Department of Scandinavian Studies Have Also Established a Remarkable Publication Record Over the Past Two Years

D e p a r t m e n t o f Scandinavian Studies

A Message from the Chair T erje Leiren Another Spring, another graduation. Sad as it is to see our students leave, leaving is, after all, the inevitable and natural conclusion of their studies at the university. So, we rejoice in their success and wish them all well on their journey of life. With their BA, MA, or Ph.D. degrees in hand, it is a journey which marks successful completion while signaling a new beginning. We wish them all “til lykke med reisen.” Since our last newsletter we have seen signficant changes in the Depart- ment with sorrow and joy as well as growth and development. We were deeply saddened to hear of the sudden passing of our former colleague, Professor Leslie Eliason. She left our department in the early nineties to join the Evans School of Public Affairs before moving on to California and the Mon- terey Institute of International Studies. A truly remarkable teacher, she was loved and respected and will be sorely missed by all who knew her. When Leslie left the department, she was replaced by Christine Ingebritsen who took on the responsibili- ties of teaching Scandinavian politics. A prize-winning and popular professor, Ingebritsen was recruited in 2004 to serve as Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education. This past year, Christine has ably filled the role of Acting Dean and Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education while teaching a course in international relations and completing two books published this Spring. Dedicated teachers all, the faculty members of the Department of Scandinavian Studies have also established a remarkable publication record over the past two years. The exceptionally strong faculty scholarship demonstrates why the Department ranks among the very best Scandinavian and Baltic programs in the world. Professors Marianne Stecher-Hansen, Christine Ingebritsen, Andrew Nestingen,

summe r 2006 Jan Sjåvik, Klaus Brandl, Lotta Gavel Adams and Terje Leiren have all published books or had book manuscripts accepted for publication by major publishing houses in the past two years. Professors Stecher-Hansen, Nestingen, Guntis Smidchens and Ia Dubois were all nominated for major teaching awards at the University. In the past two years, two of our distinguished colleagues, Lotta Gavel Adams and Jan Sjåvik, have been promoted to full professors at the University. With these promotions, the Department has now a faculty which includes three full professors for the first time in its 97-year history. Our hard working graduate student teaching assistants also deserve mention as they constitute a sig- nificant teaching core in our first- and second-year language classes. As Teaching Assistants, graduate students are able to finance their education as 50% employees while learning their craft and maintain- ing a heavy load of seminar and other course work on the graduate level. Often unheralded, our teaching assistants are an important part of our teaching and research mission, and they also represent the future of Scandinavian studies. The Department’s record of successful graduate student placement of its Ph.D. students in teaching positions around the country is unmatched in the field. Graduates of the Department of Scandinavian Studies are today found on the faculty of such renowned institutions as

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A Message from the Chair (continued from cover) the University of Wisconsin, University of Illinois, University As exemplified by the Kazickas Endowed Professorship and of Minnesota, University of Oregon, University of Colo- other endowed scholarship funds, growth in the Scandina- rado, Indiana University, University of Washington, Pacific vian and Baltic programs could not take place with State Lutheran University, St. Olaf College, Concordia College, financial support alone. The University of Washington is a and Gustavus Adolphus College, among many others. public university, but it is increasingly dependent on private support. For smaller programs and departments such as After more than a decade of steady growth, it is a true Scandinavian Studies, private support is not only important, pleasure to note that the Baltic Studies program at the it is absolutely critical! University of Washington has reached the point where we have been able to hire a tenure-track faculty member. From Excellence among the faculty inspires students and builds the early promise of teaching the three Baltic languages programs. Excellence among faculty facilitates cutting- when the program began in 1994, the hiring of a tenure- edge research. Excellence among faculty strengthens the track Baltic Studies faculty member in 2006 symbolizes the study of the Nordic and Baltic countries in America, and growth and stability of Baltic studies at the UW. Today the excites students and encourages intellectual discovery on a program includes the teaching of the history, culture, folk- multitude of levels. More than anything else, I believe, that lore and politics of the Baltic states, in addition to several continuing academic excellence and the long-term success levels of the Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian languages. of the Department of Scandinavian Studies depends on pri- I congratulate Dr. Guntis Smidchens on his tenure-track vate support. Opportunities for students to do challenging appointment and welcome him as the first Assistant Profes- research, take exciting classes and experience life-trans- sor of Baltic Studies at the UW. forming study abroad trips are enhanced and guaranteed by private support. Related and of considerable significance for the Baltic Stud- ies program and for the Department is the establishment of Be it large or small, I would encourage you to think about the Department’s first Endowed Professorship in Baltic Stud- making a contribution to support the continuing excellence ies. The Kazickas Family Foundation in New York has seen of the students, the faculty and the Department of Scandina- fit to establish the Kazickas Family Foundation Endowed vian Studies at the University of Washington as we near the Professorship in Baltic Studies in the Department and at the celebration of our centennial year, 2009-2010. University of Washington. 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It was with great sadness that the Department of Scandina- Leslie was known for her enthusiasm and encouragement of i n d vian Studies received word of the death of one of its most others, particularly students, younger scholars, and foreign n

