Graduates, their families,
friends, and members of the Department faculty and Advisory Board
gathered on June 13 at the UW Club to celebrate this year's graduating
class.
The Latvians: Fifty Years in the State of Washington
In the years following World War II, immigrants from Latvia found home and work in Washington State. Photographs, textiles, folk costumes, and fine art tell the story of the 50-year history of their daily lives, work, accomplishments, and the cultural traditions they kept alive in their new home.
Where: Nordic Heritage Museum
When: Exhibit open June 6 - July 27, 2008
UW Swedish Club reinvigorated
The purpose of the UW
Swedish Club is to promote and celebrate Swedish language and culture at
the University of Washington and the surrounding community. The Club
holds weekly fika meetings throughout the school year and special events
from time to time, which include IKEA visits, Nordic Heritage Museum
visits, movie nights, and more. The Club is involved in the annual
Lucia pagent through the Swedish Cultural Center. Click here to learn more
about the UW
Swedish Club.
Ann-Charlotte Gavel Adams Appointed Barbro Osher Endowed
Professor of Swedish Studies
Lotta Gavel Adams, Professor of Swedish studies and a specialist
on the writings of August Strindberg, has been appointed
the Barbro Osher Endowed Professor of Swedish Studies. The
appointment, following a formal vote by the UW Board of Regents,
is for a five-year term. The Barbro Osher Endowed Professorship
was established with a major gift from the Barbro Osher Pro
Suecia Foundation and its President and founder Ms. Barbro
Osher.
A popular teacher, Gavel Adams joined the faculty in 1991. She has
published two well-received critical textual editions of
Strindberg's Inferno and Legender in the Swedish
National Edition of Strindberg's Collected Works. She is also
the editor of a Dictionary of Literary Biography edition of Twentieth Century Swedish Writers, the author of several
scholarly articles and reviews, and a passionate advocate for
Swedish studies in North America.
Marianne Stecher-Hansen Appointed Scan|Design Foundation
Term Professor in Danish Studies
Marianne Stecher-Hansen, Associate Professor of Danish and
Scandinavian literature and culture,
has been appointed to be Scan|Design
Foundation Term Professor in Danish Studies.
A popular teacher and leading scholar of Danish studies
and Scandinavian literature in cultural, historical and
political contexts,
Stecher-Hansen is the author of a critical study on the
documentary works of Thorkild Hansen. In addition, she has
edited two
major volumes in the Dictionary of Literary Biography
series:
Danish Writers from the Reformation to Decadence, 1550-1900
and Twentieth Century Danish Writers.
Stecher-Hansen's appointment to the Scan|Design Foundation
Term Professorship represents a continuing commitment to the
Department of Scandinavian Studies and the University of
Washington by the Scan|Design by Inger & Jens Bruun Foundation
as well as a significant strengthening of the cooperation
and interchange of scholars, programs and ideas
between the United States and Denmark in many critical areas.
Stecher-Hansen helped to establish and currently directs
the highly successful Scan|Design Fellowship Program and is
also the director of the Copenhagen Classroom which she
coordinates on site with Jan Krogh Nielsen.
Three New Books from
New Directions in Scandinavian Studies in 2008
The University of Washington Press series, "New Directions
in Scandinavian Studies," will publish three
books this year:
Andrew Nestingen, Crime and Fantasy in Scandinavia:
Film, Fiction and Social Change explores the
changing
nature of civil society in Scandinavia through the lens
of popular culture.
Joan Templeton, Munch's
Ibsen: A Painter's Visions of a Playwright, draws
on a mass of
printed and archival material to provide a comprehensive
account of the relationship between the two great
Norwegian modernists, Henrik Ibsen and Edvard Munch.
Terje I. Leiren,Selected Plays of Marcus Thrane, presents
six translated plays from the Norwegian-American
Theater of Norway's nineteenth-century political radical,
Marcus Thrane. Published with the
Norwegian-American Historical Association.
The co-General Editors of "New Directions in
Scandinavian Studies" are Christine Ingebritsen
and Terje Leiren, faculty members in the Department of
Scandinavian Studies.
Ph.D. student Margareta Dancus has won a prestigious fellowship to study
abroad in Scandinavia during the 2008-2009 academic year. Dancus is the recipient of
a Birgit Baldwin
Fellowship from the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study. Dancus is currently writing her dissertation on Norwegian popular film and TV produced in the last decade. The fellowship will allow her to do archival research and conduct interviews. She will spend one semester affiliated with the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo and the Norwegian Film Institute. She will spend her second semester at the Department of Media Studies at the University of Bergen.
Graduate Student receives Textual Studies Award
Ph.D. student Ralitsa Lazarova has received a Textual Studies Award, which is granted by the Comparative Literature Department Textual Studies Program. The grant will enable Lazarova to conduct archival and reception research in Stockholm. Lazarova is currently working on her dissertation on contemporary Swedish fiction, with the preliminary title True Stories: Fiction and Emotion in Contemporary Sweden.
Newly Endowed Graduate Student Fund Honors Leslie Ann
Grove (1960-1997)
A newly endowed fund to support graduate student travel for
study abroad, scholarly research, or to participate in scholarly
conferences has been established in the memory of Leslie Ann Grove, former
graduate student in the Department of Scandinavian Studies who passed away
suddenly in 1997.
Leslie Grove earned two bachelor degrees from the University of
Oregon before enrolling as a graduate student at the University of
Washington where she earned Master of Arts and Doctor of
Philosophy degrees in the Department of Scandinavian Studies. At the time
of her death, Leslie was an Assistant Professor at St. Olaf College,
Northfield, Minnesota, where she was a member of the Department of
Norwegian.
The Leslie Ann Grove Endowed Fund for Graduate Student Travel has
been established by Leslie's mother, Loo-Ann Grove, in loving memory of
her daughter, for the purpose of providing "support for graduate
students in the Department of Scandinavian Studies, for study abroad,
travel to conferences, or any other travel expense that supports academic
research or study."
The Department of Scandinavian Studies and the
Alumni Association were honored to welcome Swedish diplomat Dr. Hans Blix
to campus for a guest lecture on October 18th. Now you can view Blix's
speech, From a Cold War to a Cold Peace. Time for a
Revival of
Disarmament? online in streaming and downloadable video. Blix underscores the impact of our current political climate on world affairs and feature his insight and expertise regarding instituting change via weapons control.
Born in 1928 in Uppsala, Sweden, Dr. Blix’s career has largely been in politics and public service. From January 2000 until June 2003, he was appointed Executive Chairman of the United Nations Mentoring, Verification and Inspection Commission for Iraq by the UN Secretary-General. In early 2004, Dr. Blix chaired the independent international Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission. He has received several honorary doctorates, is the recipient of many decorations and awards, and has written numerous books on international and constitutional law and articles relating to energy and the problems of the spread of nuclear weapons.
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