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Yale Baltic-Scandinavian Studies

Conference

Preliminary Program 13-15 March 2014

Yale University

New Haven, CT

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Yale Baltic-Scandinavian Studies Conference—Preliminary Program

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Contents: Panels by Topic Area

A—Early Histories

B—20th

Century History

C—Contemporary Society, Politics, and

Culture

D—Language

E—Literature

F—The Arts

G—Posters


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A.

Early Histories:

Society, Culture and Politics from the

Vikings through the 19th Century


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PANEL A1

Panel Title: Pre-Christian Religion and Mythology

Presentation 1: Janne Saarikivi (University of Helsinki), “Reconstructing Religious Change in

the Iron Age Eastern Baltic Sea Area on the Basis of Finnic Lexical Material”

Presentation 2: Jenny Larsson (Stockholm University), “Pre-Christian Baltic Religion in the

Context of Inter-Regional Contacts around the Baltic Sea”

Presentation 3: Frog (University of Helsinki), “Engagement in a Symbolic Matrix: An Approach

to Mythology in the Austmarr Arena”

Chair/Respondent: Maths Bertell (Mid-Sweden University)

Session Time: Session 1—Thursday 1-2:30

PANEL A2

Panel Title: Sagas I: Narrative and Technique

Presentation 1: Russel Stepp (Cornell University), “Hermódr’s Ride to Hell: Nebulous Space in

the Norse Mythological Cosmos”

Presentation 2: John Lindow (UC Berkeley), “The Notion of Creativity in Old Norse Literature”

Presentation 3: Jenna M. Coughlin (UC Berkeley), “Arrow-Odd’s Death Song: The Role of

Verse in Narrative Adaption in the fornaldarsögur”

Chair/Respondent: Roberta Frank (Yale University)

Session Time: Session 4—Friday 1:45-12:15

PANEL A3

Panel Title: Sagas II: Icelandic Sagas as Literature and History

Presentation 1: Eleanor Heans-Glogowska (University of Cambridge),“Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar

en mesta: Re-writing the Past for an Uncertain Future in 14th

Century Iceland”

Presentation 2: Jeff Hartman (Framingham State University), “Knights without Castles:

Understanding Riddarasögur in a 15th

Century Context”

Presentation 3: Brent Landon Johnson (Signum University), “Víkingar frá Eistlandi: Austmarr in

the Old Icelandic Sagas”


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Chair/Respondent: Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir (Harvard University and Árni Magnússon

Institute for Icelandic Studies)


PANEL A4

Panel Title: Sagas III: Defining Self and Other in Old Norse Texts

Presentation 1: Sean B. Lawing (Bryn Athyn College), “Órækja at Surtshellir: Myth, Miracle, or

Mistake?”

Presentation 2: Todd Michelson-Ambelang (University of Wisconsin-Madison), “Defining

Sense: A Study on Terms and Characters with Impairments in the Sagas and of Icelanders”

Presentation 3: Ulfar Bragason (University of Iceland and Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic

Studies), “Male Friendship in Fóstbrædra saga and Gerpla”

Presentation 4: Maja Backvall (Harvard University), “Erring on the Side of the Reader: Scribal

Errors as Part of the Text”

Chair/Respondent: Anya Adair (Yale University)


PANEL A5

Panel Title: Viking Rune Inscriptions

Presentation 1: Christoph G. Schmidt (Schloß Gottorf Foundation), “Between Rome and the

North: Scandinavian Impact on the Late Antique Society in Central Germany”

Presentation 2: James E. Knirk (University of Oslo), “Transliterating Runic Inscriptions:

Considerations for a Comprehensive, Unified System”

Presentation 3: Mikael Males (University of Oslo), “Graffiti and the Rise of Saga Literature”

Chair/Respondent: Loraine Jensen (Runic Society of America)

Session Time: Session 6—Saturday 8:30-10:00

PANEL A6

Panel Title: The Landscape and Place of Viking-Era Texts

Presentation 1: Verena Hofig (UC Berkeley), “Landnámabók and Landscape”


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Presentation 2: Elisabeth I. Ward (Pacific Lutheran University), “Markers of Place: Literary,

Monumental, Natural”

Presentation 3: Alexandra Petrulevich (Uppsala University), “Communicating Place-Names in

the Middle Ages: the Southern Baltic Region Reflected in the Toponymy of Knýtlinga Saga”

Chair/Respondent: Chair/Respondent: Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir (Harvard University and

Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies)


PANEL A7

Panel Title: The Norman Invasion

Presentation 1: Lise Gjedsso Bertelsen (Uppsala University), “The Bayeux Tapestry: The Story

of the Norman Triumph”

Presentation 2: Michael Lewis (British Museum), “The Value of the Bayeux Tapestry for

Understanding the Viking Age”

Presentation 3: Danielle Turner (California State University Fullerton), “A Medieval

Comparison of Viking Raiding and Settlement in France and England”

Chair/Respondent: PENDING


PANEL A8

Panel Title: The Bayeux Tapestry

Presentation 1: Agneta Ney (Uppsala University), “The Margins of the Bayeux Tapestry: A Site

for Communication about the Past”

Presentation 2: Anneli Sundkvist (Societal Archaeologica Upsaliensis), “The Horses of the

Bayeux Tapestry: The Art of Roman Riding meets the Middle Ages”

Presentation 3: Anne-Sofie Graslund (Uppsala University), “Dogs of the Bayeux Tapestry

Compared to Dogs in Scandinavia in Art and Archaeology, 500-1400”




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PANEL A9

Panel Title: Viking Burial Sites

Presentation 1: Mads D. Jessen (National Museum of Denmark), “Postholes, Palisade,

Primogeniture: The Component Part of the Viking Age Jelling Monument”

Presentation 2: Charlotta Lindblom (Vejle Museum), “Jelling and the Local Context”

Presentation 3: John Ljungkvist (Uppsala University), “Between Pagan and Christian: 11th

c.

Chamber Burials around Uppsala”

Presentation 4: Therus Jhonny (Uppsala University), “Abandoning the Ancestors? Conflict and

Acculturation, the Changing Burial Customs of Viking Age Uppland, Sweden”


Session Time: Session 1—Thursday 1:00-2:30

PANEL A10

Panel Title: New Technology for Studying Viking Sites

Presentation 1: Colin Gioia Connors (University of Wisconsin-Madison), “Google Mapping

Hrafnkels saga: The Pitfalls and Promise of Geolocating the Sagas”

Presentation 2: Jesse Byock (UCLA), “Viking Archaeology and Sagas in Iceland”

Presentation 3: Nancy L. Wicker (University of Mississippi), “Project Andvari: A Digital Portal

to the Visual World of Early Medieval Northern Europe”

Presentation 4: Erik Schjeide (UC Berkeley), “Multimodal Archaeology as a Method for

Fashioning Hypothetical Models”



PANEL A11

Panel Title: The Arts of Contact: Rethinking Cultural Spaces in the Baltic Sea

Region

Presentation 1: Krista Andreson (University of Tartu), “Art and Cultural Connections of

Medieval Livonia. The Example of Sacral Art: Wooden Sculpture and Retable from 13th-15th

Centuries”


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Presentation 2: Alberto Sevillano (University of Greifswald), “Museums and National Identity in

the late 19th

Century: Connecting Stockholm, Berlin, and Madrid”

Presentation 3: Margit Bussmann (University of Greifswald) and Sebastian Nickel (University of

Greifswald), “City Networks in the Baltic Sea Region”

Chair/Respondent: Michael North (University of Greifswald)


PANEL A12

Panel Title: Austmarr: Studies on Space and the Projection of Power

Presentation 1: Michael Meichsner (Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University Greifswald), “Constituting

Space in the Baltic Sea Area: A Case Study on Gotland, Bornholm and Rügen”

Presentation 2: Kerstin Hundahl (Lund University), “Ruling with a Soft Fist – Estonia as

Example of the Conformity or Oddity of Danish Conquest and Rule in the Medieval Baltic?

Presentation 3: James A. Parente (University of Minnesota), “Writing Europe/ Writing the

Nation: Geography and History in the Early Danish Enlightenment”

Presentation 4: Matthew Romaniello (University of Hawaii at Manoa), “Domesticating Exotic

Products: The 18th

Century Baltic Tobacco Trade”

Chair/Respondent: Maths Bertell (Mid-Sweden University)


PANEL A13

Panel Title: The Imagery and Material Culture of Early Religion and Belief

Presentation 1: Pille Arnek (Tallinn University), “Wheel Crosses: 17th

-Century Grave

Monuments in Northern Estonia”

Presentation 2: Michelle Nordtorp-Madson (University of St. Thomas), “Creating Christian

Identity during the Conversion Period: One Pagan Image at a Time”

Presentation 3: Maria Oen (University of Oslo), “Picturing Divine Visions: St. Brigit of Sweden

and the Cycle of Images in her Revelations”

Presentation 4: Elizabeth A. Pierce (independent), “Connections across Vast Seas: Identity and

Material Culture in the North Atlantic c. AD 1000–c. 1500”


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Respondent/Chair: PENDING


PANEL A14

Panel Title: Sweden’s Early Influence in the Baltic

Presentation 1: Peter Worster (Herder-Institute Marburg), “Sweden in the Baltics: An Almost

Forgotten Chapter of Cultural Relations”

Presentation 2: Dorothee M. Goeze (Herder-Institute Marburg), “Big Streams and Small Facts:

What Archival Sources Can Tell about a Region: Unknown Facts about the Swedish Time in the

Baltics”

Presentation 3: Dean William Bennett (Schenectady County Community College), “The Good

Old Gothic Times in the Baltic Countries: Restoring an Imaginary Ancient Swedish Empire”

Presentation 4: Christopher Gennari (Camden County College), “Swedish Soft Power in the

Reign of Charles X Gustav”



PANEL A15

Panel Title: The Politics of Intercultural Influence in the Medieval Period

Presentation 1: Molly A. Jacobs (UC Berkeley), “Mirror or Manual? The King’s Mirror and the

Court of Norway”

Presentation 2: Manja Olschowski (University of Greifswald), “The Political and Economic

Networking of the Cistercian Order in the Baltic Sea Region”

Presentation 3: Jason Lavery (Oklahoma Stae University), “Father of the Finnish Language:

Agent of the Swedish State? Mikael Agricola, 1539-1554”

Chair/Respondent: Paul Bushkovitch (Yale University)


PANEL A16


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Panel Title: Trade, Urban Development and Agriculture: From the Viking

Age to the Late Middle Ages

Presentation 1: Olof Holm (Stockholm University), “Commerce contra Farming: Strategies for

Acquiring a Surplus in Jämtland and Gotland, 900-1500”

Presentation 2: Annika Bjorklund (National Archives Stockholm), “Flourishing Cities of

Farming? Urban Access to Agricultural Land after the Late Medieval Crises”

Presentation 3: Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson (Swedish History Museum), “Becoming Urban:

On the Changing Lives of the People of Birka and their Interaction with their Surrounding

Region”

