AASSC NEWSLETTER A P R I L 2 0 1 3 N O 6 4 A S S O C I A T I O N F O R T H E A D V A N C E M E N T O F S C A N D I N A V I A N S T U D I E S I N C A N A D A L A S S O C I A T I O N P O U R L A V A N C E M E N T D E S É T U D E S S C A N D I N A V E S A U C A N A D A I N S I D E T H I S I S S U E : News from The President AASSC Conference Program Roald Amundsen Exhibit Travel Funds for AASSC Conference 1 2 6 8 Updates from UBC 9 Decorating the End of the World Meditations on Georges de La Tour Obituary for Ólafur Halldórsson Facebook Page for AASSC AASSC Info and Addresses 10 11 12 13 13 President s Remarks Winter is still holding central Alberta in its grip, but I am writing this in the midst of marking final exams, a sure sign that spring and our AASSC annual meeting is rapidly approaching. We are very fortunate to have an efficient and creative local team of coordinators, led by Helga Thorson, on the ground in Victoria. Helga, along with Erin McGuire, John Tucker, and our Program Chair Mads Bunch have prepared a packed and rich program for our meetings from June 3-6 at the University of Victoria, and they have secured some prime venues for our keynote talk and conference exhibit. I would like to thank each of them for their contributions. The Royal Norwegian Embassy in Ottawa, the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, and the Canadian Institute for Nordic Studies are providing generous funding to make these events possible, and in these days of federal and provincial funding cuts to the post-secondary sector, we are most appreciative of this support. The entire conference program is included in this newsletter, and I would like to highlight a couple of events. First, The Roald Amundsen exhibit Cold Recall: Roald Amundsen s Reflections from the Northwest Passage will be officially opened by Inger Elisabeth Meyer, First Secretary of the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Ottawa, in conjunction with our opening reception on June 3 at the McPherson Library. I have had the opportunity to view this exhibit in both Minneapolis and Edmonton, and we are fortunate it is available for Congress. This exhibit will be open to all Congress participants throughout the week, so please tell your colleagues about it. Second, our keynote speaker, Professor Harald Gaski from the University of Tromsø, will be speaking at the First People s House on The Keepers of the Sun s Legacy: An Indigenous Eco-Reading of Sami Multimedia Artist, Nils-Aslak Valkeapää's Poetry and Art. This talk should prove to be a highlight of our meetings. Finally, John Tucker has graciously offered to host our banquet at his home on June 5, so please plan on participating in this social part of our conference. (Continued on page 2)
P A G E 2 (Continued from page 1) Elections will also be held at our AGM on June 6. If you are interested in serving on the AASSC Executive, please contact Birgitta Wallace our Past President and current Treasurer Chair of the Nominating Committee. Nominations can also be made from the floor. I look forward to seeing many of you in Victoria. Yours sincerely, Ingrid Urberg AASSC Conference, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. June 3 June 6, 2013 A SSO C IA T IO N FOR THE ADVANC EMENT O F SCANDINAV I A N STUDIES I N CANADA (AASSC) C O NFERENC E: MONDAY J U NE 3 THUR SDAY JUNE FINAL PROGRAM 6, 2013 U NIVER SIT Y O F VICTOR IA Monday June 3 rd 2:00-5:00: Executive Meeting. Room: Clearihue - B346 5:00-7:00: AASSC Opening Reception. Venue: McPherson Library 025. All AASSC presenters/conference participants welcome. At this event the Roald Amundsen exhibition hosted in the library will also be declared open. Cheese and crackers are served. There will be a cash bar, where the participants can purchase wine, beer and soft drinks. Tuesday June 4 th Welcome and Introduction and Harald Gaski s Keynote will take place in the First People s House 110. All other panels will be held in Room: Cunningham - 146 08.30-9:00: Welcome and Introduction by a First People s Elder, AASSC President Ingrid Urberg and Inger Elisabeth Meyer from the Norwegian Embassy.
