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SASS 2024 will take place in Seattle, Washington at the Renaissance Seattle hotel, hosted by the University of Washington from May 9-11th. The presidential theme of this SASS meeting is movement.


This theme speaks to 'movements' as both contemporary and historical, strategic and reactionary as well as physical and ideological. The theme of movement invites us to examine the extent to which concepts that we assume to be fixed, stable, and unmoving may in fact be kinetic, malleable, and in motion. Past and present cultural, literary and political movements also shape our field, whether the so-called Scandinavian diaspora, pan-Scandinavianism, the Modern Breakthrough, or the collection and relocation of "Nordic" artifacts by archives and museums. SASS 2024 will be held in collaboration with the National Nordic Museum in Seattle, whose collections are constituted by the ongoing movement of people and objects.


The organizing committee encourages submissions that explore the significance of movement in Nordic culture, film, history, language, and/or literature. Other topics and approaches are also welcome.

May 9 - 11, 2024 (PDT)

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Agenda

  • Federal
    10:00 AM - 5:00 PMFinnish Teachers Meeting
    Vista II
    11:00 AM - 4:00 PMSASS Executive Council Spring Meeting
    Meeting open to Executive Council members only.

    If you are interested in serving on the Executive Council, reach out to Olivia Gunn at vice-president@scandinavianstudy.org
    The Swedish Club of Seattle
    11:00 AM - 2:00 PMSAHS Lunch and Lecture
    Stories of the Past: How Swedish Americans Shape Their Heritage

    In writing histories of their own communities, Swedish Americans draw on historical legends that distill a sense of ethnic identity and heritage. Jennifer Eastman Attebery shares examples from her book "As Legend Has It" (University of Wisconsin Press, 2023), reflecting how immigrants and their descendants used legendary materials to claim a place in American history. Attebery is Professor Emerita at Idaho State University. Her previous books focus on Swedish American summer holidays and vernacular letter writing.

    Purchase a ticket as an add-on to your SASS registration. Ticket includes lunch and transportation to and from the Swedish Club. Cash bar available.

    Visit the Swedish Club's website for more info about the venue: https://www.swedishclubnw.org/

    Individuals not attending SASS can purchase tickets directly from the Swedish Club or SAHS.

    Meet the bus in the conference hotel lobby

    Jennifer Attebery

    Professor Emerita at Idaho State University

    Hotel Lobby
    2:30 PM - 4:30 PMTroll Tour
    Meet in the hotel lobby

    Join SASS attendees on a guided tour of a selection of trolls from Thomas Dambo's Northwest Trolls exhibit as well as Seattle's famous Fremont troll. The bus will drop attendees off at the National Nordic Museum after the tour is complete.

    The Northwest Trolls exhibit is sponsored by the National Nordic Museum and Scan Design Foundation. Find details here: https://www.nwtrolls.org
    National Nordic Museum
    10:00 AM - 5:00 PMFree Admission to the National Nordic Museum for SASS attendees
    5:00 PM - 6:30 PMDinner on your own
    See the event website and News & Notes for recommended restaurants in the Ballard neighborhood, specifically curated by the staff at the National Nordic Museum!
    6:30 PM - 7:45 PMKeynote Lecture: Ethelene Whitmire
    The opening night keynote lecture will be delivered by Professor Ethelene Whitmire on the topic Nordic Utopia. The temporary exhibition "Nordic Utopia? African Americans in the 20th Century" co-curated by Whitmire is on display at the National Nordic Museum during the conference.

    "Nordic Utopia? African Americans in the 20th Century" runs from March 22 - July 21, 2024 at the National Nordic Museum.

    The keynote address is co-sponsored by the National Nordic Museum and Scan Design Foundation.

    The talk will be held at the National Nordic Museum's Osberg Hall

    Ethelene Whitmire

    Professor

    7:45 PM - 9:15 PMOpening Reception
    Join SASS attendees and members of the National Nordic Museum after Dr Whitmire's talk for food, drinks, and socializing in Osberg Hall and, weather permitting, the adjacent Fisherman's Sun Terrace
  • Municipal/Superior
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AMSASS Community Space
    Registration, Book Room, Seating, and Coffee Breaks
    10:00 AM - 10:30 AMCoffee Break in Municipal/Superior
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PMSASS Community Space
    Registration, Book Room, Seating, and Coffee Breaks
    12:00 PM - 1:30 PMLunch
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PMSASS Community Space
    Registration, Book Room, Seating, and Coffee Breaks
    3:00 PM - 3:30 PMCoffee Break in Municipal/Superior
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PMSASS Community Space
    Registration, Book Room, Seating, and Coffee Breaks
    Federal
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AMNothing scheduled in this room at this time
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    10:00 AM - 10:30 AMFriday Morning Coffee
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PMNordic Cultural and Ideological Production
    Moderator: Adam Hjortén
    - Richelle Wilson, Browsing the IKEA Archives
    - Ana Stanićević, The Carrier Bags and Queen Bees: The Ecocriticism of Contemporary Nordic Small Presses
    - Tine Sommer and Malena Breunig, The Arts and Crafts Movement in Scandinavia and the U.S.: Materializing the Good Life
    - Shan Ruan, From Lagom to Swedish Death Cleaning, and from Hygge to Holy Hygge: Scandinavian Lifestyle Medicine as Part of Health Humanities Wave

    Shan Ruan

    Tine Sommer

    Ana Stanićević

    Richelle Wilson

    Adam Hjorthén

    Associate Professor

    12:00 PM - 1:30 PMLunch
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PMRoundtable | Nordic Utopia: African Americans in 20th Century
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    Ethelene Whitmire

    Professor

    Leslie Anderson

    Director, Coll., Exh., and Programs

    Temi Odumosu

    Ryan Skinner

    Associate Professor

    3:00 PM - 3:30 PMFriday Afternoon Coffee
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PMPresence, Protest, and Possibility: AfroNordic Freedom Dreams: A Roundtable with the AfroNordic Feminisms Working Group

    Benjamin Mier-Cruz

    Assistant Professor

    Monica Miller

    Temi Odumosu

    Ellen Nyman

    Tess S. Skadegård Thorsen

    5:30 PM - 7:00 PMSASS Business Meeting
    All members are encouraged to attend the annual business meeting.

    To be held simultaneously with the Friday reception. Light food provided. Cash Bar.

    Olivia Gunn

    Assistant Professor of Scandinavian Studies

    Kimberly La Palm

    Executive Director

    Scott Mellor

    Teaching Professor at University Of Wisconsin-Madison

    Andrew Nestingen

    Professor

    8:00 PM - 10:00 PMThe Evolution of Nordic Music Evening Recital
    Ture Rangström, "Liederabend"

    Colin Levin

    Assistant Professor

    Kathleen Roland-Silverstein

    Associate Professor

    Columbia
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AMQueer and Adolescent Spaces
    Moderator: Lynn Wilkinson
    - Thea Lund, Out of the nursery and into the bridal bed - transformation and disjointed identity in Amalie Skram’s Forrådt
    - Natalya Nielsen, Selma Lagerlöf’s Queer Spatial Bricolage: The Movement of Social and Architectural Imaginations at Mårbacka and in Gösta Berlings saga
    - Sara Kärrholm, 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