Presentation 4: Sven Kalmring (Schloß Gottorf Foundation), “The Viking World as

Underdeveloped Economic System? A Study of Harbors and Markets”



PANEL A17

Panel Title: Medieval and Early Modern Imagination, Identity and Culture

Presentation 1: Kimberly La Palm (UCLA), “Uncovering Performance in Medieval Scandinavia”

Presentation 2: Joseph M. Gonzalez (California State University Fullerton), “Secret Fashion:

Dressing for the Beyond”

Presentation 3: Candice Bogdanski (York University), “Waterways as Conduits of Style:

Considering the Development of a Medieval School of Architecture via the North Sea”



PANEL A18

Panel Title: Early Jewish and Karaite Life and Culture

Presentation 1: Jurgita Verbickiene (Vilnius University), “Sources of the First Privileges for

Jews and Their Status in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania”

Presentation 2: Dovile Troskovaite (University of Klaipeda), “Shifting the Communal and

Religious Centre: Competition among Karaite Communities in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania”


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Presentation 3: Iveta Leitane (Hebrew Union College), “The ‘Jewish Text’ of Protestant

Communities and Philosemitism in Livonia in XVII-XVIII Centuries”

Presentation 4: Aleksandras Gedmintas (State University of New York at Delhi),“Genesis,

Evolution, and Decline of the Karaim Community of Lithuania”



PANEL A19

Panel Title: Women and Gender in Medieval Scandinavia

Presentation 1: Michelle Urberg (University of Chicago), “The Power of the Vernacular in

Transmitting the Birgittine’s Seven Penitential Psalms”

Presentation 2: Louise Berglund (Örebro University), “Houses of Nuns and Agencies of Elite

Women in Medieval Sweden”

Presentation 3: Johanna Andersson Raeder (Stockholm University), “Better Off as Wife than as

Widow: The Economic Meaning of Marriage for Women in Medieval Sweden”



PANEL A20

Panel Title: New Perspectives on Early Scandinavian Legal History

Presentation 1: Per Andersen (Aarhus University), “From Oral to Written Legal Culture: When

Access to the Law is De-Personalized”

Presentation 2: Thomas Lindkvist (University of Gothenburg), “The Making of Law as a

Regional Identity”

Presentation 3: Christina Ekholst (University of Guelph), “‘The Fine That Had Never Been

Paid:’ Imagination, Story-telling and Worst-Case Scenarios in Medieval Law Making”

Chair/Respondent: Anders Winroth (Yale University)


PANEL A21


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Panel Title: East Norse Studies

Presentation 1: Agnieszka Backman (Uppsala University), “Old Swedish and New Philology:

Considering Fru Elins bok”

Presentation 2: Richard Cole (Harvard University), “Visby, 2nd

July 1350: The Death of Diderik

the Organista”

Presentation 3: Stephen Mitchell (Harvard University), “The Old Swedish Trollmöte: A 15th

Century Poetic Encounter with the Supernatural?”

Chair/Respondent: Aaron J. Vanides (Yale University)


PANEL A22

Panel Title: Changing Mental and Physical Maps: Lithuania, the Baltic Sea,

and the North Atlantic Space

Presentation 1: Darius Staliunas (Lithuanian Institute of History), “Poland or Russia? Lithuania

on the Mental Maps of the Ruling Elite of the Romanov Empire”

Presentation 2: Karsten Bruggemann (Tallinn University), “A German Citadel or Ancient

Russian Land? The Baltic Provinces on the Mental Maps of the Russian Imperial Elites”

Presentation 3: Tuula Hockman (University of Tampere), “For Fishermen and Travelers? – The

Franciscan Convents in the Bishopric of Turku”

Chair: Toivo U. Raun (Indiana University)

Respondent: Bradley D. Woodworth (University of New Haven/Yale University)



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B.

20th-Century History:

World War I, the Interwar Period,

World War II, and the Cold War


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PANEL B1

Panel Title: The Eastern Front in World War I Sponsored by the German Studies Association

Presentation 1: Jesse Kauffman (Eastern Michigan University), “Competing Nationalisms and

Military Occupation in Central Europe, 1915-1918”

Presentation 2: Joerg Hackmann (University of Szczecin), “From Ober Ost to

Reichskommissariat Ostland: German Notions of Mastering Eastern Europe, 1914-1945”

Presentation 3: James S. Corum (Baltic Defence College), “The German Campaign in Kurland,

1915”

Presentation 4: Robert L. Nelson (University of Windsor), “From Inner to Outer Colonization:

German Settler Colonialism in Courland, 1915-1918”

Respondent: Vejas Liulevicius (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

Chair: Olavi Arens (Armstrong State University)


PANEL B2

Panel Title: World War I in Literature and Film

Presentation 1: Mark Sandberg (UC Berkeley), “The Outlaw in No-Man’s Land: The post-World

War I Reception of Victor Sjöstrom’s Berg-Eyvind och hans hustru”

Presentation 2: Rasa Antanaviciute (Vilnius Academy of Arts), “The Memory and

Representation of World War I in Lithuanian Culture”

Presentation 3: Liisi Eglit (Stanford University Library), “Poetry in Estonian World War I

Soldiers’ Letters, Diaries, and Memoirs”

Presentation 4: Tiina Kirss (Tallinn University), “The Oblique Angle of Remembering:

Accumulation and Disjuncture of Events in the World War I Memoirs of Estonians”

Chair/Respondent: Miranda Sachs (Yale University) ?? pending


PANEL B3

Panel Title: Constructions of National Identity through War


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Presentation 1: Glenn Eric Kranking (Gustavus Adolphus College), “Peripheral Communities,

Strategic Locations: Estonia’s Swedish Communities in the World Wars”

Presentation 2: Mart Kuldkepp (University of Tartu), “Wir sind schwedische Gefangene in

Russland: The Construction of Estonia’s Nordic Identity in World War I”

Presentation 3: Tiina Metso (University of Helsinki), “Baltic German Students of Tartu

University as Volunteers in the Estonian War of Independence, 1918-1920”



PANEL B4

Panel Title: Conflict, Revolution, and Violence in the Wake of World War I

Presentation 1: Ainur Elmgren (University of Helsinki), “The Soviet Socialist Republic of

Scandinavia”

Presentation 2: Aapo Roselius (Swedish Literature Society), “Confronting the Modern: Romantic

Images of the Finnish Irredentist Campaigns, 1918-1922”

Presentation 3: Marta Grzechnik (University of Gdańsk), “The Polish Baltic Institute’s View on

the Nordic and Baltic Sea Cooperation in the Interwar Period”



PANEL B5

Panel Title: Negotiating the Complexities of World War I and Its Aftermath

Presentation 1: Laima Surgailiene Lauckaite (Lithuanian Culture Research Institute), “The Art of

German Soldiery and Jewish Vilna during World War I”

Presentation 2: Andrew Koss (Colgate University), “A Hidden Revolution: Jewish Political

Autonomy in German-Occupied Vilna, 1915-1918”

Presentation 3: Agne Cepinskyte (King’s College London), “The Role of Baltic-German Émigré

Organizations in the Aftermath of World War I”

Presentation 4: Tiina Kinnunen (Jyväskylä University), “Ellen Key and the Finnish Civil War of

1918: The Limits of Pacifism”


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Chair/Respondent: Sharon Franklin-Rahkonen (Indiana University of Pennsylvania)


PANEL B6

Panel Title: Renegotiating Relationships with the Soviet Union in the Interwar

Period

Presentation 1: Olavi Arens (Armstrong Atlantic State University), “The Baltic Issue in the

Russia Policy of the United States, 1918-1922”

Presentation 2: Edgars Engizers (Baltic International Academy), “Between Millstones: The

Latvian Embassy in Moscow, 1938-1939”

Presentation 3: Aappo Kahonen (University of Helsinki), “Clash of Revolution and the Great

Powers in the Baltic Sea: Finnish Alliance Policy from the Soviet Point of View, 1922-1925”

Presentation 4: Liisi Rannast-Kask (Tallinn University), “Estonian Repatriates from Russia and

Compatriots in Russia, 1920-1939”



PANEL B7

Panel Title: Interwar National Identity Formation, Politics, and Memory

Presentation 1: Tuomas Tepora (University of Helsinki), “Looking for the Middle Way:

Sacrifice, Collective Memories and Reconciliation in Interwar Finland”

Presentation 2: Oula Silvennoinen (University of Helsinki), “Forge of Fascism: World War I

and the Birth of Fascist Movements in Finland and the Baltic Area”

Presentation 3: Juri Kivimae (University of Toronto), “Socialism, Nationalism, and History: An

Intellectual Portrait of Hans Kruus”



PANEL B8

Panel Title: Negotiating Interwar Identity in the Baltic


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Presentation 1: Saila Leukumaa (University of Jyväskylä), “Constructing National Identity

through the Name Changing Campaign in Estonia, 1934-1940”

Presentation 2: Vilius Rudra Dundzila (City Colleges of Chicago), “‘Baltic’ Pagan Identity

Formation in Early Interwar Latvia & Lithuania”

Presentation 3: Juozas A. Kazlas (independent), “The Kazlauskas Survey: Ethnic and Socio-

Economic Differences in Kaunas in the 1930s”



PANEL B9

Panel Title: Representations of World War II in Drama and Film

Presentation 1: Zane Radzobe (University of Latvia), “Remembering the World War II in

Performance: The Grandfather by Alvis Hermanis and The Legionnaires by Valters Sīlis”

Presentation 2: Bjorn Ingvoldstad (Bridgewater State University), “Cinema of the Bloodlands”

Presentation 3: Lena Frey (New York University), “Contemporary Cinematic Representations of

Scandinavian Resistance in World War II”

Presentation 4: Natalija Arlauskaite (Vilnius University), “Wars (Never) Fought: Memory of

post-World War II in Contemporary Lithuanian Film”



PANEL B10

Panel Title: The Exile Writing of World War II

Presentation 1: Aija Poikane-Daumke (University College of Economics and Culture, Riga),

“Wartime Experiences of Latvian Refugees during World War II”

Presentation 2: Claudia Berguson (Pacific Lutheran University), “Undset in Exile: The

Storyteller and Information Soldier”

Presentation 3: Janika Kronberg (Estonian Literary Museum), “Estonian Exile Literature as A

Footprint of World War II in Sweden”

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Presentation 4: Daron W. Olson (Indiana University East), “Exile Nationalism through Print

Media: Norway in Britain during World War II”



PANEL B11

Panel Title: Remembering and Commemorating the Lithuanian Holocaust

Presentation 1: Nancy Wright Beasley (independent), “Finding Humanity in the Holocaust”

Presentation 2: Ellen Cassedy (independent), “Lithuania Looks at the Holocaust”

Presentation 3: Charles Perrin (Kennesaw State University), “Jonas Šliūpas, Memoirs, and the

Holocaust: Deconstructing the Myth of the Lithuanian Mayor Who Tried to Save Jews”



PANEL B12

Panel Title: Understanding the Holocaust in Vilnius

Presentation 1: Laimis Briedis (Vytautas Magnus University), “Facts, Imagination, Documents:

Poetry at War in Vilnius”

Presentation 2: Barbara Harshav (Yale University), “Vilna, the Jerusalem of Lithuania: The

Destruction.”

