NORTANA Newsletter Newsletter for the Norwegian Researchers & Teachers Association of North America Spring 2006 http://www.nortana.net Torild Homstad, editor Contents President’s Greeting President’s Greeting NORTANA News & Business It was wonderful NORTANA Spring Meeting Minutes seeing so many From Consulate General’s Office, New York NORTANA members Bjørn Jensen leilighet in Oxford, Mississippi Housing in Oslo/Nesodden earlier this month! Fall 2005 Enrollment Census Norwegian Program Cuts I would like to report From frøkenvev on a few items that Study Opportunities NORTANA has been Scandinavian Studies in Telemark making progress on in the last few months. Norgesskolen Although it has gone more slowly than I had Summer Study in Madison hoped, the census of enrollments and course Useful Websites offerings on Norwegian language and area Film, Publications & Reviews studies is nearing completion. I will provide a Crown Princess Märtha: the American Story. summary in this newsletter. Likewise the Cecilie Løveid: Engendering a Dramatic NORTANA database of available text and Tradition reference books for learning Norwegian has a Intro, Samfunnskunnskap for voksne fair number of entries and is searchable innvandrere at:www.nortana.net/resources/. I would still like Velkommen. Håndbok for nye innbyggere i members to contribute suggestions for additional Norge material and add comments on the items we Nordic-Baltic-U.S. Almanac 2006-2007 already list. The easiest way to contribute to this Female Voices of the North database is to email me directly and I’ll add it. Congratulations! Our second essay contest has successfully Welcome to New NORLA Director concluded with the selection of Nathaniel NORTANA Essay Contests Hopkins’ essay “Love’s Reconciliation: On the Thanks from Simon Helton Contemporary Significance of Ibsen’s Ethics” as Ibsen Essay Contest Results Ibsen Essay the first place winner. Nathaniel is a philosophy major at St. Olaf. The prize for this essay, generously contributed by NORLA, will include a round-trip flight to Oslo and two nights stay at a hotel. NORTANA will award books to Sonya Hamburg (University of Washington) and Jenna Larson (St. Olaf College) for their essays. I would like to thank the NORTANA essay judging panel composed of Hanna Zmijewska- Emerson, Jan Sjåvik, Ellen Rees, and Claudia Berguson for their time and expertise in selecting the winning essays. This essay competition has generated interest in Ibsen and NORTANA NEWSLETTER Spring 2006 also in NORTANA, with a pending article in News of Norway. Our website continues to attract large numbers of visitors. I’d like to urge members to send frøkenvev (Kari Lie) suggested web links for Norwegian studies. And we now offer two readers’ guides but would like to expand the inventory considerably (so please contact Torild Homstad for details). Linda Prestegård, Liv Mørch Finborud, Kristin Iglum Finally, I’d like to comment on our mailing list, [email protected]. I am pleased that the list is The winner of NORTANA’s Ibsen Essay being used more than in the past, but I also feel Contest was announced: Nathaniel Hopkins that we can continue to maintain contact oss i from St. Olaf College. Thanks to the generosity mellom with the list by sharing ideas and tips on of NORLA, Nathaniel will be awarded with an teaching, announcing positions and material, airline ticket to Oslo plus 2 nights’ sharing our expertise both among our own accommodation in Norway’s capital. members and beyond to people who ask questions. It’s always valuable to read Margaret Hayford O’Leary gave a brief report contributions from other members! on the Bjørn Jensen apartment at Sogn Studentby. The apartment is booked until June I send my greetings for a productive and 2007. NORTANA members get top priority in renewing summer, wherever you may find the application process and are encouraged to yourself. take advantage of this attractive and convenient apartment. Med vennlig hilsen Louis Janus, NORTANA President Torild Homstad announced that the Newsletter will be distributed in a couple of weeks. Member participation is essential in a Newsletter such as NORTANA’s, and all members are NORTANA Spring Meeting Minutes encouraged to send in announcements pertaining University of Mississippi to teaching, opportunities for study, textbooks May 6, 2006 and other publications, CDs, DVDs etc. etc. Torild also asked members to please pick a NORTANA members attended a luncheon favorite Norwegian book that is available in meeting at the annual SASS meeting, held this English translation, and write a reading group year in Oxford, Mississippi. President Louis guide. See the NORTANA web site for Reading Janus opened the meeting by asking all Group Guide format. participants to introduce themselves. Thirty-one Louis distributed a report from Frøken Vev (aka were in attendance, representing universities and Kari Lie) and asked people to please submit colleges in Canada, the U.S., and Norway. links to [email protected] NORTANA was