SASS 2024: Seattle

Thursday May 9, 2024

10:30am

Bus departs for The Swedish Club. Meet in the hotel lobby.

11:00am-1:30pm

SAHS Lunch at The Swedish Club 

• Stories of the Past: How Swedish Americans Shape Their Heritage
• Jennifer Eastman Attebery

Note: The bus departs from the hotel at 10:30am and returns at roughly 2pm

11:00am-3:30pm

Meeting 

SASS Executive Council Meeting

• SASS Executive Council members only. Lunch will be served.

Note: If you are interested in serving on the SASS Executive Council, reach out to Vice-President Olivia Noble Gunn at vice-president@scandinavianstudy.org …or find her during the conference to chat about service opportunities!

2:30pm-5:00pm

Pre-conference Excursion

Dambo Troll Tour

• Join Line Liblik Larsen of the Scan Design Foundation for a guided tour of some of Seattle's newest residents and one of their most famous!

Note: The bus departs from the hotel at 2:30pm and will bring participants directly to the National Nordic Museum at roughly 5pm

3:00pm

Bus to the National Nordic Museum

• Arrive at NNM early and enjoy free admission to the museum for SASS attendees. 
• Meet the bus at the hotel lobby

Note: There is a cafe at the museum as well as several restaurants within walking distance. There will be a post talk reception with light refreshments served.

4:15pm

Bus to the National Nordic Museum

• Arrive at NNM early and enjoy free admission to the museum for SASS attendees. 
• Meet the bus at the hotel lobby

Note: There is a cafe at the museum as well as several restaurants within walking distance. There will be a post talk reception with light refreshments served.

5:30pm

Bus to the National Nordic Museum

       Meet the bus at the hotel lobby

6:30pm

Keynote address at the National Nordic Museum

Nordic Utopia? African Americans in the 20th Century

• Dr. Ethelene Whitmire (University of Wisconsin-Madison) discusses her current exhibit at the National Nordic Museum

7:45pm

Opening Night Reception at the National Nordic Museum

Welcome to SASS 2024: Seattle

• Mingle with colleagues and local guests at the annual opening night reception.

Note: Light refreshments will be served. You can find your drink tickets with your event name tag. 

8:00pm

Bus to the Renaissance Seattle Hotel

• Catch a ride back to the conference hotel or stay at the reception to chat a little longer.

8:30pm

Bus to the Renaissance Seattle Hotel

• Catch a ride back to the conference hotel or stay at the reception to chat a little longer.

9:00pm

Bus to the Renaissance Seattle Hotel

• Catch a ride back to the conference hotel or stay at the reception to chat a little longer.

9:30pm

Bus to the Renaissance Seattle Hotel

• Catch a ride back to the conference hotel or stay at the reception to chat a little longer.

Note: This is the last bus back to the hotel. Attendees wishing to stay in the Ballard neighborhood after the reception will need to find alternate transportation back to the conference hotel.

Friday May 10, 2024

Session 1 | 8:30am-10:00am

Queer and Adolescent Spaces

Columbia (4th Floor)

Session Chair: Lynn Wilkinson

Out of the Nursery and into the Bridal Bed - Transformation and Disjointed Identity in Amalie Skram's "Forrådt"

      Thea Lund​ (University of Washington)*

Selma Lagerlöf's Queer Spatial Bricolage: The Movement of Social and Architectural Imaginations at Mårbacka

      Natalya Nielsen​ (University of California, Berkeley)*

Movements Between Popular and Quality Literature for Teenagers. Literary Value and Reading Promotion in the Publishing of the Swedish Book Series "Stjärnböckerna" in the 1940s

     Sara Kärrholm (Lunds universitet)

Memory and Movement in Generational Modes of Fiction

Marion (4th Floor)

Session Chair: Susan Brantly

Memories of Movement - Second-Generation Writers in Norway 

     Jordan Barger​ (University of Iowa)*

Writing Life: Reading Jonas Hassen Khemiri's novel Systrarna as an Autofictional Novel 

      Karin Filipsson​ (University of Washington)*

Chronotopic Reading of a Diary  

     Øystein Hide (University of Bergen)

Stream 1.1

The Digital Nineteenth Century | Placing Literature

James (4th Floor)

Session Chair: Ellen Rees

The Semantics of the City in Nineteenth Century Literature 

     Anders Skare Malvik (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) 

Classifying Nouns for Place and Movement

     Lars Johnsen (National Library of Norway)

Noisy Novels and Novel Soundscapes in Nineteenth-century Scandinavia 

     Jens Bjerring-Hansen (University of Copenhagen) 

Stream 2.1

Twenty Years of Living Pictures and Missing Persons | MANNEQUINS: Blood, Sweat, and Tears: Living Pictures and the Question of Archive

Spring (4th Floor)

Session Chair: Ben Bigelow

Archive Fever Blood Book: The Matter of the Archive and the Maladies of Cultural Memory in Burcu Sahin's Blodbok 

      Brad Harmon​ (Johns Hopkins University)*

Reimagining the Archive of Folk Culture in Smoke Sauna Sisterhood  

     Liina-Ly Roos (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Doing Melodrama Differently: Effigy Culture and Carl Th. Dreyer's Early Archive 

     Amanda Doxtater (University of Washington) 

Stream 3.1

Fairy Tales and Folktales | Hans Christian Andersen I

Vista I (28th Floor)

Session Chair: Claus Elholm Andersen

Language in Use in the Fairytale: Tracing Indexicality in Hans Christian Andersen and Villy Sørensen

     *Sarah Eriksen​ (University of California, Berkeley) 

Memory's Happy Lover - Villy Sørensen, H.C. Andersen and the Fairytale

      Nate Kramer (Brigham Young University)

Christian Andersen in Twentieth-Century Urdu Literature  

      Mushtaq Bilal (University of Southern Denmark)  

Authority in Old Norse Literature

Vista II (28th Floor)

Session Chair: Merrill Kaplan

Thoughts on the Role of High-Seat Pillars in Icelandic Landnám Traditions

     Verena Höfig (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich) 

Anthropomorphism and theophoric kennings 

     Jonas Wellendorf (University of California, Berkeley) 

Cultural Modified Trees and Sacred Groves: An Indigenous Lens to Viking Age Landscapes and Ship-Building

     Colin Connors (University of Washington)

Stream 4.1

I: Nordic Settler Experiences in North America I

Visions (28th Floor)

Session Chair: Lucia Hodgson

S. M. Swenson: Swedish Settler and Slaver in Nineteenth-Century Texas

     Lucia Hodgson (Linnaeus University)

Native American Complexities and Realities: The Role of Scandinavian Settlers in the Utah Black Hawk War  

     *Emma Ruddy​ (Brigham Young University)

Nordic Experiences of Lynch Law and Democracy in Gold Rush California  

     Steinar A. Sæther (University of Oslo) 

Break | 10:00-10:30pm

Coffee Break and Book Room

Municipal/Superior (B-Level)

Coffee, Tea, and other Light Refreshments Served in Municipal/Superior

Visit the SASS 2024 Book and Exhibitor Room, also located in Municipal/Superior (B-Level)

Session 2 | 10:30am-12:00pm 

Nordic Cultural and Ideological Production

Federal (B-Level)