Presentation 3: Lara Lempertiene (Vilnius University), “Constructing Blocks of University:

Post-Holocaust Narratives of Jewish Vilna”

Presentation 4: Giedre Jankeviciute (Vytautas Magnus University), “Art as Narrative of Daily

Life in Lithuania during World War II”

Chair/Respondent: Joanne Rudof (Fortunoff Archive, Yale University)


PANEL B13

Panel Title: Stereotypes, Persecution and Memory: Silenced Histories of the

Roma in Nordic Countries


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Presentation 1: Malte Gasche (University of Helsinki), “The Current Research Interpretations on

the Status of the Roma in the Nordic Countries during World War II”

Presentation 2: Simo Muir (University of Helsinki), “Comparative Perspectives: Finland,

Minorities and Memory”

Presentation 3: Eija Stark (University of Helsinki), “Racial Stereotypes of the Roma vs. the Ideal

Man in Finnish Folklore”



PANEL B14

Panel Title: The Experiences of Deportees and Displaced Persons during

World War II

Presentation 1: Anu-Mai Koll (Stockholm University), “Refugees from Estonia in Sweden,

1944-1953: A Survey”

Presentation 2: Rasa Zukiene (Vytautas Magnus University), “Trying to Survive: Displaced

Lithuanian Artists in Germany, 1945-1950”

Presentation 3: Ain Haas (Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis), “Emigres' and

Returnees' Adjustments: Estonians in Sweden versus Elsewhere”

Presentation 4: Eliyana R. Adler (University of Maryland), “Exile and Survival: Lithuanian

Jewish Deportees in the Soviet Union”

Chair/Respondent: Kaarel Piirimae (Estonian National Defence College)


PANEL B15

Panel Title: Cultural and Public Diplomacy of World War II

Presentation 1: Ville Laamanen (University of Turku), “Cultural Diplomacy after the Great

Terror: Olavi Paavolainen’s 1939 Visit to the Soviet Union”

Presentation 2: Kristo Nurmis (University of Tartu), “The Western Gaze under Nazi Rule: The

Rhetorical Strategies of Estonian Patriotic Circles during German Mobilization Campaign of

1944”


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Presentation 3: Kaarel Piirimae (Estonian National Defence Academy), “Public Diplomacy in

Total War: Estonian Efforts to Influence Opinion in the World War II”

Presentation 4: Meelis Saueauk (Estonian Institute of Historical Memory), “Foreign Volunteers

in the Finnish Army during the Continuation War: Impact and Legacy”

Respondent/Chair: PENDING


PANEL B16

Panel Title: Hidden and Public Traces of War in Estonian 20th_

Century

Literature and Visual Culture

Presentation 1: Tiit Hennoste (University of Tartu), “Traces of the Second World War in

Estonian Avant-Garde Prose”

Presentation 2: Virve Sarapik (Estonian Literary Museum), “The White Ship and World War II”

Presentation 3: Mari Laaniste (Estonian Literary Museum), “Reframing War for the Nation

State’s Screens”

Presentation 4: Piret Viires (Tallinn University), “New World, New Wars: Transitions in

Depicting War in Contemporary Estonian Literature”



PANEL B17

Panel Title: Soviet Occupation and Its Discontents

Presentation 1: Kristina Pauksens (University of Toronto), “The Enemy Next Door: Defining the

Kulak in Postwar Stalinist Latvia”

Presentation 2: Darius Furmonavicius (Nottingham Law School), “The Legacy of Soviet

Occupation in Lithuania: Violations of Human Rights due to Unfair Trials in Comparative

Perspective”

Presentation 3: Asta Kraskouskas (Boston College School of Theology and Ministry),

“Lithuanian Traditions of Velines under Soviet Occupation”

Presentation 4: Paulis Lazda (University of Wisconsin- Eau Claire), “Principle and Politics:

Sumner Welles and the Non-Recognition of the Soviet Occupation of the Baltic States, 1940”


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PANEL B18

Panel Title: Christian Religious Struggles in the 20th

Century

Presentation 1: Celia Goble (Duke University), “Surveillance and Assemblage: Exposing the

Soviet System through Imagery”

Presentation 2: Adam Brode (University of Pittsburgh), “Pride of Place: The Struggle for Control

over Riga’s Cathedral Church”

Presentation 3: Gediminas Lankauskas (University of Regina), “Communists, Catholics, and

Crafted Traditions at the Soviet Lithuanian Wedding”



PANEL B19

Panel Title: The Émigré Baltic Press in the Mid-20th

Century

Presentation 1: Andris Straumanis (University of Wisconsin-River Falls), “Coverage of

Immigrant Relations in the Latvian Diaspora Press, 1948-1968”

Presentation 2: Erick Reis Godliauskas Zen (Rio de Janeiro State University), “Rojus Mizaras

and the Construction of a Lithuanian Newsprint Network in America (1928 – 1940)”

Presentation 3: Violeta Kaledaite (Vytautas Magnus University), “Publications of Lituanus

(1954-1966): Reflections of Political and Cultural Life in Lithuania”

Presentation 4: Ramune K. Kubilius (Northwestern University), “Presenting Lithuanian Culture

to Non-Lithuanians: A Survey of the Periodic Press”




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PANEL B20

Panel Title: Challenges of Post-Communist and Contemporary Latvian

Society

Presentation 1: Katja Wezel (University of Pittsburgh), “A Latvian Nuremberg? The Quest for

Justice in Post-Communist Latvia”

Presentation 2: Andre Skogstrom-Filler (University of Paris VIII, French Institute of

Geopolitics), “Political Elites in Lativa: Stagnation, Mutation, Evolution?”

Presentation 3: Indra Ekmanis (University of Washington), “Countering Conflict with the

Mundane: Ethnic Interactions and Civil Society in Latvia”



PANEL B21

Panel Title: Women and the Shaping of 20th

-Century History

Presentation 1: Dovile Budryte (Georgia Gwinnett College), “Testimonial Objects as Gendered

‘Points of Memory:’ Vizeteles”

Presentation 2: Patrick Wen (UCLA), “Fock: First Lady of the Third Reich”

Presentation 3: Aldona E. Lingertat (St. John’s Seminary), “Sisterhood and Power: Unlikely

Countercultural Heroines in Lithuania during the Soviet Period”

Presentation 4: Roosmarii Kurvits (University of Tartu), “Creation of Soviet Women:

Presentation of Women in Estonian Newspapers in 1940”



PANEL B22

Panel Title: Social Control and Social Networks in Soviet Lithuania, 1960s-

1980s

Presentation 1: Amanda Swain (University of Washington), “Constructing a Narrative of

National Resistance: Poems about Romas Kalanta’s Self-Immolation in Soviet Lithuania


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Presentation 2: Edward Cohn (Grinnell College), “Profilaktika and the KGB’s Efforts to Fight

Dissent in Brezhnev-Era Lithuania”

Presentation 3: Rytis Bulota (Vytautas Magnus University), “Oppositional Attitudes among

Lithuanian Youth in the Late Soviet Period”

Presentation 4: Egidija Ramanauskaite Kiskina (Vytautas Magnus University) and J. Rimas

Vaisnys, (Yale University), “Towards Modeling of Group Identity: Hippies in Soviet Lithuania”

Chair/Respondent: Dovile Budryte (Georgia Gwinnett College)


PANEL B23

Panel Title: Great Power Public Diplomacy in Small-State Northern Europe

Presentation 1: Olov Wenell (Umeå University), “Soviet Public Diplomacy to Sweden, 1945–

1959”

Presentation 2: Rosa Magnusdottir (Aarhus University), “Political Ritual or Cultural Diplomacy?

Soviet-Icelandic State/Official Visits during the Cold War”

Presentation 3: Mikhail Suslov (Uppsala University), “The ‘Russian World’ in the Baltic Region:

Instrumentalizing the Diaspora, Rebranding the State”

Presentation 4: Gregory Simons (Uppsala University), “Post-Soviet Influence: Contemporary

Russia’s Relations and Influence in the Baltic States”

Respondent/Chair: Helene Carlback (Södertorn University)


PANEL B24

Panel Title: Culture, Civil Society, and Public Diplomacy in the 20th

Century

Presentation 1: Rebecka Lettevall (Södertörn University), “Neutrality as Ethos: The Stockholm

Meeting of 1925, the Nobel Peace Prize and Interwar Public Diplomacy”

Presentation 2: Giedrius Janauskas (Vytautas Magnus University), “Main Principles of

Lithuanian Demos Diplomacy in the USA, 1961–1990”

Presentation 3: Andreas Hellenes (University of Oslo), “Public Diplomacy and Cultural

Transfers: The Case of the Swedish Cultural Centre in Paris”


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Presentation 4: Carl Marklund (Södertörn University), “Big is Beautiful but Small is Smart:

Geopolitics, Public Diplomacy, and Soft Power in Rudolf Kjellén’s Baltic Programme, 1900–

1918”

Chair/Respondent: Norbert Gotz (Södertörn University)


PANEL B25

Panel Title: Soft Power, Sport, and Not-So-Soft Power: Public Diplomacy in

the Late 20th

Century

Presentation 1: Ivo Juurvee (University of Tartu), “Power Only Pretending to be Soft: Soviet Use

of KGB ‘Active Measures’ and Lessons Learned for Today”

Presentation 2: Lita Juberte (University of Latvia), “Soft Power Resource Sport in Latvian-

Russian Relations: Case Study of KHL Latvian Club Dinamo Riga”

Presentation 3: Konstantin Fuks (University of Turku), “Latvian ‘Hockey Diplomacy’

Rapprochement with Russia after the Eastern Enlargement of the European Union”

Presentation 4: Emilija Pundziute-Gallois (Sciences Po, Paris), “Diplomacy of Arrogance: The

Case of Russia in the Baltic States”

Respondent/Chair: Carl Marklund (University of Helsinki)


PANEL B26

Panel Title: National(ist) Philosophy and Thought

Presentation 1: Indre Cuplinskas (St. Joseph’s College), “The Catholic Nation on the Baltic and

the St. Lawrence: Šalkauskis and Groulx”

Presentation 2: Thomas Salumets (University of British Columbia), “The Ecological

Individualism of Jaan Kaplinski and Arne Naess”

Presentation 3: Ivars Ijabs (University of Latvia), “Imagining Latvia: Ethnicity and Territoriality

in Early Latvian Nationalist Thought”

Presentation 4: Christopher Oscarson (Brigham Young University), “Nation and the Discourses

of Ecology: Re-Visiting Fin-de-Siècle Scandinavia through Topic Modeling”


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PANEL B27

Panel Title: Exile Experience and Identity across the 20th

Century

Presentation 1: Ragnar Bjork (Södertörn University), “Estonian Exile in the Perspective of

German-Austrian Immigrants to Scandinavia and German-Jewish Immigrants to the USA, 1933-

1945”

Presentation 2: Anneli Mihkelev (Tallinn University), “Searching for Individual Identity: the

Estonian and Swedish Experiences”

Presentation 3: Patricia Marton (independent), “Piecing Together the Past: Traversing My

Mother’s Lands: Personal Impressions and Revelations of Norway”



PANEL B28

Panel Title: Interpreting and Commemorating the End of the 20th

Century

Presentation 1: Pertti Gronholm (University of Turku), “Wars, Suffering, and Survival in the

Public History Speeches of the Estonian Presidents, 1992-2012”

Presentation 2: Rima Gungor (Lithuanian Research and Studies Center, Chicago), “The

Effectiveness of Gene Sharp’s Non-Violent Methodology in Freedom Movements Using the

Lithuanian Model”

Presentation 3: Laura Ardava (University of Latvia), “At the Threshold of the 25th

Anniversary:

Remembering the Baltic Way of 1989 in Latvia, 1989-2013”

Presentation 4: Vita Zelce (University of Latvia), “A War of Memory: Russia and the Baltic

States”




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PANEL B29

Panel Title: Plenary Session: Jews in Interwar Lithuanian Society

Presentation: Motti Zalkin (Ben-Gurion University), “Jews in Interwar Lithuanian Society:

Between Identity, Culture, and Image”

Chair: Joanne Rudof (Fortunoff Archive, Yale University)



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C.