especially honored by the He also encouraged members to make more presence of Liv Mørch Finborud, Kristin Iglum frequent use of NORTANA’s list serve at and Linda Prestegård from the Norwegian [email protected] Consulate General in New York. Consul General Liv Mørch Finborud introduced her new staff, Kristin Iglum and Linda Prestegård, who were attending their first SASS meeting. Finborud reported on a number of things: NORTANA NEWSLETTER 2 Spring 2006 1. Norgesseminar 2006, to be held at the Jan Sjåvik was promoted to full professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison University of Washington. November 3-5. The topic: Ibsen 2. The many theatre productions in New Job announcement: Ellen Rees announced an York celebrating Ibsenåret, and the very opening for a graduate student to teach second successful Munch exhibit at MOMA year Norwegian at the University of Oregon. 3. Ibsen poster exhibit: the Henrik Ibsen Lifetime memberships: Audun Toven, Faythe museum has produced 9 posters that can Thureen, Gerry Anderson, and Carla Waal will be sent to colleges and universities on be awarded lifetime memberships to loan. Contact the Consulate General in NORTANA. NY if you are interested. 4. Also available on loan are filmed Bulletin Board: Claudia Berguson asks versions of plays by Ibsen from theatre everyone to send her information about guest and television productions. lecturers from Norway. Claudia will coordinate 5. Scholarships: The Leiv Eiriksson a bulletin board/calendar that will be posted on mobility program seeks to promote an the NORTANA web site. increase in scientific and technological cooperation with the USA and Canada. Troy Storfjell thanked NORTANA members for Mobility grants can be obtained for their expressions of sympathy and support when research stays of three to ten months’ his nephew died last spring during the SASS duration in Norway. Support is granted conference in Portland. in the form of a monthly allowance of NOK 10,500 for individuals or NOK The meeting was adjourned by Louis Janus. 21,000 for families plus a travel subsidy Respectfully submitted, of NOK 7,000 per person. Application Katherine Hanson, University of Washington deadline: August 31, 2006. All stays must commence after January 1, 2007. From the Consulate General’s Office in Norges forskningsråd has been charged with implementing this program. New York Sami scholarship: sponsored by Nordisk Sami Institutt to encourage and promote Recipients of Ministry of Foreign Affairs research in Sami studies. Application Travel Grants for 2006: deadline is June 1, 2006 and the Gergana May, Univ. of Washington recipient will be awarded NOK Kimberly Kenny, Univ. of Chicago 20,000. Odd S. Lovoll, St. Olaf College Margaret Hayford O’Leary told us about a web John Weinstock, Univ. of Texas at Austin site with current information on programs and Hanna Zmijewska-Emerson, Univ. of Minnesota performances in the Midwest in conjunction Anne G. Sabo, St. Olaf College with Ibsenåret: www.ibsenmidwest.org Roger Greenwald, University of Toronto Ellen Rees, University of Oregon Louis congratulated the following for their Lee Sather, Weber State University recent accomplishments, promotions etc: Kathleen Stokker, Luther College Melissa Gjellstad received a 3-year post-doc at Nancy Aarsvold, St. Olaf College Agder University College in Kristiansand. Kari Lie, Univ. of Texas at Austin Gergana May has successfully defended her Lori Ann Lahlum, MN State Univ., Mankato PhD dissertation and accepted a position Terje I. Leiren, Univ. of Washington teaching Norwegian at Indiana University. Jan Sjåvik, Univ. of Washington Ellen Rees was granted tenure and promotion at the University of Oregon. NORTANA NEWSLETTER 3 Spring 2006 Traveling Ibsen-exhibition still available Set 2 (NFI): The Consulate General has one set of the poster -Vildanden series “To be a poet is to see — Ibsen in our -Fru Inger time” available as a loan for NORTANA- -Terje Vigen members. The exhibition was produced for -Udødelige Ibsen Ibsen Year 2006 by The Norwegian Museum of Cultural History/The Henrik Ibsen Museum in Terje Vigen (directed by Victor Sjöström 1917) Oslo for the Royal Norwegian Ministry of 48 minutes. Classic Swedish silent film adapted Foreign Affairs. It consists of 9 posters, from Ibsen’s poem about Terje Vigen who measuring 16 1/2 x 23 each, with gator board rowed from the south of Norway to Denmark to backing and hanging hardware. It depicts buy food for his family during the Napoleon themes, texts and images from Ibsen’s Wars. See www.ibsen.net>www.ibsen.net for a authorship, many which are just as relevant detailed plot summary. today as they were back then. For further information, please contact Beate Gran, Royal The Wild Duck (directed by Tancred Ibsen 1963) Norwegian Consulate General, at (212) 310- 115 minutes. This is the first Norwegian 1502 or <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected] adaptation of a work by Ibsen. See www.ibsen.net>www.ibsen.net for a detailed plot summary.