    Thea Lund

    Natalya Nielsen

    10:00 AM - 10:30 AMFriday Morning Coffee
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PMTranscultural Comparisons in Poetry
    Moderator: Kimberly La Palm
    -- David Smith, The Individual and the Collective in Ivar Aasen's Poetry
    - M Faucette, Shared Affinities: Juhani Aho and Countee Cullen
    - Mateusz Kucab, ‘Polar Privacy’ and ‘Finite Infinity’. Søren Kierkegaard’s and Emily Dickinson’s Movements of ‘Self’


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    M Faucette

    Mateusz Kucab

    David Smith

    Kimberly La Palm

    Executive Director

    12:00 PM - 1:30 PMLunch
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PMNothing scheduled in this room at this time
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    3:00 PM - 3:30 PMFriday Afternoon Coffee
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PMLinguistic Expression and Analysis
    Moderator: Tappio Hokkanen
    - Marc Pierce, The Onset Principle in Faroese
    - Ilmari Ivaska and Mirva Johnson, Identifying the dialectal background of American Finnish speakers using supervised machine-learning models
    - Jacob Ølgaard Nyboe, Writing the world anew. Neologisms in poetry discussed through the example of Marianne Larsen

    Ilmari Ivaska

    Mirva Johnson

    Jacob Nyboe

    Associate Professor

    Marc Pierce

    Tapio Hokkanen

    Marion
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AMMemory and Movement in Generational Modes of Fiction
    Moderator: Susan Brantly
    - Jordan Barger, Memories of Movement - Second-Generation Writers in Norway
    - Karin Filipsson, Writing Life: Reading Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s novel Systrarna as an autofictional novel
    - Øystein Hide, Chronotopic reading of a diary

    Jordan Barger

    Literary Translation MFA

    Susan Brantly

    Professor

    Karin Filipsson

    PhD candidate, Pre-doctoral Instructor at University of Washington

    Øystein Hide

    10:00 AM - 10:30 AMFriday Morning Coffee
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PMTopos, Affect, Self
    Moderator: Connie Amundson
    - Madeline Zimring, To Paint the “Innermost Picture”: Space, Selfhood, and the Spiritual in Jon Fosse’s The Other Name
    - Carol Gold, Johanne -- Creative Vignettes about Johanne Wadum, 1747-1800





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    Carol Gold

    Professor Emeritus

    Madeline Zimring

    Connie Amundson

    Independent Scholar

    12:00 PM - 1:30 PMLunch
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PMArctic Explorations
    Moderator: Brent Johnson
    - Mark Safstrom, Bland nordbor vid världens ände: Elmer Ekblaw, Swedish-American polar explorer and academic, 1882-1949
    - Erik Sundholm, Roald Amundsen: Making Friends In The New World
    - Henning Waerp, Animal societies in the Arctic. On Otto Sverdrup´s "New Land. Four Years in the Arctic Regions" (1903)




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    Mark Safstrom

    Assoc. Prof. of Scandinavian Studies

    Erik Sundholm

    Independent Scholar

    Henning Wærp

    Brent Johnson

    Outreach Coordinator

    3:00 PM - 3:30 PMFriday Afternoon Coffee
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PMDeath, Disease, and Aging as Literary Tropes
    Moderator: Linda Badley
    - Lisbeth Waerp, Torvald Helmer's fatal disease
    - Connie Amundson, Peer Gynt's Mor Aase: Grief, Aging, Death
    - Alice Price, Active and Aging: Nielsen’s Weeding Woman

    Connie Amundson

    Independent Scholar

    Alice Price

    Adjunct Instructor

    Lisbeth Waerp

    Linda Badley

    Professor Emerita

    James
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AMThe Digital Nineteenth Century | Placing Literature
    Moderator: Ellen Rees
    - Anders Skare Malvik, The Semantics of the City in Nineteenth Century Literature
    - Lars Johnsen, Classifying Nouns for Place and Movement
    - Jens Bjerring Hansen, Noisy Novels and Novel Soundscapes in Nineteenth-century Scandinavia

    Jens Bjerring-Hansen

    Associate Professor

    Lars Johnsen

    Anders Skare Malvik

    Ellen Rees

    Professor

    10:00 AM - 10:30 AMCoffee Break in Municipal/Superior
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PMThe Digital Nineteenth Century | Thematic Text-Mining
    Moderator: Frode Lerum Boasson
    - Benjmain Barkved, The Literary Geography of the Modern Breakthrough: Mapping Coastal Spaces in Norwegian Fiction (1870-1892) through Named-entity Recognition (NER)
    - Alexander Conroy, Modeling Marriage in Late Nineteenth-Century Literature
    - Annette Vilslev,
    Japan as a New Global Other of Nineteenth Century Norwegian Literature

    Benjamin Barkved

    Alexander Conroy

    PhD Fellow

    Ellen Rees

    Professor

    Annette Vilslev

    Frode Boasson

    12:00 PM - 1:30 PMLunch
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PMHigher Education Pedagogies I: Pedagogies of Literature
    Moderator: Ida Moen Johnson
    - Mark Sandberg, A gateway course on Nordic Culture and values
    - John Brumo, Contextual teaching and learning in Scandinavian studies – experiences from Norway
    - Lars August Fodstadt, Teaching Literature in Norway: What, Why and How?

    John Brumo

    Professor

    Lars August Fodstad

    Associate Professor

    Ida Johnson

    Permanent Lecturer in Norwegian

    Mark Sandberg

    Professor

    3:00 PM - 3:30 PMCoffee Break in Municipal/Superior
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PMHigher Education Pedagogies II: Reflections from the Classroom
    Moderator: Anu Muhonen
    - Lotta Weckström, First Step Discovery Journey in the Intermediate Nordic Languages Classroom
    - Sarah Clement Reed, Board Games in the History Classroom

    Anu Muhonen

    Professor of Finnish

    Sarah Reed

    Assistant Professor

    Lotta Weckström

    University Lecturer/ Finnish Studies

    Spring
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AMTwenty Years of Living Pictures and Missing Persons | MANNEQUINS: Blood, Sweat, and Tears: Living Pictures and the Question of Ar
    Moderator: Ben Bigelow
    - Brad Harmon, Archive Fever Blood Book: The Matter of the Archive and the Maladies of Cultural Memory in Burcu Sahin’s Blodbok
    - Liina-Ly Roos, Reimagining the Archive of Folk Culture in Smoke Sauna Sisterhood
    - Amanda Doxtater, Doing Melodrama Differently: Effigy Culture and Carl Th. Dreyer’s Early Archive

    Benjamin Bigelow

    Assistant Professor

    Amanda Doxtater

    Assistant Professor

    Brad Harmon

    PhD Student

    Liina-Ly Roos

    Assistant Professor

    10:00 AM - 10:30 AMCoffee Break in Municipal/Superior
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PMTwenty Years of Living Pictures and Missing Persons | MUSEUMS: Exhibition and the Time and Place of Performance
    Moderator: Amanda Doxtater
    - Dean Krouk, Explosive Rhetoric: The Domestic Architecture of Nordahl Grieg’s Drama Men imorgen (1935)
    - Olivia Noble Gunn, Hjorth’s Houses: Adapted Architecture in Henrik Falk (2019)
    - Maxine Savage, Missing Persons? Human Zoos and the Modern Exhibition

    Amanda Doxtater

    Assistant Professor

    Olivia Gunn

    Assistant Professor of Scandinavian Studies

    Dean Krouk

    Professor at University Of Wisconsin-Madison

    Maxine Savage

    PhD Candidate

    12:00 PM - 1:30 PMLunch
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PMNordic Archetypes and Ecopoetics
    Moderator: Ben Bigelow
    - Kimberly Ball, Wilding the Tame: The Viking from Adaptation to Genre Archetype
    - Bjorn Nordfjord, Crossing Borders in Contemporary Icelandic Cinema
    - Linda Badley, Sjónian Poetics