energetic and talented members, Leslie Eliason, who died visitors. Her efforts to mentor women colleagues were also ca on April 12, 2004 after a short severe illness. She died at widely recognized. A natural leader, Leslie served on the s the University of California San Francisco Medical Center Executive Board of SASS and other scholarly organizations. where she had been flown from Bosnia for additional She also published many professional articles, chapters and cancer treatment. other contributions, as well as editing books. Beyond her ini- tial interest in Scandinavia, Leslie developed a keen expertise Before she became ill, Leslie was on sabbatical from the in the new democracies of central and eastern Europe, which Monterey Institute for International Studies. Her fellowship at she was pursing when she fell ill. Among her recent publica- the University of Central Europe in Budapest, Hungary includ- tions is Fascism, Liberalism, and Social Democracy in Central ed a contract with the George Soros Open Society Institute Europe: Past and Present, which she edited with Lene Bøgh to run several seminars in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzogovnia, Sørensen (Aarhus University Press, 2002). where she became ill. Despite outstanding medical treatment at the University of Sarajevo Hospital and then at UCSF, her But a list of her scholarship and achievements cannot fully cancer was too advanced to be stopped. capture her vivacious personality, ready smile, encouraging words, love of teaching, and the cause of knowledge and Leslie was a scholar, teacher, and promoter of Scandina- social justice. Her family, students, colleagues, and not least vian studies for more than twenty years. Her interests were the community of Scandinavian scholars, have lost a bright stimulated in high school when she left Allentown, PA for light. Those of us who knew her will never forget her warmth a senior year at Holstebro Gymnasium in Denmark on a and energy. Rotary Club Exchange Program. After graduating from the University of Virginia with highest honors in 1981, Leslie Leslie Eliason is survived by her parents, two brothers and spent another year of study at Århus University in Denmark sisters-in-law and their families. Leslie’s final request was on a Danish Marshall Fellowship. She continued her studies that any memorial remembrances be made in the form of of political science as a fellowship student at Stanford contributions to The Leslie Eliason Fund, c/o Col. William University where she earned her PhD in 1988. She was a T. Eliason, 101 Allen Harris Drive, Yorktown, VA 23692, member of the Department of Scandinavian Studies before to be equally shared by the Sarajevo office of the Open transferring to the Evans School of Public Administration. Society Institute and the University of Sarajevo hospital She remained an adjunct professor in Scandinavian Studies for comforting patients and colleagues whose needs fall and Political Science while teaching public policy. In addi- outside of official funding policies. tion to her teaching and research at UW, she managed the Humphrey and other international scholarship programs that brought dozens of students and visitors to the campus and region. In 1997, she was invited to join the faculty of “Hvil I Fred” the Monterey Institute for International Studies in California as an associate professor in the Graduate School of International Policy Studies. Her fields of expertise included C h r i s t i n e I n g e b r i t s e n , University of Washington comparative education policy, world politics and interna- E r i c E i n h o r n , University of Massachusetts tional political economy. 6 p r o g r am s

Latvian Lectureship Langins Fund supports guest at the UW lectures on Latvian topics e r 2 0 0 6 Six years ago, Mrs. Zigrida Langins of Bellevue, WA, mm The Latvian language program at the UW expanded established an endowment of $30,000 for the support

s u of lectures on Latvian topics at the UW. In this past

dramatically this year, thanks to the generous support of the Latvian government. The Latvian Ministry for year, four events were made possible thanks to interest earned by the fund: A lecture by Dr. Sarma Eglite

i e s Special Assignments for Society Integration Affairs d allotted half of the money needed to establish a entitled “A Faith-Based Nongovernmental Organization Latvian language lectureship, and the other half was in Latvia: Zvannieki foster home for children”; a concert and lecture by the Latvian folklore group, “Vilki”; as well