Contemporary Society, Politics, and

Culture


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PANEL C1

Panel Title: Economic Cooperation and Development in the Baltic-

Scandinavian Region

Presentation 1: Antti-Jussi Nygard (University of Turku), “Region-Building and Trade Blocs:

Finnish Plans for Baltic and Nordic Economic Cooperation, 1919-1938”

Presentation 2: Liutauras Gudzinskas (Vilnius University), “European and Nordic Influences on

Lithuania's Welfare State Development: Re-politization or Marketization?”

Presentation 3: Magnus Gustafson (University of Gothenburg), “The Rise and Fall of the

Swedish Welfare State”

Presentation 4: Henry Ordower (Saint Louis University School of Law), “Shifting Taxation from

Capital to Labor (Sweden): Global Tax Competition or Racial Diversification?”



PANEL C2

Panel Title: Negotiating a Complex New Landscape of Gender and Sexuality

Presentation 1: Richard Mole (University College London) “The Sexual Attitudes of London’s

Lithuanian, Polish and Romanian Migrants”

Presentation 3: Roos Liina-Ly (University of Washington), “Post-Soviet Identity in the Nordic

Imagination: Trauma and Sex Trafficking in Purge and Lilja 4-ever”

Presentation 2: Jen Hughes (University of Minnesota), “Pinkwashing Iceland: Economic

Recovery, Queer Subjectivity, and Media Rhetorics of Exceptionalism”

Presentation 4: Maelle Megret (French Institute of Geopolitics), “Homophobia in Latvia: How

post-USSR Identity is Based on Sexuality”



PANEL C3

Panel Title: Nordic-Baltic Nexus on Energy and Russia


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Presentation 1: Rita Peters (Harvard University), “Nordic-Baltic Nexus as a Case of Small Power

Politics in International Organizations”

Presentation 2: Agnia Grigas (independent), “Solving the Baltic Energy Island Dilemma: Baltic-

Scandinavian Regional Cooperation”

Presentation 3: Ginta Palubinskas (West Virginia State University), “The Significance of US

Shale Gas for Baltic-Scandinavian Energy Security”

Presentation 4: Dainius Genys (Lithuanian Energy Institute), “The Rise of a New Energy Risk in

the Baltic States: The Case of District Heating”



PANEL C4

Panel Title: Contemporary Racial Politics in Norden

Presentation 1: Benjamin Teitelbaum (University of Colorado- Boulder), “Implicit Whiteness:

Imaginaries of Tacit Ethnocentrism in Multicultural Sweden”

Presentation 2: Espen E. Bordahl (Goethe University), “The Norwegian Discourse on Creeping

Islamization [snikislamisering], 2009-2013”

Presentation 3: Emil Stjernholm (Amsterdam University), “Political Ads in the Swedish

Parliamentary Elections of 2006 and 2010: Focus on the Sweden Democrats and the Role of

Audiovisual Media”

Chair/Respondent: Emily Daina Saras (Northeastern University) ? pending


PANEL C5

Panel Title: Nordic Stereotypes Abroad

Presentation 1: Catrin Lundstrom (Uppsala University), “Embodying Exoticism: Swedish

Women and Nordic Whiteness in the United States”

Presentation 2: Lisa Locascio (USC), “The Hole At The Heart of Whiteness”: Towards An

Understanding of Mormon Scandinavian Whiteness in the American West”

Presentation 3: Linda Andersson Burnett (Linnaeus Universiy), “Selling Sami Stereotypes: The

Exhibition of Sami People in Georgian Britain”


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Presentation 4: Ryan Weber (University of Connecticut), “Nordic Race & Cosmopolitan

Disputes: Universal Affinities in the Music of Grieg and Grainger”



PANEL C6

Panel Title: Race and Whiteness in Norden: Contemporary Representations

in Literature and Film

Presentation 1: Linda Haverty Rugg (UC Berkeley), “Hyperwhite: The Representation of

Extreme Whiteness in Contemporary Swedish Literature and Film”

Presentation 2: Sophie Wennerscheid (Ghent University), “Representations of Ethnicity, Class,

Gender and Age in Contemporary Sweden-Finnish Minority Literature”

Presentation 3: Andrew Nestingen (University of Washington), “Aki Kaurismäki and the White

Messiah Film”

Presentation 4: Ebbe Volquardsen (Justus Liebig University Giessen), “Jonathan Franzen,

Susanne Bier and Self-Conceptions of Exceptionalism in Crisis”



PANEL C7

Panel Title: Race and Whiteness in Norden: 19th

- and 20th

-Century

Representations

Presentation 1: Aleksi Huhta (University of Turku), “Representations of Race in Finnish Press’

Coverage of Lynching, 1890–1910”

Presentation 2: Asa Bharathi Larsson (University of Gothenburg), “The Circus is in Town:

Leisure, Race and Colonialism in Nineteenth Century Scandinavian Visual Cultures”

Presentation 3: Bibi Johnsson (Lund University), “The Regional, the National and the White

Perspective in Swedish Literature of the 1930s”




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PANEL C8

Panel Title: Public Diplomacy, Soft Governance, and Activism

Presentation 1: Norbert Gotz (Södertörn University), “One Per Cent for Development: Rationales

of Swedish Donorship”

Presentation 2: Kazimierz Musial (University of Gdańsk), “Nordic Assistance, Norm

Entrepreneurship and Public Diplomacy in the Baltic States Since the 1990s”

Presentation 3: Karolina Zurek (Stockholm University), “Governing the Baltic:

Institutionalization of Baltic Cooperation as Public Diplomacy?”

Respondent/Chair: Ainur Elmgren (University of Helsinki)


PANEL C9

Panel Title: Nation-Branding and Communication Strategies

Presentation 1: Per Stahlberg (Södertörn University), “Nation Branding: The Nation as a

Community and Commodity”

Presentation 2: Una Bergmane (Sciences Po, Paris), “Branding the Baltic Nations as Suitable for

Independence: Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian Public Diplomacy, 1989–1991”

Presentation 3: Kaili Tamm (Estonian Academy of Security Sciences), “Social Media in the

Government Agency’s Communication Strategy”

Presentation 4: Pauli Heikkila (University of Tartu), “Tourist Guides to Soviet Estonia: Two

Examples of Paradoxical Traveling”

Respondent/Chair: Paul Jordan (Cardiff University)


PANEL C10

Panel Title: Contemporary Cultural Promotion and Nation Branding

Presentation 1: Paul Jordan (Cardiff University), “The Eurovision Song Contest in Estonia:

Nation Branding or Nationalism?”

Presentation 2: Anders Marklund (Lund University), “And the Nominated Images of Scandinavia

Are…”


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Presentation 3: Ola Johansson (University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown), “Everyday Nationalism

and Swedish Popular Music: The Case of Kent”

Respondent/Chair: Per Stahlberg (Södertörn University)


PANEL C11

Panel Title: Aspirations toward the Nordic in Scottish Political Debate

Presentation 1: Ragnhild Ljosland (University of the Highlands and Islands), “A Discourse

Analysis of the Representation of Scandinavia in Scottish Political Pro-Independence Speeches”

Presentation 2: Andrew Jennings (University of the Highlands and Islands), “The Nordic Vision

in Scottish Political Discourse”

Presentation 3: Dominic Hinde (University of Edinburgh) and Mairi McFadyen (Sheffield

University?), “Towards a Green Nordic Future: The Rhetorical Use of Scandinavia in the

Scottish Constitutional Debate”



PANEL C12

Panel Title: Roundtable: The Baltic Appeal to the United Nations (BATUN)

and Scandinavian Cooperation

Presentation 1: Heino Ainso (Ainso & Associates, Inc.)

Presentation 2: Uldis Blukis (Brooklyn College)

Presentation 3: Mara I. Lazda (Bronx Community College, CUNY)

Presentation 4: Jonathan H. L’ Hommedieu (Armstrong Atlantic State University)

Presentation 5: Olavi Arens (Armstrong Atlantic State University)

Respondent/Chair: Elona Vaisnys (Yale University)



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PANEL C13

Panel Title: Studies of the Baltic Diasporas

Presentation 1: Maarja Merivoo-Parro (Tallinn University), “Estonian by Education and the

Overlapping of Diasporic Conditions”

Presentation 2: Vytis Ciubrinskas (Vytautas Magnus University), “Rooted Cosmopolitanism in

America: Post-Ethnic Enactment of Ethnic Heritage among Different Waves of Lithuanian-

Americans”

Presentation 3: Arta Ankrava (University of Minnesota), “Transnational and Intergenerational

Negotiations in the Latvian American Community”



PANEL C14

Panel Title: The Politics of Transnational Movements and Networks

Presentation 1: Silke Berndsen (University of Halle), “Networks across Borders: The

Interconnection of Baltic Emigré Engagement and Resistance in the Baltic”

Presentation 2: Rima Gungor (Lithuanian Research and Studies Center Chicago), “An Analysis

of the Effectiveness of Gene Sharp’s Non-Violent Methodology in Freedom Movements using

the Lithuanian Model”

Presentation 3: Hauke Siemen (University of Hamburg), “Until the Time Comes…:”

Cooperation and Narratives of Independence in the Baltic Diaspora”

Presentation 4: Daiva K. Venckus (Mount Saint Mary’s College), “The Power of Transnational

Networks in the Final Hours of the Collapse of the Soviet Union”



PANEL C15

Panel Title: New Understandings of Estonian Identity, Politics, and Culture

Presentation 1: Triinu Ojamaa (Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre), “Diaspora Estonians’

Attitudes towards Their Ethnicity, Culture, and Estonia”


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Presentation 2: Iivi Zajedova (Tallinn University), “Folk-Artistic Dance in Relation to Individual

Well-Being: A Comparison of Estonians Living in Estonia and Abroad”

Presentation 3: Piret Ehin (University of Tartu), “Accounting for the Ethnic Gap in Satisfaction

with Democracy: Data from Estonia”

Presentation 4: Katrina Peterson (University of Washington), “Is Estonia Secure? A Survey of

Estonia’s Military Preparedness and Potential Threats to Estonia’s Future as a Nation”



PANEL C16

Panel Title: Recent Responses to Economic Crisis and Recession

Presentation 1: Hilmar Hilmarsson (University of Akureyri), “Latvia and Iceland during a Global

Crisis: Did They “Own” their Reform Programs?”

