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ASTRASYMPOSIUM 2022 Vem är svensk?
October 27, 2022 @ 6:00 pm - October 29, 2022 @ 12:00 pm
Co-sponsored by ASTRA (the Association of Swedish Teachers and Researchers of America), the Department of German, Nordic & Slavic+, with the Center for European Studies.
11:00-11:45 Lecture: Vem är vanligt folk?
Patrik Lundberg
Pyle Center, Room 313
Patrik Lundberg is a journalist at Dagens Nyheter (one of the major daily newspapers in Sweden) and author of six books. Lundberg received The Swedish Grand Prize for Journalism in 2021 along with Josefin Sköld and Alexander Mahmoud for their investigation of the Swedish adoption system.
1:45-2:30 Lecture: Unsettling History and Mission at a Swedish-Heritage College
Ursula Lindqvist (Gustavus Adolphus College)
Pyle Center, Room 313
Ursula Lindqvist is Professor in Scandinavian Studies, Co-Chair of President’s Council on Indigenous Relations, and Director of the Program in Comparative Literature at Gustavus Adolphus College. More information about Professor Lindqvist can be found here.