Nordic Summer University

The Summer Session 2015

The Summer Session 2015 will be from the 18th of July until the 25th of July in Druskininkai, Lithuania. The venue of the Summer Session is Europa Royale Druskininkai hotel. For more info about the venue, see: http://europaroyaledruskininkai.lt.

During your stay in Lithuania you will have possibility to experience the spirit of the country, to get to know its historical past, to have a closer look to its heritage and traditions, to visit parks and cultural spaces. Special cultural program and variety of excursions will be suggested for the participants for their consideration.

This year we invite you to call for papers from 8 study circles. Read more about them: http://www.nsuweb.net/first/html/#study.
Please register for the Summer Session and study circle (whether you are presenting a paper or not) by June 10th. We have launched a website for registration and payment: http://w2014.nsuweb.org/.

To participate in the summer session, first select a study circle, and contact the respective coordinator of the study circle to gain acceptance. Then you register and pay. Registration is open from April 1st to June 10th. If you decide you want to cancel before the 10th of June, it will cost you 250 SEK. The remaining amount will then be refunded. If you however cancel after the 10th of June, you will not receive any refunds at all.

As previous summer sessions, there will be a separate circle for children between 3 and 15 years. In the children circle, we offer a variety of activities for children and youth, run in parallel to the other study circles.

Important dates for the registration

Please, follow the major deadlines
1st of April - Call for study circle applications opens.
1st of May - Call for study circle applications closes.
15th of May - Coordinators announce accepted papers.
10th of June – Last day to register and pay for the Summer Session.
17th of June - Last day for the payment

About Druskininkai

In the 18th century Druskininkai was an ordinary Lithuanian village, until Stanisław August Poniatowski, the Grand Duke of Lithuania and the King of Poland, issued the decree and declared Druskininkai to be the health resort on 20 June 1794. In 1837, when Ignacy Fonberg, professor of Vilnius University, analyzed the chemical composition of mineral water and published the results, the emperor Nicholas I of Russia approved the project of Druskininkai resort. The name comes from the Lithuanian word druska which means salt. There are 12 mineral springs and their water is used for balnaeological procedures and drinking. Spa mud baths, applications and tampons are prepared from the peat extracted at Didžiasalis bog in the neighbouring district. The resort climate is another positive health factor, it is characterized by a high level of air ionization (-0.63), a gentle and warm microclimate (average low temperature in winter about -6°C, average high temperature…

About NSU

The Nordic Summer University (NSU) is a long-established institution within the Nordic intellectual arena. During more than 50 years of existence it has provided a lively forum for academic and intellectual debate, and involved many leading academics, politicians, and intellectuals from all the Nordic Countries. The NSU has always been at the forefront of intellectual thinking, juxtaposing views from the international and Nordic academic arenas, and introducing new thinking and influences into the Nordic Countries. The NSU is not a dusty relic of a bygone age, but a dynamic space where intellectuals from different age groups meet to share their thoughts and test out their arguments. It constitutes a forum for intellectual thought where narrow academic disciplines are replaced by thematic topics, creating an interdisciplinary space where academics and intellectuals with various backgrounds can interact. These thematic study circles form the backbone of our organisation, creating interdisciplinary networks that function within the Nordic Countries for three-year periods. Study circles largely focus on issues related to the social and human sciences, and most participants are PhD students or post-doctoral scholars in these fields. Separate winter seminars are held for each study circle, and a more extensive summer conference is organised for all the study circles. Our goals have always been communication and the exchange of thoughts and ideas. These goals can only be achieved if we entail a certain flexibility concerning the use of language. Therefore both Scandinavian languages and English are interchangeably used.