Anglo-Swedish Literary Foundation Awards Grant to St Mary’s

Lecturers in the School of Arts and Humanities at St Mary’s University, Twickenham have been awarded a grant from the Anglo-Swedish Literary Foundation (ASLF). English Literature Senior Lecturer Dr Peter Howell and Professor in English Dr Cian Duffy, have been awarded a £500 grant to help towards the cost of their forthcoming conference, Norden/The North: Anglo-Swedish Exchanges 1700-1850, which is taking place at St Mary’s on 28th to 30th November 2014. The grant will allow Göran Rydén, Professor of Economic History at Uppsala University, to deliver his talk at St Mary’s which will discuss the ‘Provincial Cosmopolitanism’ of Sweden in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. About the grant Dr Howell and Prof Duffy said, “We’re most grateful to those at the ASLF for giving us the opportunity to bring a major scholar of European history to St Mary’s, in what should be an important conference on Scandinavia’s influence on British culture and vice versa. “We are also very pleased that historians, geographers, linguists and literary critics are coming to Strawberry Hill from all over Europe and North America, to share their research on this fascinating topic.” The Anglo-Swedish Literary Foundation was set up in 1925 to encourage cultural exchange between Britain and Sweden, and endowed with George Bernard Shaw’s prize money for winning the Nobel Prize for Literature. Its patron is the King of Sweden, Carl XVI Gustaf, and the fund is administered by the Embassy of Sweden in London.