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Thursday, 26 April
7 pm Welcome, Keynote Address, and Opening Session
Anna Bjartmarsdottir Sveinbjornsson, Nordic Studies Librarian at the University of Washington, "Education in a Modern Multicultural Iceland"
Friday, 27 April 8:00-10:00 am
1. A CLOSE LOOK AT DANISH AND FINNISH ART
Chair: Michelle Facos, Indiana University, Bloomington
* Thor Mednick, Indiana University, Bloomington, "P.S. Kroyer's Marie Kroyer Painting at Stensbjerg Beach"
* Janet Rauscher, Indiana University, Bloomington, "Ferdinand von Wright's View from Haminalahti"
* Jens Toft, Copenhagen University, "J. F. Willumsen's Kongesonnes bryllup"
2. RESEARCH AND PUBLISHING
Chair: Jason Lavery, Oklahoma State University
* John Rupnow, Edwin Mellen Press, "Calling All Scandinavianists: The Scandinavian Studies Series of Edwin Mellen Press"
* Guntis Smidchens, University of Washington, "Baltic Studies Dissertations in North America, 1911-2007"
* Terhi Topi, Fulbright Center for Finnish-American Academic Exchange, "Research and Teaching Opportunities in Finland"
3. SCANDINAVIAN VIEWS OF THE OTHER
Chair: Marianne Stecher-Hansen, University of Washington
* Troy Storfjell, Pacific Lutheran University, "The Return of the Repressed Savage in Henrik Pontoppidan's Isbjornen"
* Erik Sundholm, University of Washington, "The Business Secrets of Two Colonial Commercial Enterprises: Karen Blixen's Out of Africa and Peter Freuchen's I Sailed With Rasmussen"
4. NEW SOURCES FOR SCANDINAVIAN STUDIES
Chair: Terje Leiren, University of Washington
* Kristine J. Anderson, Purdue University, "The Danish Presence in English texts 1475-1800"
* Shaun F. Hughes, Purdue University, "A Recently Undiscovered Basque-Icelandic Dictionary from file Seventeenth Century"
* Kim-Eric Williams, University of Pennsylvania, "Translating the Handskrifter of Gloria Dei, Old Swedes Church, Philadelphia"
5. IBSEN
Chair: Mary Kay Norseng, University of California, Los Angeles
* Leonardo Lisi, Yale University, "Allegory, Capital, Modernity: Peer Gynt and Ibsen's Modern Breakthrough"
* Tanya Thresher, University of Wisconsin, Madison, "Melodramatic Tendencies in Ibsen's Gengangere"
* Sandra Saari, Rochester Institute of Technology, "From Ideal to Real: Ibsen's Peer Gynt and A Doll's House"
6. THE PHILOSOPHERS AND LITERATURE
Chair: Tom Conner, St. Norbert College
* William Banks, University of Wisconsin, Madison, "Harald Nielsen and the False Sublation of Culture: The Making of an 'Establishment Outsider'"
* Kirstine Kastbjerg, University of Washington, "The Quest for Self-Creation: Richard Rorty, B.S. Ingemann, and the Romantic Fantastic"
* Michael Stern, University of Oregon, "Plato's Symposium and Soren's"
7. AMERICAN INFLUENCES IN SWEDEN
Chair: Ulf Jonas Bjork, Indiana University, Indianapolis
* Dag Blanck, Augustana College/Uppsala University, "The Lure of the American Academy: Swedish Academic Migration to the United States in the Twentieth Century"
* Ivo Holmqvist, University of Ghent, "Meeting the President--Gustaf Hellstrom's 1919-1923 Experience"
* Louise Nilsson, Uppsala University/University of California, "A Craving Body Machine: Technology, Perception, and Modern Consumption 1910-1930"
8. IMMIGRATION TO THE AMERICAN WEST
Chair: Elizabeth Blair, Southwest Minnesota State University
* Tiina Haapakoski, University' of Toronto, "Gendered Migration: The Case of Finnish Women in California"
* Gerald M. Haslam, Brigham Young University, "From Maligned Danish Orphan to Failed Mormon Entrepreneuress: Proprietress Ane Marie Pedersen of the Green Canyon Lime Quarry near Logan, Utah, Early 1880s to 1916"
Friday, 27 April, 10:30 am-12:00 pm
9. DISTANCE LANGUAGE LEARNING
Chair: Peggy Hager, University of Wisconsin, Madison
* Karen Moller, University of California, Berkeley, "Challenges and Successes of Distance Learning in Danish and Finnish"
* Sirpa Tuomainen, University of California, Berkeley, "Challenges and Successes of Distance Learning in Finnish"
* Louis Janus, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, and Kari Lie, University of...
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