LECTURE SERIES AT SCANDINAVIA HOUSE

7 WAYS OF SEEING SCANDINAVIA:
SOME CURRENT VIEWS ON NORDIC POLITICS, GENDER, LITERATURE, LANGUAGE, FOLKLORE, AND FILM

6 p.m. Tuesday, January 23
1 LARS TRÄGÅRDH
Sweden Today: From Welfare State to IT Society

6 p.m. Tuesday, February 13
2 AILI FLINT
Language and Identity: Scandinavia and the European Union

6 p.m. Tuesday, February 20
3 VERNE MOBERG
Main Currents of Feminism (and Anitfeminism) in 19th Century Scandinavian Literature

6 p.m., Tuesday, March 6
4 ELLEN MARAKOWITZ
Women as Political Players in Scandinavia

6 p.m., Tuesday, March 20
5 AILI FLINT
Marvelous Magic and Medical Accuracy in Finnish Folklore

6 p.m., Tuesday, April 3
6 VERNE MOBERG
From Pippi Longstocking to Tsatsiki Johansson: Film Adaptations of Swedish Children's Books

6 p.m., Tuesday, April 17
7 LARS TRÄGÅRDH
Men as Fathers, Women as Entrepreneurs: Gender and Power in Sweden 2000

Followed by a panel of all four lecturers.

Offered by the American-Scandinavian Foundation at Scandinavia House, in cooperation with the Program in Finnish Studies and the Swedish Program of the Department of Germanic Languages, and Continuing Education and Special Programs at Columbia University.

At Scandinavia House, 56-58 Park Avenue (E. 37th Street), New York, NY 10016

Tickets: Whole series - $70 ($50 for ASF members). Call 847-9746 for reservations. Single tickets available at the door: $12 ($10 for ASF members)

For information and registration: phone: (212) 879 - 9779; fax: (212) 249-3444; email: asf@amscan.org ; online: www.amscan.org