On May 18, Valdis Zatlers, President of the Republic of Latvia, came to the University of Washington to express his support for the UW Latvian Studies program, “one of the best in the world.” President Zatlers visited Christine Ingebritsen’s Scandinavian Politics class to give a lecture about Latvia’s role in the European Union and NATO.

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Helsinki University has published a profile of Andrew Nestingen, Associate Professor of Finnish in the Department.

Laconic humor, melodrama and the language of silence: What happens when A Clockwork Orange meets Hamlet? An American researcher encourages people to acquaint themselves with Finland’s number one film director.