The National Forum for English Studies is a biennial conference where teachers and researchers in English studies in Sweden meet. The first meeting took place in Gothenburg in 1997. Since then, the National Forum has been hosted by the following universities:
- 1997 — Gothenburg University
- 1999 — Karlstad University
- 2001 — Uppsala University
- 2005 — Blekinge University
- 2007 — Malmö University
- 2009 — Dalarna University
- 2011 — Umeå University
- 2013 — Linnaeus University
- 2015 — Luleå University of Technology (program)
- 2017 — Jönköping University (program)
- 2019 — Malmö University (program)
- 2021 — Södertorn University (program)
- 2023 — Mälardalen University (program)
- 2025 — Lund University (program)
The SWESSE Board is accepting statements of interest in hosting the 2027 National Forum for English Studies. Please contact Kristy Beers Fägersten (kristy.beers.fagersten@sh.se)
SWESSE Distinguished Keynote Award
The National Forum for English Studies is organized by Swedish university English departments on a rotating basis. While orienting to the study of English in Sweden, the Forum is open to international participants. Membership in SWESSE is not required to attend the Forum, and the Forum is organized independently of SWESSE. However, in order to support the Forum and assume more visibility, the SWESSE Board established the SWESSE Distinguished Keynote Award, granted for the first time in 2023. Selection of Forum keynote speakers is made by the organizing committee, and the SWESSE Board select one speaker for the award based on contributions to the field and the relevance of the keynote address to the theme of the Forum.
2023 — Fiona Farr, Professor of Applied Linguistics and TESOL
School Of Modern Languages & Applied Linguistics, University of Limerick
Researching Professional Practices in English Language Teacher Education through Corpus-Based Discourse Analyses
2025 — Hans Malmström, Professor of Language and Communication
Department of Communication and Learning in Science, Chalmers University of Technology
“Books galore!” Balancing Academic Reading with Linguistic Demands in Swedish Higher Education