P A G E 3 9:00-10:30: AASSC KEYNOTE Harald Gaski (University of Tromsø, Norway), The Keepers of the Sun s Legacy: An Indigenous Eco-Reading of Sami Multimedia Artist, Nils- Aslak Valkeapää's Poetry and Art Venue: First People s House 110 Kindly sponsored by The International Speakers Fund, The Norwegian Embassy and Canadian Institute for Nordic Studies (CINS). 10:30-11:00: Coffee Break, with beverage service (in Cunningham 146). HARALD GASKI The Keepers of the Sun s Legacy: An Indigenous Eco- Reading of Sami Multimedia Artist, Nils- Aslak Valkeapää's Poetry and Art 11:00-12:30: PANEL 1. Nordic Identities @the edge (Chair Troy Storfjell) Tim Frandy (University of Wisconsin-Madison): In the Tracks of Reindeer: The Center and the Edge in the Sámi Heartland Marcus Cederström (University of Wisconsin-Madison): Sámi Immigrants in the North American Arctic: Identity Construction @ the Edge Marit Ann Barkve (University of Wisconsin-Madison): Multicultural Memoirs: @ the Edge of Norwegian Feminism 12:30 2:00: Lunch break 2:00 3.30: PANEL 2. Negotiating Nordic Identities (Chair Tim Frandy) Henning Howlid Wærp (University of Tromsø): Arctic Discourses Troy Storfjell (Pacific Lutheran University): It s Hard to Move Forward without Shoes : Resilience and Sámi Ways of Knowing Sabina Ivenäs (Lindköping, Sweden): Transnational Adoption as Taboo Struggling with Preconceptions about Genetics, Ethnicity, Whiteness and Immigration in Three Contemporary Swedish Movies DAISY NEIJMANN Soldiers and Other Monsters: Icelandic Fiction of the First and Second World War BECK SPEAKER 3.30 4.00: Coffee Break, with beverage service, fruit and mini yoghurts. 4.00 5.00: PANEL 3. Icelandic and Scandinavian American Identity (Chair Ingrid Urberg) Daisy Neijmann (University of Iceland, Beck Speaker): Soldiers and Other Monsters: Icelandic Fiction of the First and Second World War Gudrun Björk Gudsteins (University of Iceland): Late Nineteenth-Century Presentation of Scandinavian American Identity 5:00-8:00: Dinner Break
P A G E 4 8:00-9:00: Beck Talk. Matthew Driscoll (University of Copenhagen): The Icelandic Rímur Venue: MacLaurin D288 Wednesday June 5 th Most panels will be held in Room: Cunningham 146 Parallel panel 5B will be held in Room: Engineering/Computer Science 130 MATTHEW J DRISCOLL The Icelandic Rímur: Rímur ( Rhymes ), long narrative poems of astounding metrical complexity, traditionally presented orally. BECK SPEAKER 9:00-10:30: PANEL 4. Contemporary Scandinavian Literature (Chair Mads Bunch) Anne Brydon (Wilfrid Laurier University): Life on the Brink: The Ecocritical Imagination of Iceland s Andri Snær Magnason Jens Monrad (University of British Columbia): Kinship casting off: Family relations in contemporary Danish literature Anne Wallen (University of Kansas): On the map of Recent Scandinavian Literature 10:30-11:00: Coffee Break, with beverage service 11:00-12:30: PANEL 5A. Scandinavian Crime- and Horror @the edge (Chair Errol Durbach) Ingrid Urberg (University of Alberta, Augustana): Cabins in Norwegian Crime Fiction: More than a Cliché? Eric Cain (University of Edinburgh) and Jay Valena (UCLA): Isolation in Nature: The Scandinavian Setting for Horror JO N KARL HELGASON Clues of Authorship. Sherlock Holmes, Giovanni Morelli and Medieval Saga Authors BECK SPEAKER Laura M. Saxton (University of British Columbia): May I Kill Him? : A comparison of the effects of government and society on the representation of Lisbeth Salander in the Swedish and American film versions of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo 11.00 12.30: PANEL 5B. Medieval Scandinavia @the edge (Chair Erin McGuire) Jón Karl Helgason (University of Iceland, Beck Speaker): Clues of Authorship. Sherlock Holmes, Giovanni Morelli and Medieval Saga Authors Juliette Papadopolous (Université Paris Ouest Nanterre): Scandinavian influences in Irish medieval art: Historiographical issues and new perspectives Jessica Aur (Concordia University): Before History: Photographs of prehistoric and Viking-age sites in Gotland