Session Chair: Adam Hjortén

Browsing the IKEA Archives

      Richelle Wilson​ (University of Wisconsin)*

The Carrier Bags and Queen Bees: The Ecocriticism of Contemporary Nordic Small Presses

     Ana Stanićević (University of Helsinki)

The Arts and Crafts Movement in Scandinavia and the U.S.: Materializing the Good Life

•      Tine Sommer (University of Southern Denmark) Malene Breunig 
• (University of Southern Denmark)

From Lagom to Swedish Death Cleaning, and from Hygge to Holy Hygge: Scandinavian Lifestyle Medicine as Part of Health Humanities Wave

     Shan Ruan​ (The Ohio State University)*

Transcultural Comparisons in Poetry 

Columbia (4th Floor)

Session Chair: Kimberly La Palm

Shared Affinities: Juhani Aho and Countee Cullen

      *M Faucette​ (University of Washington)

'Polar Privacy' and 'Finite Infinity'. Søren Kierkegaard's and Emily Dickinson's Movements of'Self'

     *Mateusz Kucab​ (Jagiellonian University)

The Individual and the Collective in Ivar Aasen's Poetry

     *David M. Smith​ (University of Wisconsin)

Stream 1.2

The Digital Nineteenth Century | Thematic Text-Mining

James (4th Floor)

Session Chair: Frode Lerum Boesson

The Literary Geography of the Modern Breakthrough: Mapping Coastal Spaces in Norwegian Fiction (1870-1892) through Named-entity Recognition (NER)

     Benjamin Barkved (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) 

Modeling Marriage in Late Nineteenth-Century Literature 

     *Alexander Conroy​ (University of Copenhagen)

The Moving Imagination of Mountains 

     Hanna Malene Lindberg (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) 

Japan as a New Global Other of Nineteenth Century Norwegian Literature 

     Annette Vilslev (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

Stream 2.2

Twenty Years of Living Pictures and Missing Persons | MUSEUMS: Exhibition and the Time and Place of Performance

Spring (4th Floor)

Session Chair: Amanda Doxtater

Explosive Rhetoric: The Domestic Architecture of Nordahl Grieg's Drama Men imorgen (1935)

      Dean Krouk (University of Wisconsin) 

Hjorth's Houses: Adapted Architecture in Henrik Falk (2019)  

      Olivia Noble Gunn (University of Washington)

Missing Persons? Human Zoos and the Modern Exhibition 

     *Maxine Savage​ (University of Washington)  

Stream 3.2

Fairy Tales and Folktales | Fairy Tales in Context

Vista I (28th Floor)

Session Chair: Nate Kramer

Telling Tales' Retelling…'The Secret of the Waves'

     *Ian Gwin​ (University of Washington) 

The Martyr of Ekshärad: Sacrificial Violence and Girardian Theory in Swedish Folk Narrative 

     Benjamin Teitelbaum (University of Colorado, Boulder)

Disability in Nordic Medieval Sources

Vista II (28th Floor)

Session Chair: Jonas Wellendorf

Madness and Mental Health in Medieval Sweden

      Christine Ekholst (Uppsala Universtiy) 

Monstrosity and Disability in the Swedish Medieval Ballad Jungfrun förvandlad till lind 

      *Rachel Bott​ (University of Wisconsin)

Reading Disease and Disability in the Old Norse-Icelandic Legend of Helena Augusta 

     Natalie Van Deusen (University of Alberta)

Stream 4.2

Nordic Settler Experiences in North America II

Visions (28th Floor)

Session Chair: Lucia Hodgson

The Colony of New Sweden in Swedish and Finnish (Youth) Novels of the 1930s 

      Raita Merivirta (University of Turku)

Becoming Settler Colonists: Two Swedish Brothers in the Delaware River Valley, 1712

      Linda Haverty Rugg (University of California, Berkeley)

Echoes of a Plantation Bell 

     *Rikke Lie Halberg​ (Lund Univeersity)

Nordic Utopian Communities since the 1700s

     Teuvo Peltoniemi (Independent Scholar)

Stream 5.1

The Evolution of Nordic Music I

Microsoft Auditorium (Seattle Public Library)

Session Chair: Colin Levin

Presentation on Cedar Flute and Hardanger Fiddle 

     John-Carlos Perea (University of Washington) & Gus Dalan Holley (University of California, Berkeley)

Compositional Seismicity: Generational Evolutions in 20th Century Icelandic Solo Piano Works 

     Kristin Taylor (University of Nebraska at Omaha)

Commemorating the Artistic Legacy of Oskar Merikanto on the Anniversary of his Death 

     Mimmi Fulmer (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Click here for a map to the Seattle Public Library​

Lunch Break | 12:00-1:30pm

ASTRA Lunch

Vista I (28th Floor)

NORTANA Lunch

Vista II (28th Floor)

Session 3 | 1:30-3:00pm

Nordic Utopia: African Americans in 20th Century

Federal (B-Level)

Session Chair: Leslie Anne Anderson and Ethelene Whitmire

Nordic Utopia? African Americans in the 20th Century

     Ethelene Whitmire (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Hip Hop Ethics

     Ryan Skinner (The Ohio State University)

Object Lessons

     Temi Odumosu (University of Washington)

Arctic Exploration

Marion (4th Floor)

Session Chair: Brent Johnson

Bland nordbor vid världens ände: Elmer Ekblaw, Swedish-American Polar Explorer and Academic, 1882-1949

     Mark Safstrom (Augustana College) 

Roald Amundsen: Making Friends In The New World

     Erik Sundholm (Independent Scholar)

Animal societies in the Arctic. On Otto Sverdrup´s "New Land. Four Years in the Arctic Regions" (1903) 

    Henning Wærp (The Arctic University of Norway)

Stream 6.1

Teaching Nordic Studies in North America | Higher Education Pedagogies I: Experiences from Norway

James (4th Floor)

Session Chair: Ida Moen Johnson

Contextual Teaching and Learning in Scandinavian Studies – Experiences from Norway 

     John Brumo (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

Teaching Literature in Norway: What, Why and How? 

     Lars August Fodstadt (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

Nordic Archetypes and Ecopoetics

Spring (4th Floor)

Session Chair: Scott Mellor

Wilding the Tame: The Viking from Adaptation to Genre Archetype

     Kimberly Ball (UCLA) 

Crossing Borders in Contemporary Icelandic Cinema

     Bjorn Nordfjord (St. Olaf College)

Sjónian Poetics 

     Linda Badley (Middle Tennessee State University) 

Stream 3.3

Fairy Tales and Folktales | Hans Christian Andersen I

Vista I (28th Floor)

Session Chair: Torsten Bøgh Thomsen 

Hans Christian Andersen and The American Dream in Twentieth Century in US Animations

     Sara Bruun Jørgensen (University of Southern Denmark) 

The Arctic Snow Queen: Elsa as a Decolonizing Ecofeminist in Frozen I and II

     Elisabeth Oxfeldt (University of Oslo)

The Little Matchgirl, Revisited 

     Claus Elholm Andersen (University of Wisconsin-Madison)  

Translation and Reception in Late Medieval Scandinavia

Vista II (28th Floor)

Session Chair: Natalie Van Deusen

Looking at Loki and Finding Cain: Antisemitic Caricature in Two Late Eddas

     Merrill Kaplan (The Ohio State University) 

Exploring Linguistic Hospitality and Heroism in the "Eufemiavisor" 

     *Drew Swasey​ (Brigham Young University) 

