Department of Scandinavian Studies Events

Sat Jul 4 2009

EVENTS CALENDAR

Spring Events

March 10 at 4 pm Geir Lundestad, the Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute and 2008-2009 Marshall-Monnet Scholar in Residence, will give a lecture entitled " The Past and Future of US-European Relations" in the Alumni Lounge, The Pyle Center on 702 Langdon Street

March 24 at 7:30 PM there will be a Lecture by Dr. Anders Ehlers Dam entitled "The Vitalist Current in Danish Literature at the Turn of the Century" in 7191 Helen C. White

April 6 there will be a showoing of the Swedish movie, "Let teh Right on In." Place to be announced. For information contact Kjerstin Moody at kmmoody@wisc.edu.

April 7 at 7:30 there will be a showing of the Danish movie "Blue Man" in 114 Van Hise. Last year, 450,000 Danes watched this movie - and now it is your turn! And you can do it with English Subtitles! Danish food: Æbleskiver - and a surprise Bring a Friend! (It is a comedy!)

Sunday May 17 (Syttende Mai) Anna Rue and Jim Leary will be on Tom Martin-Erickson's "Simply Folk" program, 6-8 PM, where we will talk about and play excerpts from our work on a Norwegian American Folk Music Archives project.

Thursday May 28 Hilary Virtanen and Jim Leary will give talks on Finnish American labor songs at the annual Laborlore gathering held on the campus of Roosevelt University in Chicago in cooperation with the Labor and Working Class History Association.

June 12-14 there will be a Symposium on Jens Jensen in Chicago, IL, and the Jane Addams Hull-
House Museum, University of Illinois-Chicago. For more information, please see their website.

Language Tables

The Finnish language table is an opportunity for people of all levels to get together and speak Finnish. The Finnish table will be held during the Spring every TBA.

The Swedish Language table is an opportunity for people of all levels to get together and speak Swedish. The Swedish table will be held during the Spring every Wednesday from 5:00 to 6:00 PM at the Rathskeller, until the of 29th of April. Rachel, Kjerstin, and Scott are the contact people if ther are any questions.

The Norwegian language table is an opportunity for people of all levels to get together and speak Norwegian. The Norwegian table will be held during the Spring every Monday from 11:00 AM in Liz Waters Cafeteria. Peggy and Tanya are the contact people if there are any questions.

The Danish language table is an opportunity for people of all levels to get together and speak Danish. The Danish table will be held during the Spring every Tuesday at 7 PM in The Rathskeller, starting Tuesday Jan. 27. Nete and Julie are the contact people if there are any questions.

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