n s t u provided by the University of Washington’s Dean of a Arts and Sciences together with the Ellison Center for as class visits by Marisa Way-Rogainis, who discussed

v i her research on the letters of a Latvian deportee in a

a Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies. Norilsk labor camp and Dr. Aldis Purs, historian and i n

d This will be the third jointly funded lectureship in the coauthor of the book, Latvia: The Challenges of Change n Department of Scandinavian Studies, as we have (Routledge, 2002). ca

s similar arrangements with the governments of Denmark and Finland. Marking the beginning of this international collaborative project, Aigars Kalvitis, Prime Minister of Latvia, visited the UW in summer of 2005. A Bequest to support Lithuanian In a meeting with UW administrators, he pointed out studies at the UW that the UW is the only American university to teach Bernice Kellogg, a teacher and professional genealogist, Latvian: “The Government of Latvia wishes to express passed away in San Mateo, California on March 20, its gratitude to the University of Washington, for its 2005, at age 84. In her research about her own family’s contributions to American knowledge about Latvia and Lithuanian roots, she succeeded in tracing back her Latvian language, culture and history.” ancestors to the 1600s! In the last two years of her The lectureship is producing dramatic results. This year life, Mrs. Kellogg corresponded with the Scandinavian the Scandinavian Department was able to double the Department regarding its courses in Lithuanian language, number of Latvian language courses it offers, offering a topic close to her heart. She left a bequest of $265,000 both first-and third-year instruction. The number of to the UW Baltic Studies Program to establish the Kellogg students enrolled in Latvian studies has doubled this Endowment Fund. According to her wishes, interest earned year as compared to previous years! A side benefit by this fund will be used to support two English-language has been the expansion of contacts between our Baltic translation projects, and then scholarships for students in Studies Program and Latvia’s leading academic the Lithuanian studies program at the UW. The translation institution, since the Visiting Lecturer, Iveta Grinberga, projects are expected to begin in 2008, and will include is a member of the faculty at the University of Latvia. works by two of Mrs. Kellogg’s favorite Lithuanian authors: the classic prose author, Žemait (1854-1921), and Alfonsas Eidintas, former Ambassador of Lithuania to the USA. bal t i c s t u d i e s 7

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of $250,000 will receive a 50% match from the UW. i e s The new endowment will help the UW attract and retain d distinguished faculty in Baltic Studies.

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The Kazickas Family Foundation was established in 1999 a (Lithuanian Teaching Assistant), May 19, 2005 by Joseph and Alexandra Kazickas and their four children. v i It is actively involved in a wide range of projects in a i n

Lithuania: It has helped renovate and restore churches She told about her reasons for supporting the UW’s Baltic d and historic palaces in Vilnius; it has donated nearly Studies Program: “I feel privileged to be involved. When n ca