Mobile Colonialism: Norwegian Royal Power and the Politics of Failure in Late Medieval Íslendingasögur

     *Basil Price​ (University of York)

Stream 4.3

Nordic Settler Experiences in North America III

Visions (28th Floor)

Session Chair: Lucia Hodgson

"One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk": A Postcolonial Reading of Vilhelm Moberg's Emigrant Series

     Lisa Carlsson (Independent Scholar) 

"Lost Sheep": Scandinavian Innocence and Minnesota Nice in Fargo  

     Andy Meyer (St Olaf College)

Reading Legacies of Nordic Settler Colonialism in Minnesota's Red River Valley through 20th Century Crime Fiction 

     Rosemary Johnsen (University of Minnesota, Crookston) 

Rewriting the Swedish Migration Narrative  

     Ursula Lindqvist (Gustavus Adolphus College)

Stream 5.2

The Evolution of Nordic Music II

Microsoft Auditorium (Seattle Public Library)

• Session Chair: Colin Levin
• Der Skreg en Fugl – Moving Women to the Forefront in Norwegian Art Song
•    Laura Loge (Northwest Edvard Grieg Society) and Angela Drăghicescu
• Leif Erikson in Seattle: Gerard Tonning and Norwegian Opera in the New World
•    Steven Luksan (Independent Scholar)

Click here for a map to the Seattle Public Library​

Break | 3:00-3:30pm

Coffee Break and Book Room

Municipal/Superior (B-Level)

Coffee, Tea, and other light refreshments

Visit the SASS 2024 Book and Exhibitor Room, also located in Municipal/Superior (B-Level)

Session 4 | 3:30-5:00pm

Presence, Protest, and Possibility: AfroNordic Freedom Dreams: A Roundtable with the AfroNordic Feminisms Working Group

Federal (B-Level)

• Panel Participants: Faith Adiele (California College of the Arts), Jasmine Kelekay (University of California, Berkeley), Benjamin Mier-Cruz (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Monica L. Miller (Barnard College, Columbia University), Ellen Nyman (Stokcholm University of the Arts), Temi Odumosu (University of Washington), Tess Skadegård Thorsen (Independent Scholar)

Linguistic Expression and Analysis 

Columbia (4th Floor)

Session Chair: Tapio Hokkanen

The Onset Principle in Faroese

     Marc Pierce (University of Texas at Austin)

Identifying the dialectal background of American Finnish speakers using supervised machine-learning models

     Ilmari Ivaska (University of Turku) and Mirva Johnson (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Writing the world anew. Neologisms in poetry discussed through the example of Marianne Larsen

     Jacob Ølgaard Nyboe (University of Iceland)

Death, Disease, and Aging as Literary Tropes 

Marion (4th Floor)

Session Chair: Linda Badley

Peer Gynt's Mor Aase: Grief, Aging, Death  

     Connie Amundson (Independent Scholar)

Active and Aging: Nielsen's Weeding Woman 

     Alice Price (Temple University)

Stream 6.2

Teaching Nordic Studies in North America | Higher Education Pedagogies II: Experiences from North America 

James (4th Floor)

Immigration, Mobility, and Language Policies and Their Implications on Teaching Finnish as a Second Language in Higher Education

     Tapio Hokkanen (University of Washington) 

First Step Discovery Journey in the Beginning Finnish Classroom 

     Lotta Weckström (University of California, Berkeley) 

Board Games in the History Classroom 

     Sarah Clement Reed (Brigham Young University)

Transcultural Boundaries and National Identities in Nordic Cinema

Spring (4th Floor) 

Session Chair: Lynn Wilkinson

Play It Again, Ingmar: Bergman's Transcultural Influences on Woody Allen 

     Arne Lunde (UCLA)

Kaurismäki's Universalism and Its Prospects  

     Andrew Nestingen (University of Washington) 

Stream 3.4

Fairy Tales and Folktales | Trolls, Elves, and AI

Vista I (28th Floor)

Session Chair: Troy Wellington Smith

Elves in distress: Characterising Positive Huldufóld-Human Interactions in the Late Nineteenth- and Early Twenthieth-Century Legends

     *Joshua Lee​ (University of California, Berkeley) 

The Role of the Troll: From Stupid Ogre to Eco Warrior

     Ann-Kathrine Havemose (University of British Columbia)

 BERT vs the Hairball: LLMs and Graph Models for the Study of Danish Fairy Tales 

     Timothy Tangherlini (University of California, Berkeley) 

Intellectual and Theological Currents in the 16th and 17th Centuries

Vista II (28th Floor)

Session Chair: Loraine Jensen

The Rise of a Married Clergy in Finland's Reformation Era 1523-1611

     Jason Lavery (University of Oklahoma) 

Alchemy and the Princess: Elite Women, Medical Practice, and Natural Science in Late 16th Century Sweden 

     Joseph Gonzalez (University of California, Fullerton)

Religious Identity on the Swedish Cultural Periphery   

     David Jessup (Gustavus Adolphus College)  

Eastward Bound: The Diplomatic Journal of Axel Gyldenstierne in Seventeenth-Century Russia

     Earl Hodil (Pomona College)

Stream 4.4

Nordic Settler Experiences in North America IV

Visions (28th Floor)

Session Chair: Lucia Hodgson

Icelandic Settlers in 1870s Nova Scotia: Land, Modernity, and Immigration Policy

     *Jay L. Lalonde​ (Univeersity of New Brunswick)

The Saga of Whiteness in Laura Goodman Salverson's North American Viking Novels

     *Sydney Lines​ (University of Bristish Columbia)

An Account of the Alaskan Sámi - Muitalus Alaska Sámiid birrá

     *Hannah Zimmerman​ (University of Alaska-Fairbanks) & Odd-Máhtte Sara (University of Oulu)

American Sámi: Sámi and Sámi Descendants in North America

     *Amy King​ (University of Washington)

Stream 5.3

The Evolution of Nordic Music III

Microsoft Auditorium (Seattle Public Library)

Session Chair: Colin Levin

A Brief Interlude of Contemporary Faroese Art Song  

     Colin Levin (Long Island University: Brooklyn) Evan Fein (The Julliard School), and Claire Galloway (Universityof   Nebraska at Omaha) 

The "Unknown" Songs of Jean Sibelius 

     Kathleen Roland-Silverstein (Syracuse University)

Click here for a map to the Seattle Public Library​

Reception | 5:00-6:00pm

American Scandinavian Foundation Reception

Municipal/Superior/Federal

Join us for light refreshments and a cash bar before and during the SASS Business Meeting

Business Meeting | 5:30-7:00pm

SASS Business Meeting

Municipal/Superior/Federal

All SASS members are encouraged to attend the annual business meeting.

