Tuesday, August 19, 2014

The Art of Recalling: Art Essay in New Issue of Feminist Studies

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The most recent issue of the well-respected and long-lived journal Feminist Studies has just been published and my essay about the arti...
Monday, April 28, 2014

Tove Jansson's Moomins as Dining Companions in Japan

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Japanese cafe seats solo diners with stuffed animals to ward off loneliness As Tove...
Saturday, April 12, 2014

Far from perfect: Michael Booth's The Almost Nearly Perfect People: The Truth About the Nordic Miracle

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  Maybe, if you’re like me and have spent a far amount of time in Scandinavia, you’re used to stereotypes about the Nordic lands hel...
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Saturday, February 8, 2014

The Exhibit “Memories of Lapland” at the Nordiska Museet, Stockholm

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Sami Working with Reindeer, 1943. Emilie Demant Hatt, Nordiska Museet It was about ten years ago that I first saw Emilie Dem...
Thursday, February 6, 2014

Sami National Day

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Today, February 6, is Sami National Day, celebrated mostly in northern Norway and Sweden, but important to the Sami wherever they live. I...
Monday, January 27, 2014

Sami Shorts at the Nordic Lights Film Festival

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Marja Bål Nango Last weekend in Seattle the Nordic Lights Film Festival showed a great array of films from the Nordic countries. My fr...
Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Emilie Demant Hatt reading and slideshow in Portland January 10, 2014

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        The Friday Night Lecture Series WHEN:  Friday, January 10, 2014, 7:30pm WHERE:   P...