P A G E 5 12:45 2:30: Working Lunch with representatives from the Nordic Embassies. Hosted by AASSC (assorted wraps, vegetables, desserts, soft drinks, tea/coffee). 2.30 3.00: Break 3:00-5.00: PANEL 6. Scandinavian Drama and Literature (Chair Helga Thorson) Sandra Saari (Rochester Institute of Technology): Nature and Neapolitan Fishergirl: Masquerade in Ibsen's A Doll House Errol Durbach (Prof. Emeritus, University of British Columbia): Staging Ibsen in the 21st century: The Master Builder in the Telus Studio Theatre Marina Allemano (University of Alberta): Gender Optics and Sexual Positions in Bang: A Novel about Herman Bang by Dorrit Willumsen Mariam Aisha Sherazi (Lahore, Pakistan): View from the Chamber in a Tower: Strindberg s Vision of the World 6:30-9:30: AASSC BANQUET John Tucker has kindly offered to host the Banquet in his private home. Price: 40 CAD. We will announce how to enroll and pay at a later time. Thursday June 6 th All sessions will be held in Room: Cunningham - 146 9:00 10.30: PANEL 7: Iceland Sagas and Legends (Chair Birgitta Wallace) Emily Lethbridge (University of Iceland): Walking, Writing, Mapping the Medieval Sagas of Icelanders Natalie van Deusen (University of Alberta): Apostle to the Apostles : The Old Norse- Icelandic Legend of Martha and Mary Magdalen as a (Female) Postola saga Kendra Wilson (UCLA): The Devil s namesake. Icelandic Naming 10.30 11.00: Coffee Break, with beverage service, fruit and mini yoghurts. 11.00-1:00: AASSC - Annual General Meeting. BECK TRUST The AASSC would like to thank the Beck Trust at the University of Victoria for its generous support for three of our speakers: Dr Matthew Driscoll, Dr Daisy Neijmann and Dr Jón Karl Helgason. They all have a long way to travel and the Beck Trust has helped make it possible.
ROALD AMUNDSEN The Royal Norwegian Embassy is proud to present the exhibit Cold Recall Roald Amundsen s Reflections from the Northwest Passage at the AASSC conference in Victoria this June. Amundsen s own reflections and lantern slides will once again bring us to the most harsh and remote places on the planet. The exhibition, presented in cooperation with the Fram Museum in Oslo, consists of Amundsen s very own photos from Gjoa Haven in Nunavut. Amundsen spent almost two years in Gjoa Haven before he became the first person ever to sail through the Northwest Passage. Amundsen and the crew on his ship Gjøa established a close relationship with the Inuit in the area. His photos are largely a documentation of (Continued on page 7)
P A G E 7 Norwegian Polar Explorer: ROALD AMUNDSEN F R O M T H E N O R T H W E S T P A S S A G E T O T H E S O U T H P O L E From one end of the Earth to the other, Norwegian Roald Amundsen was the first person ever to cross Canada s Northwest Passage, and also the first to reach the South Pole. Without the help of Canada s Inuit, however, he may not have achieved either. Amundsen was a skilled explorer, but he drew heavily on lessons learned from the Netsilik Inuit to survive harsh Arctic and Antarctic conditions. (Continued from page 6) the life of the Inuit, and reflect the great influence the Inuit s traditional clothing and skills had on Roald Amundsen s own development as a polar explorer. The Inuit have in large part been left out of the Canadian -Norwegian polar history, but with this new Roald A m u n d s e n exhi bition, the Embassy and the Fram Museum want to show that the k n o w l e d g e Amundsen gained from living with the Inuit helped him win the race to the South Pole. In 1903, Amundsen and a small Norwegian crew sailed in to the eastern entrance of the Northwest Passage at Lancaster Sound, near the northeast end of present day Nunavut. The crew was aboard their small ship the Gjøa, and took refuge in a small bay at the onset of winter. Amundsen named the bay Gjøa Haven. It wasn t long before they were discovered by the Netsilik Inuit, nomadic hunters native to the area. Amundsen and the Netsilik quickly became friends a close relationship that proved important for the crew s survival that winter and Amunden s future journeys into extreme environments. The Inuit taught Amundsen to ward off scurvy with