1,000 computers to schools throughout Lithuania; it my father started the Foundation, he wanted to help his s has given scholarships to worthy students in the arts beloved homeland Lithuania recover from fifty years of and sciences, and has supported several international Soviet oppression. I feel that the work of the University academic exchange programs for secondary students as of Washington’s Baltic Studies Program fits perfectly in well as youth conferences for civil society, art and music our mission. It brings attention to Lithuania and the other festivals, and professional training programs. countries of the Baltic. It celebrates our rich culture, history, heritage and traditions. And most importantly, it The Kazickas family escaped from the Soviet occupation brings a new generation of scholars to that very special of Lithuania in 1944. As a result of a fellowship from Yale part of the world. And for that, I thank you.” University to study for a doctorate in economics, Joseph Kazickas was able to settle in the United States in 1947. Over the next decades, he made his mark as a successful business entrepreneur, but never lost his emotional connection to Lithuania, convinced that one day his country Lithuanian poet speaks at UW would be free. When the independence movement, Saj dis, gained force in the late 1980s, Kazickas used In December of 2005, the prominent Lithuanian poet and his many political and social connections to lobby for literary scholar, Professor Tomas Venclova visited campus international support of Lithuania’s liberation. He and his for two events: A poetry reading and a lecture on the daughter Jurate were in Vilnius on March 11, 1990, when “Cultural Mythologies of Vilnius.” Venclova is author of Lithuania declared its independence from the Soviet Union. many books and articles about Lithuanian, Polish and Russian literature, as well as the cultural history of Lithuania’s Jurate Kazickas visited the UW campus in May of 2005 capital city, Vilnius. He is recipient of honorary doctorates to present the Foundation’s donation to the Baltic Studies from three European universities, and was awarded the Program. She also gave a guest lecture in the class on highest honor of Lithuania, the Order of Gediminas. 20th century Baltic history, where she offered a first hand account and analysis of the events surrounding Lithuania’s Venclova’s poetry reading was attended by about thirty declaration of independence. It is a twist of fate that as students and faculty, among them members of the “Baltic an infant, Jurate Kazickas arrived in the United States on Cultures” class. A student volunteer read each poem after a ship named after the great World War II journalist, Erie the author’s commentary. Many students later wrote to say Pyle, because she also became a well known American that they had never been fans of poetry, but this encounter journalist, an author of five books, two films and many with the author had opened their eyes to a new world. “He published articles. Her best known book, titled War has an amazing charisma about him,” wrote one student. Torn, is about the experiences of women journalists in The poetry reading was filmed, and thanks to technical help Viet Nam who, like herself, were among the first women from Steve Moran at the UW Language Learning Center, it reporters to write reports from the front lines of a war. She is now available for online viewing at http://depts. recently edited a translation of her father’s autobiography, washington.edu/llc/olr/lithuanian/venclova-poetry.php. a critical primary document in the history of Lithuania’s These events were made possible thanks to funds from the endowment independence movement. established at the UW by the Raišys and Liffick families of Seattle. al u m n i e r 2 0 0 6 mm s u

i e s d n s t u a v i a Where are they now? i n d n ca s Kurt Lundquist Ahlmann, a glaciologist and statesman tion headquartered in Seattle. Esther BA in Scandinavian Area Studies and (ambassador to Norway). Ahlmann drives revenue for the website by help- Swedish, 2001 married a woman from Bergen and ing Norwegian American businesses Life outside of the University certainly lived in Bergen for a time. He had real reach their target audience and also is different, yet it is still filled with foresight into climate warming and develops strategies for building content learning. I’ve tried to travel as much alerted the U.S. to the importance of on the website. “One of the most excit- as possible and spent time in both studying the polar regions following ing things in my job is figuring out new Cuba and Mexico recently. I bought World War II. Someday I hope to get and creative ways to present modern a house with my brother in 2002 back to Sweden to study his papers at Norway to a Norwegian American located at 29th Ave NE and 57th; a the archives. audience,” she explains. Norway has so much to offer beyond the traditional short walk to the school. In October For now I am working on science ‘lutefisk and lefse’ jokes. Norway is 2003 I started a Window and Gutter policy issues with the National Sci- an important partner for the USA in so Cleaning business with a longtime ence Board. I write our annual reports many ways.” Esther also serves on the friend, Marty Lund. Marty graduated on merit review, communicate with Advisory Board for the Department of in 2001 as well with a BA in History counterparts from abroad on how the Scandinavian Studies. and English. Considering both our National Science Foundation functions, names and educational background and manage our external evaluation our business name seemed natural. process. We want to hear from you... Valhalla Window and Gutter Clean- Alums, if you would like to be included ing. We are still waiting for Odin to in an upcoming newsletter, please write call but until then others can reach us Esther Beate Foote to us or send an email to uwscand@ u.washington.edu at (206) 229-3845. I miss the depart- Esther graduated in 2003 with a ment and I often think about all the degree from the Communications people there who helped shape my Department and Jackson School of life along the way. International Studies, with coursework focusing on Scandinavia. Esther Fae Korsmo is currently the Sales & Marketing Manager for the website www. I’m getting into history of science right Norway.com. The website, which is now, in my spare time. It turns out that the largest website about Norway and Scandinavia still holds keen interest ‘Norwegian America,’ has over 7 mil- for me, notably the 20th century lion unique annual users, and is owned Swedish glaciologist Hans W:son by the Norwegian American Founda- n e w d i r e c t i o n s 9 e r 2 0 0 6 New Directions in Scandinavian Studies mm

The Department of Scandinavian Studies and the University of Washington s u Press has established a new series titled “New Directions in Scandinavian Studies.” With Christine Ingebritsen and Terje Leiren as General Editors, the i e s

series offers interdisciplinary approaches to the study of the Nordic region d of Scandinavia and the Baltic States and their cultural connections in North America. By redefining the boundaries of Scandinavian studies to include n s t u

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The first publication in the new series is Small States in International Relations, edited by Christine i n d

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highlights the ability of small states to counter power with superior commitment, to rely on tightly ca knit domestic institutions with a shared “ideology of social partnerships,” and to set agendas as s “norm entrepreneurs.”

