From January 12 through 24, Scandinavia House presents virtual cinema screenings of We Carry It Within Us: Fragments of a Shared Colonial Past, a documentary by Helle Stenum investigating collective memory and different perspectives on the shared colonial past between Denmark and U.S. Virgin Islands. The film will premiere in coordination with the virtual panel Race and Colonialism […]
TUE—January 12—12 PM *This event will take place virtually via Zoom.* American-Scandinavian Foundation invites you to a virtual conversation between artists Jeanette Ehlers and La Vaughn Belle on "Race in the Colonial Past and Present," moderated by Ursula Lindqvist, on January 12. In the mid-17th century, Denmark established a colonial presence in the Caribbean and participated in the […]
TUE—January 12—6 PM, free **Nordic Book Club will take place as an online meeting** Read and discuss Scandinavian literature in translation as part of our Nordic Book Club, now online! Each month we select a novel from some of the best Nordic literary voices. Discussions have typically taken place the last Tuesday of the […]
WED—January 13—1 PM ET On January 13, Scandinavia House invites you to the first of two international online panels dedicated to Jonas Mekas and his last book, Transcript 04 44’ 14” Lithuania and the Collapse of the USSR, now out from Humboldt Book! The event will be followed by a second panel with Brooklyn Rail on January […]
THU—January 14 through SUN—January 17 Film tickets $13 ($8 ASF Members) All-access pass (8 film) $100 ($90 ASF Members) **Members will receive an email from ASF with their discount code for all films.** The series begins with a session on January 7-10. Click here to read more. PURCHASE AN ALL ACCESS PASS.
THU—January 21—1 PM (ET) *This event will take place online as a Virtual Panel.* On January 21, American-Scandinavian Foundation invites you to a panel on "Race, Identity, and Belonging" in the Nordic countries. In this discussion, panelists Elizabeth Löwe Hunter (Ph.D. Candidate, African American Studies, UC Berkeley), Jasmine Kelekay (Ph.D. candidate, Sociology, UC Santa Barbara), and […]