fresh meat and seaweed eaten straight from the intestines of hunted seals. He also learned how to build shelters in the snow and make clothing warm enough for frigid polar temperatures from bones and fur of Arctic animals. Amundsen learned to live off the land in the extreme cold something that would be indispensible for his historic expedition to the South Pole. Reports of Amundsen s interactions with the Inuit indicate a level of respect for indigenous people that was uncommon among European explorers of the time. Amundsen s crew and the Netsilik people communicated through a mix of Norse and the Netsilik s Inuktitut dialect. Several years later in 1911, when Amundsen set out for the South Pole, he used much of what he had learned in the Canadian Arctic. A team of trained dogs pulled Amundsen and his crew on Inuit sleds and the crew wore caribou and sealskin parkas to ward off biting cold. Following an Inuit practice, Amundsen periodically slaughtered the weakest of his sled dogs to feed the stronger ones, as well as his crew. These traditional means of survival kept the crew healthy and strong. Other expedition teams, all vying to be first to the South Pole, used new European technologies that sometimes failed in the extreme conditions. Amundsen s tried and true traditional techniques led him to victory. He was first in the world to reach the South Pole on December 14, 1911. Royal BC Museum: May 17 - October 14, 2013 Race to the End of the Earth recounts one of the most stirring tales of Antarctic exploration, the contest to reach the South Pole. This exhibition focuses on the challenges that Norwegian and British leaders faced as they undertook their separate 2900 km journeys from the edge of the Ross Ice Shelf to the South Pole and back.
P A G E 8 FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES MAKING TRAVEL EASIER... CINS CANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR NORDIC STUDIES FUNDS FOR GRADUATE S TUDENTS Each year the Canadian Institute for Nordic Studies provides funds to help offset the cost of graduate students who are participating in the AASSC meetings at Congress. The amount available varies yearly. Application forms will be available during all sessions at Congress and should be submitted to Birgitta Wallace, Treasurer, via mail, e-mail (birwallace@eastlink.ca) or by hand no later than 12 p.m. on the last day of papers at the Congress. Please attach receipts or provide them at the Congress. A committee of three board members (Treasurer, VP/Program Chair, and a Member-at-Large) will determine the distribution of awards shortly thereafter. NORWEGIAN TRAVEL GRANTS DEADLINE MAY 1ST 2013 The Royal Norwegian Embassy offers travel grants to AASSC members who wish to travel to Norway to attend seminars, conferences, or university courses, to establish or renew academic contacts, or to do research, gather scientific information, books, teaching material and so on. The grants are awarded to applicants who actively work for the promotion of Norwegian studies in Canada or at individual academic institutions. Applications, including a cv and a proposal for the use of the grant, must reach the embassy by May 1st of each year: Royal Norwegian Embassy Attn: Jan-Terje Studsvik Storaas, Cultural Affairs Officer 90 Sparks Street, Suite 532 Ottawa, ON K1P 5B4 Email: emb-ottawa@mfa.no Fax: (613) 238-2765 Subject to final approval by the Norwegian Centre for International Cooperation in Higher Education (SIU)
P A G E 9 S C A N D I N A V I A N S T U D I E S A T T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F B R I T I S H C O L U M B I A The Scandinavian Studies program in the Department of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies (CENES) at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver continues to thrive. Two years since its inception, the Scandinavian minor program attracts more students each year. The minor has two years of Swedish or Danish as its foundation and adds to that an elective, interdisciplinary combination of literature, film and culture courses. This year, we added new