Swedish Institute Lauds UW Swedish Program The Swedish program at the University of Washington was decreed to be one of the two best in the world by the Stockholm-based Swedish Institute. The recognition came in 2003 and was accompanied by a monetary prize of 10,000 Swedish kronor. The Swedish program at Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic, was also cited by the Swedish Institute. The Swedish faculty members, Lotta Gavel Adams, Professor, and Ia Dubois, Senior Lecturer, were given special citations for their work in making the Department of Scandinavian Studies Swedish program the best institution for the teaching of Swedish language and culture outside of Sweden. Dubois attributes the award to the Department’s unique blend of Scandinavian culture courses, including literature, politics, history and film courses, in addition to the strong Swedish language instruction. According to Professor Gravel Adams, “It is really our students who make us shine.”

Department Adds Finnish Major Pending final approval by the Washington State Higher Education Coordinating (HEC) Board, the Department will begin offering a major in Finnish in the coming academic year. The first tenure-track faculty appointment in the Department in 1990 led to the development of a Finnish program comparable to the existing Danish, Norwegian and Swedish programs. As a result of the support of the government of Finland and the Finnish-American community of Washington state, a visiting lecturer of Finnish and scholarships for students in the program were established. Students interested in declaring a major in Finnish should meet with Professor Lotta Gavel Adams, the Undergraduate Academic Advisor. 0 1 0 1

s ca n d i n a v i a n s t u d i e s s u mm e r 2 0 0 6 courses, expectations, and outcomes. tell about our colleagues program, cider, while listening to me and my donuts and andbagels drinking hot dance who were happily munching on 146 interested undergraduates in atten- and Minors in I our counted Department. event to spread the word about Majors graduate Orientation, a coordinated ScandinavianUnder- Department January, Iorganize helped the first seems to be going on as before. In But my hectic life at the Department professor, a great but humbling honor. beingfirst promoted to full after a An exciting year is coming to an end, my Professor t t o L Scandinavian society. reflect issues intoday’s multicultural the generationlatest whose works poets it to includereformatted more works by most exciting teaching this year as she course wasThe graduatethe poetry projectbook into a concrete reality. 2006 in Quarter Linköping turning her Linköping University, Ia will Fallspend exchangeand its withfocus on faculty Thanks to the Lars Jonsson Family Fund, on perspectives sexuality in Scandinavia. She continues her comparative on study with continued research and teaching. Ia Dubois has had an inspiring year Senior Lecturer A i Bengali Summer Institute. trainingJune to teacher conduct for the will weeks intwo spend inBangladesh for Bengali. of thisAs part project, I development of a language curriculum I also embarked on a new project, the hybrid course development project. the assessment phase ofcompleted our of Germanics, the Departments I have with my Prof. colleague from Bansleben by Prentice Hall in 2007. In cooperation isThe book for publication scheduled ofchapter my project. book methods in the ofprocess finishing upthe last some of the highlights: I am currently productive academic year. Here are This has another exciting been and Senior Lecturer K Faculty News f A L C A ü D r B s u a u b

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School Teachers’School conference in Chicago. a presentation at the American Latvian School. In March,Latvian I made Seattle activities as aat volunteerthe teacher involved incommunity Latvian local language acquisition. I have also been Ph.D. second dissertation about Latvian my teaching job, I am working on my inspiring in my own work. In addition to American students, which I find very for motivated,History and open active and Literary Culturaland Latvian Latvian spent my time preparing for First Year 2005inLecturer andSeptember have to workI asstarted the Visiting Latvian Visiting Lecturer I Strindberg’s works. ing my exploration of masculinities in William Faulkner, I gave a continupaper grandifloras and ofNobel Prize winner the land of magnificent magnolia SASS conference in Oxford, Mississippi, be published this summer. At this year’s series PrizeNobel Winners in Literature in the Verner von Heidenstam for an edition on Swedish Prize Nobel winner in 1916 for anon the article the galley-proofs in Stockholm. Presently, I am checking Strindberg och Genus was published in “Strindberg, Vetenskap Manlighet”och II published in of Peace and Women’s “Fredrika Bremer: Passionate Promoter have foundarticles their way into print: front,On the scholarly a ofcouple my most recent topics. war time history, to mention a few of the about Finnish children’s literature and courses sharing departmental bita little much alsoenjoyed very visiting other a high number I wish to keepI have up! lively group of nine yearsecond students, insightful experiences. We have had a which all haveintensive been and well as Kalevala and the Epic Tradition, taught and second third year Finnish as hasinteresting been and fun. I have My year second as the visiting lecturer Visiting Lecturer K t e v by Praesens Verlag in Vienna, and a o r a Dictionary of Literary Biography l