• Click here to view the agenda​

Concert | 8:00-10:00pm

The Evolution of Nordic Music Friday Evening Concert

Federal

Ture Rangström (1887-1947) "Liederabend" 

Afskedet 

Gammalsvenskt

Flyckan under nymånen

• Claire Galloway, Soprano
• Evan Fein, Piano

Pan

Floderna

Sköldmän

• Kathleen Roland-Silverstein, mezzo-soprano
• Evan Fein, Piano

Selections from Kung Eriks visor

I. En visa om när jag var lustig med Welam Welamsson

II. En visa om mig och narren Herkules

V. Kung Eriks sista visa

• Colin Levin, Baritone
• Evan Fein, Piano

Vingar i natten

Melodi 

Den enda stunden

• Laura Loge, Soprano
• Angela Drăghicescu, Piano

Saturday May 11, 2024

Session 5 | 8:30-10:00am

Exploring the Self in Cinema, Drama, and Prose

Federal (B-Level)

Session Chair: Jenna Coughlin

Skepticism and Technology in Ingmar Bergman's En Passion

     Lynn Wilkinson (University of Texas at Austin)

P.C. Jersild's Ypsilon (2012): Postmodernism, Metafiction, and Social Purpose

      Susan Brantly (University of Wisconsin)

Ibsen and Strindberg on Scapegoating  

      William Johnsen (Michigan State University)

Spring Book Talk: Visions and Victims: Art Melodrama in the Films of Carl Th. Dreyer with Amanda Doxtater

Columbia (4th Floor)

      Join Dr. Olivia Noble Gunn (Sverre Arestad Endowed Chair in Norwegian Studies) for a conversation with Dr. Amanda Doxtater (Barbro Osher Endowed Chair of Swedish Studies at UW) about her book, Visions and Victims: Art Melodrama in the Films of Carl Th. Dreyer. In her book, forthcoming from the University of Wisconsin Press in May 2024, Dr. Doxtater argues that Dreyer's major artistic concerns known from his later work—pathos, authenticity, the embodiment of psychological duress, and so on—find their first expression in his Nordisk melodramas, complicating our understanding not only of his lat er films but also of his early works, and even our understanding of the melo- dramatic mode in general. Indeed, ex- tending well beyond the career of a singular director, Doxtater's book chal- lenges assumptions about the relation- ship between "low-brow" melodrama and "high-brow" art cinema.

Visions and Victims will be available for purchase from the University of Wisconsin Press in the event book room or online at: https://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/6071.htm​

Labor and Rebellion in Contemporary Nordic Literature

Marion (4th Floor)

Session Chair: Timothy Tangherlini

Resistance Movements in Contemporary Swedish Working-class Literature 

     *Catharina Bergman​ (Umeå University) 

"The family is an Island" On Mai My Humaidan's Ærø manifestet – A Book that Challenges Genre, Content, and Political Norms  

      Marlene Hastenplug (Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main)

A Defective Cog in the Machine – Protagonists' Rebellion in New Danish Prose  

     Frank Sebastian Hansen (University of Texas at Austin)

Stream 6.3

Teaching Nordic Studies in North America | Pedagogical Movements in Nordic Studies: Learning In (and Out)of Time 

James (4th Floor)

Session Chair: Mark Sandberg

How to Read Like an Animal: Methods in the Nordic Studies Classroom

      Ida Moen Johnson (University of Wisconsin-Madison) 

Moving Dialogues of Cultural Otherness: Reading Jonas Hassen Khemiri's Invasion as a Social Practice 

     Tanya Thresher (St Olaf College)

Pedagogical Movements in Nordic Studies: Learning In (and Out) of Time and Place

     Kjerstin Moody (Gustavus Adolphus College) 

The Nordic Humanitarian State-Civil Society Nexus: Between Action and Inaction (Roundtable)

Spring (4th Floor)

Panel Participants: Norbert Götz (Södertörn University), Sunniva Engh (University of Oslo), Susan Lindholm(Stockholm University & Södertörn University), Carl Marklund (Södertörn University)

Sámi Resistance and Trans-Indigenous Encounters

Vista I (28th Floor)

Session Chair: Amy Swanson King

Navigating Heavdni's Web: Trans-Indigenous Encounters in Relationality

     Troy Storfjell (Pacific Lutheran University) 

Queerness as Indigenous Resistance in Sámi Literature

     *John Prusynski​ (University of California, Berkeley)

Relationality, Reciprocity, and the Repercussions of Ecological (Mis)Use in Sámi Narrative Traditions

     Tim Frandy (University of British Columbia)

Stream 7.1

Nordic Motherhood in Motion | Trauma, Horror, and Stigma

Vista II (28th Floor)

Session Chair: Jenny Björklund

Spectral Mothers and Daughters of Swedish Rape Trauma Fiction

     Daniela Lillhannus (Uppsala University) 

Maternal Revenge Horror in Fever Ray's "Even It Out" (2023)  

     Atėnė Mendelytė (Vilnius University)

"She is afraid to die": Contraception in Medieval Denmark 

     *Ailie Westbrook​ (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Narrative Migration

Visions (28th Floor)

Session Chair: Mark Safstrom

The emigration from Sweden as a borderline event

     Helén Persson (Lund University) 

The Nordic and Baltic archival record in the University of Washington Pacific Northwest Collection: Features, Collection Guides, and Search Strategies

     Anne Jenner (University of Washington)

Permanence and Transitoriness: Ola Larsmo's Swede Hollow and the Re- Imagining of the Swedish Emigrant Novel 

     *Love Carlshamre​ (Univerity of California, Berkeley)  

Henning Mankell's Move From Northern Sweden to California and China 

     Jay Lutz (Oglethorpe Univerity) 

Break | 10:00-10:30pm

Coffee Break and Book Room

Municipal/Superior (B-Level)

Coffee, Tea, and other Light Refreshments Served in Municipal/Superior

Visit the SASS 2024 Book and Exhibitor Room, also located in Municipal/Superior(B-Level)

Session 6 | 10:30am-12:00pm

Workshop: Arctic Racializations

Federal (B-Level)

Panel Participants: *Maxine Savage​ (University of Washington), *Bart Pushaw​ (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga), Temi Odumosu (University of Washington), Jen Rose Smith (University of Washington), Mathilde Magga (University of Washington)

Workshop: What Does It Take to Submit a Sucessful Grant Application

Columbia (4th Floor)

Panel Participants: Sally Yerkovich (American Scandinavian Foundation), Marcus Cederstöm (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Monica Hidalgo (American Scandinavian Foundation), Cayla Rosché (Independent Scholar), Linda Rugg (University of California, Berkeley)

Staging WWII: Cultural Memory in Cinema and Drama

Marion (4th Floor)

Session Chair: Dean Krouk

Becoming Industry: Erik Skjoldbjærg's Kampen om Narvik and the New Norwegian (?)Occupation Narrative

     *Elizabeth Stang​ (University of Washington) 

Illuminating Darkness: A Reexamination of Robert Sherwood's "There Shall Be No Night" 

     Patrick Wen (UCLA)

Moving Shakespeare: Staging The Merchant of Venice in Sweden and Finland in 1944 

     Nely Keinänen (University of Helsinki)

Stream 6.4

Teaching Nordic Studies in North America | Curating Cultural Heritage

Session Chair: 

The "T" in GPT: Transformers-based AI for Cultural Heritage Work

      Peter Leonard (Stanford University Libraries) & Peter Broadwell (Stanford University Libraries)

Harvesting the Past: Using AI to Transform Swedish-American Studies  

     Gunnar Wennerström (Swedish Emigrant Institute)

Shifting Nordic-Baltic Security

Spring (4th Floor)

Panel Participants: Dovile Budryte (Georgia Gwinnett College), Jason Lavery (Oklahoma State), Olavi Arens(Georgia Southern University), Scott Radnitz (University of Washington)

Stream 3.5

Fairy Tales and Folktales | Fairy Tales and Children's Literature

Vista I (28th Floor)