courses to the offerings in Scandinavian: SCAN 335: Vikings and Norse Mythology (taught by Geoffrey Winthrop-Young), SCAN 336: Scandinavian Crime Fiction (taught by Lena Karlström), and SCAN 332: Topics in Scandinavian Studies (Kyle Frackman will shepherd its first appearance next year as an examination of The Heroic in Nordic Literature and Film ). These join recurring popular courses like Scandinavian Drama and Film, Topics in Danish and Northern European Cultural Studies, and The Literatures of the Baltic. The Scandinavian language program offers first- and second-year courses in Swedish and Danish, taught by Lena Karlström and Jens Monrad, respectively, reaching upwards of 150 students each year. UBC continues to be the only institution in Canada offering Danish language; the Swedish program is one of the largest in North America. The department appreciates the support of the Danish government in this endeavour. More than 400 students take Scandinavian courses each year. Events this year included the annual St. Lucia celebration, which was well attended and featured homemade lussekatter. In March, one of the annual Ziegler Speaker Series events featured three contemporary Danish authors, who discussed questions of family and individuality in their work: Naja Marie Aidt, Henriette E. Møller and Morten Brask. The Danish government generously supported their visit. 2012 saw the retirement of long-time UBC faculty member Peter Stenberg, who had taught in German and Scandinavian subject areas. Upon Stenberg s retirement, the department hired Kyle Frackman (Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Amherst), who joined the CENES department as Assistant Professor of Germanic Studies, teaching in both German and Scandinavian areas. Dr. Kyle Frackman, Assistant Professor of Germanic Studies, Dept. of Central, Eastern & Northern European Studies, UBC UBC Swedish students process in the annual St. Lucia celebration. Photo credit: Kyle Frackman
A P R I L 2 0 1 3 D ECORAT I NG THE END O F THE WORLD Inspired by two research trips to Norway, Susan Gold s exhibition, Decorating the End of the World, will open in London, Ontario on May 16 th 2013. Decorating the End of the World attempts to maintain the contradictions that are part of contemporary life while creating work in studio. Polar Bears fly. Elephants wail. Taxidermy of rabbits and quail scurry and tremble in the corners. Walls reflect a broken nature and a broken culture. Inspired by museum displays in Northern Norway, Susan inserted the ubiquitous and power- laden object/symbol of the Isbjørn, the Ice Bear, in many of its observed permutations: Isbjørn on walls, on floors, suspended from ceilings, in narrative dioramas, in souvenir shops, and represented in historical oil paintings. In the Art Museum of Northern Norway in Tromso, the artist photographed the historic Françoise Auguste Biard painting, Kamp med Isbjørner (Fighting Polar Bears, cir.1839). Françoise Biard was also traveler in the North; the painting s composition show Man and Nature engaged in an ultimate struggle. The Art Museum generously gave permission to use the photograph in this exhibition where it projects a context on to the other oil paintings in the installation. The Biard painting, the natural history displays, decorative rosemaling, all aspects of the artist s creative research, became part of the studio process, creating paintings and mixed media works over the past several years. Decorative tropes of artist and designer, William Morris wallpaper patterns and Swedish botanist (cir 1700) Carl von Linné s botanical interiors, become part of the struggle with an interior space in the context of Nature. The artist thanks the Royal Norwegian Embassy for generous travel grants, allowing her to bring these particular images and ideas into her work. The Association for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies in Canada has supported this work through the sharing of research and expertise over many years. The exhibition runs through June 28 th at the McIntosh Gallery on the Western University campus.
