Learn the Nordic languages in classes offered this fall at Scandinavia House! In this course held as remote learning, students will continue to perfect their previous learned skills and pronunciation, while also expanding into more complex sentence structure. Furthermore, the students will
Learn the Nordic languages in classes offered this fall both remotely and in-house at Scandinavia House! In this combined course of two levels, students who already have some exposure to Swedish via apps or other means will continue to develop
Learn the Nordic languages in classes offered this fall at Scandinavia House! In this course held both in-person and as remote learning for those completely new to Swedish, students will learn the very basics of Swedish structure and pronunciation while also
Join us for a book talk with Nancy Marie Brown on Looking for the Hidden Folk, a wonderfully quirky new exploration of our interaction with nature out on October 4 from Pegasus Books! In exploring how Icelanders interact with nature — and their idea
Join us for a book talk with Henrik Berggren and Lars Trägårdh on their new publication The Swedish Theory of Love, out in August 22 from University of Washington Press! Berggren and Trägårdh will discuss their exploration on how socialist collectivism and individuality co-exist
“A welcome lightness of touch” (ScreenDaily) — See Cecilie Debell and Maria Tórgarð’s film Skál (Faroe Islands/Denmark, 2021), a documentary about youth, religion and love on the Faroe Islands, at Scandinavia House! Twenty-one-year old Dania, who grew up in a Christian community in the Faroe
Join us for a book talk with C. Flemming Heilmann on his translation of Halfdan Lefevre’s The Men in Denmark’s Freedom Council, out now from Telemachus Press! Heilmann will discuss the seminal work first published in Danish in 1945, and his work in translating it
Back by popular demand, celebrated Danish paper-cutting artist Torben Jarlstrøm Clausen returns for a workshop on creating wonderful paper-cut beings! Clausen, who has held paper-cutting workshops in Denmark, Japan and the U.S., has created a magical paper-cut universe inhabited by beings
“A welcome lightness of touch” (ScreenDaily) — See director Hamy Ramezan’s warm and stirring new family film Any Day Now (Finland, 2020) at Scandinavia House! Inspired by Ramezan’s experiences emigrating to Finland as a refugee at age 7, Any Day Now follows the Iranian family the