Scandinavian Studies
Senior Majors Colloquium, Saturday, May 11th, 5:00 p.m.
Graduating senior majors in the Department of Scandinavian Studies will present a piece of their research in the field this Saturday, May 11th, at 5:00 p.m. in the Interpretive Center. Their work exemplifies the interdisciplinarity of the field. All are welcome to come and listen to their presentations, and a short celebration of both of [...]
Out of Scandinavia Artist in Residence: Johanna Sinisalo
The Department of Scandinavian Studies is happy to welcome the Finnish author Johanna Sinisalo May 6-10 as this year’s Out of Scandinavia Artist in Residence. Sinisalo is best known for her Finlandia-Prize-winning novel, Troll: A Love Story (Ennen päivänlaskua ei voi, 2000). Throughout her week on campus Sinisalo will visit classes and engage with Gustavus [...]
Fall 2013 SWE and SCA Courses
Department of Scandinavian Studies Fall 2013 Courses SWE-101-001: Swedish I Professor Ursula Lindqvist CON 125 MTWF 11.30AM-12.20PM SWE-101-002: Swedish I Professor Kjerstin Moody VH 204 MTWF 1.30PM-2.20PM This course introduces students to the Swedish language and important aspects of modern Swedish society. Students learn to speak, read, and write Swedish through pronunciation practice, [...]
Airmail: The Letters of Robert Bly and Tomas Tranströmer Book Release
On Tuesday, April 2, the English-language translation of the book Airmail: The Letters of Robert Bly and Tomas Tranströmer will be published. Join the Department of Scandinavian Studies at 7:00 p.m. for readings from Airmail with Minnesota poet Robert Bly and professor emeritus Roland Thorstensson, who will read Tomas Tranströmer’s words in Swedish. The event [...]
Professor Emeritus Roland Thorstensson to Lecture on the Sami in Minneapolis
Professor emeritus Roland Thorstensson will present the talk “In the Shadow of the Midnight Sun: Introducing the Sami of the Nordic North” on Wednesday, March 27th, at 6:30 p.m. at the American Swedish Institute in Minneapolis as part of the ASI Forum series. Thorstensson will present a multimedia program on the Sami, an indigenous people, [...]
“America — Land of Dreams”
Join the Department of Scandinavian Studies on Monday, March 11, at 7:30 p.m. in Confer 128 for the lecture “America—Land of Dreams: A Swedish-American journalist’s personal and political perspective on the United States from California in the 1960s to today’s Washington, D.C.” Swedish-American journalist and author Klas Bergman’s book Amerika—drömmarnas land (America—Land of Dreams) was [...]
40th Annual Scandinavian Studies Retreat
Gusties Dawn Comstock, Sofie Ågren, Lizzy Brauer and Alec Iverson, as well as, Professor Glenn Kranking spent the first weekend of spring semester at the Annual Scandinavian Studies Retreat at Beaver Creek Reserve in Fall Creek, Wisconsin. Over 60 students, professors, and interested individuals attended the retreat in its 40th year. Colleges and universities represented [...]
2013 Semester in Sweden Program Blog
Check out the blog Gustavus students on the 2013 Semester in Sweden program are keeping this spring! http://cice.blog.gustavus.edu/category/semester-in-sweden/
Nordic Lights Film Festival Begins this Week!
The 2013 Nordic Lights Film Festival-Twin Cities will take place Feb. 8-14, 2013, at Screen 3 at the St. Anthony Main Theater in Minneapolis, in collaboration with partner The Film Society of Minneapolis St. Paul. For more information and this year’s schedule of films, see: http://nordiclightsfilmfestival.org/
Strindberg Year 2012 at Gustavus
On Thursday, November 15, Swedish author and documentary producer Lena Einhorn will present the lecture “August Strindberg and His Turbulent Life” at 7:30 p.m. in Confer 127. This lecture is one of the ways the Gustavus community is able to take part in the Strindberg Year 2012 events happening around campus. Swedish author, playwright, and [...]