This fall at Scandinavia House, experience Nordic comedy at its darkest with “Svart Humor”! “If there’s a dead body in Denmark, someone is going to make a joke about it,” director Anders Jensen once said; Nordic comedies are as known for their deadpan, dry wit as for their occasionally noir subject matter, celebrating the “svart/sort” (dark) […]
Learn Norwegian 4 in hybrid classes this semester from Scandinavia House.
Learn the Nordic languages in classes offered at Scandinavia House! Intermediate Swedish 1 classes will take place on Thursday evenings.
On October 7, join us for the discussion Edvard Munch: Transforming Nature. Jay A. Clarke, who received a grant from the American-Scandinavian Foundation to conduct research for the current exhibition and publication Edvard Munch: Trembling Earth on view now at the Clark Art Institution through October 15, is Rothman Family Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Art Institute […]
Scandinavia House will be closed for the holiday on Monday, October 9, 2023.
Learn the Nordic languages in hybrid classes from Scandinavia House! In Norwegian 1, students will build vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation skills.
Read and discuss literature with our Nordic Book Club Online! On October 10, translator Mia Spangenberg joins us for a special talk on The Red Book of Farewells by Finnish author Pirkko Saisio, out now from Two Lines Press. Pirkko Saisio’s autofictional novel, in Mia Spangenberg’s tender translation, is a mesmerizing account of radical politics and sexual awakening […]
Learn the Nordic languages in classes offered at Scandinavia House! Advanced Intermediate Swedish classes will take place on Tuesday evenings.
Learn Norwegian 3 in hybrid classes this semester from Scandinavia House.
