Summer holidays at NORLA
NORLA’s offices are closed in July for our summer holidays.
We would like to thank you all for a pleasant collaboration so far this year.
We will be back in the office on Monday, 4 August.
November 19 2015
Serbia
Jørgen Lorentzen in Belgrade
Jørgen Lorentzen, professor of Gender Studies, will present his book “The History of Fatherhood in Norway” for a Serbian audience, at an event hosted by Scandinavian Corner.
Jørgen Lorentzen claims to be the only scholar who is focusing on men’s studies in Norway, possibly in all of Europe.
Read more about Lorentzen’s book “The History of Fatherhood in Norway, 1850-2012” here.
The book is published in English by Palgrave Macmillan with translation subsidy from NORLA.
Thursday 19 November, 18.00
Venue:
Skandinavski kutak – Scandinavian Corner
6a, Kapetan Misina
11000 Belgrade
Serbia
The event will be held in English.
Read more (in both Serbian and English) here.
Photo: Jørgen Lorentzen recently visited Hungary for the Scandinavian Women’s Festival in Budapest, where he participated at a very successful roundtable discussion themed “New role of men”, together with Miklós Hadas, professor at Corvinus University.
Upcoming activities
July 1-August 3
August 1
Application deadline: Author and lecturer visits to institutions of higher learning abroad
NORLA administrates the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ scheme for travel grants for authors and lecturers who will visit institutions of higher learning abroad where instruction is given in the Norwegian language.
September 1
Application deadline: Sample translation of Norwegian literature
Publishers, agents and translators abroad and in Norway can apply to NORLA for subsidies for sample translations.
Read more here.