Scandinavian Section Calendar - Past Events for this Academic Year

CMRS Faculty Roundtable: "Viking Archaeology and the Stave Church at Mosfell"

-- submitted by Karen Burgess (cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu)

“SUBVERSIVE STORYTELLERS OF THE NORTH: FROM ANONYMOUS ICONOCLASTS TO HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN”, a lecture by SIR NIELS INGWERSEN

In Celebration of the 200th anniversary of Hans Christian Andersen’s birth

presents a Lecture by

SIR NIELS INGWERSEN (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

entitled

“SUBVERSIVE STORYTELLERS OF THE NORTH: FROM ANONYMOUS ICONOCLASTS TO HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN”

Thursday, November 10, 2005 Royce 314 4:00 pm

Reception to follow

-- submitted by Benay Furtivo (webcalendar@humnet.ucla.edu)

"Tales, Poems, and Bawdy Songs: Folkloric Imagination in the North"

9:00 Introduction: Prof. Joseph Nagy Opening Remarks: Prof. Mary Kay Norseng

9:30 - 10: 30 Paper Session One: The Medieval Folkloric Imagination

9:30 - 10:00 Prof. John Lindow, UC Berkeley. "The ghost with the ax and the dreamer with the sword: Kumlbúa tháttr and medieval Icelandic legend"

10:00-10:30 Prof. Judy Quinn, Cambridge University. "The tenacity of the valkyrie fantasy in Old Norse poetry"

10:30-11:00 Coffee

11:00 -12:30 Paper Session Two: Archaeology of the Folkloric Imagination

11:00-11:30 Prof. Johanna Domokos, UCLA. "Harald Gaski mapping Andres Fjellner mapping Saami Epos mapping... A Case of Saami Literary Archaeology"

11:30 -12:00 Prof. Karin Sanders, UC Berkeley. "Hans Christian Andersen's Archaeological Imagination"

12:00-12:30 Questions

12:30-2:00 Lunch break

2:00-3:30 Paper Session Three: Intersections: Music, Philosophy and the Folkloric Imagination

2:00-2:30 Sir Niels Ingwersen, Univ. of Wisconsin. "Endless Stories without Endings: Kierkegaard and Folklore"

2:30-3:00 Prof. Bertil Van Boer, Western Washington University. "Milk Maids, Tryptichs, and Voices Beyond the Grave: The "Unsung" Collaborations between Carl Michael Bellman and Joseph Martin Kraus"

3:00-3:30 Coffee

3:30-5:00 Paper Session Four: Politics and the Folkloric Imagination

3:30-4:00 Prof. Timothy R. Tangherlini, UCLA. " 'And the wagon came rolling in': Legend and (Self)-Censorship in 19th Century Denmark"

4:00-4:30 Prof. Tracey Sands, Univ. of Colorado. "Saints, Salvation, and Reformation: Some Observations on Scandinavian Legendary Ballad Tradition"

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

Northern Light: A Celebration of Jules Zentner (1926-2006)

A night celebrating the late Professor Jules Zentner

Featuring an introduction to the life of Jules Zentner, a screening of the short film De Düwe, and light refreshments

Wednesday, January 24, 2007

7:00 PM—9:00 PM

South Bay Room

Covel Commons

Parking will be available for $8

-- submitted by Laura Clennon (clennon@humnet.ucla.edu@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact clennon@humnet.ucla.edu

Ursula Lindqvist Lecture - "Constructing Swedishness in form and function, from the People's Home to IKEA"

invites you to a lecture

Ursula Lindqvist

University of Colorado

"Constructing Swedishness in form and function, from the People's Home to IKEA"

Wednesday, February 14, 2007

4 pm

Royce Hall 314

-- submitted by Laura Clennon (clennon@humnet.ucla.edu@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact clennon@humnet.ucla.edu

Scandinavian Section Lecture: Arne Lunde - "Charlie Chan is Swedish: Warner Oland, Asian Racial Masquerade, and the Nordic Other in Classical Hollywood"