Presentation 2: Alyssa S. Maraj Grahame (University of Massachusetts Amherst), “The Return

of the Right? Icelandic Responses to Economic Crisis, 2008-2013”

Presentation 3: Mats Lindqvist (Södertörn University) “Prospect for Development of a

Transnational Trade Union Solidarity in the Baltic Sea Region”

Presentation 4: Johan Eellend (Swedish Defence Research Agency), “Germany with its Back to

the Baltic Sea”

Chair/Respondent: Sander Heinsalu (Yale University)


PANEL C17

Panel Title: Arctic Culture and Society

Presentation 1: Norunn Askeland (Vestfold University College), “Metaphors about Sami Culture

and Norwegianization Policy in Norwegian and Swedish Textbooks for Secondary School”

Presentation 2: Anka Ryall (The Arctic University of Norway), “Svalbard Today: Cultural

Heritage, Gender and Memory Politics”

Presentation 3: Bente Aamotsbakken (Vestfold University College), “The Perspective on the

Sami Population in Norwegian History Textbooks”


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Presentation 4: Kamrul Hossain (University of Lapland), “Indigenous Peoples’ Rights in

Response to Increased Mining Activities in the European High North (Arctic)”

Chair/Respondent: Henning Howlid-Waerp (University of Tromsø)


PANEL C18

Panel Title: Arctic Ecologies

Presentation 1: Lill-Ann Korber (Humboldt University), “How Green is Greenland? Ecology in

Contemporary Documentary Film”

Presentation 2: Ann-Sofie Nielsen-Gremaud (University of Copenhagen), “Icelandic Futures:

Fantasies of Purity and Nightmares of Pollution”

Presentation 3: Ursula Lindqvist (Gustavus Adolphus College), “A Man from Nuuk and a Film

from Greenland”

Presentation 4: Derek Kane O’Leary (University of California-Berkeley), “Svalbard and the

Arctic’s ‘Human Coast’”

Chair/Respondent: Anna Westerstahl Stenport (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)


PANEL C19

Panel Title: Representations of the Arctic

Presentation 1: Henning Howlid Waerp (University of Tromsø), “The Arctic Pastoral”

Presentation 2: Irina Hron-Oberg (Stockholm University), “(Not) ‘Into the White, White

Ice:” Resisting Stereotypes in Literary Accounts of the Far North”

Presentation 3: Anna Westerstahl Stenport (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and

Scott MacKenzie (Queen’s University), “The New Arctic Cold War and Nordic Film and Media”

Presentation 4: Rasmus Gjedsso Bertelsen (Aalborg University), “The Arctic Nexus in Asian-

Nordic Relations”

Chair/Respondent: Scott MacKenzie (Queen’s University)



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PANEL C20

Panel Title: Scandinavian Émigrés and the United States

Presentation 1: Sirpa Tuomainen (UC Berkeley), “Every Object Tells a Story: Searching for

Finnishness among San Francisco Bay Area Finns”

Presentation 2: Mary Ehrlander (University of Alaska Fairbanks), “’Lucky Swedes:’

Scandinavian Gold Miners in Nome”

Presentation 3: Margaret Herman (CUNY Graduate Center), “Vienna, Helsinki, America:

Reframing Eliel Saarinen’s Visionary Urban Plans for Chicago and Detroit”

Chair/Respondent: Maija Jansson (Yale University)


PANEL C21:

Panel Title: Scottish Connections to Scandinavia

Presentation 1: Alexandra Sanmark (University of the Highlands and Islands), “Norse Assembly

Sites in Scotland: The Making of Identity and Memory in a New Landscape”

Presentation 2: Angela Watt (University of the Highlands and Islands), “The Implications of

Cultural Interchange in Scalloway, Shetland and the Significance of Nordic-Based Heritage”

Presentation 3: Michael Stachura (Simon Fraser University), “A Polar Projection: Looking North

in Modern Scottish Literature”



PANEL C22:

Panel Title: Shifting Economic Roles and Their Social and Cultural

Consequences

Presentation 1: Julianne Maila (University of Washington), “The Effect of the Euro on the Baltic

Economies: An Examination of Estonia's Transition, Latvia's Preparation and Lithuania's

Prospects”

Presentation 2: Lars Rune Waage (University of Stavanger), “The Dark Side of the Scandinavian

Family? A Reading of Johan Harstad’s Hässelby”


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Presentation 3: Kristin Orav (Tallinn University), “Visualization of Failure in Estonian Art,

1989-1999”

Presentation 4: Lisa Wiklund (Gothenburg University), “‘Successful Swedes’– National Identity

as Transnational Capital among Swedish Internet Entrepreneurs”




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D.

Language:

Linguistics, Language, Teaching, and

Translation


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PANEL D1

Panel Title: Language, Culture, and Politics

Presentation 1: Giedrius Subacius (University of Illinois at Chicago), “The List of Great

Mistakes in Lithuanian”

Presentation 2: Gro-Renee Rambo (University of Agder), “Constructing and Challenging

Boundaries: Norwegian Written Standards in the 20th

Century”

Presentation 3: Thomas Breck Pedersen (Osaka University), “Modality as Perspective,

Perspective as Modality”

Presentation 4: Stephen J. Walton (FSS/HVO), “You’re only Ong once: Latin Language Study as

a Renaissance Puberty Rite and Its Implications for Norwegian sidemål”



PANEL D2

Panel Title: Topics in Comparative Linguistics

Presentation 1: Yoko Yamazaki (Stockholm University), “The East Baltic Tones of Former Indo-

European Root Nouns”

Presentation 2: Kristina Bukelskyte-Cepele (Stockholm University), “Nominal Compounds in

Early Written Latvian Texts, 16th

-17th

Centuries”

Presentation 3: Marc Pierce (University of Texas at Austin), “Old Norse i-Umlaut and a

Historiography of ‘Morphologically Conditioned Sound Changes’”



PANEL D3

Panel Title: Language, Teaching, and Education Initiatives in Northern

Europe

Presentation 1: Taina Saarinen (University of Jyväskylä), “Strength in Invisibility: English

Representing “Foreign Languages” in Finnish Higher Education Policy”


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Presentation 2: Josep Soler-Carbonell (University of Tartu), “'Standardization' and ‘Variability as

Competing Strategies in the Internationalization of the Estonian Higher Education Market”

Presentation 3: Kerttu Kibbermann (University of Latvia), “Foreign Languages in Higher

Education in Latvia: Regulations and Practices”

Presentation 4: Mikkel Fugl Eskjaer (Aalborg University), “Scandinavian Studies in a Non-

Western Context: How and Why to Study Scandinavia in the Global South”

Chair/Respondent: Joseph Ellis (Wingate University)


PANEL D4

Panel Title: Language Pedagogical Challenges: Instruction Techniques I

Presentation 1: William Wickersham (Lund University), “An(other) New Equal: Gender in

Instructional Materials in Language Courses for Adult Immigrants”

Presentation 2: Ulrika Serrander (University of Gävle), “Second Language Academic Writing at

the University Level: Benefits of Tutoring Dialogue”

Presentation 3: Kristin Kibsgaard Sjohelle (Volda University College), “Facebook as A Platform

for Language Learning: A Study of Pupils’ Use of Social Media when Learning Nynorsk”



PANEL D5

Panel Title: Language Pedagogical Challenges: Instruction Techniques II

Presentation 1: Taija Hamalainen (University of Washington), “Each One Teach One: Finnish-

Chinese Tandem Courses to Support Students’ Language Learning Process”

Presentation 2: Ausra Valanciauskiene (University of Washington), “New Possibilities to

Improve Teaching and Learning Lithuanian Language Abroad”

Presentation 3: Tiina Haapakoski (Columbia University), “Teaching Finnish Using the

Communicative Approach – Challenges and Ideas”



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PANEL D6

Panel Title: Language, Culture, and Identity: Questions and Problems in

Teaching

Presentation 1: Hjalmar Eiksund (Volda University College), “A Majority Language with

Minority Issues: Norwegian Students and their Underestimated Bilingual Problems”

Presentation 2: Jogile Teresa Ramonaite (Institute of the Lithuanian Language), “Acquisition of

Lithuanian in a Natural Context”

Presentation 3: Iveta Grinberga (University of Washington), “Is Early Exposure to Heritage

Language Beneficial? Case Study of Latvian Heritage and Non-Heritage Language Students”

Chair/Respondent: Nahir I. Otaño Gracia (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)


PANEL D7

Panel Title: Language Politics and Language as Identity

Presentation 1: Delaney Michael Skerrett (Griffith University), “Swedish Envy? Estonian

Language Policy from a Pan-Baltic Perspective”

Presentation 2: Meilute Ramoniene (Vilnius University), “Patterns of Language Use and Ethnic

Identity in Lithuanian Diaspora”

Presentation 3: Elin Gunleifsen (University of Agder), “A Real Time Study on Linguistic

Variation and Change in South Norwegian Dialects”



PANEL D8

Panel Title: Translation Methodology: Pitfalls and Potentials of Translation

Presentation 1: Vilis Inde (independent), “Rainis’ The Golden horse – Zeltazirgs: Translation of

Classic Latvian Literature”


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Presentation 2: Vasilis Papageorgiou (Linnaeus University), “Translating Tomas Tranströmer

into Greek”

Presentation 3: Maija Burima (Daugavpils University), “Latvian Literature Translations through

the Lens of Comparative Literary Studies: Periods and Phenomena”

Presentation 4: Brigita Dimaviciene (Vytautas Magnus University), “The Transformation of

Lithuanian Young Adult Literature since 1990: The Effect of Translated Literature”

Chair/Respondent: Nahir I. Otaño Gracia (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)


PANEL D9

Panel Title: Translation and History: The Role of Translation and Political

Agendas in the Baltic

Presentation 1: Katiliina Gielen (University of Tartu), “Negotiating the Audiences: Translation

Studies and the Post-Soviet Experience”

Presentation 2: Andrejs Veisbergs (University of Latvia), “Translators as Agents of Change”

Presentation 3: Daniele Monticelli (Tallinn University), “(Trans)forming National Identity in

Translation: The Young-Estonia Movement”



PANEL D10

Panel Title: George Schoolfield’s Scandinavian Legacy at Yale: A Tribute

Presentation 1: Jason Lavery (Oklahoma State University), “An Overview of Schoolfield’s

Scholarly Career”

Presentation 2: Kathy Saranpa (University of Eastern Finland), “Schoolfield, the Swedish-

Finnish Knight”

Presentation 3: Jay Lutz (Oglethorpe University), “Danish Modern Breakthrough Novels at

Yale”

Presentation 4: Susan Brantly (University of Wisconsin), “Transnationalism at the Turn-of-the

Century: Decadence Gone Viral”


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Respondent: Paul Bushkovitch (Yale University)

Chair: Sherrill Harbison (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)


Location: LC102

PANEL D11

Panel Title: Foreign Influences on Language and Literature

Presentation 1: Aurelija Mickunaite Griskeviciene (Vilnius University), “Untranslatable

Concepts in Bilingual Norwegian-Lithuanian Lexicography”

Presentation 2: Tiina Kattel (University of Tartu), “Lithuanian-Estonian Literary Relations

between 1918 and 1940”

Presentation 3: Elizabeth Peterson (University of Helsinki), “Pliis: How ‘The Magic Word’

Became Finnish”



PANEL D12

Panel Title: Translation Practices and Cultural Studies

Presentation 1: Anna Hersey (University of Miami), “Strategies for Translation of Scandinavian

Art Song Texts”

Presentation 2: Valerie Rogotzke (Yale University), “Northern Sympathies: Interpreting

Norwegianness in the Music of Charles Martin Loeffler”

Presentation 3: Jason M. Schroeder (University of Wisconsin-Madison), “Handwritten

Songbooks as Literary-Artifacts: Reading Ethnographic Events in Song Texts”

Chair/Respondent: Carl Rahkonen (Indiana University of Pennsylvania)



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E.