Session Chair: Nate Kramer

The Beheaded Doll: Tracing the Movement of the 'Girl' in Nordic Children's Literature

      *Helen Durst​ (University of Wisconsin-Madison) 

Nostalgia and Cognitive Estrangement in the Dystopian Picture Books of Simon Stålenhag 

      Theo Malekin (University of Illinois)

Stream 7.2

Nordic Motherhood in Motion | Narratives and Negotiations

Vista II (28th Floor)

Session Chair: Daniela Lillhannus

Negotiating Good Motherhood in Times of Climate Change

      Jenny Björklund (Uppsala Universtiy) 

Historical Narratives of Motherhood in Swedish Popular Fiction  

      Lisa Grahn (Uppsala University)  

Nonbiological Single Parents in Crisis: Ólafsdóttir & Erlingsson 

      Melissa Gjellstad (University of North Dakota) 

Stream 4.5

Nordic Settler Experiences in North America V

Visions (28th Floor)

Session Chair: Lucia Hodgson

We Have not Forgotten Gustavus Adolphus, but to Us, He Is Dead: Early Swedish Newspapers in Denver

     Ulf Jonas Björk (Indiana Purdue-Indianapolis)

Embracing America, Embracing Whiteness: The 1925 Norse-American Centennial, and Looking Forward to the 2025 Bicentennial

     *Erik Moe​ (University of Washington)

The Founding of SASS and the Legitimization of Scandinavian Settlement in America

     *Gregory Gaines​ (University of Maine)

Lunch Break | 12:00-1:30pm

• Vista I
• ISA Lunch

Session 7 | 1:30-3:00pm

Stream 5.4

The Shifting Evolution of Nordic Music IV

Federal (B-Level)

Session Chair: Colin Levin

Commemorating the Artistic Legacy: Páll Ísólfsson and Davið Stefánsson

      Cayla Rosche (University of Wisconsin)

Down in the River to Play: Animism in Nordic Fiddling

     *Jameson Foster​ (University of Colorado, Boulder)

Ibsen Society of America

Marion (4th Floor)

Session Chair: Olivia Noble Gunn

Hiratsuka Raicho's Reception of Nora: Ibsen, Zen Buddhism, and Authenticity

     Anna Peterson (Luther College) & Gereon Kopf (Luther College) 

IbsenBackstage: Rethinking Ibsen's Early Repertory 

     Ellen Rees (University of Oslo)

Torvald Helmer's Fatal Disease 

   Lisbeth P. Wærp (The Arctic University of Norway)

Stream 1.3

The Digital Nineteenth Century | Delineating Literary History

James (4th Floor)

Session Chair: Daniela Lillhannus

The Geography of Literary History: A Distant Reading of the Norwegian Tradition 1814–1905

     Frode Lerum Boasson (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) 

Figurative Language in Norwegian Literary Histories  

      *Stefan Hjort​ (University of Oslo)

Norwegian Poetry of the Nineteenth Century: An Overview  

      *Ranveig Kvinnsland​ (University of Oslo)

Stream 2.3

Twenty Years of Living Pictures and Missing Persons | Modernity: Representation of Nature and the Nature of Representation

Spring (4th Floor)

Session Chair: Liina-Ly Roos

Living Pictures and the Ecological Imaginary 

     Christopher (Chip) Oscarson (Brigham Young University) 

Living Pictures, Missing Waterfalls: Hydropower & Mobility in Norwegian Media  

     Jenna Coughlin (St Olaf College)

Threshold Positions: Reconciling the Old and the New in Nordic Sustainability Discourse  

      Benjamin Bigelow (University of Minnesota) 

Stream 3.6

Fairy Tales and Folktales | Hans Christian Andersen III

Vista I (28th Floor)

Session Chair: Elisabeth Oxfeldt

Adapting H.C. Andersen: Translation, Censorship, and Cultural Resonance in Ukrainian Literary Contexts

       Inga Kapustian (University of Southern Denmark) 

Fairy Tales on the Move - Hans Christian Andersen's Early Western European Reception

      Torsten Bøgh Thomsen (University of Southern Denmark)

Ude og hjemme: The Jean Hersholt Collection of Hans Christian Andersen 

     Troy Wellington Smith (Library of Congress)  

Stream 7.3

Nordic Motherhood in Motion | Reproductive Rights and Politics

Vista II (28th Floor)

Session Chair: Daniela Lillhannus

Figurations of Motherhood: Narratives of Becoming a Parent through Surrogacy in Swedish Media

     Elina Nilsson (Uppsala University) 

"PLOP": Examining the Representation of Abortion in Two Lines = Pregnant, a Swedish Graphic Novel

     Saniya Lee Ghanoui (University of Texas at El Paso) 

Nordic Model in Prostitution and Stigmatization: Mothers in Sex Work 

      *Irma Kondrataitė​ (Vilnius University) & Lina Šumskaitė (Vilnius University)

Stream 4.6

Nordic Settler Experiences in North America VI

Visions (28th Floor)

Session Chair: Lucia Hodgson

Heritage Fiction: The Swedish American Example of Lillian Budd

     Jennifer Eastman Attebery (Idaho State University)

Norwegian Immigrant Women in Minnesota: Homesteading in a Borderland in the Late 19th Century

      Caitlin Sackrison (Independent Scholar)

Sautéing across the Atlantic: Swedish-American Migrant Cooks, Their Recipe Collections, and Transnational Domestic Work, circa 1890-1940

     *Svea Larson​ (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Break | 3:00-3:30pm

Coffee Break and Book Room

Municipal/Superior (B-Level)

Coffee, Tea, and other light refreshments

Visit the SASS 2024 Book and Exhibitor Room, also located in Municipal/Superior (B-Level)

Session 8 | 3:30-5:00pm

Stream 5.5

The Shifting Evolution of Nordic Music V

Federal (B-Level)

Session Chair: Colin Levin

Appalachian Music with a Swedish Twang: Intergenerational Sounds and Stories in Swedish Bluegrass Music 

      *Claire Anderson​ (University of Washington)

The Emergence of the Norwegian Compositional Voice: Halfdan Kjerulf and the Romans

      Marla Fogderud (Northern State University)

Sense and Self in Modern Faroese, Danish and Norwegian Prose

Columbia (4th Floor)

Session Chair: Marianne Stecher-Hansen

Wisdom of the Heart: On the Use of William Heinesen

      Bergur Rønne Moberg (University of Copenhagen)

The Usage of Sensory Imagery in The Copenhagen Trilogy

     Alicia Zellmer (Independent Scholar)

Grandmas in China: Lars Saabye Christensen, Hanne Ørstavik and the Inaccessible Past

      Rennesa Jessup (Minnesota State University, Mankato)

To Paint the "Innermost Picture": Space, Selfhood, and the Spiritual in Jon Fosse's The Other Name

       *Madeline Zimring​ (University of California, Berkeley)

Creativity, Feminism, and Queer Performance in Danish and Swedish Arts and Letters 

Marion (4th Floor)

Session Chair: Karin Filipsson

Creatives Blockages & Flow: Heaven is Near: A Daughter's Exploration of the Art, Love and Enduring Legacies of Swedish Writer Stig Dagerman and Actress Anita Björk

     Lo Dagerman (Independent Scholar) 

How Our World Became Nielsen's Mobile Home  

      Poul Houe (University of Minnesota)

