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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…

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/

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/

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…

  As registration time approaches, check out these fantastic IEX and Spring Semester courses – all of which count towards credit towards a major or minor in Scandinavian Studies.   Department of Scandinavian Studies IEX 2013 Course SCA-215-001: Viking Mythology Professor Carl Olsen VH 302 MTWRF 10.30AM-12.20PM VIKING MYTHOLOGY AND HEROIC TRADITION. In this course we…

Who: All alumni and current students of the Department What: Join us for the 3rd annual Scandinavian Studies Homecoming BBQ Where: Glenn Kranking’s house (Directions will be sent when you RSVP) When: October 13th 5:30-7:30pm Why: To (re)connect and spend a beautiful fall evening together How: Please RSVP to Dawn Comstock (dcomstoc@gac.edu) by Wednesday, October…

From October 8-10, 2012, Folke Bernadotte Memorial Library will host a three-day event featuring four women writers from Nordic countries and a noted Swedish literary critic to focus on Nordic crime fiction by women. Scandinavian crime fiction has become a global phenomenon in part because of a girl with a dragon tattoo, but women writers…

The Department welcomes back all returning students and looks forward to the 2012-2013 academic year. We are happy to welcome Visiting Assistant Professor Carl Olsen, who is joining us from UC-Berkeley. Carl will teach two courses of Swedish this fall, a January term IEX course on Norse mythology, and this spring he will teach a…

Join the Department of Scandinavian Studies 2012 majors Ethan Bjelland, Robert Holder, Catherine Keith, and Steven Olson tomorrow evening, Friday, May 18, 5:00-9:00 p.m., in the St. Peter Room, as they present their senior research projects. The schedule will be: Ethan Bjelland: Theatre and Translation: Five Times God Robert Holder: On Masculinity in Scandinavia Catherine…

Two events this week round out Gustavus’s campus-wide Global Insight Program, which has, over the course of the 2011-2012 academic year, focused on the world’s Circumpolar Region. Events throughout the month of May center on Sweden’s northern periphery, and the program will close with a film this evening and a lecture tomorrow late afternoon. Wednesday,…