Dear Friends of the Scandinavian Program and Scandinavian Club at the U of I!
Mark your calendars for several upcoming events and courses, sponsored by or related to the Scandinavian Studies Program or the student Scandinavian Club (RSO).
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Money for Travel to Sweden – Anna Jensen Award
Application Deadline: February 7, 2014
The Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures is pleased to announce an award competition to facilitate study abroad in Sweden during summer 2014 or academic year 2014-15. The Anna Jensen Memorial Scandinavian Award is a prize in the amount of up to $1,500 to facilitate study or research in Sweden. To apply, please submit a 500-word application statement and include your most recent University of Illinois transcript (unofficial is fine). Ideal applicants are students who have been taking Scandinavian courses, or who articulate plans to do so during their time of study abroad. The statement should clearly outline:
• your reasons for applying
• how a period of study in Sweden is important to your studies and to your future career plans
• how you expect to use the award (you may include a basic budget)
• what your plans are to continue Swedish and Scandinavian Studies once you return.
You may also address in your application if there are special needs or circumstances that motivate your application. Submit all application materials to the mailbox of Dr. Mark Safstrom, 2090 Foreign Languages Building by 4:45 PM on February 7, 2014.
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Join us for Swedish Conversation Group and Coffee Hour Thursdays!
2:30-3:30 PM
(Runs from January 30 through May 1; excluding March 13, 27)
Philippson Library, 3114 Foreign Languages Building
(Runs from January 30 through May 1; excluding March 13, 27)
Philippson Library, 3114 Foreign Languages Building
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Lecture: “Sex and Eroticism in Ingmar Bergman’s Swedish Films of the 1940s and 50s”
Thursday February 6 at 5:15 PM in Lucy Ellis Lounge, FLB 1080
Dr. Arne Lunde, UCLA
This guest lecture will focus on sex and eroticism in Ingmar Bergman’s films as a director and screenwriter from 1944 until his international breakthrough of the mid-to-late 1950s. While much scholarly attention has been given to Bergman’s 1963 The Silence as brazenly challenging and helping reform the Swedish film censorship restrictions of its time, less attention has been paid to Bergman’s earlier, subversive forays against the sex censors.
Bio: Arne Lunde is Associate Professor in the Scandinavian Section at UCLA, where he teaches courses on Scandinavian cinema and literature. He is the author of Nordic Exposures: Scandinavian Identities in Classical Hollywood Cinema (University of Washington Press, 2010). He is currently working on a book on Ingmar Bergman inside the Swedish studio system between 1944 and 1960.
This event is generously cosponsored by the European Union Center of Excellence Grant, the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, The Scandinavian Program, the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, the Department of Media and Cinema Studies, and the Program in Comparative and World Literature.
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SAO-LAS: Stockholm Summer Artic Program 2014
“Environment and Society in a Changing Arctic”
SCAN 386/GLBL 386/ESE 386
6 credits
Program participants will learn about issues related to climate change and human presence in the Arctic from interdisciplinary perspectives. UIUC students participate together with students from KTH – Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden and will spend two weeks in the Arctic (in Lappland, Sweden). Enrollment is open to both science and non-science majors with junior status or instructor’s consent.
Program Dates for 2014:
June 2 through July 4 (subject to revision)
Deadline for applications, February 15, 2014
Program Information:
See Study Abroad Office brochure page: https://app.studyabroad.illinois.edu/index.cfm?FuseAction=Programs.ViewProgram&Program_ID=10859
Contacts:
Sherry Danielson, SAO Program Coordinator, sdaniel2@illinios.edu
Mark Safstrom, Scandinavian Program Coordinator, safstrom@illinois.edu
Jonathan Tomkin, Associate Director for ESE, tomkin@illinois.edu
Sponsored by the Study Abroad Office, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Scandinavian Studies, European Union Center, Global Studies, Earth Society & Environment and INSPIRE.
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Mark your calendars for these additional Spring 2014 lectures:
Lecture: “The Trouble with Stars Global vs. Vernacular Stardom in Two Forms of European Popular Culture”
Thursday March 6 at 5:15 PM in Lucy Ellis Lounge, FLB
Dr. Olof Hedling, Lund University, Fulbright Hildeman Visiting Scholar in the Scandinavian Program, U. of I.
Lecture: “Fictionalizations of a Welfare State Sex Scandal: The Re-telling of Historical Events and Call Girl (2012)”
Thursday April 3 at 5:15 PM in Lucy Ellis Lounge, FLB
Dr. Mariah Larsson, Stockholm University, EUC and MACS Visiting Scholar and INSPIRE fellow.
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