    Linda Badley

    Professor Emerita

    Kimberly Ball

    Bjorn Nordfjord

    Benjamin Bigelow

    Assistant Professor

    3:00 PM - 3:30 PMCoffee Break in Municipal/Superior
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PMTranscultural Boundaries and National Identities in Nordic Cinema
    Moderator: Mark Sandberg
    - Arne Lunde, Play It Again, Ingmar: Bergman’s Transcultural Influences on Woody Allen
    - Andrew Nestingen, Kaurismäki's Universalism and Its Prospects

    Arne Lunde

    Associate Professor

    Andrew Nestingen

    Professor

    Mark Sandberg

    Professor

    Vista I
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AMFairy Tales and Folktales | Hans Christian Andersen I
    Moderator: Claus Elholm Andersen
    - Sarah Eriksen, Language in Use in the Fairytale: Tracing Indexicality in Hans Christian Andersen and Villy Sørensen
    - Nate Kramer, Memory’s Happy Lover - Villy Sørensen, H.C. Andersen and the Fairytale
    - Mushtaq Bilal, Hans Christian Andersen in Twentieth-Century Urdu Literature

    Claus Elholm Andersen

    Assistant Professor at University Of Wisconsin-Madison

    Sarah Eriksen

    Nathaniel Kramer

    Associate Professor

    Mushtaq Bilal

    10:00 AM - 10:30 AMCoffee Break in Municipal/Superior
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PMFairy Tales and Folktales | Fairy Tales in Context
    Moderator: Nate Kramer
    - Ian Gwin, Telling Tales’ Retelling…’The Secret of the Waves’
    - Benjamin Teitelbaum, The Martyr of Ekshärad: Sacrificial Violence and Girardian Theory in Swedish Folk Narrative

    Nathaniel Kramer

    Associate Professor

    Ian Gwin

    Graduate Student

    Ben Teitelbaum

    Assistant Professor

    12:00 PM - 1:30 PMLunch
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PMFairy Tales and Folktales | Hans Christian Andersen II
    Moderator: Torsten Bøgh Thomsen
    - Sara Bruun Jørgensen, Hans Christian Andersen and The American Dream in Twentieth Century in US Animations
    - Elisabeth Oxfeldt, The Artic Snow Queen: Elsa as a Decolonizing Ecofeminist in Frozen I and II
    - Claus Elholm Andersen, The Little Matchgirl, Revisited

    Torsten Thomsen

    Sara Bruun Jørgensen

    Research Assistant

    Elisabeth Oxfeldt

    Professor

    Claus Elholm Andersen

    Assistant Professor at University Of Wisconsin-Madison

    3:00 PM - 3:30 PMCoffee Break in Municipal/Superior
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PMFairy Tales and Folktales | Trolls, Elves, and AI
    Moderator: Troy Wellington Smith
    - Joshua Lee, Elves in distress: Characterising positive huldufóld-human interactions in the late nineteenth- and early wenthieth-century legends
    - Ann-Kathrine Havemove, The Role of the Troll: From Stupid Ogre to Eco Warrior
    - Timothy Tangherlini,BERT vs the Hairball: LLMs and Graph Models for the Study of Danish Fairy Tales

    Troy Smith

    Joshua Lee

    Ann-Kathrine Havemose

    Lecturer

    Timothy Tangherlini

    Professor

    Vista II
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AMAuthority in Old Norse Literature
    Moderator: Merrill Kaplan
    - Verena Höfig, Thoughts on the Role of High-Seat Pillars in Icelandic landnám Traditions
    - Jonas Wellendorf, Anthropomorphism and theophoric kennings
    - Colin Connors, Cultural Modified Trees and Sacred Groves: An Indigenous Lens to Viking Age Landscapes and Ship-Building

    Colin Connors

    Verena Höfig

    Professur für Nordische Philologie, Schwerpunkt Altnordistik at LMU Munich

    Jonas Wellendorf

    Associate professor

    Merrill Kaplan

    Associate Professor of Folklore and Scandinavian Studies

    10:00 AM - 10:30 AMCoffee Break in Municipal/Superior
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PMDisability in Nordic Medieval Sources
    Moderator: Jonas Wellendorf
    - Natalie Van Deusen, Reading Disease and Disability in the Old Norse-Icelandic Legend of Helena Augusta
    - Rachel Bott, Monstrosity and Disability in the Swedish Medieval Ballad Jungfrun förvandlad till lind
    -Christine Ekholst, Madness and Mental Health in Medieval Sweden

    Rachel Bott

    Christine Ekholst

    Jonas Wellendorf

    Associate professor

    12:00 PM - 1:30 PMLunch
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PMTranslation and Reception in Late Medieval Scandinavia
    Moderator: Natalie Van Deusen
    - Merrill Kaplan, Looking at Loki and finding Cain: antisemitic caricature in two late Eddas
    - Drew Swasey, Exploring Linguistic Hospitality and Heroism in the “Eufemiavisor”
    - Basil Price, Mobile Colonialism: Norwegian Royal Power and the Politics of Failure in Late Medieval Íslendingasögur

    Merrill Kaplan

    Associate Professor of Folklore and Scandinavian Studies

    Basil Price

    Drew Swasey

    Natalie Van Deusen

    Professor

    3:00 PM - 3:30 PMCoffee Break in Municipal/Superior
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PMIntellectual and Theological Currents
    Moderator: Loraine Jensen
    - Jason Lavery, The Rise of a Married Clergy in Finland’s Reformation Era 1523-1611
    - Joseph Gonzalez, Alchemy and the Princess: Elite Women, Medical Practice, and Natural Science in Late 16th Century Sweden
    - David Jessup, Religious Identity on the Swedish Cultural Periphery

    Joseph Gonzalez

    Professor at California State University, Fullerton

    David Jessup

    Jason Lavery

    Regents Professor

    Loraine Jensen

    President

    Visions
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AMNordic Settler Experiences in North America | Nordic Settler Experiences in North America I
    Moderator: Lucia Hodgson
    - Lucia Hodgson, S. M. Swenson: Swedish Settler and Slaver in Nineteenth-Century Texas
    - Emma Ruddy, Native American Complexities and Realities: The Role of Scandinavian Settlers in the Utah Black Hawk War
    - Steinar A. Sæther, Nordic Experiences of Lynch Law and Democracy in Gold Rush California

    Lucia Hodgson

    Emma Ruddy

    Steiner A. Sæther

    10:00 AM - 10:30 AMCoffee Break in Municipal/Superior
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PMNordic Settler Experiences in North America | Nordic Settler Experiences in North America II
    Moderator: Lucia Hodgson
    - Raita Merivirta, The Colony of New Sweden in Swedish and Finnish (Youth) Novels of the 1930s
    - Linda Rugg, Becoming Settler Colonists: Two Swedish Brothers in the Delaware River Valley, 1712
    - Rikke Lie Halberg, Echoes of a Plantation Bell
    - Teuvo Peltoniemi, Nordic Utopian Communities since the 1700s