Literature:

Literature, Crime Fiction, Folklore

and Poetry


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PANEL E1

Panel Title: Ethics and Aesthetics in Scandinavian Literature

Presentation 1: Anders Ehlers Dam (Copenhagen University), “’Under the Knacker’s Filthy

Knife:’ The Aesthetics of Evil in Jensen’s The Fall of the King”

Presentation 2: Ivan Z. Sorensen (independent), “Isak Dinesen Turned Ethical”

Presentation 3: Monica Susana Hidalgo (UC Berkeley), “Exit Character: The Finale of Herman

Bang’s ‘Irene Holm’ and Ved Vejen”



PANEL E2

Panel Title: Jewish Writing, Jewish Learning, and Yiddish Texts

Presentation 1: Gantt Gurley (University of Oregon), “Meir Goldschmidt and the Danish-Jewish

Literary Scene”

Presentation 2: Brad Sabin Hill (George Washington University), “Scandinavia and Yiddish

Booklore”

Presentation 3: Isaac Bleaman (New York University), “Sabesdiker losn: The Salience of

Sibilant Confusion as a Marker of Litvish Yiddish Identity”

Presentation 4: Loreta Macanskaite (Vilnius University), “The National and Linguistic Identities

of Jewish Writers in Soviet Lithuania”

Chair/Respondent: Sharon Franklin-Rahkonen (Indiana University of Pennsylvania)


PANEL E3

Panel Title: Ibsen Studies I: Ibsen’s Life and Legacy

Presentation 1: Astrid Saether (Univeristy of Oslo), “Ibsen's Gendered Space: On Windows,

Views, and Doors of Exit”

Presentation 2: Sandra Saari (Rochester Institute of Technology), “Fathers and Sons in Ibsen’s

The Wild Duck”


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Presentation 3: William A. Johnsen (Michigan State University), “Ibsen/Strindberg and the

Hidden Dynamics of Casanova’s World Republic of Letters”

Presentation 4: Hadle Oftedal Andersen (Helsinki University), “When We Dead Wake:

Deconstructing Romantic Love”



PANEL E4

Panel Title: Ibsen Studies II: Getting Ibsen’s Drift. Sponsored by the Ibsen Society of America

Presentation 1: Benedikte Berntzen (National Library of Norway), “On Henrik Ibsen´s Drama A

Doll´s House (1879) and Robert Benton´s film Kramer vs. Kramer (1979): Two Darling Daring

Mothers”

Presentation 2: Gunnar Iversen (Norwegian University of Technology and Science), “The

Ecstasy of Sorrow: Idealism, Gender Politics and Modernism in Sigurd Ibsen’s The Temple of

Remembrance (1917)”

Presentation 3: Olivia Gunn (Pacific Lutheran University), “The Quintessence of Feminism:

Ibsen Studies, Radical Approaches, and Queerer Matter?”

Chair/Respondent: Mark Sandberg (UC Berkeley)


PANEL E5

Panel Title: Strindberg and His Legacy

Presentation 1: Tim Cochrane (University of Wisconsin-Madison), “Visual Translation: Fabian

Göranson’s Graphic Novel Strindbergs Inferno”

Presentation 2: Christian Gullette (UC Berkeley), “Using Plato’s Symposium as an Interpretive

Model for Queerness in Stories by August Strindberg and Ola Hansson”

Presentation 3: David Jessup (Minnesota State University), “Contemplating Pietism:

Kierkegaard’s Anticipation of Strindberg’s Critique”


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PANEL E6

Panel Title: Postcolonial and Postapocalyptic Literature

Presentation 1: Anna Salomonsson (Linnaeus University), “Colonial and Sexual Violence in Sofi

Oksanen’s Purge”

Presentation 2: Giuliano D’Amico (Volda University College), “Halldor Laxness’ The Atom

Station as a Cold War and Postcolonial Novel”

Presentation 3: Katarina Leppanen (Gothenburg University), “Cosmopolitan Ideals and National

Literatures: In Search of the Vernacular, for Authenticity and Independence”

Presentation 4: Peter Forsgren (Linnaeus University), “Gender, Ethnicity and the Reconstruction

of Norrland in Olof Hogberg’s Novel The Great Wrath”



PANEL E7

Panel Title: Contemporary Baltic Women’s Authorship

Presentation 1: Violeta Kelertas (University of Washington), “Zemaite: A Classic Lithuanian

Writer in the 21st Century“

Presentation 2: Daiva Litvinskaite (University of Illinois at Chicago), “The End of Endless

Affection: Redefining Love in Contemporary Lithuanian Women’s Prose”

Presentation 3: Zita Karkla (University of Latvia), “Gendered Authorship: Representation of

Women as Writers in Contemporary Latvian Prose”

Presentation 4: Solveiga Daugirdaite (Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore), “Self-

Representation of Lithuanian Women Writers in Autobiography”

Chair/Respondent: Daiva Markelis (Eastern Illinois University)



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PANEL E8

Panel Title: Scandinavian Literature, Women, and Feminism

Presentation 1: Asa Arping (University of Gothenburg), “Feminism on Export: Myth and

Modernity in Fredrika Bremer’s Emancipatory Novel Hertha (1856)”

Presentation 2: Marit Ann Barkve (University of Wisconsin Madison), “Sisterhood of the

Traveling Nora: Exploring Nora’s Influence on Transnational Feminist Authors”

Presentation 3: Anna Nordenstam (University of Gothenburg) “New Voices: Feminism and

Swedish Contemporary Comics”

Presentation 4: Melissa Gjellstad (University of North Dakota), “Tonje Glimmerdal: Rural Girl

Power”



PANEL E9

Panel Title: Danish Literature and Criticism I

Presentation 1: Frank Hugus (University of Massachussets Amherst), “Fictionalizing the Facts:

Autobiographical Elements in H. C. Andersen’s Improvisatoren”

Presentation 2: Karin Sanders (UC Berkeley), ““Words as Things: From Hans Christian

Andersen’s “ABC Book” to Morten Søndergaard’s Word Pharmacy”

Presentation 3: William Banks (independent), “Georg Brandes vs. the Missionaries”

Presentation 4: Mette Pedersen Hoeg (University of Copenhagen), “Autonarration and the

Decline of the Dichotomy between Fiction and Nonfiction”



PANEL E10

Panel Title: Danish Literature and Criticism II


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Presentation 1: Mads Bunch (University of Copenhagen), “The Particular as a Secret Note:

Karen Blixen’s ‘Ehrengard’”

Presentation 2: Jakob Holm (University of Texas Austin), “The Shame is Everywhere: War as

Reality and Symbol in Contemporary Danish Literature”

Presentation 3: Benjamin Bigelow (UC Berkeley), “Micro-Materialism and Metaphysics in

Hamsun, Garborg, and Obstfelder”

Presentation 4:


PANEL E11

Panel Title: Scandinavian and Baltic Crime Fiction: Genre Developments:

Past to Present

Presentation 1: Anders Ohman (Umeå University) “The Roots of Swedish Crime Fiction: The

Social-Adventure Novel of the 1840s”

Presentation 2: Kerstin Bergman (Lund University), “The Roots of Nordic Noir”

Presentation 3: Anne Gjelsvik (Norwegian University of Science and Technology),

“Remembrance and Apprehension in the Aftermath of 22/07”

Presentation 4: Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen (University College London), “Criminal Peripheries:

Globalization and the Welfare State in Nordic Crime Fiction”



PANEL E12

Panel Title: Scandinavian and Baltic Crime Fiction: From National

Production to International Reception

Presentation 1: Olof Hedling (Lund University), “Nordic Noir Adaptations as Reflections of

Denationalisation: Effects of Public Film Support on a National Cinema”

Presentation 2: Anette Almgren White (Linnaeus University), “What Crime Novels Can Tell –

But Still Don’t: Violence in Blackwater and Echoes from the Dead”


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Presentation 3: Karl Berglund (Uppsala University), “Agents in Crime: The Symbiotic Rises of

Swedish Crime Fiction and Swedish Literary Agents”

Presentation 4: Rosemary Erickson Johnsen (Governors State University), “Heart of Darkness?

The Reception of Swedish Crime Fiction in the US and UK”



PANEL E13

Panel Title: Scandinavian and Baltic Crime Fiction: Baltic Societies

Presentation 1: Katre Talviste (University of Tartu), “It Takes Many Men to Make a Mystery:

Difficulties of Crime Fiction in a Small Literature”

Presentation 2: Dalia Satkauskyte (Vilnius University), “The Model of Society in Contemporary

Lithuanian Crime Fiction”

Presentation 3: Jurgen Warmbrunn (Herder-Institut), “Crimes on the Other Side: The Depiction

of the Baltic Countries in Henning Mankell’s Works of Crime Fiction”



PANEL E14

Panel Title: Scandinavian and Baltic Crime Fiction: Gender I: Ambiguity and

Power

Presentation 1: Karl Jirgens (University of Windsor), “Deconstructing Gender Inequities:

Dragons and Amber”

Presentation 2: Benjamin Mier-Cruz (Augustana College), “The Talented Mr…Salander: On

Millennium Queerness and Patricia Highsmith’s Ripley Series”

Presentation 3: Sarah Ljungquist (University of Gävle), “Super Hero or Assistant? Gender Power

in Three Versions of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”

Presentation 4: Mark Safstrom (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), “Saved by the Text?

Functional Spirituality in Caroline Eriksson’s Debut Novel Djävulen Hjälpte Mig”


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PANEL E15

Panel Title: Scandinavian and Baltic Crime Fiction: Gender II: Women and

Victimhood

Presentation 1: Annelie Brannstrom-Ohman (Umeå University), “Lisbeth Salander’s Grave and

Other Buried Girls’ Stories in Contemporary Scandinavian Crime Fiction”

Presentation 2: Nete Schmidt (University of Wisconsin, Madison), “The Obvious Victims?