Arne Lunde

University of Minnesota

"Charlie Chan is Swedish: Warner Oland, Asian Racial Masquerade, and the Nordic Other in Classical Hollywood"

Wednesday, February 21

Royce Hall 314

4 pm

-- submitted by Laura Clennon (clennon@humnet.ucla.edu@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact clennon@humnet.ucla.edu

Christopher Oscarsson Lecture: "Embodying the Bird's-Eye View: Early Swedish Cinema and the Ecological Imagination"

Christopher Oscarsson

Brigham Young University

"Embodying the Bird's-Eye View: Early Swedish Cinema and the Ecologial Imagination"

Wednesday, February 28

4 pm

Royce Hall 306

-- submitted by Laura Clennon (clennon@humnet.ucla.edu@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact clennon@humnet.ucla.edu

Sonia Wichmann Lecture -- "Writing the Author: Self-Representation in Two Literary Diaries from Turn-of-the Century Scandinavia"

Sonia Wichmann

University of California, Berkeley

"Writing the Author: Self-Representation in Two Literary Diaries from Turn-of-the-Century Scandinavia"

Tuesday, April 3

12:00 pm

Royce Hall 306

-- submitted by Laura Clennon (clennon@humnet.ucla.edu@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact clennon@humnet.ucla.edu

Dan Ringgaard Lecture -- "Place -- In Theory and from the Point of View of Theory"

Dan Ringgaard

"Place -- In Theory and from the Point of View of Theory"

Monday, April 16

Royce Hall 236

4 pm

-- submitted by Laura Clennon (clennon@humnet.ucla.edu@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact clennon@humnet.ucla.edu

CDH Roundtable

Prof. Tangherlini will discuss his experience using Tablet PCs in the classroom.

RSVP for this event: http://admin.cdh.ucla.edu/rsvp.php?eventid=10

-- submitted by Kathy Forero (kforero@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/scandinavian/faculty/Tangherlini_T/index.html

Henrik Berggren & Lars Trägårdh Lecture-- "Is the Swede Human? Radical Individualism in the Land of Social Solidarity"

Henrik Berggren and Lars Trägårdh

"Is the Swede Human? Radical Individualism in the Land of Social Solidarity"

Wednesday, May 2, 2007

1:00 pm

Royce Hall 243

Henrik Berggren is a journalist and historian, formerly the editor-in-chief of the Arts & Culture section of the leading daily newspaper of Stockholm, Dagens Nyheter, now writing for its editorial page. He is currently at work on a new political biography on the assassinated Swedish Prime Minister Olof Plame.

Lars Trägårdh is a historian and previously a member of the history department at Barnard College, Columbia University. Currently he directs a research project on social trust at Ersta Sköndal University College in Stockholm and also serves as a coordinator for long term EU funded program on social capital and social policy at London School of Economics.

Is the Swede Human? This is the provocative title of a new book by the two Swedish historians Henrik Berggren and Lars Trägårdh (Är svensken människa? Gemenskap och oberoende i det moderna Sverige. Norstedts 2006). The book claims that the supposedly “socialist” Swedes are, in fact, individualists in extremis. To an extent unimaginable even in the US, they are devoted to the pursuit of personal autonomy. At the heart of the Swedish social compact lies a deeply rooted conception, what the authors call “a Swedish theory of love,” according to which authentic love and friendship is possible only between individuals who are independent and equal. This moral logic, joining the ideal of independence to those of economic equality and social solidarity, has been institutionalized in modern Sweden through a radical alliance between the individual and the state, which the authors term “statist individualism.” This has, on the one hand, liberated the individual from the ties of dependency that characterize the traditional family, churches, and charities, on the other, it has left the individual relatively powerless in relation to the state. This is a social contract, they argue, that differs dramatically from those of other modern, western democracies, notably the US and Germany, two countries that serve as comparative touchstones in the analysis.

-- submitted by Laura Clennon (clennon@humnet.ucla.edu@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact clennon@humnet.ucla.edu

"The Saga of Egill, Viking Skald and Psychopath: Tradition and Text"

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Lecture: "Vikings: Raiders or Traders?"

-- submitted by Brett (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)