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NORDEUROPAforum first appeared in 1998 as a scholarly journal, at that time bearing the tagline »Journal of Politics, Economics and Culture«. In 2013, the subheading was changed to »Journal for the Study of Culture«. As a double-blind peer-reviewed open access journal, NORDEUROPAforum observes cultural studies of Northern Europe in Germany. We publish articles, reviews, annotations, and reports in German and English that cover the »greater« North: our publications address Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Iceland, as well as Greenland and the Faroe Islands, the Baltic States, North-western Russia, the southern Baltic Sea region and trans-regional connections.

Publishing or submitting articles is free of charge. You are always welcome to suggest topics for articles, reviews or conference reports!

Range of topics

By »the Study of Culture«, we mean the expansion of any humanities or social sciences research through (cultural-)historical, political and social contextualisation. Our disciplines range from literary studies and linguistics to sociology, anthropology, medieval studies, historical and political science, media, film, and art studies – and this list is in no way exhaustive. What matters is not so much the subject as the scientific quality of the article and the approach towards the region.

In addition to publishing articles, NORDEUROPAforum regularly publishes reviews and annotations of recently released scholarly publications as well as conference reports that have a Northern European connection. We promote the German/European-Scandinavian dialog and see ourselves as a forum for the interchange of ideas in the Baltic Sea and North Atlantic regions. Through our social media channels (Facebook and Instagram), we provide timely information about the contents of our journal, as well as on scholarly, cultural, and political developments.

Our editorial board consists of twelve editors and 23 staffers both in- and outside of Germany. NORDEUROPAforum is published on the edoc-Server at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. The editorial office resides at the Department of Northern European Studies of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

Open Access und Quality Control

Since 2006, NORDEUROPAforum has been published exclusively as an Open Access journal on the internet. Upon positive evaluation, our articles are peer-reviewed by two external experts (double-blind) before they get edited on close consultation with the author. 

With this type of publication, we ensure that both authors and readers have free and unrestricted access to scholarly research. 

Our submissions may be used without barriers and without limits. Authors’ copyrights are protected.

The publication of articles is continuous. All articles and reviews are available individually or as a collected volume published at the end of the year. They are permanently stored on the edoc-server of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. 

Creative Commons

Since 2019 all our articles are distributed with a Creative Commons licence: »This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)«. 

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History

NORDEUROPAforum – 1991 to now

Professional Journal 1991–1997

NORDEUROPAforum was launched in 1991 as a professional journal for politics, economics, and culture in Northern European countries. Until 1997, the journal was published quarterly by NOMOS publishing and was widely circulated. The editorial office was originally located at the Institute for Scandinavian Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. With the establishment of the Berlin Department of Northern European Studies in 1994, the editorship moved to Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, where it still resides today.

Our photo shows one of the first editorial meetings in the facilities of Freie Universität. It took place against the backdrop of Scandinavian media′s acknowledgment of the journal′s creation and was an illustration in an article of the Norwegian newspaper Adresseavisen from Trondheim. Already back then, Bernd Henningsen (4th from the right), founding director of the Berlin Department of Northern European Studies, served as the editor of NORDEUROPAforum and continues to do so to this very day. The twelve-member editorial board also includes Stephan Michael Schröder (3rd from the right). Still working as a research assistent in Berlin in 1991, he is now a Professor of Scandinavian Studies at Universität zu Köln.

In the following, we will document the central topics of the Old Series, which ran from 1991 to 1997 as a large-format journal. The rest of the journals can be made available upon request by the editorial board.

Year 1991: No. 1: Europe, No. 2: Transportation, No. 3: Environment, No. 4: New Hansa
Year 1992: No. 1: Education, No. 2: Tourism, No. 3: Media, No. 4: Women
Year 1993: No. 1: Regions, No. 2: Traditions, No. 3: Economy, No. 4: Health
Year 1994: No. 1: Security, No. 2: Languages, No. 3: Europe, No. 4: Foreigners
Year 1995: No. 1: High-Tech, No. 2: Water; No. 3: Engagement, No. 4: Design
Year 1996: No. 1: Identity, No. 2: Labour, No. 3: Baltic, No. 4: Pairings
Year 1997: No. 1: Nordism, No. 2: Sport.

Scholarly Journal from 1998 to today

The New Series of NORDEUROPAforum has been running since 1998 – until 2013 under the tagline »Journal of Politics, Economics, and Culture« – as a purely scholarly publication. Until 2005, two editions were printed each year by Berliner Wissenschaftsverlag. At the time, they contained three to five articles and a steadily growing number of reviews and annotations of scholary literature. By now, the editions of the New Series that existed only in print – years 1998 to 2005 – have been digitalised and are available for free in our archive.

With the publication of the 2006 volume, NORDEUROPAforum transitioned completely to open access publication. Since then, our articles and reviews have been published exclusively online on the edoc document and publication server at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, where they are available free of charge.

After its first publication as an interdisciplinary academic journal in 1998 and the transition from print to digital publication, NORDEUROPAforum was again restructured in 2013. In order to reach a broader public and stay abreast of developments in academia and publishing, the journal changed its publication-frequency, and the focus of the journal’s content and its roster of editors and writers was expanded. Instead of publishing two journals per year, we publish our articles continuously in order to take full advantage of the possibilities provided by an open access journal. In terms of content, the journal now covers all branches of Scandinavian studies and Northern European cultural studies research. NORDEUROPAforum’s current tagline is »Journal for the Study of Culture«.

25th Anniversary

In 2023, the scientific journal NORDEUROPAforum celebrated its 25th anniversary. To mark the occasion, we not only announced a young talent award but also hosted a panel discussion on the topic of »Turning point in the Baltic Sea region: Where are we heading?« together with the Schleswig-Holstein State Representation. 

NORDEUROPAforum Information materials 

The NORDEUROPAforum flyer provides you with all the information on the journal’s range of subjects, our open access policy, and quality control.

Flyer (EN)