Women in Elsebeth Egholm’s and Immigrants in Jussi Adler-Olsen’s Crime Novels”

Presentation 3: Mariah Larsson (Stockholm University), “Real Crime in the Welfare State:

Sexuality, Politics, and Historiography in Call Girl”

Presentation 4: Marianne Stecher (University of Washington), “Is Nordic Gothic? Dismembered

Female Bodies, Live Burials, Glass Coffins – From “The Red Shoes” to Modern Fairy Tales”



PANEL E16

Panel Title: Gender, Nature, and Passion in Literature

Presentation 1: Ruth Nielsen (University of Washington) “Unbridled Nature in Flygare-Carlen’s

Novels: A Moral Imperative to Domesticate or Prudent Husbandry?”

Presentation 2: Ann-Charlotte Gavel Adams (University of Washington) “Passion and Power:

Anthropomorphic Nature in Selma Lagerlof’s Gosta Berlings Saga”

Presentation 3: Rose-Marie Oster (University of Maryland), “Nature or Nurture: the Power of the

Forest in Kerstin Ekman’s Herrarna I skogen”

Presentation 4: Desiree Ohrbeck (University of Washington), “Pleasure and Place in Maren

Uthag’s Ellers gar det godt (2013)”




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PANEL E17

Panel Title: Negotiating Trauma and Transition in Literature

Presentation 1: Theo Malekin (UI Urbana-Champaign), “The Subversive Fantastic in Young

Adult Novels”

Presentation 2: Nora Simonhjell (University of Stavanger), “Dementia in Contemporary

Scandinavian Literature

Presentation 3: Kyle Korynta (University of Washington), “Turn Me On, Dammit: Fantasy,

Teenage Desire, and the Budding Sexual Body”

Presentation 4: Rennesa Osterberg Jessup (Minnesota State University), “A Portrait of the Artist:

The Writer in Lars Saabye Christensen’s Halvbroren”

Chair/Respondent: Elizabeth Oxfeldt (University of Oslo)


PANEL E18

Panel Title: Nordic Folklore I: Identities, Anxieties, and Social Webs

Presentation 1: Scott Mellor (University of Wisconsin-Madison), “Continuity of Motif in Pre-

and Post-Conversions Folk Narrative: the Supernatural Ham Sandwich”

Presentation 2: Amber Rose (University of Wisconsin-Madison), “The Milk-Stealing Witch in

Scandinavian Folklore”

Presentation 3: Elizabeth Oxfeldt (University of Oslo), “The Fairy-Tale Film in Scandinavia”

Chair/Respondent: Lizette Graden (University of Washington, Seattle)


PANEL E19

Panel Title: Nordic Folklore II: Re-Envisioning the Past

Presentation 1: Tim Frandy (University of Wisconsin-Madison), “The Seven Sámi Names for the

Wolf: Of Wolves and Men in Sápmi”


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Presentation 2: Thomas A. DuBois (University of Wisconsin-Madison), “Portals into a

Norwegian Past: Twenty-First Century Responses to Early Medieval Stave Churches”

Presentation 3: Barbro Klein (Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala),

“Confrontations on the Village Roads”

Presentation 4: Heather Short (University of Washington), “Keeping it in the Family: Multi-

Generational Bunad Use in Oslo and Akershus”

Respondent: James P. Leary (University of Wisconsin-Madison)


PANEL E20

Panel Title: Nordic Folklore III: Nordic Identities in the New World

Presentation 1: James P. Leary (University of Wisconsin-Madison), “Magical Finns in Michigan:

Perceptions and Practice”

Presentation 2: Lizette Graden (University of Washington, Seattle), “Dressing Nordic?:

Performing Nordic Identity and Place through Dress in the United States”

Presentation 3: B. Marcus Cederstrom (University of Wisconsin-Madison), “Att sälja sin kropp

och sin själ”: Signe Aurell, Women, and Workers in the Labor Movement”

Respondent: Tim Frandy (University of Wisconsin-Madison)


PANEL E21

Panel Title: The Work of Karl Ove Knausgård

Presentation 1: Suze van der Poll (University of Amsterdam), “Karl Ove Knausgard’s

Representative Battle?”

Presentation 2: Gergana May (Indiana University), “Autobiographical Writing from the Outskirts

of Europe: Karl Ove Knausgard and Kalin Terziyski”

Presentation 3: Poul Behrendt (University of Copenhagen), “The Particular, the Name and the

Number”

Presentation 4: Claus Elholm Andersen (University of Helsinki), “Knausgard/Kierkegaard:

Staging a Self with Continual Reference to the Ethic”


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PANEL E22

Panel Title: Interpreting Queerness in Literature

Presentation 1: Redi Koobak (Linköping University), “Affective Histories: Woman in the Corner

of Mutsu’s Drawings”

Presentation 2: Laura Horak (Stockholm University), “Greek Love across Media: Mauritz

Stiller’s Vingarne (1916)”

Presentation 3: Kim Forsythe Russell (UCLA), “Queerness and the Forest as Sanctuary in

Kolbeinn Karlsson’s Graphic Novel Trollkungen”



PANEL E23

Panel Title: Global Sales and Global Markets: The Politics of Literature and

Taste

Presentation 1: Gabriele Gailiute (Vilnius University), “Lithuanian Authors Inside and Out:…”

Presentation 2: Jyrki Nummi (Univeristy of Helsinki), “Literary Prizes and Canonization:…”

Presentation 3: Yvonne Leffler (University of Gothenburg), “The First International Bestselling

Swedish Writer”

Presentation 4: Anna-Maria Rimm (Uppsala University), “E-Books and Small Language Areas:

The Swedish Example”




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PANEL E24

Panel Title: Race and Colonialism in Scandinavian Literature

Presentation 1: Sabina Ivenas (University of Washington), “Made in Denmark? Displacement of

Danishness in the Transnational Adoptee Body in Find Holger Danske”

Presentation 2: Natia Gokieli (Humboldt University), “(Re)negotiations of White ‘Self’ and

Migrant ‘Other’ in Swedish Literature and Mass Media”

Presentation 3: Inger M. Olsen (Portland State University), “Denmark’s Colonial Past Mirrored

in Rejsen til Kærlighedens Ø by Jette Kjærboe”



PANEL E25

Panel Title: Poetry Studies I

Presentation 1: John Weinstock (University of Texas at Austin), “Strand, Vatten, Land: the

poetry of Christian Stannow”

Presentation 2: Dean Krouk (St. Olaf College), “Narcissism and Punishment in Åsmund Sveen’s

Postwar Modernism”

Presentation 3: Mattias Pirholt (Uppsala University), “Reality Check: Shock Impression and

Poetological Uncertainty in Hjalmar Gullberg’s Poetry”



PANEL E26

Panel Title: Poetry Studies II

Presentation 1: James Massengale (UCLA), “Fredmans Epistel n:o [83?]”

Presentation 2: Aile Tooming (Tallinn University), “Insight into Uku Masing's Free Verse in the

1930s”

Presentation 3: Manfredas Zvirgzdas (Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore),

“Encounters with the Northern and Nordic Concepts: Scandinavian Intertexts in Lithuanian

Poetry”


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Presentation 4: Julie Dekens (Universities of Paris IV – La Sorbonne and Zurich), “‘Who said I

wanted to follow you, Orpheus?’ Eurydice and the Poet”



PANEL E27

Panel Title: Studies in Complexity: Recent Scandinavian Novels and Short

Stories

Presentation 1: Monika Zagar (University of Minnesota), “Immigrant Strategies between Bosnia

and Norway in Bekim Sejranović's novel, Ljepši kraj (2011, Zagreb)”

Presentation 2: Poul Houe (University of Minnesota), “BaviMan, ApeMan, and Human

Borderlines”

Presentation 3: Asa Nilsson Skave (Linnaeus University), “Mythology, Nature, and Horror in

Klas Östergrens’s Orkanpartyt (2007)”

Presentation 4: Suvi Lahtonen (University of Turku), “Renewing the Genre of the Finnish War

Novel: Ulla-Lena Lundberg’s The Marzipan Soldier”



PANEL E28

Panel Title: Millennium: Trends in Recent Danish Literature: Roundtable Sponsored by DANA

Presentation 1: Marianne T. Stecher (University of Washington, Seattle)

Presentation 2: Mads Bunch (University of Copenhagen)

Presentation 3: Karen Sanders (UC Berkeley)

Presentation 4: Poul Behrendt (University of Copenhagen)

Chair/Respondent: Claus Elholm Andersen (University of Helsinki)



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PANEL E29

Panel Title: An American Writer Considers Lithuania

Presentation: Wendell Mayo (Bowling Green State University), “A Reading from The Cucumber

King of Kėdainiai: Fictions”

Respondent: Daiva Markelis (Eastern Illinois University), “Lost Boys and Cucumber Kings: The

Post-Soviet Male in the Fiction of Wendell Mayo”

Session Time: Session 5: Friday 3:30-4:30


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F.

The Arts:

Art and Art History, Film, Music, and

Media Studies


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PANEL F1

Panel Title: Late 19th

-Century Scandinavian Painting

Presentation 1: Oystein Sjaastad (University of Oslo), “Christian Krohg in Skagen, Painting

According to Taine”

Presentation 2: Nicholas Parkinson (Stony Brook University), “L’Art: Septentrional:

Nationalism, Naturalism and the Critical Reception of Nordic Art in France”

Presentation 3: Kitty Corbet Milward (Edinburgh University), “Norway’s National or Natural

Woman, Kitty Kielland and the Fleskum Summer of 1886”

Presentation 4: Juliana Madrone (University of Colorado), “Utile Dulci: A Swedish Identity in

Music and Art”



PANEL F2

Panel Title: Art and Design in Denmark

Presentation 1: Leslie Anne Anderson-Perkins (City University of New York), “The Relationship

between Art and Science Re-examined in the Pendants of Christian August Lorentzen”

Presentation 2: Julie K. Allen (University of Wisconsin Madison), “Reclaiming the Place

Denmark Died: Psychogeographic Representations of Dybbol after 1864”

Presentation 3: Jens Tang Kristensen (University of Copenhagen), “Herning Avant Gardism”

Presentation 4: Thor J. Mednick (University of Toledo), “People Matter: Vilhelm Hammershoi’s

Legacy in Danish Minimalism”


Session Time: Session 1: Thursday 1:00-2:30

PANEL F3

Panel Title: Finnish Identity and the Visual Image

Presentation 1: Mari Hatavara (University of Tampere), “Recording Everyday Finnishness:

Voices and Images in the Web Exhibition ‘A Finnish Winter Day’”


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Presentation 2: Mirja Kokko (University of Tampere), “Private Experience and Shared

Experientiality in Finnish Problem-Oriented Picture Books”

Presentation 3: Maria Laakso (University of Tampere), “(Re)writing National Identity in Mauri

Kunnas’s Picturebooks “

Respondent/Chair: Carl Rahkonen (Indiana University of Pennsylvania)


PANEL F4

Panel Title: Danish Images of Intimacy: Aesthetic Perspectives

Presentation 1: Malene Breunig (University of Southern Denmark), “Framing the Modern

Interior: Rejecting Bourgeois Intimacy and Private References in Images of Design”

Presentation 2: Gunder Hansen (University of Southern Denmark), “The Quest for Love,

Intimacy and a Sense of Home in Helle Helle’s Debut Novel Hus og hjem (1999)”

Presentation 3: Lars Handesten (University of Southern Denmark), “What’s Wrong with

Intimacy?”