P A G E 11 M EDIT A T I O N S ON GEORG ES DE LA TOUR by Paal-Helge Haugen Translated by Roger Greenwald Bilingual edition. BookThug, 2013. ISBN 978-1-927040-63-8. $18 http://www.bookthug.ca/proddetail.php?prod=201308 Paal-Helge Haugen s Meditasjonar over Georges de La Tour (Meditations on Georges de La Tour) was published in Norwegian in 1990, won the Norwegian Critics Prize, and was a finalist for the Nordic Council s Literature Prize. Haugen describes the thirty-four poems in the sequence that forms the book as meditations... on the charged stillness, sorrow and celebration in the marriage of light and dark. These meditations rest on constant tensions between different centuries and belief systems, between different art forms, and between the different but allied sensibilities of the poet and the painter whose work he contemplates. Haugen s poems inhabit the charged stillness at the heart of being. They are deeply and unsettlingly suggestive of an unfathomable proliferation we are part of but can t access a system of measurement/you do not know and also of our compulsion to try to represent it. I am grateful for Roger Greenwald s translations of this important poet. Karen Solie These poems are dark yet streaked with a strange light, precise and sober, that illuminates hopeless yet oddly consoling truths. Haugen s vision leaves the reader no place to hide, cuts through its own gloom like a floodlight to find us defenseless, heartbroken, without illusions, but touched with a music, in Roger Greenwald s seamless English, that manages to leave some hesitant/marks of happiness. Stephen Kessler What has made Haugen s voice carry across the generations since his debut in 1967 is his way of uniting formal variety with intimacy. At the same time as he tries out new ideas of form, he consistently challenges readers to participate in a struggle between passion and distance in which our humanity is at stake. Ulf Eriksson, Svenska Dagbladet
P A G E 12 ÓLAFUR HALLDÓRSSON Senior Research Fellow at the Árni Magnússon Institute 1920-2013 Wise in Íslendingabók. Among his many publications his doctoral dissertation Grænland í Miðaldaritum (Greenland in Medieval Manuscripts), published in 1978, stands out. Presenting all relevant texts on Vinland, he maintained that the discrepancies between the two main versions, The Saga of the Greenlanders and The Saga of Eirik the Red, reflect variants of a common oral tradition. Ó L A F UR H A L L D ÓRSSON Photo by Jóhanna Ólafsdóttir Ólafur Halldórsson, author of many philological editions of medieval Icelandic texts, died at the University Hospital in Reykjavik on April 4, two weeks before his 93 rd birthday. Known for his lifelong critical assessments of Icelandic and Faroese medieval texts, he was the editor and commentator of The Great Sagas of Olaf Tryggvason and Olof the Saint, published in several editions and translations. Ólafur was something of a maverick, disputing many long-held conclusions. He claimed for instance that, contrary to the popular view, Eirik the Red was born in Breiðafjord rather than in Norway, basing his view on Arni the Ólafur was born on a farm at Krókur in what is now Flóahreppur, one of nine children. He was graduated from the University of Iceland with a cand.mag. in 1952 and a doctorate in 1978. During the period 1952 to 1962 he studied under Jón Helgason at the University of Copenhagen, where he also served as a lector at the Danish Arna Magnæan Institute. In 1963 he assumed a post in manuscript research at the Árni Magnússon Institute in Reykjavik until his retirement in 1992. He was elected to the Icelandic