    Rikke Halberg

    Ph.D.-student

    Lucia Hodgson

    Teuvo Peltoniemi

    Linda Rugg

    Professor

    12:00 PM - 1:30 PMLunch
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PMNordic Settler Experiences in North America | Nordic Settler Experiences in North America III
    Moderator: Lucia Hodgson
    - Lisa Carlsson, “One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk”: A Postcolonial Reading of Vilhelm Moberg’s Emigrant Series
    - Andy Meyer, "Lost Sheep": Scandinavian Innocence and Minnesota Nice in Fargo
    - Rosemary Johnsen, Reading Legacies of Nordic Settler Colonialism in Minnesota’s Red River Valley through 20th Century Crime Fiction
    - Ursula Lindqvist, Rewriting the Swedish Migration Narrative

    Lisa Carlsson

    Lucia Hodgson

    Rosemary Johnsen

    Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Professor

    Ursula Lindqvist

    Professor of Scandinavian Studies and Swedish

    Andy Meyer

    Assistant Teaching Professor

    3:00 PM - 3:30 PMCoffee Break in Municipal/Superior
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PMNordic Settler Experiences in North America IV
    Moderator: Lucia Hodgson
    - Jay L. Lalonde, Icelandic Settlers in 1870s Nova Scotia: Land, Modernity, and Immigration Policy
    - Sydney Lines, The Saga of Whiteness in Laura Goodman Salverson’s North American Viking Novels
    - Hannah Zimmerman & Odd-Máhtte Sara, An Account of the Alaskan Sámi - Muitalus Alaska Sámiid birrá
    - Amy King, American Sámi: Sámi and Sámi Descendants in North America

    Lucia Hodgson

    Amy King

    Jay Lalonde

    Sydney Lines

    Hannah Zimmerman

    Seattle Public Library - Microsoft Auditorium
    9:00 AM - 10:00 AMRehearsal
    Performers Only
    10:00 AM - 10:30 AMCoffee Break in Municipal/Superior
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PMThe Evolution of Nordic Music I
    Moderator: Colin Levin
    - Kristin Taylor: Compositional Seismicity: Generational Evolutions in 20th Century Icelandic Solo Piano Works
    - Mimmi Fulmer: Commemorating the artistic legacy of Oskar Merikanto on the anniversary of his death

    Colin Levin

    Assistant Professor

    Mimmi Fulmer

    Professor of Voice and Opera

    Kristin Taylor

    Associate Professor of Piano

    12:00 PM - 1:30 PMLunch
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PMThe Evolution of Nordic Music II
    - Laura Loge: Der Skreg en Fugl – Moving Women to the Forefront in Norwegian Art Song
    - Steven Luksan: Leif Erikson in Seattle: Gerard Tonning and Norwegian Opera in the New World

    Laura Loge

    President at Northwest Edvard Grieg Society

    Steven Luksan

    3:00 PM - 3:30 PMCoffee Break in Municipal/Superior
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PMThe Evolution of Nordic Music III
    Moderator: Colin Levin
    - John-Carlos Perea and Gus Dalan Holley: Presentation on Cedar Flute and Hardanger Fiddle
    - Colin Levin, Evan Fein, and Claire Galloway: A Brief Interlude of Contemporary Faroese Art Song
    - Kathleen Roland-Silverstein: The "Unknown" Songs of Jean Sibelius

    Evan Fein

    Faculty

    Claire Galloway

    Lecturer II (Voice, Diction & Repertoire) AND Artist-in-Residence (Voice)

    Colin Levin

    Assistant Professor

    Kathleen Roland-Silverstein

    Associate Professor

  • Municipal/Superior
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AMCoffee Break in Municipal/Superior
    10:00 AM - 10:30 AMCoffee Break
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PMCoffee Break in Municipal/Superior
    12:00 PM - 1:30 PMLunch
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PMCoffee Break in Municipal/Superior
    3:00 PM - 3:30 PMCoffee Break
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PMCoffee Break in Municipal/Superior
    Federal
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AMExploring the Self in Cinema, Drama and Prose
    Moderator: Jenna Coughlin
    - Lynn Wilkinson, Skepticism and Technology in Ingmar Bergman's EN PASSION
    - Susan Brantly, P.C. Jersild’s Ypsilon (2012): Postmodernism, Metafiction, and Social Purpose
    - William Johnsen, Ibsen and Strindberg on Scapegoating

    Jenna Coughlin

    Assistant Professor of Norwegian

    10:00 AM - 10:30 AMCoffee Break in Municipal/Superior
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PMWorkshop: Arctic Racializations

    Nina Cramer

    PhD Candidate

    Bart Pushaw

    Jen Rose Smith

    Maxine Savage

    PhD Candidate

    Mathilde Magga

    PhD Candidate

    12:00 PM - 1:30 PMLunch
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PMThe Evolution of Nordic Music IV
    Moderator: Colin Levin
    - Cayla Rosche: Commemorating the Artistic Legacy: Páll Ísólfsson and Davið Stefánsson

    Gus Holley

    Colin Levin

    Assistant Professor

    John-Carlos Perea

    CAYLA ROSCHE

    3:00 PM - 3:30 PMCoffee Break in Municipal/Superior
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PMThe Evolution of Nordic Music V
    Moderator: Colin Levin
    - Jameson Foster: Down in the River to Play: Animism in Nordic Fiddling
    - Claire Anderson: APPALACHIAN MUSIC WITH A SWEDISH TWANG: INTERGENERATIONAL SOUNDS AND STORIES IN SWEDISH BLUEGRASS MUSIC
    - Marla Fogderud: The Emergence of the Norwegian Compositional Voice: Halfdan Kjerulf and the Romanse

    Jameson Foster

    PhD Student

    Claire Anderson

    Doctoral Candidate

    Marla Fogderud

    Colin Levin

    Assistant Professor

    Columbia
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AMSASS Spring Book Talk: Amanda Doxtater

    Amanda Doxtater

    Assistant Professor

    Olivia Gunn

    Assistant Professor of Scandinavian Studies

    10:00 AM - 10:30 AMCoffee Break in Municipal/Superior
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PMWhat does it take to submit a successful grant application?

    Marcus Cederstrom

    Teaching Faculty III

    Monica Hidalgo

    Sally Yerkovich

    Director of Educational Exchange

    CAYLA ROSCHE

    Linda Rugg

    Professor

    12:00 PM - 1:30 PMLunch
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PMRe-imagining Danish, Russian and Swedish Colonial Empires in the 17th and 18th Centuries
    Moderator: Joseph Gonzalez
    - Earl Hodil, Eastward Bound: The Diplomatic Journal of Axel Gyldenstierne in Seventeenth-Century Russia
    - Mikhail Liustrov, Russian theme in the Swedish “Short story on the West Indies, or America” (1675)

    Earl Hodil

    Mikhail Liustrov

    Joseph Gonzalez

    Professor at California State University, Fullerton

    3:00 PM - 3:30 PMCoffee Break in Municipal/Superior
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PMSense and Self in Modern Faroese, Danish and Norwegian Prose
    Moderator: Marianne Stecher-Hansen
    - Bergur Rønne Moberg, Wisdom of the Heart: On the use of William Heinesen
    - Alicia Zellmer, The Usage of Sensory Imagery in The Copenhagen Trilogy
    - Rennesa Jessup, Grandmas in China: Lars Saabye Christensen, Hanne Ørstavik and the Inaccessible Past

