This spring, CENES Nordic faculty visited the University of Alberta to present their research.
Dr. Karin Filipsson and Dr. Tim Frandy presented at the Association for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies in Canada (AASSC) 44th Annual Conference on May 27—29, 2026 at the University of Alberta, Edmonton.
The AASSC is a Canadian interdisciplinary association for research on Scandinavian and Nordic culture spanning all aspects of social studies and the humanities: demography, sociology, art, literature, language, theatre and film, music, history, geography, folklore, religion, geography, Norse sagas, archaeology and more.
Dr. Filipsson presented her paper “Writing into the Canon: Jonas Hassen Khemiri and The Swedish Novel” and Dr. Frandy presented on “The Trees that Speak When You Are Wise Enough to Be Still: Trans-Indigenous Ecorelationality in North American Sámi Art”.