Johanne -- Creative Vignettes about Johanne Wadum, 1747-1800

      Carol Gold (University of Alaska, Fairbanks)

Stream 6.5

Teaching Nordic Studies in North America | Curating Cultural Heritage

James (4th Floor)

Session Chair: Anu Muhonen

The "T" in GPT: Transformers-based AI for Cultural Heritage Work

      Peter Leonard (Stanford University Libraries) & Peter Broadwell (Stanford University Libraries)

Harvesting the Past: Using AI to Transform Swedish-American Studies  

     Gunnar Wennerström (Swedish Emigrant Institute)

Stream 2.4

Twenty Years of Living Pictures and Missing Persons | Living Pictures, Missing Persons in Conversation with Mark Sandberg

Spring (4th Floor)

Chip Oscarson in Conversation with Mark Sandberg

Women Leaders, Artistic Transformation, and the Creating of Cultural Diversities

Vista II (28th Floor)

Session Chair: Andrew Nestingen

Women, Young People, and Scandinavian Folk Dance in the Upper Midwest

      Carrie Danielson (University of Wisconsin, Madison) 

Fierce and Kind Kolrosing: Liesl Chatman, Inclusive Teaching, and the Healing Art of Craft 

      Anna Rue (University of Wisconsin, Madison) 

"My entire life is in that Museum." Swedish women as cultural builders and non-profit community entrepreneurs in the United States 

      Lizette Graden (Lund University) 

Transatlantic Exchanges: 20th-Century Swedish-U.S. Relations 

Visions (28th Floor)

Session Chair: Lisa Carlsson

A Decade of High Points and Low Water Marks: Swedish-US Relations 1938-48

     Ulf Zander (Lund University)

The trans-Atlantic circulation of American democracy in Sweden and Swedish America

     Dag Blanck (Uppsala University)

Transatlantic exchanges: Scholarships and Academic Mobility Between Sweden and the United States, ca 1912–1980

     Christin Mays (Uppsala University)

Refracting Roots: Swedish Ethnicity and Political Polarization in the United States Today

      Adam Hjorthén (Uppsala University)

Reception | 6:00-7:00pm

Closing Reception

Madison Ballroom Foyer (3rd Floor)

Cash Bar

Join us for conversation and mingling before dinner

Closing Banquet | 7:00-8:30pm

Plated Dinner and Awards

Madison Ballroom Foyer (3rd Floor)

Plated dinner followed by the announcement of winners of the 2024 SASS awards and fellowships.

Banquet tickets included in all three-day registration packages

Closing Dance | 7:00-8:30pm

Madison Ballroom Foyer (3rd Floor)

Cash Bar

Featuring music curated by DJ Lace Cadence of KEXP

INDEX

A

Adiele, Faith

• session​

Amundson, Connie

• chair​
• session​

Andersen, Claus Elholm

• chair​
• session​

Anderson, Leslie Anne

• chair​

Anderson, Claire

• session​
• nominate​

Arens, Olavi

• session​

Attebery, Jennifer Eastman

• session​

B

Badley, Linda

• chair​
• session​

Ball, Kimberly

• session​

Barger, Jordan 

• session​
• nominate​

Barkved, Benjamin

• session​

Bergman, Catharina

• session​
• nominate​

Bigelow, Benjamin

• chair​
• chair​
• session​

Bilal, Mushtaq

• session​

Björk, Ulf Jonas

• session​

Björklund, Jenny

• chair​
• session​

Blanck, Dag

• session​

Boesson, Frode Lerum

• chair​
• session​

Bodryte, Dovile

• session​

Bott, Rachel

• session​
• nominate​

Brantly, Susan

• chair​
• session​

Breunig, Malene

• session​

Brumo, John

• session​

Budryte, Dovile

• session​

C

Carlshamre, Love

• session​
• nominate​

Carlsson, Lisa

• chair​
• session​

Cederström, Marcus

• session​

Connors, Colin

• session​

Conroy, Alexander

• session​
• nominate​

Coughlin, Jenna

• chair​
• session​

D

Dagerman, Lo

• session​

Danielson, Carrie

• session​

Doxtater, Amanda

• chair​
• session​
• session​

Durst, Helen

• session​
• nominate​

Drăghicescu, Angela

• concert​

E

Ekholst, Christine

• session​

Engh, Sunniva

• session​

Eriksen, Sarah

• session​
• nominate​

F

Faucette, M

• session​
• nominate​

Fein, Evan

• session​
• concert​

Filipsson, Karin

• chair​
• session​
• nominate​

Fodstadt, Lars August

• session​

Fogderud, Marla

• session​

Foster, Jameson

• session​
• nominate​
• 
  

Frandy, Tim

• session​

Fulmer, Mimmi

• session​
• session​

G

Galloway, Claire

• session​
• concert​

Gaines, Gregory

• session​
• nominate​

Ghanoui, Saniya Lee

• session​

Gjellstad, Melissa

• session​
• 
  

Grandén, Lizette

• session​

Gold, Carol

• session​

Gonzalez, Joseph

• session​

Graden, Lizette

• session​

Grahn, Lisa

• session​

Gunn, Olivia Noble

• chair​
• chair​
• session​

Gwin, Ian

• session​
• nominate​

Götz, Norbert

• session​

H

Hansen, Jens Bjerring

• session​

Hansen, Frank Sebastian

• session​

Halberg, Rikke Lie

• session​
• nominate​

Harmon, Brad

• session​
• nominate​

Hastenplug, Marlene

• session​

Havemose, Ann-Kathrine

• session​

Hidalgo, Monica

• session​

Hide, Øystein

• session​

Hjort, Stefan

• session​
• nominate​

Hjortén, Adam

• chair​
• session​

Hodgson, Lucia

• chair​
• chair​
• chair​
• chair​
• chair​
• chair​
• session​

Hodil, Earl

• session​

Hokkanen, Tapio

• chair​
• session​

Holley, Gus Dolan

• session​

Houe, Poul

• session​

Höfig, Verena

• session​

I

Ivaska, Ilmari

• session​

J

Jenner, Anne

• session​

Jensen, Loraine

• chair​

Jessup, David

• session​

Jessup, Renesa

• session​

Johnsen, Lars

• session​

Johnsen, Rosemary

• session​

Johnsen, William

• session​

Johnson, Brent

• chair​

Johnson, Ida Moen

• chair​
• session​

Johnson, Mirva

• session​

Jørgensen, Sara Bruun

• session​

K

Kaplan, Merrill

• chair​
• session​

Kapustian, Inga

• session​

Kelekay, Jasmine

• session​

Keinänen, Nely

• session​

King, Amy

• session​
• nominate​

Kondrataitė, Irma

• session​
• nominate​
• 
  

Kopf, Gereon

• session​

Kramer, Nate

• chair​
• chair​
• session ​

Krouk, Dean

• chair​
• session​

Kucab, Mateusz

• session​
• nominate​

Kvinnsland, Ranveig

• session​
• nominate​

Kärrholm, Sara

• session​

L

Lalonde, Jay L. 