    Marianne Stecher-Hansen

    Professor

    Marion
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AMLabor and Rebellion in Contemporary Nordic Literature
    Moderator: Tim Tangherlini
    - Catharina Bergman, Resistance Movements in Contemporary Swedish Working-class Literature
    - Marlene Hastenplug, “The family is an island.” On Mai My Humaidan’s Ærø manifestet – a book that challenges genre, content, and political norms
    - Frank Sebastian Hansen, A Defective Cog in the Machine – Protagonists' Rebellion in New Danish Prose

    Catharina Bergman

    Frank Sebastian Hansen

    Marlene Hastenplug

    Danish Lecturer

    Timothy Tangherlini

    Professor

    10:00 AM - 10:30 AMCoffee Break in Municipal/Superior
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PMStaging WWII: Cultural Memory in Cinema and Drama
    Moderator: Dean Krouk
    - Elizabeth Stang, Becoming Industry: Erik Skjoldbjærg’s Kampen om Narvik and the New Norwegian (?) Occupation Narrative
    - Patrick Wen, Illuminating Darkness: A Reexamination of Robert Sherwood's "There Shall Be No Night"
    - Nely Keinänen, Moving Shakespeare: Staging The Merchant of Venice in Sweden and Finland in 1944

    Nely Keinänen

    Dean Krouk

    Professor at University Of Wisconsin-Madison

    Elizabeth Stang

    Patrick Wen

    12:00 PM - 1:30 PMLunch
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PMIbsen Society of America
    Moderator: Olivia Noble Gunn
    - Ellen Rees, IbsenBackstage: Rethinking Ibsen’s Early Repertory
    - Gereon Kopf and Anna M. Petersen, Hiratsuka Raichō’s Reception of Nora: Ibsen, Zen Buddhism, and Authenticity

    Olivia Gunn

    Assistant Professor of Scandinavian Studies

    Gereon Kopf

    Anna Peterson

    Assistant Professor

    3:00 PM - 3:30 PMCoffee Break in Municipal/Superior
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PMCreativity, Feminism, and Queer Performance in Danish and Swedish Arts and Letters
    Moderator: Karin Filipsson
    - Lo Dagerman, 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
    - Jens Tang Kristensen, F.C. for Franciska Clausen and a new feministic constructivism.
    - Poul Houe, How our world became Nielsen’s mobile home

    Lo Dagerman

    Writer, Producer

    Poul Houe

    Professor Emeritus

    Jens Tang Kristensen

    Karin Filipsson

    PhD candidate, Pre-doctoral Instructor at University of Washington

    James
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AMTeaching Nordic Studies in North America | Pedagogical movements in Nordic Studies: Learning in (and Out) of Time and Place
    Moderator: Mark Sandberg
    - Ida Moen Johnson, How to Read Like an Animal: Methods in the Nordic Studies Classroom
    - Tanya Thresher, Moving Dialogues of Cultural Otherness: Reading Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s Invasion as a Social Practice
    - Kjerstin Moody, Pedagogical Movements in Nordic Studies: Learning In (and Out) of Time and Place

    Ida Johnson

    Permanent Lecturer in Norwegian

    Tanya Thresher

    Visiting Associate Professor

    Kjerstin Moody

    Associate Professor

    10:00 AM - 10:30 AMCoffee Break in Municipal/Superior
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PMTeaching Nordic Studies in North America | Higher education pedagogies III: Experiences from North America
    Moderator: Lotta Weckström
    - Tapio Hokkanen, Immigration, mobility, and language policies and their implications on teaching Finnish as a second language in higher education
    - Anu Muhonen, “Koputa vaan oveen ja minä avaan”: Community-engaged service-learning in the Finnish Canadian Community in Toronto "
    Concluding discussion of the panel “Teaching Nordic Studies in North America” and future plans

    Tapio Hokkanen

    Lotta Weckström

    University Lecturer/ Finnish Studies

    Anu Muhonen

    Professor of Finnish

    12:00 PM - 1:30 PMLunch
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PMThe Digital Nineteenth Century | Delineating Literary History
    Moderator: Jens Bjerring Hansen
    - Frode Lerum Boasson, The Geography of Literary History: A distant Reading of the Norwegian Tradition 1814–1905
    - Stefan Hjort, Figurative Language in Norwegian Literary Histories
    - Ranveig Kvinnsland, Norwegian Poetry of the Nineteenth Century: An Overview

    Frode Boasson

    Stefan Hjort

    Ph.D. student

    Ranveig Kvinnsland

    Ph.D. Student

    Jens Bjerring-Hansen

    Associate Professor

    3:00 PM - 3:30 PMCoffee Break in Municipal/Superior
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PMThe Digital Nineteenth Century | Curating Cultural Heritage
    Moderator: Anders Skare Malvik
    - Peter Leonard, The “T” in GPT: Transformers-based AI for Cultural Heritage Work
    - Lisa Yamasaki, The Romance of Nyromantikken: A Digital Collection
    - Gunnar Wennerström, Harvesting the Past: Using AI to Transform Swedish-American Studies

    Anders Skare Malvik

    Spring
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AMThe Nordic humanitarian state-civil society nexus: Between action and inaction

    Norbert Götz

    Sunniva Engh

    Susan Lindholm

    Carl Marklund

    Dr

    10:00 AM - 10:30 AMCoffee Break in Municipal/Superior
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PMRoundtable: Shifting Baltic-Nordic Security

    Olavi Arens

    Dr.

    Dovile Budryte

    Professor

    Jörg Hackmann

    Jason Lavery

    Regents Professor

    Guntis Smidchens

    Scott Radnitz

    12:00 PM - 1:30 PMLunch
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PMTwenty Years of Living Pictures and Missing Persons | MODERNITY: Representation of Nature and the Nature of Representation
    Moderator: Liina-Ly Roos
    - Christopher (Chip) Oscarson, Living Pictures and the Ecological Imaginary
    - Jenna Coughlin, Living Pictures, Missing Waterfalls: Hydropower & Mobility in Norwegian Media
    - Benjamin Bigelow, Threshold Positions: Reconciling the Old and the New in Nordic Sustainability Discourse

    Benjamin Bigelow

    Assistant Professor

    Jenna Coughlin

    Assistant Professor of Norwegian

    Christopher Oscarson

    associate professor

    Liina-Ly Roos

    Assistant Professor

    3:00 PM - 3:30 PMCoffee Break in Municipal/Superior
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PMLiving Pictures, Missing Persons, in conversation with Mark Sandberg

    Mark Sandberg

    Professor

    Christopher Oscarson

    associate professor

    Vista I
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AMSámi Resistance and Trans-Indigenous Encounters
    Moderator: Amy Swanson-King
    - Troy Storfjell, Navigating Heavdni’s Web: Trans-Indigenous Encounters in Relationality
    - John Prusynski, Queerness as Indigenous Resistance in Sámi Literature
    - Tim Frandy, Relationality, Reciprocity, and the Repercussions of Ecological (Mis)Use in Sámi Narrative Traditions

    Tim Frandy

    Assistant Professor

    John Prusynski

    PhD Candidate

    Troy Storfjell

    Professor

    Amy King

    10:00 AM - 10:30 AMCoffee Break in Municipal/Superior
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PMFairy Tales and Folktales | Fairy Tales and Children’s Literature
    Moderator: Ann-Kathrine Havemove
    - Helen Durst, The Beheaded Doll: tracing the movement of the ‘girl’ in Nordic Children’s Literature
    - Theo Malekin, Nostalgia and Cognitive Estrangement in the Dystopian Picture Books of Simon Stålenhag
    - Emily Beyer, Sport and Pippi Långstrump

