Year: 2013

  • “Kierkegaard: The Mind of the Moralist” Lecture, Dr. Gordon Marino, Thursday, November 21st, 7:30 p.m.

    Please join the Department of Scandinavian Studies and the Department of Philosophy in welcoming Dr. Gordon Marino, Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Hong Kierkegaard Library at St. Olaf College, to Gustavus this Thursday, November 21st, for a special lecture at 7:30 p.m. in Confer 127. Professor Marino’s talk, “Kierkegaard: The Mind of the…

  • Spring 2014 Course Offerings in the Department of Scandinavian Studies

    SWE-102-001: Swedish II Professor Ursula Lindqvist CON 126 MTWF 9:00AM-9:50AM SWE-102-002: Swedish II Professor Kjerstin Moody CON 125 MTWF 12:30PM-1:20PM SWE-102-003: Swedish II Professor Kjerstin Moody CON 125 MTWF 1:30PM-2:20PM A continuation of SWE-101, these courses introduce students to the Swedish language and important aspects of modern Swedish society. Students learn to speak, read, and…

  • 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/