• session​
• nominate​

La Palm, Kimberly

• chair​

Larson, Svea

• session​
• nominate​

Lavery, Jason

• session​
• session​

Lee, Joshua

• session​
• nominate​

Leonard, Peter

• session​

Levin, Colin

• chair​
• chair​
• chair​
• chair​
• session​
• concert​

Lillhannus, Daniela

• chair​
• chair​
• chair​
• session​

Lindberg, Hanna Malene

• session​

Lindholm, Susan

• session​

Lindqvist, Ursula

• session​

Lines, Sydney

• session​
• nominate​

Liustrov, Mikhail

• session​

Loge, Laura

• concert​

Lund, Thea

• session​
• nominate​

Lunde, Arne

• session​

Lutz, Jay

• session​

M

Magga, Mathilde

• session​

Malvik, Anders Skare

• session​

Malekin, Theo

• session​

Marklund, Carl

• session​

Mays, Christin

• session​

Mendelytė, Atėnė

• session​

Merivirta, Raita

• session​

Meyer, Andy

• session​

Mier-Cruz, Benjamin

• session​

Miller, Monica L

• session​

Moberg, Bergur Rønne

• session​

Moe, Erik

• session​
• nominate​

Moody, Kjerstin

• session​

Muhonen, Anu

• chair​
• chair​
• session​

N

Nestingen, Andrew

• chair​
• session​

Nielsen, Natalya

• session​
• nominate​

Nilsson, Elina

• session​

Nordfjord, Bjorn

• session​

Nyman, Ellen

• session​

O

Odumosu, Temi

• session​
• session​
• session​

Oscarson, Christopher (Chip)

• chair​
• session​

Oxfeldt, Elisabeth

• chair​
• session​

P

Peltoniemi, Teuvo 

• session​

Perea, John-Carlos

• session​

Persson, Heléne

• session​

Peterson, Anna 

• session​

Pierce, Marc

• session​

Price, Alice

• session​

Price, Basil

• session​
• nominate​

Prusynski, John

• session​
• nominate​

Pushaw, Bart

• session​
• nominate​

Q

R

Radnitz, Scott

• session​

Reed, Sarah Clement

• session​

Rees, Ellen

• chair​
• session​

Roland-Silverstein, Kathleen

• session​
• concert​

Roos, Liina-Ly

• chair​
• session​

Rosché, Cayla

• session​
• session​

Ruan, Shan

• session​
• nominate​

Ruddy, Emma

• session​
• nominate​

Rue, Anna

• session​

Rugg, Linda Haverty

• session​
• session​

S

Safstrom, Mark

• chair​
• session​

Sackrison, Caitlin

• session​

Sandberg, Mark

• chair​
• session​
• session​

Savage, Maxine

• session​
• nominate​
• session​
• nominate​

Lina Šumskaitė

• session​

Skadegård Thorsen, Tess

• session​

Skinner, Ryan

• session​

Smith, David

• session​
• nominate​

Smith, Jen Rose

• session​

Smith, Troy Wellington

• chair​
• session​

Sommer, Tine

• session​

Stecher-Hansen, Marianne

• chair​

Stang, Elizabeth

• session​
• nominate​

Stanićević, Ana

• session​

Storfjell, Troy

• session​

Sundholm, Erik

• session​

Swanson-King, Amy

• chair​

Swasey, Drew

• session​
• nominate​

Sæther, Steinar A.

