The Nordic Network for Renaissance Studies NNRS is the leading organisation connecting scholars in the Nordic countries. The conferences of NNRS have developed into most important networking occasions for scholars allover Europe.

The Nordic Network for Renaissance Studies connects academics with an interest in Renaissance and Early Modern studies. The network is open to all scholars, regardless of their area of interest, language and position.

The network was founded in January 2011 at a meeting at the Danish Academy in Rome, arranged by Forum for Renaissance Studies on the initiative of Marianne Pade and Unn Irene Aasdalen.

 

Conferences

The Inaugural Conference of the Nordic Network for Renaissance Studies was arranged in Copenhagen in October 2012. Already this first NNRS-conference was very successful with c. 120 registered participants from the Nordic countries and beyond. The conference was followed by equally fruitful meetings in Stockholm 2014 and Oslo 2016. The next conference will take place in Helsinki in 2018.

 

Summer school

Since July 2012, the NNRS participated in arranging a Renaissance Summer School in Rome. The course, ’Text, Memory, Monument’, is arranged at the Danish Academy in Rome in cooperation with the other Nordic institutes in Rome.
The summer school is held every year in July, giving students from different countries and fields of study the opportunity to focus on Renaissance topics and prepare for further research. The language of the course is English, and the summer school is open to students from every level (BA, MA and Ph.D.) as well as every country.
Read more about the summer school here (website of the Danish Academy at Rome).

Fourth Conference of the Nordic Network for Renaissance Studies Fourth Conference of the Nordic Network for Renaissance Studies Export (iCal) 2018 Helsinki. Third Conference of the Nordic Network for Renaissance Studies Third Conference of the Nordic Network for Renaissance Studies Export (iCal) 28.09.2016 - 30.09.2016 Oslo, The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Renaissance Prototypes: Tensions of Past and Present in Early Modern Europe (link to the conference website here) Call for papers: here. The deadline for submission of abstracts was 17 March 2016. The conference is initiated by the Norwegian Forum for Renaissance Studies and organized within the framework of the Nordic Network for Renaissance Studies. Abstracts here. Programme here. On behalf of the organizational committee: Unn Falkeid & Gro Bjørnerud Mo unn.falkeid@littvet.su.se & g.b.mo@ilos.uio.no Second Conference of the Nordic Network for Renaissance Studies Second Conference of the Nordic Network for Renaissance Studies Export (iCal) 05.11.2014 - 07.11.2014 Stockholm Stockholm University, in cooperation with the Nordic Network for Renaissance Studies and the Swedish Barockakademien, is pleased to announce a multidisciplinary conference in Stockholm, Sweden: "Movement and Arrest in Early Modern Culture". Our intention is to enable and promote the exchange of ideas, experiences and knowledge across disciplinary and national borders. Programme here. Inaugural Conference of the Nordic Network for Renaissance Studies Inaugural Conference of the Nordic Network for Renaissance Studies Export (iCal) 10.10.2012 - 12.10.2012 Copenhagen The conference was arranged by The Nordic Network for Renaissance Studies (NNRS) and The Forum for Renaissance Studies in collaboration with The Centre for Neoplatonic Virtue Ethics (CNVE) at the University of Copenhagen. More than 100 scholars from the Nordic countries and from abroad attended the conference. 70 papers were given on a broad range of topics. Programme here (pdf) Abstracts here (pdf). Pictures here.