were cut off from the Finns in Finland in 1809, when Sweden lost the territory of Finland in favor of Russia. Since then, the Tornedalian Finns...
Norwegian emigration and the emergence of modernity in Norway: America letters and the cases of Knut Hamsun and Sigbjørn Obstfelder
Norway was going through important changes in the 19th century. It was a time of disruption, when the old rural society was transformed by the growing industrialisation, by the development of transportation and the...
Fly in amber? Nordic-Balkan citizen diplomacy and cultural connections then and now
Active citizen diplomacy and cultural connections between the Nordic countries and the Balkans date their beginnings to the eighteenth century. The contacts between ordinary people in Finland and Bulgaria, Sweden and Serbia are a...
The Romanian Journal for Baltic and Nordic Studies, Vol. 13, issues 1 and 2 (2021)
SUMMARY The Romanian Journal for Baltic and Nordic Studies calls for submission of articles in all fields which are intertwined with the aims of The Romanian Association for Baltic and Nordic Studies such as: history of...
The Romanian Journal for Baltic and Nordic Studies, vol. 12, issue 1 (2020)
Editorial Foreword Silviu MiloiuPresident of the Romanian Association for Baltic and Nordic Studies, E-mail: silviu.miloiu@valahia.ro On 28-29 May 2020 in full Coronavirus pandemic upsurge and lockdown conditions the Eleventh Conference on Baltic and Nordic...
Epp Annus, Soviet Postcolonial Studies: A View from the Western Borderlands
Silviu MiloiuThe Romanian Association for Baltic and Nordic Studies & Valahia University of Târgoviște, E-mail: silviu.miloiu(at)valahia.ro The core approach of the work deals with postcolonial studies and the geographical reference area of “Western Borderlands”,...
Andreas Sønning – Keys to Concert Productions and Creative Entrepreneurship
Crina Leon“Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iaşi, E-mail: crina_laurentiu(at)yahoo.no Andreas Sønning is a Norwegian flute soloist, an Associate Professor at the Norwegian Academy of Music and at the same time the owner and artistic...