Culture
Here you will find all the content related to the category 'culture'.
2019.02.25 | The Quick Read, Jenny Rood, Juliette Victor, Culture, Reputation
Nobel Prizes
The idea and funds for the Nobel prizes originated in the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel who died in 1901. Recipients can be both individuals and organisation. Categories are Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature and Peace and recipients are selected by various committees based at institutions in Sweden and, in the…
2019.02.22 | Film, Johannes Riquet , Culture, Nordic Noír, Research
Cold Bodies: The geopolitics of ice in recent arctic cinema
This presentation is from a transdisciplinary research workshop entitled Nordic Noir, Geopolitics and the North held at Aarhus University in October 2018.
2019.02.21 | Article, B.J. Epstein, Culture
Translation in the Nordic countries
From a global point of view, few people speak the Nordic languages. Translation is therefore an everyday necessity for many Nordic people who do business and exchange ideas with those outside (and to some extent inside) the region. This has led to a healthy translation industry. Often up to 60% of books published by Nordic publishers are…
2019.02.21 | The Quick Read, Michael P. Barnes, Culture, Nation building
Official bodies overseeing the Nordic languages
There has been much more official involvement with the Nordic languages than with English. That is true even of the well-established Danish, Icelandic and Swedish standards. Each language exists under the watchful eye of a language ‘committee’, ‘board’ or ‘council’, for the most part state-sponsored, semi-autonomous bodies. A wide spectrum of…
2019.02.21 | Article, Michael P. Barnes, Culture
Linguistic variety in the Nordics
Quick overview: In Denmark the principal language is Danish, with about 5,750,000 speakers (in 2018), but varieties of German are spoken in northern Slesvig by some 20,000 people, and Denmark is also host to 10,000 or more Faroe Islanders, whose native language is Faroese. Sweden has approximately 10,000,000 speakers of Swedish; in addition there…
2019.02.21 | Article, Norbert Götz, Culture, Democracy
Civil society in the Nordics
The Nordic experience is characterised by an upward spiral of development resulting from a close interconnection between a strong civil society and a strong state. The term ‘civil society’ was initially used in the Nordic countries as an alien concept to denote antagonism to the dominance of the welfare state. From the late 1990s, civil society…
2019.02.18 | Biography, Anne Heith, Culture
Andersson & Bratt
Playwrights Kent Andersson and Bengt Bratt were instrumental in developing group theatre, an anti-establishment genre promoting radical social criticism.
2019.02.18 | The Quick Read, Anne Heith, Culture
Profil magazine
Profil was a Norwegian literary magazine that promulgated ‘working class literature’.
2019.02.18 | Article, Anne Heith, Culture, Gender
1970s feminist culture in the Nordics
The feminist movement that flourished in the Nordic countries during the 1970s had strong roots in anti-capitalist, socialist ideology. It was powered by a host of social events, community building, artistic creation and political activism.
2019.02.18 | The Quick Read, Marc Pierce, Culture
Faroese
A descendant of Old Norse, Faroese has had to contend with Danish but remains the principal language spoken and written in the Faroe Islands.