    Ann-Kathrine Havemose

    Lecturer

    Helen Durst

    Danish Lecturer University of Wisconsin, PhD student University of Washington

    Theo Malekin

    Senior Lecturer

    Emily Beyer

    12:00 PM - 1:30 PMLunch
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PMFairy Tales and Folktales | Hans Christian Andersen III
    Moderator: Elisabeth Oxfeldt
    - Inga Kapustian, Adapting H.C. Andersen: Translation, Censorship, and Cultural Resonance in Ukrainian Literary Contexts
    - Torsten Bøgn Thomsen, Fairy Tales on the Move - Hans Christian Andersen’s Early Western European Reception
    - Troy Wellington Smith, Ude og hjemme: The Jean Hersholt Collection of Hans Christian Andersen

    Elisabeth Oxfeldt

    Professor

    Inga Kapustian

    Torsten Thomsen

    Troy Smith

    3:00 PM - 3:30 PMCoffee Break in Municipal/Superior
    Vista II
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AMNordic Motherhood in Motion | Trauma, Horror, Stigma
    Moderator: Jenny Björklund
    - Daniela Lillhannus, Spectral Mothers and Daughters of Swedish Rape Trauma Fiction
    - Atėnė Mendelytė, Maternal Revenge Horror in Fever Ray’s “Even It Out” (2023)
    - Irma Kondrataitė and Lina Šumskaitė, Nordic Model in Prostitution and Stigmatization: Mothers in Sex Work
    - Ailie Westbrook, “She is afraid to die”: Contraception in Medieval Denmark

    Irma Kondrataté

    Daniela Lillhannus

    Atėnė Mendelytė

    Ailie Westbrook

    10:00 AM - 10:30 AMCoffee Break in Municipal/Superior
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PMNordic Motherhood in Motion | Narratives and Negotiations
    Moderator: Daniela Lillhannus
    - Jenny Björklund, Negotiating Good Motherhood in Times of Climate Change
    - Lisa Grahn, Historical Narratives of Motherhood in Swedish Popular Fiction

    Jenny Bjorklund

    Associate Professor

    Lisa Grahn

    Daniela Lillhannus

    12:00 PM - 1:30 PMLunch
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PMNordic Motherhood in Motion | Reproductive Rights and Politics
    Moderator: Daniela Lillhannus
    - Elina Nilsson, Figurations of Motherhood: Narratives of Becoming a Parent through Surrogacy in Swedish Media
    - Melissa Gjellstad, Nonbiological Single Parents in Crisis: Ólafsdóttir & Erlingsson
    - Saniya Lee Ghanoui, PLOP”: Examining the Representation of Abortion in Two Lines = Pregnant, a Swedish Graphic Novel

    Saniya Ghanoui

    Melissa Gjellstad

    Professor at University of North Dakota

    Daniela Lillhannus

    Elina Nilsson

    3:00 PM - 3:30 PMCoffee Break in Municipal/Superior
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PMWomen leaders, artistic transformation, and the creating of cultural diversities

    Carrie Danielson

    Postdoctoral Fellow in Nordic Folklife

    Lizette Graden

    Anna Rue

    Community Curator of Upper Midwestern Scandinavian Cultures

    Andrew Nestingen

    Professor

    Visions
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AMNarrative Migration
    Moderator: Mark Safstrom
    - Helén Persson, The emigration from Sweden as a borderline event
    - Anne Jenner, The Nordic and Baltic archival record in the University of Washington Pacific Northwest Collection: Features, Collection Guides, and Search Strategies
    - Love Carlshamre, Permanence and Transitoriness: Ola Larsmo’s Swede Hollow and the Re- Imagining of the Swedish Emigrant Novel
    - Jay Lutz, Henning Mankell's Move From Northern Sweden to California and China

    Love Carlshamre

    PhD Student

    Anne Jenner

    Jay Lutz

    Helén Persson

    Mark Safstrom

    Assoc. Prof. of Scandinavian Studies

    10:00 AM - 10:30 AMCoffee Break in Municipal/Superior
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PMNordic Settler Experiences in North America V
    Moderator: Lucia Hodgson
    - Ulf Jonas Björk, We Have not Forgotten Gustavus Adolphus, but to Us, He Is Dead: Early Swedish Newspapers in Denver
    - Erik Moe, Embracing America, Embracing Whiteness: The 1925 Norse-American Centennial, and Looking Forward to the 2025 Bicentennial
    - Gregory Gaines, The Founding of SASS and the Legitimization of Scandinavian Settlement in America

    Ulf Jonas Björk

    Professor Emeritus

    Gregory Gaines

    PhD Candidate

    Erik Moe

    12:00 PM - 1:30 PMLunch
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PMNordic Settler Experiences in North America VI
    Moderator: Lucia Hodgson
    - Jennifer Eastman Attebery, Heritage Fiction: The Swedish American Example of Lillian Budd
    - Caitlin Sackrison, Norwegian Immigrant Women in Minnesota: Homesteading in a Borderland in the Late 19th Century
    - Svea Larson, Sautéing across the Atlantic: Swedish-American Migrant Cooks, Their Recipe Collections, and Transnational Domestic Work, circa 1890-1940

    Jennifer Attebery

    Professor Emerita at Idaho State University

    Lucia Hodgson

    Svea Larson

    3:00 PM - 3:30 PMCoffee Break in Municipal/Superior
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PMTransatlantic Exchanges: 20th-Century Swedish-U.S. Relations
    Moderator: Lisa Carlsson
    - Ulf Zander, A Decade of High Points and Low Water Marks: Swedish-US Relations 1938-48
    - Dag Blanck, The trans-Atlantic circulation of American democracy in Sweden and Swedish America.
    - Christin Mays, Transatlantic exchanges: Scholarships and academic mobility between Sweden and the United States, ca 1912–1980
    - Adam Hjorthén, Refracting Roots: Swedish Ethnicity and Political Polarization in the United States Today

    Dag Blanck

    Adam Hjorthén

    Associate Professor

    Christin Mays

    Research Coordinator

    Ulf Zander

    Lisa Carlsson

    Madison Ballroom
    6:00 PM - 8:00 PMSASS Closing Banquet
    Dinner and the presentation of awards.
    8:00 PM - 11:55 PMDance
  • Campus
    9:30 AM - 11:00 AMIndigenous Campus Tour
    oin Owen L. Oliver, UW alum and expert in local history, for an indigenous walking tour of campus.

    Meet at the Burke Museum

Speakers

  • Ethelene Whitmire (Professor)

    Ethelene Whitmire

    Professor

  • CA

    Connie Amundson

    Independent Scholar

  • CA

    Claire Anderson

    Doctoral Candidate

  • LA

    Leslie Anderson

    Director, Coll., Exh., and Programs

  • OA

    Olavi Arens

    Dr.

