Monday – May 28

2:30 – 5:00:  Executive Meeting. Room DAWB 3-108 (3rd floor, Dr. Alvin Woods Bldg.)

5:00 – 7:00:  CINS (Canadian Institute for Nordic Studies) opening reception. All presenters / conference participants welcome.  Hawk’s Nest (Top floor, Fred Nichols Campus Centre: Take the elevator to the Turret Night Club and turn left inside the Night Club.) Wine, beverages and light snacks served.

Tuesday – May 29

All sessions until 4 pm will be held in room DAWB 2-108 (2nd floor, Dr. Alvin Woods Bldg.)

08.45 – 9:00:  Welcome and Introductions – Ingrid Urberg, AASSC President

9:00 – 10:30:  SESSION 1. STRINDBERG (chair Mads Bunch).

Jens Monrad (University of British Columbia): “‘And they say that art exists as a thing in itself!’ Receptions of Strindberg’s painting.”

Gudrun Björk Gudsteins (University of Iceland): “August Strindberg in Iceland.”

Mariam Aisha Sherazi (Global Traditions, Lahore, Pakistan): “Journey of the Soul. To Damaskus and Beyond.”

10:30 – 11:00:  Coffee Break, with beverage service.

11:00 – 12:15:  CINS KEYNOTE. Eszter Szalczer (University at Albany – SUNY):

“‘What shall I play?’ – Strindberg and the Radical Theatre of Modern Consciousness.” Kindly sponsored by the Canadian Institute of Nordic Studies.

12:15 – 2:00:  Lunch break

2:00 – 2.30:  SESSION 2. US-SCANDINAVIAN HIGH POLITICS (chair Mads Bunch)

Scott Benting (Portland State University): “The Roles of Norway and Finland in the Birth of NATO”

 2.30 – 4.00:  SESSION 3. SCANDINAVIAN ART (chair Ingrid Urberg)

Susan Gold / Smith (University of Windsor): “Preparing for an Exhibition 2013”

Jessica Auer (Concordia University): “Pictorial Sagas”

 4:30 – 5:30:   Ensemble Polaris in Concert: “Vikings on Vacation.”

                        David Woodhead, guitar

                        Kirk Elliott, violin, folk harp, mandolin, accordion, bagpipe, etc.

                        Andrew Downing, ‘cello

                        Ben Grossman, hurdy gurdy

                        Katherine Hill, voice, nyckelharpa

                        Alison Melville, baroque flute, recorders, seljefløyte

                        Colin Savage, clarinet, bass clarinet, recorders

                        Jeffrey Wilson, percussion

                        Venue: Seminary Chapel (south of Dr. Alvin Woods Building).

                        Kindly sponsored by The Royal Norwegian Embassy, the University of Waterloo

                        and Wilfrid Laurier University

                        Admission: Free

5:30-8:00:  Dinner Break

8:00 – 9:30:  THE STRINDBERG SURVIVAL:

THREE PLAYS BY AUGUST STRINDBERG, HAROLD PINTER, AND LINDSAY THOMPSON.

Featuring Amber Cragg, John Lingard, and Lindsay Thompson.

Venue: Seminary Chapel (south of Dr. Alvin Woods Building). Kindly sponsored by the Swedish Embassy and the Swedish Institute.

Admission Free.

Wednesday – May 30

All sessions will be held in room DAWB 2-108 (2nd floor, Dr. Alvin Woods Bldg.)

9:00 – 10:30:  SESSION 4. SCANDINAVIAN IDENTITIES IN CHANGE (chair John Tucker)

Ashley Walsh (Oslo University): “Viking Heritage: The Creation of a Personal and National Identity through History and Metal.”

Eric Cain (University of Edinburgh): “Shifting Identities through Places: Perceptional and Spatial Geographies of Andreas Roman’s Mörkrädd and Vigilante.”

Kerstin Bergman (Lund University): “Initiating a European Turn in Swedish Crime Fiction: Negotiation of European and National Identities in Mankell’s The Troubled Man (2009).”