Academy of Sciences in 1975, and in 2010 a special symposium in his honour was sponsored by the Árni Magnússon Institute. Ólafur continued to be productive throughout his retirement, carrying on his work at the Institute and, in addition to the 160 or so articles and books already published, added another fifty articles and several books, including Danish Kings and the Jomsvikings in the Greatest Saga of Ólafr Tryggvason in 2000. Ólafur was predeceased by his wife who died in 1998. He leaves three children, nine grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. Birgitta Wallace
F A C EBOOK GR OU P F O R S C A N D I N A V I A N S C H O L A R S Our Facebook group is called "Scandinavian Scholars" and is: "For scholars interested in Scandinavian Studies. The group is for knowledge sharing, job postings, call for papers, search for collaborators, announcement of conferences and seminars, translation questions etc" The group currently is up to 632 members and is very good if you want updates with regard to conferences, call for papers, Scandinavian literary events, knowledge sharing, etc. Administrators are Mads Bunch (University of Copenhagen) & Anna Stenport (University of Illinois, Urbana) Just search for "Scandinavian Scholars" on Facebook and ask to join the group. AASSC Info & Adresses AASSC EXECUTIVE COMMITEE PRESIDENT: Ingrid Urberg, Scandinavian Studies, Augustana Faculty, University of Alberta 4901 46 Avenue, Camrose, AB T4V 2R3, Tel. (780) 679 1573, iurberg@ualberta.ca VICE-PRESIDENT: Mads Bunch, Department of Scandinavian Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen, Njalsgade 120, 22.4.53, 2300 København S, Denmark, rjc134@hum.ku.dk TREASURER & PAST PRESIDENT: Birgitta Wallace, Parks Canada Agency, 7 Lady Slipper Drive, Halifax, NS B3J 1S9, Tel. (902) 443-5281, Fax (902) 443-9322, birwallace@eastlink.ca SECRETARY: Susan Gold/Smith, School of Visual Arts, University of Windsor, Windsor, ON, N9B 3P4, Tel. (519) 253-3000 x 2845, Fax (510) 971-3647, sgold@uwindsor.ca EDITOR, SCANDINAVIAN-CANADIAN STUDIES: John Tucker, Department of English, U. of Victoria, POB 3070, Victoria, B.C. V8W 3W1, Tel. (250) 721-7247, Fax (250) 721-6498, jtucker@uvic.ca BOOK REVIEW EDITOR, SCANDINAVIAN-CANADIAN STUDIES: Helga Thorson, Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies, University of Victoria, Clearihue Building, Room D254, P.O. Box 3045, Victoria, B.C. Canada V8W 3P4, helgat@uvic.ca MEMBERS AT LARGE John Nilson, Saskatchewan, jnilson@sasktel.net NEWSLETTER EDITOR & WEBMASTER Erin Halstad McGuire, Department of Anthropology, University of Victoria, PO BOX 1700 STN CSC Victoria BC V8W 2Y2, Tel. (250) 853-3894, ehalstad@uvic.ca/aasscnewsletter@gmail.com AASSC WEBSITE: http://aassc.com/ NORDIC EMBASSIES IN CANADA Royal Danish Embassy, 47 Clarence Street, Suite 450, Ottawa, ON, K1N 9K1; Tel. (613) 562-1811; Fax: (613) 562-1812; wensh@um.dk (Jan-Terje Studsvik Storaas, Cultural Affairs); http://canada.um.dk/ Embassy of Finland, 55 Metcalfe St., Suite 850, Ottawa, ON, K1P 6L5; Tel. (613) 288-2233; Fax: (613) 288-2244; http://www.finland.ca/ Embassy of Iceland, Suite 710, 360 Albert St. Ottawa, ON, K1R 7X7; Tel. (613) 482-1944; Fax: (613) 482-1945; http://www.iceland.is/iceland-abroad/ca Royal Norwegian Embassy, 150 Metcalfe Street, Suite 1300, Ottawa, Ontario K2P 1P1, Tel: (613) 238-6571; Fax: (613) 238-2765; emb.ottawa@mfa.no; www.emb-norway.ca Embassy of Sweden, 377 Dalhousie St., Ottawa, ON, K1N 9N8; Tel. (613) 241-8553; Fax: (613) 241-2277; http://www.swedenabroad.com/en-gb/embassies/ottawa/ (Magnus Schönning, First Secretary, Press & Cultural Affairs)