• session​

T

Tangherlini, Timothy

• chair​
• session​

Taylor, Kristin

• session​
• session​

Teitelbaum, Benjamin

• session​

Thresher, Tanya

• session​

Thomsen, Torsten Bøgh

• chair​
• session​
• 
  

U

V

Van Deusen, Natalie

• chair​
• session​

Vilslev, Annette

• session​

W

Weckström, Lotta

• chair​
• session​

Wellendorf, Jonas

• chair​
• session​

Wen, Patrick

• session​

Wennerström, Gunnar

• session​

Westbrook, Ailie

• session​
• nominate​

Whitmire, Ethelene

• keynote
• session​

Wilkinson, Lynn

• chair​
• session​

Wilson, Richelle

• session​
• nominate​

Wærp, Lisbeth

• session​

Wærp, Henning

• session​

X

Y

Yerkovich, Sally

• session​

Z

Zander, Ulf

• session​

Zellmer, Alicia

• session​

Zimmerman, Hannah

• session​
• nominate​

Zimring, Madeline

• session​
• nominate​

Å

Ä/Æ

Ö/Ø

Ølgaard Nyboe, Jacob

• session​

A

Adiele, Faith

• session​

Amundson, Connie

• chair​
• session​

Andersen, Claus Elholm

• chair​
• session​

Anderson, Leslie Anne

• chair​

Anderson, Claire

• session​
• nominate​

Arens, Olavi

• session​

Attebery, Jennifer Eastman

• session​

B

Badley, Linda

• chair​
• session​

Ball, Kimberly

• session​

Barger, Jordan 

• session​
• nominate​

Barkved, Benjamin

• session​

Bergman, Catharina

• session​
• nominate​

Bigelow, Benjamin

• chair​
• chair​
• session​

Bilal, Mushtaq

• session​

Björk, Ulf Jonas

• session​

Björklund, Jenny

• chair​
• session​

Blanck, Dag

• session​

Boesson, Frode Lerum

• chair​
• session​

Bodryte, Dovile

• session​

Bott, Rachel

• session​
• session​
• nominate​

Brantly, Susan

• chair​
• session​

Brumo, John

• session​

Budryte, Dovile

• session​

C

Carlshamre, Love

• session​
• nominate​

Carlsson, Lisa

• chair​
• session​

Cederström, Marcus

• session​

Connors, Colin

• session​

Conroy, Alexander

• session​
• nominate​

Coughlin, Jenna

• chair​
• session​

D

Dagerman, Lo

• session​

Danielson, Carrie

• session​

Doxtater, Amanda

• chair​
• session​
• session​

Durst, Helen

• session​
• nominate​

Drăghicescu, Angela

• concert​

E

Ekholst, Christine

• session​

Engh, Sunniva

• session​

Eriksen, Sarah

• session​
• nominate​

F

Faucette, M

• session​
• nominate​

Fein, Evan

• session​
• concert​

Filipsson, Karin

• chair​
• session​
• nominate​

Fodstadt, Lars August

• session​

Fogderud, Marla

• session​

Foster, Jameson

• session​
• nominate​

Frandy, Tim

• session​

Fulmer, Mimmi

• session​
• session​

G

Galloway, Claire

• session​
• concert​

Gaines, Gregory

• session​
• nominate​

Ghanoui, Saniya Lee

• session​

Gjellstad, Melissa

• session​

Grandén, Lizette

• session​

Gold, Carol

• session​

Gonzalez, Joseph

• session​

Graden, Lizette

• session​

Grahn, Lisa

• session​

Gunn, Olivia Noble

• chair​
• chair​
• session​

Gwin, Ian

• session​
• nominate​

Götz, Norbert

• session​

H

Hansen, Jens Bjerring

• session​

Hansen, Frank Sebastian

• session​

Halberg, Rikke Lie

• session​
• nominate​

Harmon, Brad

• session​
• nominate​

Hastenplug, Marlene

• session​

Havemose, Ann-Kathrine

• session​

Hidalgo, Monica

• session​

Hide, Øystein

• session​

Hjort, Stefan

• session​
• nominate​

Hjortén, Adam

• chair​
• session​

Hodgson, Lucia

• chair​
• chair​
• chair​
• chair​
• chair​
• chair​
• session​

Hodil, Earl

• session​

Hokkanen, Tappio

• chair​
• session​

Holley, Gus Dolan

• session​

Houe, Poul

• session​

Höfig, Verena

• session​

I

Ivaska, Ilmari

• session​

J

Jenner, Anne

• session​

Jensen, Loraine

• chair​

Jessup, David

• session​

Jessup, Renesa

• session​

Johnsen, Lars

• session​

Johnsen, Rosemary

• session​

Johnsen, William

• session​

Johnson, Brent

• chair​

Johnson, Ida Moen

• chair​
• session​

Johnson, Mirva

• session​

Jørgensen, Sara Bruun

• session​

K

Kaplan, Merrill

• chair​
• session​

Kapustian, Inga

• session​

Kelekay, Jasmine

• session​

Keinänen, Nely

• session​

King, Amy

• session​
• nominate​

Kondrataitė, Irma

• session​
• nominate​

Kopf, Gereon

• session​

Kramer, Nate

• chair​
• chair​
• session ​

Krouk, Dean

• chair​
• session​

Kucab, Mateusz

• session​
• nominate​

Kvinnsland, Ranveig

• session​
• nominate​

Kärrholm, Sara

• session​

L

Lalonde, Jay L. 

• session​
• nominate​

La Palm, Kimberly

• chair​

Larson, Svea

• session​
• nominate​

Lavery, Jason

• session​
• session​

Lee, Joshua

• session​
• nominate​

Leonard, Peter

• session​

Levin, Colin

• chair​
• chair​
• chair​
• chair​
• session​
• concert​

Lillhannus, Daniela

• chair​
• chair​
• chair​
• session​

Lindberg, Hanna Malene

• session​

Lindholm, Susan

• session​

Lindqvist, Ursula

• session​

Lines, Sydney

• session​
• nominate​

Liustrov, Mikhail

• session​

Loge, Laura

• concert​

Lund, Thea

• session​
• nominate​

Lunde, Arne

• session​

Lutz, Jay

• session​

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Magga, Mathilde

• session​

Malvik, Anders Skare

• session​

Malekin, Theo

• session​

Marklund, Carl

• session​

Mays, Christin

• session​

Mendelytė, Atėnė

• session​

Merivirta, Raita

• session​

Meyer, Andy

• session​

Mier-Cruz, Benjamin

• session​

Miller, Monica L

• session​

Moberg, Bergur Rønne

• session​

Moe, Erik

• session​
• nominate​

Moody, Kjerstin

• session​

Muhonen, Anu

• chair​
• chair​
• session​

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Nestingen, Andrew

• chair​
• session​

Nielsen, Natalya

• session​
• nominate​

Nilsson, Elina

• session​

Nordfjord, Bjorn

• session​

Nyman, Ellen

• session​

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Odumosu, Temi

• session​
• session​
• session​

Oscarson, Christopher (Chip)

• chair​
• session​

Oxfeldt, Elisabeth

• chair​
• session​

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Peltoniemi, Teuvo 

• session​

Perea, John-Carlos

• session​

Persson, Heléne

• session​

Peterson, Anna 

• session​

Pierce, Marc

• session​

Price, Alice

• session​

Price, Basil

• session​
• nominate​

Prusynski, John

• session​
• nominate​

Pushaw, Bart

• session​
• nominate​

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Radnitz, Scott

• session​

Reed, Sarah Clement

• session​

Rees, Ellen

• chair​
• session​

Roland-Silverstein, Kathleen

• session​
• concert​

Roos, Liina-Ly

• chair​
• session​

Rosché, Cayla

• session​
• session​

Ruan, Shan

• session​
• nominate​

Ruddy, Emma

• session​
• nominate​

Rue, Anna

• session​

Rugg, Linda Haverty

• session​
• session​

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Safstrom, Mark

• chair​
• session​

Sackrison, Caitlin

• session​

Sandberg, Mark

• chair​
• session​
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Savage, Maxine

• session​
• nominate​
• session​
• nominate​

Skadegård Thorsen, Tess

• session​

Skinner, Ryan

• session​

Smith, David

• session​
• nominate​

Smith, Jen Rose

• session​

Smith, Troy Wellington

• chair​
• session​

Sommer, Tine

• session​

Stecher-Hansen, Marianne

• chair​

Stang, Elizabeth

• session​
• nominate​

Stanićević, Ana

• session​

Storfjell, Troy

• session​

Sundholm, Erik

• session​

Swanson-King, Amy

• chair​

Swasey, Drew

• session​
• nominate​

Sæther, Steinar A.

• session​

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Tangherlini, Timothy

• chair​
• session​

Taylor, Kristin

• session​
• session​

Teitelbaum, Benjamin

• session​

Thresher, Tanya

• session​

Thomsen, Torsten Bøgh

• chair​
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Van Deusen, Natalie

• chair​
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Vilslev, Annette

• session​

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Weckström, Lotta

• chair​
• session​

Wellendorf, Jonas

• chair​
• session​

Wen, Patrick

• session​

Wennerström, Gunnar

• session​

Westbrook, Ailie

• session​
• nominate​

Whitmire, Ethelene

• keynote
• session​

Wilkinson, Lynn

• chair​
• session​

Wilson, Richelle

• session​
• nominate​

Wærp, Henning

• session​

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Y

Yerkovich, Sally

• session​

Z

Zander, Ulf

• session​

Zellmer, Alicia

• session​

Zimmerman, Hannah

• session​
• nominate​

Zimring, Madeline

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• nominate​

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There are several ways to get to the hotel from the airport. 

Note: Your destination is the Renaissance Seattle Hotel, 515 Madison St

The info below is a brief overview. For detailed information including links to maps, instructions, and payment options, visit: https://www.portseattle.org/sea-tac/ground-transportation​

LIGHT RAIL:

Take the No. 1 line towards Northgate and get off at the University Street Station. From there you will walk about .5 miles to the hotel. 

How to get from the University St station to the Renaissance Seattle HotelT

For more detailed info and directions to the SEA Light Rail station, visit: https://www.portseattle.org/page/public-transit-link-light-rail​

Enter the hotel address (515 Madison St) into Sound trip Planner for step-by-step guidance: https://www.soundtransit.org/tripplanner​

Download the TransitGoTicket app on Google Play or the Apple App Store to pay your fare online.

https://kingcounty.gov/en/dept/metro/fares-and-payment/ways-to-pay/transit-go-ticket​

TAXI

Taxi stands at SEA are located on the 3rd floor of the parking garage. Follow the signs in the airport or visit this link for an interactive map of the airport: https://www.portseattle.org/sea-tac/maps​

APP BASED RIDESHARE

Lyft, UberX and UbeerPool are also located on the third floor of the parking garage. UberBlack can pick up passengers the passenger designated baggage-claim door. Find more information here: https://www.portseattle.org/sea-tac/ground-transportation/app-based-rideshare​

OTHER

Information about other transit options (bus, rental car, and shared-ride vans) can be found here: https://www.portseattle.org/sea-tac/ground-transportation​

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DANA Dinner

Friday May 10, 7:00pm

DANA (Danish Academic Network in America) members and registered guests can sign up for a ticket to the DANA dinner at 7pm on Friday, May 10. Contact Claus Elholm Andersen (ceandersen2@wisc.edu) for further details.

Must register by May 3.

Sponsored by the ScandDesign foundation.

Location:

TBA

Cost:

Standard: $25

Student: $15