  • Jennifer Attebery (Professor Emerita at Idaho State University)

    Jennifer Attebery

    Professor Emerita at Idaho State University

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  • LB

    Linda Badley

    Professor Emerita

  • KB

    Kimberly Ball

  • JB

    Jordan Barger

    Literary Translation MFA

  • BB

    Benjamin Barkved

  • CB

    Catharina Bergman

  • EB

    Emily Beyer

  • BB

    Benjamin Bigelow

    Assistant Professor

  • MB

    Mushtaq Bilal

  • JB

    Jens Bjerring-Hansen

    Associate Professor

  • JB

    Jenny Bjorklund

    Associate Professor

  • UB

    Ulf Jonas Björk

    Professor Emeritus

  • DB

    Dag Blanck

  • FB

    Frode Boasson

  • RB

    Rachel Bott

  • SB

    Susan Brantly

    Professor

  • MB

    Malene Breunig

    Associate Professor

  • JB

    John Brumo

    Professor

  • SB

    Sara Bruun Jørgensen

    Research Assistant

  • DB

    Dovile Budryte

    Professor

  • AB

    Adam Buffington

    Paraprofessional

  • LC

    Love Carlshamre

    PhD Student

  • LC

    Lisa Carlsson

  • Marcus Cederstrom (Teaching Faculty III)

    Marcus Cederstrom

    Teaching Faculty III

  • CC

    Colin Connors

  • AC

    Alexander Conroy

    PhD Fellow

  • JC

    Jenna Coughlin

    Assistant Professor of Norwegian

  • NC

    Nina Cramer

    PhD Candidate

  • Lo Dagerman (Writer, Producer)

    Lo Dagerman

    Writer, Producer

  • CD

    Carrie Danielson

    Postdoctoral Fellow in Nordic Folklife

  • AD

    Amanda Doxtater

    Assistant Professor

  • Helen Durst (Danish Lecturer University of Wisconsin, PhD student University of Washington)

    Helen Durst

    Danish Lecturer University of Wisconsin, PhD student University of Washington

  • CE

    Christine Ekholst

  • Claus Elholm Andersen (Assistant Professor at University Of Wisconsin-Madison)

    Claus Elholm Andersen

    Assistant Professor at University Of Wisconsin-Madison

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  • SE

    Sunniva Engh

  • SE

    Sarah Eriksen

  • MF

    M Faucette

  • EF

    Evan Fein

    Faculty

  • Karin Filipsson (PhD candidate, Pre-doctoral Instructor at University of Washington)

    Karin Filipsson

    PhD candidate, Pre-doctoral Instructor at University of Washington

  • LF

    Lars August Fodstad

    Associate Professor

  • MF

    Marla Fogderud

  • JF

    Jameson Foster

    PhD Student

  • TF

    Tim Frandy

    Assistant Professor

  • MF

    Mimmi Fulmer

    Professor of Voice and Opera

  • GG

    Gregory Gaines

    PhD Candidate

  • Claire Galloway (Lecturer II (Voice, Diction & Repertoire) AND Artist-in-Residence (Voice))

    Claire Galloway

    Lecturer II (Voice, Diction & Repertoire) AND Artist-in-Residence (Voice)

  • SG

    Saniya Ghanoui

  • Melissa Gjellstad (Professor at University of North Dakota)

    Melissa Gjellstad

    Professor at University of North Dakota

  • CG

    Carol Gold

    Professor Emeritus

  • JG

    Joseph Gonzalez

    Professor at California State University, Fullerton

  • LG

    Lizette Graden

  • LG

    Lisa Grahn

  • OG

    Olivia Gunn

    Assistant Professor of Scandinavian Studies

  • IG

    Ian Gwin

    Graduate Student

  • NG

    Norbert Götz

  • Jörg Hackmann

    Jörg Hackmann

  • RH

    Rikke Halberg

    Ph.D.-student

  • FH

    Frank Sebastian Hansen

  • Brad Harmon (PhD Student)

    Brad Harmon

    PhD Student

  • MH

    Marlene Hastenplug

    Danish Lecturer

  • AH

    Ann-Kathrine Havemose

    Lecturer

  • MH

    Monica Hidalgo

  • ØH

    Øystein Hide

  • SH

    Stefan Hjort

    Ph.D. student

  • Adam Hjorthén (Associate Professor)

    Adam Hjorthén

    Associate Professor

  • LH

    Lucia Hodgson

  • EH

    Earl Hodil

  • TH

    Tapio Hokkanen

  • GH

    Gus Holley

  • PH

    Poul Houe

    Professor Emeritus

  • Verena Höfig (Professur für Nordische Philologie, Schwerpunkt Altnordistik at LMU Munich)

    Verena Höfig

    Professur für Nordische Philologie, Schwerpunkt Altnordistik at LMU Munich

  • II

    Ilmari Ivaska

  • AJ

    Anne Jenner

  • Loraine Jensen (President)

    Loraine Jensen

    President

  • DJ

    David Jessup

  • RJ

    Rennesa Jessup

    Professor

  • LJ

    Lars Johnsen

  • RJ

    Rosemary Johnsen

    Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Professor

  • WJ

    William Johnsen

    Professor & Editor

  • Brent Johnson (Outreach Coordinator)

    Brent Johnson

    Outreach Coordinator

  • IJ

    Ida Johnson

    Permanent Lecturer in Norwegian

  • MJ

    Mirva Johnson

  • TJ

    Terje Joranger

    Director

  • MK

    Merrill Kaplan

    Associate Professor of Folklore and Scandinavian Studies

  • IK

    Inga Kapustian

  • NK

    Nely Keinänen

  • AK

    Amy King

  • IK

    Irma Kondrataté

  • GK

    Gereon Kopf

  • AK

    Andrey Korovin

  • NK

    Nathaniel Kramer

    Associate Professor

  • JK

    Jens Tang Kristensen

  • Dean Krouk (Professor at University Of Wisconsin-Madison)

    Dean Krouk

    Professor at University Of Wisconsin-Madison

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  • MK

    Mateusz Kucab

  • RK

    Ranveig Kvinnsland

    Ph.D. Student

  • SK

    Sara Kärrholm

  • Kimberly La Palm (Executive Director)

    Kimberly La Palm

    Executive Director

  • JL

    Jay Lalonde

  • SL

    Svea Larson

  • JL

    Jason Lavery

    Regents Professor

  • JL

    Joshua Lee

  • PL

    Peter Leonard

    Director

  • CL

    Colin Levin

    Assistant Professor

  • DL

    Daniela Lillhannus

  • HL

    Hanna Malene Lindberg

  • SL

    Susan Lindholm

  • Ursula Lindqvist (Professor of Scandinavian Studies and Swedish)

    Ursula Lindqvist

    Professor of Scandinavian Studies and Swedish

  • SL

    Sydney Lines

  • ML

    Mikhail Liustrov

  • Laura Loge (President at Northwest Edvard Grieg Society)

    Laura Loge

    President at Northwest Edvard Grieg Society

  • SL

    Steven Luksan

  • TL

    Thea Lund

  • AL

    Arne Lunde

    Associate Professor

  • JL

    Jay Lutz

  • SM

    Scott Magelssen

  • MM

    Mathilde Magga

    PhD Candidate

  • TM

    Theo Malekin

    Senior Lecturer

  • AM

    Anders Skare Malvik

  • CM

    Carl Marklund

    Dr

  • Christin Mays (Research Coordinator)

    Christin Mays

    Research Coordinator

  • SM

    Scott Mellor

    Teaching Professor at University Of Wisconsin-Madison

  • AM

    Atėnė Mendelytė

  • RM

    Raita Merivirta

  • AM

    Andy Meyer

    Assistant Teaching Professor

  • BM

    Benjamin Mier-Cruz

    Assistant Professor

  • MM

    Monica Miller

  • BM

    Bergur Rønne Moberg

  • EM

    Erik Moe

  • KM

    Kjerstin Moody

    Associate Professor

  • AM

    Anu Muhonen

    Professor of Finnish

  • EM

    Erik Mustad

    Associate Professor

  • AN

    Andrew Nestingen

    Professor

  • NN

    Natalya Nielsen

  • EN

    Elina Nilsson

  • BN

    Bjorn Nordfjord

  • Jacob Nyboe (Associate Professor)

