Calendar: Fall Semester, 2007

September 2007
  • Wed., Sep. 5
Fall classes begin
  • Mon. Sep. 10

Norwegian Conversation Table (6-7 pm Black Ballroom)

Nordic Jam Music Evening, (7:30 pm, Contented Cow)
  • Sun. Sep. 16

Norwegian House Ice Cream Social. Swanson House 1108 W. 1st St. 3-5 pm
  • Mon. Sep. 17

Norwegian Conversation Table (6-7 pm Black Ballroom)

Nordic Jam Music Evening, (7:30 pm, Contented Cow)
  • Wed. Sep. 19
Homework Help. 8:00-9:00 PM. Every Sunday evening in the Norwegian House (Swanson House 1108 W. 1st St.) and Wednesday evening in the WLC, level 1 Rolvaag Library.
  • Sun. Sep. 23

Faculty/Guest Recital
Andrea Een, Hardanger Fiddle
Ruth Sylte and Mikkel Thompson, Norwegian Folkdancers
Urness Recital Hall, 3:15 pm

Homework Help. 8:00-9:00 PM. Every Sunday evening in the Norwegian House (Swanson House 1108 W. 1st St.) and Wednesday evening in the WLC, level 1 Rolvaag Library.

  • Mon. Sep. 24

Norwegian Conversation Table (6-7 pm Black Ballroom)

Olelaget singing group. 7 pm Black Ballroom. Come make music--sing, play guitar, kazoo, fiddle, whatever!

Nordic Jam Music Evening, 7:00 pm, Eagles Club, 304 Water Street South.

  • Wed. Sept. 26
Homework Help. 8:00-9:00 PM. Every Sunday evening in the Norwegian House (Swanson House 1108 W. 1st St.) and Wednesday evening in the WLC, level 1 Rolvaag Library.
  • Friday Sept. 28
Reading:, Per Petterson, author of Out Stealing Horses. 4-5 pm Viking Theater. (There will also be a reading and short reception at the Minneapolis Public Library on THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 at.
7:00 PM) More on Per Petterson
  • Sunday Sept. 30
Homework Help. 8:00-9:00 PM. Every Sunday evening in the Norwegian House (Swanson House 1108 W. 1st St.) and Wednesday evening in Buntrock 221.
  • Sept. 28-Oct. 1
 2007 NORDIC ROOTS FESTIVAL
Cedar Cultural Center, 416 Cedar Ave. S. Minneapolis, MN
For more information and tickets, go to www.nordicroots.org

October 2007
  • Mon. Oct. 1

Norwegian Conversation Table (6-7 pm, Black Ballroom)

Concert: Sinikka Langeland. 7 pm The Pause
  • Tues. Oct. 2
Film series. Uno. 7 pm Old Main 15.
  • Wed. Oct. 3

Homework Help. 8:00-9:00 PM. Every Sunday evening in the Norwegian House (Swanson House 1108 W. 1st St.) and Wednesday evening in the WLC, level 1 Rolvaag Library.

  • Thurs. Oct. 4

"Oslo, Norway and Gender Issues." Illustrated talk by Bruce Nordstrom-Loeb, Soc/Anthro Professor. 11:30-12:30 (Community Time) Holland Hall 317.

  • Sun. Oct. 7

Homework Help. 8:00-9:00 PM. Every Sunday evening in the Norwegian House (Swanson House 1108 W. 1st St.) and Wednesday evening in the WLC, level 1 Rolvaag Library.

  • Mon. Oct. 8:

Norwegian Conversation Table (6-7 pm, Black Ballroom)

Nordic Jam Music Evening, 7:00 pm, Eagles Club, 304 Water Street South.

  • Wed. Oct. 10

Author and noted science writer Nancy Marie Brown will discuss her new book “The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman” at the University of Minnesota Bookstore at 7:00 p.m. 300 Washington Ave. S.E. Minneapolis.
Contact: Kari Erpenbach, University of Minnesota Bookstore (612) 625-6564, kari@umn.edu

Homework Help. 8:00-9:00 PM. Every Sunday evening in the Norwegian House (Swanson House 1108 W. 1st St.) and Wednesday evening in the WLC, level 1 Rolvaag Library.

  • Oct. 13-16
 Fall Break
  • Mon. Oct. 15

Nordic Jam Music Evening, 7:00 pm, Eagles Club, 304 Water Street South.

  • Wed. Oct. 17
Homework Help. 8:00-9:00 PM. Every Sunday evening in the Norwegian House (Swanson House 1108 W. 1st St.) and Wednesday evening in the WLC, level 1 Rolvaag Library.
  • Sun. Oct. 21

Homework Help. 8:00-9:00 PM. