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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 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,…

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…

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…

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…