G n i i n i r v Female Voices of the North a s i u K b g r e Det gäckandeDet könet: by Symposion A M a R ights” was to - Scandinavia In World Politics In InternationalStates Relations Two new arebooks coming out, delighted to be rejoining the Department. of Undergraduate Education and is a year as Acting Dean and Vice Provost Christine hasIngebritsen just completed Associate Professor C on in the homeland. updating my knowledge of what’s going ing the annual seminar lecturer in Finland In the summer, as usual, I will be attend Finnish events area. in the greater Seattle that keeps about current me well-informed as the secretary,serve a pleasant position the Finlandialocal Foundation’s board. I I am also starting my year second on on Fidalgo Island. wasboat Pass launched near Deception for the seriesboat “The Big Build.” The on the buildingdocumentary of a Viking he also inappeared Channela History Productionsof Shybert in Colorado, and byproduced SteinarNorway Hybertsen CrownNorwegian of Princess Märtha a 2005 on the late PBS documentary in,participated and was interviewed for, ing the dissolution in 1905. Leiren also Suzzallo exhibitLibarary commemorat UW Nordic Librarian, on an extensive worked with Gerald Anderson, the and independence. He Norwegian monarchyon Norwegian the modern gave numerous and scholarly public talks Union Swedish-Norwegian in 1905. He of the centennial of the dissolution of the busy during the 2005 commemoration willterm be his last. He was especially period in 2005, Leiren promises this ChairDepartment for a third five-year the busiest for a long time. yearsThe past two haveamong been Professor T Viking Dean. Studies my for supporting role as Acting of Scandinavianto the Department n e r i e L e j r e h e n i t s i r I e g n b n e s t i r R eappointed eappointed .

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Along with Christine Ingebritsen, Leiren In spring quarter 2006, I am co-taught G u n t i s Š m i dch e n s e r 2 0 0 6 helped to launch a new book series a new course with Eric Ames. The Assistant Professor with the University of Washington Press title is Crime Scenes: Investigating the mm Guntis Šmidchens began teaching called “New Directions in Scandinavian Cinema. The course uses the crime film s u as a Visiting Lecturer at the UW in Studies.” The first volume,Small States to introduce students to the study of 1993; since then his title changed in International Relations, was published film, Scandinavian and German film

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in April, 2006, in cooperation with the history, as well as to the cinema’s culture d has now accepted the position of University of Iceland Press. Several of violence. Check it out at http:// Assistant Professor in the Department more volumes are planned. Finally, as courses.washington.edu/crmscns. For the of Scandinavian Studies, beginning in the academic year 2005-2006 comes website, thanks is due to Scandinavian n s t u fall of 2006. He will continue to teach a to a close, the Department is in the Studies Ph.D. student Peter Leonard, who a variety of courses on Baltic history, v i middle of its ten-year academic review. is one of the course’s TAs, and who has a culture and society, and the popular

