Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study FRIDAY 8:00 AM — 9:30 AM Annual Meeting 2013 SESSION 1.1 COLUMBUS I San Francisco, California STREAM 1: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN NORDIC HISTORY May 2-4, 2013 Pious Transformations: Scandinavian Responses to New Religious Situations The Department of Scandinavian at University of California, Berkeley welcomes the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study to San Moderator: Jason Lavery (Oklahoma State University) Francisco for its 103rd annual meeting to be held at the San Francisco ! Riikka Miettinen (University of Tampere): “Religious Crises and Hilton/Financial District Hotel. Unorthodox Views among Swedish and Finnish Suicides during the 17th Century” ! Øystein Lydik Idsø Viken (University of Oslo): “Preaching as Wednesday, May 1 Government in 18th-Century Norway” ! Sara E. Ellis Nilsson (University of Gothenburg): “Making Honest 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Tenure Workshop I (by invitation) DAVIS Saints Out of Them: Clerical Responses to New Saints in Scandinavia” ! Johannes Ljungberg (Lund University): “The Pietist Threat as a Case Study on the Concept of Unity in Sweden, 1700-1730” Thursday, May 2 SESSION 1.2 COLUMBUS II 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM Tenure Workshop II (by invitation) DAVIS Autobiography I 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM Registration BALLROOM FOYER Moderator: Mary Kay Norseng (UCLA) 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM Book Display FRONT ! Joseph Kellner (UC Berkeley): “Potpourri Russe: Santeri Nuorteva and the Embassy of the International Revolution” 12:30 PM - 4:00 PM SASS Executive Council Meeting JACKSON ! Margaretha Fahlgren (Uppsala University): “Fear and Love: 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM SHS Executive Committee Meeting JACKSON Masculinity and Emotion in Politicians’ Autobiographies” 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM ISA Council Meeting DAVIS ! Jenna Coughlin (UC Berkeley): “Back to Nature Again: Thor Heyerdahl’s Changing Self-Representation” 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Opening Plenary Lecture BALLROOM Hon. Consul General of Sweden Barbro Osher SESSION 1.3 COLUMBUS III STREAM 2: SCANDINAVIAN CRIME FICTION 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM Opening Reception BALLROOM FOYER Production, Marketing, and Visual Media Moderator: Kerstin Bergman (Lund University) Friday, May 3 ! Olof Hedling (Lund University): “Paradoxical Production Cultures: A Tale of Two Films Based on Stieg Larsson’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo” 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Book Display FRONT ! Karl Berglund (Uppsala University): “Covering Crime: The Making and Marketing of Swedish Crime Fiction through Book Covers” ! Louise Nilsson (Uppsala University): “Marketing Scandivicious: The Making of Swedish Crime Novels as World Literature” 1 2 SESSION 1.4 PINE ! Mimi Nielsen (University Washington): “Surrealism and Karin STREAM 3: THE NORTH ATLANTIC Boye’s Place in Swedish Literary History” ! Ulf Olsson (Stockholm University): “The Occult Body: FLASH PANEL Hermeneutics in Strindberg’s Occult Diary” Moderator: Ebbe Volquardsen, (Justus-Liebig-Universität, Gießen) ! Kirsten Thisted (University of Copenhagen): “Denmark and the New SESSION 1.7 WASHINGTON Nordic North” STREAM 4: LANGUAGE IDENTITY/PEDAGOGY ! Birgit Kleist Pedersen (University of Greenland): “Negotiations on Dialects, Diversity, and Varieties of Language the Concept of ‘Cultural Identity’ in a Time of Fermentation in Greenland” Moderator: Veronica Lundback (University of Wisconsin/Milwaukee) ! Malan Marnersdóttir (University of the Faroe Islands): “The ! Martin Skjekkeland (University of Agder): “Two Written Standards Collective Identity in William Heinesen’s Work” in Norway – Two Identities? – A Historic Explanation” ! Elisabeth Oxfeldt (University of Oslo): “When Worlds Collide: The ! Nichola Smalley (University College London): “Extraordinary North Atlantic in Johan Harstad’s Buzz Aldrin” Everyday Language: Surveying Translators’ Approaches to Slang and ! Bergur Rønne Moberg (University of Copenhagen): “North Atlantic Contemporary Vernaculars in Contemporary Literature” Placemaking: Waterscapes in Faroese Literature” ! Mikko Taurama & Henriikka Rönkkönen (Indiana University, Bloomington): “F-bombs and A-plusses: Touching on Taboos in Language Instruction” SESSION 1.5 MASON I Stig Dagerman in English: SESSION 1.8 MONTGOMERY New Beginnings Old Norse I Moderator: Amanda Doxtater (University of Oregon) Moderator: Elisabeth I. Ward (UC Berkeley) ! Steven Hartman (KTH Stockholm): “Challenges of Translating ! Pernille Hermann (University of Aarhus): “Sagas and Memory: “The Dagerman: Short Fiction, Poetry, and the Essay (especially Our Reception of Artificial Memory in the ‘Íslendingasögur’” Need for Consolation)” ! Chip Robinson (UCLA): “Magical Realism in Medieval Icelandic ! Benjamin Mier-Cruz: (UC Berkeley): “Translating the Novel Bränt and Contemporary South American Literature” Barn” ! Verena Hoefig (University of California, Berkeley): “Challenging the ! Lo Dagerman (Independent): “Short Film: Our Need for Consolation Landnám” (2012), Based on Dagerman’s Text” ! Nahir I. Otaño Gracia (University of Pennsylvania): “Translating Arthur: Ívens saga and Möttuls saga in a Scandinavian Context” SESSION 1.6 MASON II SESSION 1.9 DAVIS Dystopias and Surrealism Poetry I Moderator: Anders Ehlers Dam (University of Copenhagen) Moderator: Kjerstin Moody (Gustavus Adolphus College) ! Rose-Marie G. Oster (University of Maryland): “Karin Boye’s ! Yuko Ishino (Kanazawa University): “The Birth and the Transition of Kallocain and Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We: A Comparison between Greater Finland: Focused on the Interpretations of the Epic Poetry in Two Pre-World War II Dystopic Novels” Kalevala” ! Lieven Ameel (University of Helsinki): “Rereading Mika Waltari’s ! Bjarne Markussen (University of Agder): “The Rhetoric of Comfort: Suuri illusioni (1928): Modernist Traces in a Finnish Cult Novel of Henrik Wergeland’s Svalen (1841)” the 1920s” 3 4 ! Neal Ashley Conrad Thing (Lund University): “The Force of ! Colin Gioia Connors (University of Wisconsin): “ePublishing in the Paradox—Interdisciplinary Approaches to Paradoxes in the Poetry Saga: Exploring Medieval Oral Traditions with Digital Means” of Gunnar Ekelöf” ! Nicholas Thély (University of Rennes II) & Fredrik Palm (Umeå ! Louise Mønster (Aalborg University): “The Sense of Place in the University): “Transparency and Visualization in Text Mining – A Poetry of Thomas Tranströmer and Henrik Nordbrandt” Case Study of Connected Connect Analysis with Textometrica” ! Christian-Emil Ore (University of Oslo): “Linked Data and Source SESSION 1.10 JACKSON Text Collections—A Norwegian Example” STREAM 5: THE AUTHOR Autobiographical Acts 9:30 AM — 9:45 AM Brief coffee break Moderator: Claus Elholm Andersen (University of Helsinki) ! Renessa Osterberg Jessup (Minnesota State University): FRIDAY 9:45 AM — 11:15 AM “Performative Autobiography in Contemporary Norwegian Fiction” ! Anne Berit Lyngstad (NTNU Trondheim): “Autobiographical Acts and the Contemporary Scandinavian Author” SESSION 2.1 COLUMBUS I ! Espen E. Børdahl (Johan Wolfgang Goethe University): “Enthusiasms, STREAM 1: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN NORDIC HISTORY Outrage, and Indifference: Aspects of the Reception of Karl Ove Early Modern History Revisited Knausgård’s Min kamp in Scandinavia and Germany” ! Jon Helt Haarder (University of Southern Denmark): “Flashing Moderator: Heli Valtonen (University of Jyväskylä) Fictionality: Authenticity and Artificiality in Karl Ove Knausgård’s ! Jason Lavery (Oklahoma State University): "A Reformation in My Struggle” Reverse? Finland during the Reign of Gustav Vasa (1521-1560)" ! David Jessup (University of Washington): “Henric Schartau and the SESSION 1.11 BALLROOM Faith of the Marchlands” The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Era ! Marko Hakanen (University of Jyväskylä) and Ulla Koskinen in Scandinavia: Upheaval, Transformation, (University of Tampere): “Keeping up Appearances: Displays of and Remembrance, 1800–1814, I Noble Power in Early Modern Sweden” Moderator: Lynn Wilkinson (University of Texas) SESSION 2.2 COLUMBUS II ! Norbert Götz (Södertörn University): “The Good Plumpuddings’ Autobiography II Belief: British Humanitarian and Medical Assistance to Sweden During the Napoleonic Wars” Moderator: Margaretha Fahlgren (Uppsala University) ! Kristina Fjelkestam (Linköping University): “Literature and ! Kristoffer Jul-Larsen (NTNU): “The Sound of a New Author: Revolution: Germanine de Staël in Sweden” Discussing Modernism, Presenting Self” ! Lone Kølle Martinsen (University of Southern Denmark): ! Michelle Facos (Indiana University): “Emma Lamm Zorn: “Scandinavia and Her Romantic Writers: How Romanticism is Philanthropist, Ethnographer, Woman, Jew” Connected to Political History” ! Peter Henning (Lund University): “Henriette Sophie Widerberg and the Autobiographical Underground of the Swedish 1800s” SESSION 1.12 SANSOME ! Nina Ernst (Lund University): “Me, Myself, and I: The Use of Metafictional Strategies in Autobiographical Swedish Comics” STREAM 6: DIGITAL HUMANITIES Moderator: Oddrun Grønvik (University of Oslo) ! Kari Lie (St. Olaf College): “Lessons Learned from Exploration of Digital Humanities in Norwegian” 5 6 SESSION 2.3 COLUMBUS III SESSION 2.6 MASON II STREAM 2: SCANDINAVIAN CRIME FICTION STREAM 6: DIGITAL HUMANITIES Character (Construction) and Gender Moderator: Anna Westerstahl Stenport (University of Illinois) Moderator: Olof Hedling (Lund University) ! Peter Leonard (Yale University): “Multiethnic Centers & Suburban ! Sarah Ljungquist (University of Gävle): “The Importance of Salander” Peripheries: Visualizing the Geographies of Gringo” ! Kerstin Bergman (Lund University): “From Conflicted Mother to ! Christopher