Acknowledgements

This book, above all else, is the result of two important grants: a Connection grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and a Jean Monnet grant through the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union. These two grants allowed us to run a graduate-level field school, create a symposium in conjunction with the SALT Music Festival, and bring together interdisciplinary research insights in the form of this book. In addition to these granting agencies, we would like to thank the University of Victoria (in particular, the Centre for Global Studies, the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies, and the European Studies program) for contributing to the symposium. Several arts funding sources also contributed to the corresponding musical compositions and performances: the British Columbia Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts, Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne, the Conseil des arts et des lettres Québec, and in partnership with Tsilumos and the 2017 SALT Festival, we’d like to also thank Open Space and Tom Lee Music.

Besides the four key members of the research team (Dániel Péter Biró, Helga Hallgrímsdóttir, Charlotte Schallié, and Helga Thorson), there are several key individuals who worked extremely hard in the process of this ambitious endeavor: Wendy Swan and Tamara Gonçalves helped with all the details, both big and small, related to the field school and the corresponding symposium, and our photographer and videographer, Chorong Kim, made a deep and lasting contribution to this project. A special thanks also to Inba Kehoe and staff in the Copyright and Scholarly Communications Office at the University of Victoria Libraries, and again to Tamara Gonçalves, who helped bring this book to fruition. Finally, we would like to thank all of our European and Canadian partners who contributed their time and energy to this project — most of whom also contributed to this volume — and the students from four different countries who made the whole endeavor possible.