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The Department of Scandinavian Studies welcomes Out of Scandinavia Artist in Residence Jonas Hassen Khemiri to campus the week of April 30th. In addition to being part of this year’s MAYDAY! conference on “Multicultural Sweden,” Khemiri will visit classes in the Departments of Scandinavian Studies and English and be part of three other events, all…

The Department of Scandinavian Studies is looking forward to this year’s MAYDAY! Conference and welcoming guests Dilsa Demirbag-Sten and Jonas Hassen Khemiri to campus. More details about their visits soon. http://news.blog.gustavus.edu/2012/04/20/multicultural-sweden-is-the-topic-for-32nd-mayday-peace-conference/

Join faculty in the Scandinavian Studies and English Departments from 7:00-9:00 p.m. this evening in the Interpretive Center as we celebrate the Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer’s receiving the 2011 Nobel Prize for Literature. Faculty and students from Scandinavian Studies and Department of English faculty and poets Phil Bryant, John Rezmerski, and Joyce Sutphen will read…

Join the Department of Scandinavian Studies today as we co-host two talks as part of this year’s Global Insight program, which focuses on the Circumpolar Region. 4 pm on Thursday, Dec 1, 101 Beck Hall – “Education Practices and Methods in the Arctic: Indigenous Peoples and Cultures in the Circumpolar Region” (Panel Discussion with Steve…

January Term (IEX) Courses in the Department of Scandinavian Studies SCA 203 Hans Christian Andersen MTWTF: 10:30-12:20 (Confer 125) Roger McKnight (Emeritus) This course deals with symbols. Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) wrote great, vivid fairy tales. As a Romantic, he portrayed exotic birds who sang like angels. As a realist, he described poor Danish washerwomen…

Join the Department of Scandinavian Studies on Friday, May 20, at 4:00 in the interpretive center as we celebrate our 2011 graduates, majors Chelsea Bowen and Valerie McCluskey, and minor Alex Legeros, at our annual spring colloquium. All three students will present a piece of their scholarship in the discipline, and their presentations will be…

On Sunday, April 17th, a group of students enrolled in the department’s “Henrik Ibsen and Norwegian Literature” course made the drive to picturesque Lanesboro, Minnesota, to attend a performance of Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People, which the class had read a few weeks earlier. First-year student and Scandinavian Studies major Zachary Blinkinsop commented: “The Commonweal…