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undergraduate course, “Introduction d hensive Self-Study, the Review to Folklore.” This spring, Guntis was n Committee appointed by the UW j A n K r o g h N i e l s e n elected President of the Association ca Graduate School has conducted s Visiting Lecturer for the Advancement of Baltic Studies interviews with faculty, staff, students, (AABS), to serve as President Elect in and advisory board members. It is an In my second year as the Visiting 2006-2008, President 2008-2010, and extensive and exhausting process that is Danish Lecturer, I have been teaching Director-at-Large 2010-2012. At the end intended to evaluate and renew the second and third year Danish as well of June, he will accompany a group of academic efforts of the Department as it as Masterpieces of Scandinavian UW alumni on a tour of the countries approaches its own centennial celebra- Literature. In October 2005, I attended surrounding the Baltic Sea. tion in 2009-2010. Following a hectic the Danish American Heritage Society’s year in the Department, Leiren says he International Conference in Des Moines, is ready to join another UW Alumni Iowa. I wrote a couple of entries on M a r i a n n e S t e ch e r - H a n s e n Tour on its trip to Scandinavia in July. the Danish poet Inger Christensen for Associate Professor Companion to 20th-Century World Marianne Stecher-Hansen recently Poetry (Facts on File). This summer, A n d r e w N e s t i n g e n participated in a conference entitled I will be teaching the literary culture Assistant Professor “Denmark and the Black Atlantic” component of the Danish summer (http://blackatlantic.engerom.ku.dk) in In 2006 I have been working to program, Copenhagen Classroom Copenhagen (May 06) where she deliv- complete a book titled Criminal 2006, as well as function as the on-site ered a paper on Danish Colonialism Scandinavia: Popular Culture and Program Coordinator. and Thorkild Hansen’s Slave Trilogy. the Welfare State. The book shows Over the past academic year how popular culture became a newly j A n S j å v i k Professor Stecher-Hansen delivered important forum for cultural and political Professor invited plenary lectures on at the debate in Scandinavia during the International Hans Christian Andersen 1990s. I explain how authors and Jan Sjåvik has spent the year teaching Conference in Odense (August filmmakers modified the conventions his regular courses, writing about 19th 2005), at the international Danish of popular forms such as the police century Norwegian literature, and American Heritage conference in procedural novel, the crime film, seeing his book Historical Dictionary Des Moines (October 2005). She melodrama, and others to convey their of Scandinavian Literature and Theater was also invited to speak at the political points. The book will be pub- through to publication (it appeared in Smithsonian (November 2005) as part lished by the University of Washington April, 2006, published by Scarecrow of Norway’s Centennial Celebration, Press in the series New Directions Press). At the Annual Meeting of lecturing on Knut Hamsum. With the in Scandinavian Studies, edited by the Society for the advancement of support of a generous grant from the colleagues Christine Ingebritsen and Scandinavian Study in Oxford, Miss., SCAN|DESIGN foundation, Marianne Terje Leiren. Evidently one book leads he read a paper on an autobiography is developing new programs at the to another. I’m also at work on a book written by the Norwegian-American UW: an interdisciplinary Summer about contemporary Finnish filmmaker scientist H. P. K. Agersborg. In August program in Denmark: Copenhagen Aki Kaurismäki, which will be published he will present papers at international Classroom (http://depts.washington. by Wallflower Press, a UK film publisher conferences in Turku, Finland (on Jonas edu/scand/copenhagenclassroom) and whose books are distributed in the Lie) and Oslo, Norway (on Ibsen), a SCAN|DESIGN fellowship program US by Columbia University Press. It is followed by papers on Ibsen to be given to support undergraduate and graduate tentatively titled: The Cinema of Aki at the PAMLA in Riverside, California, study at Danish Universities. Kaurismäki: Shadows and Paradise. in November and at the MLA in Philadelphia in December. 2 1 2 1

s ca n d i n a v i a n s t u d i e s s u mm e r 2 0 0 6 Student News launch the thesis work. in the fall to finish up myclasswork and this summer, and then it’s to Seattle back language program in Bergen, Norway I will be in the intensive Norwegian in today’s Scandinavia. decision-making political understanding of in terms immensely are helping which Unionstudies European ing on concentrat am I program. Specifically R International and European in Masters in their classes taking I am semester. spring their during studying Linköpings Universitet, now Iam where (Sweden’s) with program exchange in the participate to me is enabling which Scholarship aJonsson awarded been have to fortunate extremely feel accomplish the to lead should which my classwork Ibegan term that During Studies. Scandinavian of field the to contribution some make hopefully and it on focus to time the was this that felt and life adult my of most Scandinavia in interested intensely been have I term. 2005 fall the for Studies Scandinavian of Department the studies)in (area program masters the to applied I service, government local of years 30 from retiring After R Lithuanian. to teachingforward second-year government. In the fall I am looking who were exiled to Siberia by the Soviet sites and ofcemeteries many Lithuanians The goal of the expedition is to visit the and the Lithuanian-American community. sponsored by the Lithuanian government youth expedition to Siberia, which is summer I am going to take in part a year at the UWof School Law. In the of Law, I am now finishingthe first Scandinavian Studies and the School As a concurrent degree student in master’s the in of 2007.ment degree I I r g v e o b a D A g n o L e D t r e t u B u a k u t s e t e t u d s t n e elations elations - -

