Archive for Kjerstin Moody
Senior Majors Colloquium, Saturday, May 11th, 5:00 p.m.
Graduating senior majors in the Department of Scandinavian Studies will present a piece of their research in the field this Saturday, May 11th, at 5:00 p.m. in the Interpretive Center. Their work exemplifies the interdisciplinarity of the field. All are welcome to come and listen to their presentations, and a short celebration of both of [...]
Out of Scandinavia Artist in Residence: Johanna Sinisalo
The Department of Scandinavian Studies is happy to welcome the Finnish author Johanna Sinisalo May 6-10 as this year’s Out of Scandinavia Artist in Residence. Sinisalo is best known for her Finlandia-Prize-winning novel, Troll: A Love Story (Ennen päivänlaskua ei voi, 2000). Throughout her week on campus Sinisalo will visit classes and engage with Gustavus [...]
Fall 2013 SWE and SCA Courses
Department of Scandinavian Studies Fall 2013 Courses SWE-101-001: Swedish I Professor Ursula Lindqvist CON 125 MTWF 11.30AM-12.20PM SWE-101-002: Swedish I Professor Kjerstin Moody VH 204 MTWF 1.30PM-2.20PM This course introduces students to the Swedish language and important aspects of modern Swedish society. Students learn to speak, read, and write Swedish through pronunciation practice, [...]
Airmail: The Letters of Robert Bly and Tomas Tranströmer Book Release
On Tuesday, April 2, the English-language translation of the book Airmail: The Letters of Robert Bly and Tomas Transtro?mer 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 to Lecture on the Sami in Minneapolis
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, [...]
“America — Land of Dreams”
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 [...]
2013 Semester in Sweden Program Blog
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/
Nordic Lights Film Festival Begins this Week!
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/
Strindberg Year 2012 at Gustavus
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 [...]
2013 IEX and Spring Semester Courses
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 [...]