10:30 – 11:00:  Coffee Break, with beverage service

11:00 – 12:30:  SESSION 5. SCANDINAVIAN IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCES AND  COLONIALISM (chair Erin McGuire)

Ingrid Urberg (University of Alberta): “The Immigrant Journey of Nis Johansen Schultz: The Klondike Gold Rush to Gold Hill in Alberta.”

Fred Woods (Brigham Young University): “Icelandic Migration to and through Utah (1854-1914).”

Gurli Woods (Carleton University): “200 Years of Danish Presence on the Gold Coast of Africa (Ghana)”

12:45 – 2:30:   Talk by H.E., Else Berit Eikeland, Norwegian Ambassador to Canada

Followed by working lunch with Representatives from the Nordic Embassies. Lunch provided.

2.30 – 3.00:   Break

3:00 – 4:30:   SESSION 6. STRATEGIES OF REPRESENTATION IN SCANDINAVIAN LITERATURE AND FILM (chair Gurli Woods)

Mads Bunch (University of Copenhagen): “The Outer is not the Inner.” Karen Blixen’s “Mask” and Kierkegaardian Dialectics.”

John Lindgard (University of Cape Breton): “Ibsen’s Freedom.”

Cian Williams (University of British Columbia): “Dreyer and Psychoanalysis: Mikaël and Vampyr.

6:30 – 9:30:  BANQUET

Wine Cellar Room, Solé Restaurant & Wine Bar, 83 Erb St West, downtown Waterloo. Ticketed event.

Thursday – May 31

All sessions will be held in room DAWB 2-108 (2nd floor, Dr. Alvin Woods Bldg.).

9:00 – 10.00:  SESSION 7. GENDER (chair Birgitta Wallace)

Erin McGuire (University of Victoria): “Move along: Migrant identities in Scandinavian Scotland.”

Natalie van Deusen (University of Wisconsin-Madison): “Birgitta Perfected? The Juxtaposition of ‘den unge sienesiske popolana’ and ‘den gamle svenske høvdingsfruen’ in Sigrid Undset’s Caterina av Siena.”

10.00 – 10.30:  Coffee Break, with beverage service.

10.30 – 12:30:  AASSC – Annual General Meeting

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Call for Papers. AASSC Conference, Wilfrid Laurier University and University of Waterloo

The thirty-first annual meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies in Canada (AASSC) will be held at the Wilfrid Laurier and Waterloo Universities, Ontario from May 28 – May 31, 2012 in conjunction with the meetings of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences/Fédération Canadienne des Sciences Humaines.

To commemorate the centenary of August Strindberg’s death, we have decided to make Strindberg the general theme of this year’s AASSC conference. The AASSC invites papers of 20 minutes duration, to be followed by an additional 10 minutes of discussion time. Papers may be given in English or French on a Scandinavian related topic in any discipline, including Finnish and Icelandic topics. Even though Strindberg will be the focus point of this conference, papers are not limited to this theme and we welcome all contributions within Scandinavian Studies.

Proposals for panels on specific themes are invited, as are proposals for interdisciplinary colloquia or special sessions in regard to the theme of the overall conference (Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences), which is “Crossroads: Scholarship for an Uncertain World”. Please ensure that individual abstracts and brief CVs for each paper/presenter on a panel accompany such proposals and that you contact the Program Committee directly.

Proposals for panels/abstracts should be submitted by January 15, 2012 through e-mail and thesubject section should read AASSC PAPER PROPOSAL. Submissions should include title ofpaper, abstract (150-250 words), and the author’s name, affiliation and contact information. Please email your submission to the chair of the AASSC Program Committee:

Mads Bunch

mads.bunch@gmail.com

AASSC Vice President and Programming Chair
Department of Scandinavian Studies and Linguistics
University of Copenhagen
Njalsgade 120, 2300 S.
Denmark

The AASSC Student / Unfunded Faculty Incentive Fund

Members wishing to present a paper at the upcoming AASSC Congress, who do not receive travel funding from their respective institutions, be they faculty or graduate students, are invited to apply for a travel scholarship of from the above fund.

The application should detail status of the applicant, title of paper and an abstract.

Please direct the application to: birwallace@eastlink.ca