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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…

If you were a science student this last year you might have stumbled across a friendly group of chemists in the atrium of Nobel Hall, drinking coffee, nibbling on some pepparkakor and enjoying conversation during chapel break. If you weren’t in a rush to be somewhere, you hopefully sat down to join in. Berzelius Fika…

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,…

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/

We have had a lot going on in the department since Christmas break! Let me fill you all in. We had three wonderful J-term courses this year. Department Professor Emeritus Roger McKnight returned to teach a course on Hans Christian Andersen. The Department was thrilled to host Visiting Professor Hanna Outakoski from Umeå University in…

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…