Presentation 4: John Helt Haarder (University of Southern Denmark), “A Museum of Intimacy”

Respondent/Chair: Malene Breunig (University of Southern Denmark)


PANEL F5

Panel Title: Scandinavian and Baltic Sculpture

Presentation 1: Cynthia Osiecki (Ernst Moritz Arndt University), “Willem Boy: A Sculptor or an

Art Agent? The Swedish Court and Netherlandish Sculpture”

Presentation 2: Alexandra Fried (Gothenburg University), “The Bunge Master and the Hanseatic

Connection”

Presentation 3: Sara Ayres (Kingston University), “Ivor Roberts-Jones’ Churchill, Oslo - AK

Dolven’s Untuned Bell, Ekenas: Dematerialization of the Public Memorial”

Presentation 4: Agita Misane (University of Latvia), “Namej’s Ring: Invention of a Tradition”




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PANEL F6

Panel Title: Architecture and Design in the Baltic and Scandinavia

Presentation 1: Anna Romanovska (University of Toronto), “A Subdued Palette: Using the

Colour Spectrum and Illustrations to Revive Memories of Life in Soviet Latvia”

Presentation 2: Mark Jones (University of New South Wales), “Homogenizing Discourses: 20th

Century Constructions of Swedish and Scandinavian Design Identity”

Presentation 3: Mark Allen Svede (Ohio State University), “It’s Entropy When You Lie Next To

Me: Andris Vitolins Paints Desire and Decay”

Presentation 4: Presentation 3: Zivile Gimbutas (independent), “Aesthetics of Space in Selected

Lithuanian Literature and Painting”


Session Time: Session 7: Saturday 10:15-11:45

PANEL F7

Panel Title: Contemporary Nordic and Baltic Artists Address History

Presentation 1: Katrin Kivimaa (Estonian Academy of Arts), “History and Women’s Work in

Estonian Feminist Art”

Presentation 2: Alise Tifentale (CUNY, The Graduate Center), “Our Muddy Boots on Their

Marble Floor: Identity and Self-Fashioning in Latvian Contemporary Art”

Presentation 3: Ilona Hongisto (Concordia University), “Enacting the Past, Fabulating the

Future: Speech Acts in North Eastern European Documentary Cinema”

Presentation 4: Sigrid Lien (University of Bergen), “‘We Only Have These Marks in the

Landscape:’ The Poetics and Politics of Contemporary Landscape Photography in Sámi Nation

Building”

Respondent/Chair: Paul Wilson (Ithaca College) and Leena-Maija Rossi (Finnish Cultural

Institute in New York)


PANEL F8

Panel Title: Photography Studies


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Presentation 1: Baiba Tetere (Ernst Moritz Arndt University), “Latvian Types: Hybridized

Visions of Latvian Peasants in the Late Nineteenth Century”

Presentation 2: Anna Estera Mrozewicz (Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznań), “Forgetting,

Repetition and the Eastern European Grid: Krass Clement’s Photo Book Venten pa i gar”

Presentation 3: Unni Langas (University of Agder), “Traumatic Memory and the Photographic

Image”



PANEL F9

Panel Title: Scandinavian Film Studies I

Presentation 1: Angela Tumini (Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy), “Sisterly Love: Frustration

and Non-Communication in Ingmar Bergman’s The Silence and Lars von Trier’s Melancholia”

Presentation 2: Arne Lunde (UCLA), “Bohemian in the Frame: Ingmar Bergman’s Cameo

Appearances in His Early Films”

Presentation 3: Petur Valsson (University of Washington), “Cinematic Alzheimer’s: Reflections

on Icelandic Film History through The Girl Gogo and Mamma Gogo”

Presentation 4: Linda Badley (Middle Tennessee State University), “Melancholia’s Tjolöholm

and the Transnational/Postmodern Sublime”



PANEL F10

Panel Title: Scandinavian Film Studies II

Presentation 1: Adriana Margareta Dancus (University of Agder, Kristiansand), “Cityscapes and

National Moods. A Case Study: Oslo in Oslo, 31. August (Joachim Trier, 2011)”

Presentation 2: Amanda Doxtater (University of Oregon), “The Cruel Optimism of Ruben

Östlund’s film, Play (2011)”

Presentation 3: Jorgen Bruhn (Linnæus University), “Novel into Audiobook – on Film”


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Presentation 4: Luis Rocha Antunes (University of Kent), “Thematic Segmentation and Acting

Style in Reisen til Julestjernen/Journey to the Christmas Star (1976)”



PANEL F11

Panel Title: Drama, Theater, and Film as Politics

Presentation 1: Jeff Sundquist (UCLA), “Gone with the Wind: Jon Fosse and English-Language

Theatrical Reception”

Presentation 2: Ludvika Popenhagen (California State University Channel Islands), “The French-

Lithuanian Connection: Theatre and Performance in the 1930s”

Presentation 3: Martynas Petrikas (Vytautas Magnus University), “National Theatre: An

Institutionalized Compromise?”

Presentation 4: Eva Naripea (Estonian Academy of Arts), “Filming Across the Baltic Sea:

Cinematic Exchanges between Estonia and Scandinavia”



PANEL F12

Panel Title: Echoes of the Iron Curtain: Expressions of Political Tension in

Film, Festival, and Theater

Presentation 1: Jurgita Staniskyte (Vytautas Magnus University), “Reflection, Intervention or

Investigation: Performing Politics on Contemporary Baltic Stage”

Presentation 2: Lukas Aubin (French Institute of Geopolitics), “Russian Elites in Jurmala:

Between Territorial Appropriation and Cultural Domination”

Presentation 3: Eneken Laanes (University of Tartu), “World War II and Stalinist Crimes in

Post-Soviet Literature and Film: Memory, Multidirectionality, Migration”

Presentation 4: Edgaras Klivis (Vytautas Magnus University), “Representing Totalitarian Past:

the Politics of Memory in the Survival Drama 1984”


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PANEL F13

Panel Title: Media, Ritual, and National Self-Fashioning in the Late 20th

Century

Presentation 1: Marlene Hastenplug (University of Frankfurt), “‘Vi Danskere;’ Self-Image in

Danish Television News”

Presentation 2: Ulf Jonas Bjork (Indiana University Indianapolis), “An American Plastic

Holiday: The Swedish Press and the Rise and Fall of Halloween, 1995-2011”

Presentation 3: May-Brith Ohman Nielsen (Agder University), “Small Paradises: Changing

Ideals of Beauty and Use in Norwegian Family Gardening”

Presentation 4: Denise Thorpe (Duke University), “Cemeteries and Hybridity: The Dihliz-ian

Spaces of Vėlinės”



PANEL F14

Panel Title: Music and Nationalism in the Postwar Era

Presentation 1: Carl Rahkonen (Indiana University of Pennsylvania), “Finnish-American

Composer Martti Nisonen and World War II”

Presentation 2: Marie-Louise Roden (Kristianstad University), “Set Svanholm: An Ambassador

of Nordic Culture in Postwar America”

Presentation 3: Lauren Holmes Frankel (Yale University), “The Long Road to Töölönlahti:

Finnish Nationalism and the Rise of Finnish Opera”

Presentation 4: Sandra Ballif Straubhaar (UT Austin), “Horror Vacui: A Bouquet of Postmodern

Attempts at ‘Viking Music’”


Session Time: Session 1: Thursday 1:00-2:30


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PANEL F15

Panel Title: Singing Baltic Identities, Past and Present I

Presentation 1: Anda Lake (Latvian Academy of Culture) and Agnese Hermane (Latvian

Academy of Culture), “Social Impact of Baltic Song and Dance Celebration”

Presentation 2: Johann Jacob van Niekerk (University of Washington), “Back to the Future:

Development, Trends, and Directions in Baltic Choral Music”

Presentation 3: Aine Ramonaite (Vilnius University), “Why Was the Singing of Folk Songs an

anti-Soviet Activity? Exploring the Ethno-Cultural Movement in Soviet Lithuania”

Chair/Respondent: Guntis Smidchens (University of Washington)


PANEL F16

Panel Title: Singing Baltic Identities, Past and Present II

Presentation 1: Marju Lauristin (University of Tartu) and Peeter Vihalemm (University of Tartu),

“Questioning the Future of the Estonian Song- and Dance Fest Tradition”

Presentation 2: Feruza Aripova (Northeastern University), “Estonia’s Singing Tradition: Cultural

Identity and Political Mobilization”

Presentation 3: Joseph M. Ellis (Wingate University) and Keeley Wood (Wingate University),

“Choral Music as Organized Protest: Estonia’s Singing Revolution”

Chair/Respondent: Guntis Smidchens (University of Washington)


PANEL F17

Panel Title: Singing Baltic Identities, Past and Present III:

Roundtable: Looking Back at the Singing Revolution of 1988-1991

Presentation 1: Janis Chakars (Gwynedd-Mercy College)

Presentation 2: Bradley Woodworth (University of New Haven)

Presentation 3: Guntis Smidchens (University of Washington)

Chair: Mara I. Lazda (Bronx Community College, CUNY)


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Respondent: Toivo U. Raun (Indiana University)



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G.

Poster Presentations


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POSTER PRESENTATION 1:

Presenters: Sarah Ljungquist (University of Gävle) and Kristiina Tedremaa-Levorato (Tallinn

University), “One Step toward Sweden: The Development of Educational Material in Swedish as

A Foreign Language”


Presenter: Loraine Jensen (American Association for Runic Studies), “The Challenges of Runic

Studies in America”


Presenter: Dalia Senvaityte (Vytautas Magnus University), “Gender and Annual Celebrations:

The Case of Lithuania”

Does our gender impact our favorite annual holidays? Does it influence the ways we

explain these options? How it relates to specific rituals of our annual celebrations? How

these rituals correlate with our gender during our life span? Could we find some changes

re the relations through generations? Research on these and connected issues based on

new ethnographic material collected in Lithuania intended to be presented.


Presenter: Gita Silina (Vytautas Magnus University), “Latvian Legionnaire in Post-war Latvia: A

Collective Biography”

Other presenters: Vita Zelce, Uldis Neiburgs, Kaspars Zellis, Laura Ardava, Didzis Berzins,

Kristiana Kirsa, Gita Silina


Presenter: Emily Daina Saras (Northeastern University), “Enchanted Folk Music and the

Development of Cultural Capital: Lithuania’s Millennial National Brand”

All: Session 4—1:45-3:15 and Session 5—3:30-4:30

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