Report of the President of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study

Yale professor of history Anders Winroth delivered the conference's opening plenary address with a paper entitled "The Curious Career of the Viking Berserk," and the program included a special panel in honor of longtime SASS member and Yale professor emeritus of German and Scandinavian Studies, George C. Schoolfield. In alignment with other organizations of our kind in the American Council of Learned Societies, SASS is moving toward a framework in which a paid executive director will help manage the year-to-year financial and organizational tasks of our Society, while vice presidents and presidents, in cooperation with the Executive Council, help provide leadership.