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Fall 2018 Courses Offered in the Department of Scandinavian Studies:   HIS-219: Scandinavia Since 1800 Associate Professor Glenn Kranking MWF, 11:30 a.m.-12:20 p.m.   Poor, socially stratified, politically autocratic, internationally insignificant are words which accurately describe Scandinavia in the early 19th century. Prosperous, egalitarian, democratic, internationally significant are words which accurately describe Scandinavia today. What…

Gustavus Adolphus College invites applications for a full-time position of Visiting Assistant Professor of Swedish and Scandinavian Studies in the Department of Scandinavian Studies to begin in January 1, 2017 and end January 31, 2018.   We seek candidates who have an earned doctorate, but will consider candidates who have achieved ABD status. The successful…

OUT OF SCANDINAVIA WEEK featuring 2016 Artist-in-Residence SOFIA JANNOK is finally here! The Department of Scandinavian Studies hopes you will join us at as many of these activities as you can! All events are free and open to the public. 7:30-9 pm Monday May 2 in Björling Hall Sofia Jannok will talk about her music…

Please join the Department of Scandinavian Studies on Monday, April 18, 2016, as we welcome CEO of the Swedish Film Institute Anna Serner, for the lecture “How Sweden is Working for Gender Equality in Film Production.” The lecture take place from 7:00-9:00 p.m. in 101 Beck Hall. It is free and open to the public.…

Please join the Department of Scandinavian Studies tomorrow (Thursday, February 25) at 3:30 p.m. in Confer 127 for a lecture by the wife of Swedish-born artist Öyvind Fahlström (1928-1976), Sharon Avery-Fahlström, of the Öyvind Fahlström Foundation & Archives at Museu d’art contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), Spain.  Avery-Fahlström’s lecture “Öyvind Fahlström – A Roman Artist” offers a case…

Join Gustavus’s Center for International and Cultural Education on Thursday, 2/18, as they welcome Alexander Bielicki, the resident director of the HECUA Norway study away program (The New Norway: Globalization, National Identity, and the Politics of Belonging) for the talk “The Goodness Regime of the North,” this Thursday, 2/18, from 4:00-5:00 p.m. in the Konferensrum in…

Department of Scandinavian Studies Assistant Professor Ursula Lindqvist has been elected to the Executive Committee of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study (SASS), the major national academic organization for the field. She is the second Gustavus faculty member to serve on this committee; Associate Professor Glenn Kranking (Scandinavian Studies and History) was elected…

The Department is so excited to share this recent link from the University of Washington Press with information about Assistant Professor Ursula Lindqvist’s forthcoming book Roy Andersson’s Songs from the Second Floor: Contemplating the Art of Existence, which will be published in June. http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/LINROY.html Ursula was featured in an interview about Andersson with NPR’s Nede…

    SPRING 2016 SWE & SCA COURSES   SWE-102, Swedish II (3 sections) David Jessup, Confer Hall 332 – 12:30-1:20 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Friday Ursula Lindqvist, Vickner Hall 304 – 12:30-1:20 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Friday David Jessup, Confer Hall 332 – 1:30-2:20 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Friday A continuation of SWE-101, this course introduces students…

DIS Stockholm is seeking Swedes, Swedish language speakers, Sweden experts and enthusiasts to form their dynamic, entrepreneurial, and service-minded team in Stockholm. Use your professional experience living/studying/working in another culture, your communication and project management skills, your in-depth knowledge of Stockholm and Swedish culture, and your motivation to engage academically and socially with students to…