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assistant for Swedish. and continuing as ato serve teaching resuming my studies at the department which I after will be looking to forward able to the spend summer in Sweden, Family Scholarship committee, I will be was awarded to me by the Peterson’s Thanks to a generous grant which of 19th Scandinavian literature.century rewritespostmodern of canonical works my thesis MA which deals with the Swedish. and teaching first-year Department enjoyingbeen taking courses at the of Scandinavian studies, I have graduate student at the Department During mytwo first years as a L A r firstchild, baby Kalina, in February. enjoying weparenthood; our welcomed husband Tobias and I have also been Indiana University in Bloomington. My ofLanguage Norwegian and Culture at position as aand Lecturer Coordinator myfurthering career by assuming a Theoretical Thought.” I will be soon in the Light of French Post-Hegelian the End ofHenrik History: Ibsen’s Works in April on Henrik Ibsen titled “Man at the first time, Idefended my dissertation for Norwegian teaching second-year Besides enjoying the experience of This hasa busybeen year for me! G Swedish his discuss prose work. of innovative most stylists the of one hear to event drew dozens attendees of Sweden, of the General Consulate the inYork New House by City. Sponsored Scandinavia at Khemiri Jonas author Swedish the with discussion ing and aread 2005,November moderated he In Humanities. the for Center Simpson the for webmaster the as serving while towards program aPh.D.,ing in the is continu He services. and products onlineconsumer for interfaces user on worked he where Microsoft at 2005, of summer the interned During he inin June, Swedish 2005. Literature degree his MA received Leonard Peter P n o e L r e t e g r e s t i a a n R ight now I am working on L a M a z a a a r y v o r d a - - 131 3

Visitor from Estonia e r 2 0 0 6 M a r k S ä f s t r ö m E r i k S u n dh o lm In May of 2006, Evelin Lehis mm I plan to complete my MA degree in I finished all requirements for the visited campus to speak in s u

Area Studies this June. I am currently Masters Degree winter term 2006. In a class taught by Christine finishing a thesis that examines the May, my paper was presented at the Ingebritsen, “Modern

influence of 19th century Swedish University of Copenhagen’s “Denmark i e s clergyman and author Paul Peter and the Black Atlantic” conference. I am Scandinavian Politics.” She d Waldenström in North America, titled looking forward to commencement in compared and analyzed recent “Lektor Waldenström comes to America; June and putting all that I have learned

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continue in the PhD program with the enjoyed my studies. Thanks to all the these three countries since they d goal of developing myself as a historian great people in the department and to joined the European Union n and biographer. my wife Kerry for the support. ca in 2004. After completing s her undergraduate studies in M i a S p a n g e n b e r g A n n e V e s t e r g aa r d Estonia, Lehis continued her I have been formally invited into the I am enjoying my second year as graduate research as a guest PhD program in Scandinavian Studies. a Master’s student and a TA very scholar at several prominent I plan on pursuing my interests in much. I have taken a lot of interesting representations of masculinity in current courses of language, literature, and European and North American Finnish literature and film and will be pedagogy and am currently working universities. She is currently working on an article based on my MA on my master’s thesis on the reading thesis this summer. I am especially look- working at the World Bank as ing forward to developing my Finnish of literature in an online environment. an expert on Environmentally Teaching first year Danish has been class and meeting my new students in & Socially Sustainable the fall. To balance my life and school very rewarding and has given me a Development, and working work, I will be climbing Mt. Hood in new, interesting perspective on my June as part of an effort to raise funds mother tongue. After graduation, I toward a doctoral degree at to fight breast cancer sponsored by am returning to Denmark and hope to the University of Denver. the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research get appointed as a teacher of Dan- Center. It is exhilerating to be training ish and Spanish. I would like to take and getting into really good shape while this opportunity to thank you all for raising funds for such a great cause. I contributing to a very inspiring stay also hope to be travelling in Finland, here in the US. Germany and Denmark in August to visit friends and relatives.

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I am thrilled to be back in the fascinat- ing world of Scandinavian Studies after a long hiatus. I am currently a part-time graduate student, while working full-time as a faculty librarian at South Seattle Community College. I’m enjoying taking classes in the department, and plan to write my master’s thesis about Edith Carlmar, Norway’s first woman film director. 11 4 Dd oe v n e ol ro s p m e n t

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