    Jacob Nyboe

    Associate Professor

  • EN

    Ellen Nyman

  • TO

    Temi Odumosu

  • CO

    Christopher Oscarson

    associate professor

  • EO

    Elisabeth Oxfeldt

    Professor

  • Teuvo Peltoniemi

    Teuvo Peltoniemi

  • JP

    John-Carlos Perea

  • HP

    Helén Persson

  • AP

    Anna Peterson

    Assistant Professor

  • MP

    Marc Pierce

  • AP

    Alice Price

    Adjunct Instructor

  • BP

    Basil Price

  • JP

    John Prusynski

    PhD Candidate

  • BP

    Bart Pushaw

  • CR

    CAYLA ROSCHE

  • SR

    Scott Radnitz

  • SR

    Sarah Reed

    Assistant Professor

  • ER

    Ellen Rees

    Professor

  • KR

    Kathleen Roland-Silverstein

    Associate Professor

  • LR

    Liina-Ly Roos

    Assistant Professor

  • JR

    Jen Rose Smith

  • SR

    Shan Ruan

  • ER

    Emma Ruddy

  • AR

    Anna Rue

    Community Curator of Upper Midwestern Scandinavian Cultures

  • Linda Rugg (Professor)

    Linda Rugg

    Professor

  • CS

    Caitlin Sackrison

    P.h.D. Candiate

  • MS

    Mark Safstrom

    Assoc. Prof. of Scandinavian Studies

  • Mark Sandberg (Professor)

    Mark Sandberg

    Professor

  • MS

    Michael Sandberg

  • MS

    Maxine Savage

    PhD Candidate

  • MS

    Marit Sjelmo

  • RS

    Ryan Skinner

    Associate Professor

  • GS

    Guntis Smidchens

  • DS

    David Smith

  • TS

    Troy Smith

  • TS

    Tine Sommer

  • ES

    Elizabeth Stang

  • Ana Stanićević

    Ana Stanićević

  • MS

    Marianne Stecher-Hansen

    Professor

  • Troy Storfjell (Professor)

    Troy Storfjell

    Professor

  • Erik Sundholm (Independent Scholar)

    Erik Sundholm

    Independent Scholar

  • JS

    Jeff Sundquist

  • DS

    Drew Swasey

  • SS

    Steiner A. Sæther

  • TT

    Timothy Tangherlini

    Professor

  • KT

    Kristin Taylor

    Associate Professor of Piano

  • BT

    Ben Teitelbaum

    Assistant Professor

  • TT

    Torsten Thomsen

  • TT

    Tess S. Skadegård Thorsen

  • ET

    Erik Thosteman

  • TT

    Tanya Thresher

    Visiting Associate Professor

  • NV

    Natalie Van Deusen

    Professor

  • AV

    Annette Vilslev

  • LW

    Lisbeth Waerp

  • LW

    Lotta Weckström

    University Lecturer/ Finnish Studies

  • JW

    Jonas Wellendorf

    Associate professor

  • PW

    Patrick Wen

  • GW

    Gunnar Wennerström

  • AW

    Ailie Westbrook

  • LW

    Lynn Wilkinson

    Professor

  • RW

    Richelle Wilson

  • HW

    Henning Wærp

  • LY

    Lisa Yamasaki

    Adjunct Lecturer/ Researcher

  • SY

    Sally Yerkovich

    Director of Educational Exchange

  • UZ

    Ulf Zander

  • AZ

    Alicia Zellmer

  • HZ

    Hannah Zimmerman

  • MZ

    Madeline Zimring

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$50
DANA Dinner

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.

$25
DANA Dinner (Graduate Student)

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.

$15
Presenter One-Day

This ticket does not include a ticket to the Sateurday evening closing banquet. If you would like to attend the Saturday banquet you should select the Standard registration ticket or purchase this ticket and a separate Banquet Only ticket

Member Price $125
Stand-alone Dambo Tour
$20
Stand-alone Attebery Ticket
$50
Friday Music Events Only
$25
Non-member Non-presenter Student
$250
Non-member Non-presenter Standard
$500

Events and Excursions


SAHS Lunch and Lecture 


Thursday, May 9, 11:00AM


Stories of the Past: How Swedish Americans Shape Their Heritage


In writing histories of their own communities, Swedish Americans draw on historical legends that distill a sense of ethnic identity and heritage. Jennifer Eastman Attebery shares examples from her book As Legend Has It (University of Wisconsin Press, 2023), reflecting how immigrants and their descendants used legendary materials to claim a place in American history. Attebery is Professor Emerita at Idaho State University. Her previous books focus on Swedish American summer holidays and vernacular letter writing.


Meet the bus in the conference hotel lobby


Ticket includes lunch and transportation to and from the Swedish Club. 


Cash bar available. 


Individuals not attending SASS can purchase tickets directly from the Swedish Club or SAHS. 


Visit the Swedish Club's website for more info about the venue: https://www.swedishclubnw.org/​


This event is sponsored by the University of Washington Department of Scandinavian Studies, Swedish Club of Seattle, and the Swedish American Historical Society.


Time:

11:00am-2:00pm


Location:

The Swedish Club of Seattle,

1920 Dexter Ave N

Seattle, WA 98109


Cost:

$50


Order your ticket as an add-on to your SASS registration 


Dambo Troll Tour


Thursday, May 9, 2:30pM


Excursion to Lincoln Park, West Seattle 


Environmental artist Thomas Dambo installed several trolls made of recycled material in the Puget Sound Region. The excursion provides coach transportation to view the Dambo troll in West Seattle, the Fremont Troll. There is also a troll at the National Nordic Museum. 


Thomas Dambo's troll sculpture in West Seattle (Bruun Idun) and the NNM troll (Frankie Feetsplinters) are two in an exhibition of six across the Pacific Northwest. The project is titled Northwest Trolls: Way of the Bird King.  


Meet the bus in the conference hotel lobby


Bus will drop off at the National Nordic Museum at the conclusion of the tour


Tour followed by an opportunity to tour the National Nordic Museum.


This event sponsored in part by Scan Design Foundation. 


Time: 

2:20pm-4:30pm


Location: 

Lincoln Park, West Seattle, and the National Nordic Museum


Cost: 

$20


Order your ticket as an add-on to your SASS registration 


ASTRA Lunch


Friday, May 10, 12:00pm-1:30PM


Bring your own lunch for an informal meeting with other ASTRA members.


Location: 

Conference Hotel, Spring (4th Floor)


Cost: 

Bring your own lunch


NORTANA Lunch


Friday, May 10, 12:00pm-1:30PM


Bring your own lunch for an informal meeting with other NORTANA members.


Location: 

Conference Hotel, James (4th Floor)


Cost: 

Bring your own lunch

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



Indigenous Campus Tour


Sunday, May 12, 9:30am-11:00am


Join Owen L. Oliver, UW alum and expert in local history, for an indigenous walking tour of campus.


Meet at the Burke Museum
















No transportation provided,

Visit the King County Metro Trip Planner​ for public transit options 


Time:

9:30am-11:00am


Location:

The Burke Museum

4303 Memorial Way Northeast

Seattle, WA 98195


Cost:

This is a free event. All donations go toward gratuity. 


Indicate your intention to join the tour as an add-on to your SASS registration 

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