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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Time to sign up for second 8-week courses Spring 2014!!
Running March 17 – May 7, 2014
SCAN 215: Madness, Myth and Murder – Scandinavian prose fiction in English translation (same as CWL 215)
MWF, 1:00-2:50 PM, 3 credit hours
SCAN 494: Intro to Swedish Sign Language (meets with SHS 390)
MTWTh, 8:00-9:50 AM, 4 credit hours
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SAO-LAS: Stockholm Summer Artic Program 2014
“Environment and Society in a Changing Arctic”
SCAN 386/GLBL 386/SESE 386
6 credits
Program Dates: June 2 – July 4
Study Abroad Office Application Deadline: March 1, 2014
In this intensive five-week program – for science and non-science students – 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. This year’s field sites will be located in Northern Sweden, with time spent in Kiruna, followed a stay in the Swedish mountains at the Tarfala Research Station, and ending with a stay at the Abisko Research Station near Lake Torne Träsk. Applicants must have junior status or consent of the instructor.
Program contacts:
Jonathan Tomkin, Associate Director, School of Earth, Society, and Environment (tomkin@illinois.edu)
Kristen Stout, Study Abroad Office Advisor for programming in mainland Europe (kmstrom2@illinois.edu)
Apply to the program at the following address:
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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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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Mark your calendars for these Spring 2014 lectures:
Colloquium: “Constructing Jerusalem at Vadstena (Sweden): Creating a Symbolic Space through Text, Architecture and Paraliturgical Devotions”
Thursday February 27, 5:00 PM in Lucy Ellis Lounge, FLB 1080
Michelle Urberg, Music, University of Chicago. Colloquium organized by Medieval Studies at UIUC.
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 1080
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 1080
Dr. Mariah Larsson, Stockholm University, EUC and MACS Visiting Scholar and INSPIRE fellow.
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Interested in the Scandinavian Minor or Major?
Contact the program advisor, Dr. Mark Safstrom, to set up an appointment (safstrom@illinois.edu FLB 3117). Now is also the time for currently enrolled minors and majors to schedule a time for their Spring course audit.
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