The Department hosted a reception to honor the one Ph.D., two MA, 31 BA and five BA Minor degrees conferred to students.

The first annual Scandinavian & Baltic Career Fair helped students maximize their collegiate and financial potential and bridge the gap between college and their future career.

Participants included: IKEA, Scandinavian Cultural Exchange, NW Danish Foundation, Nordic Heritage Museum, Swedish Cultural Center, Scandinavian Airlines (SAS), Department of Scandinavian Studies and Baltic Studies, International Programs & Exchanges.

If your business/organization wishes to participate in similar events in the future, please contact Esther Foote

Three Baltic countries, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, entered the European Union and the NATO Alliance in 2004. Do external threats to political security exist? Will there be economic growth? What are the destabilizing factors as European borders disappear?

In the program “The Baltic in the 21st Century,” broadcast on the Research Channel, a panel of four leading Baltic Studies scholars project the political, economic, social, and cultural developments in the region.

See it now via streaming video, and for more information visit the Baltic Studies Program.

The University of Washington’s Swedish Studies Program is one of the two best in the world, according to the Swedish Institute in Stockholm.

This award recognizes the UW Swedish program’s outstanding efforts in promoting the Swedish language and culture outside of Sweden. The program provides “American students the opportunity to pursue in-depth studies in Swedish society and culture within their (collegiate) majors.”

Particularly cited were UW Associate Professor Lotta Gavel Adams and Senior Lecturer Ia Dübois, both Swedish specialists on the faculty.

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Tiina Nunnally, affiliate member of the faculty, has won the prestigious Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, Britain’s leading award for novels translated into English. She was awarded for her translation of Per Olov Enquist’s The Visit of the Royal Physician.

Nunnally is considered the foremost translator of Scandinavian literature to English. She won the PEN translation prize for her rendering of Sigrid Undset’s Nobel Prize winning novel Kristen Lavransdatter in 2001. She translated Smilla’s Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg and Linn Ullmann’s debut novel Before You Sleep.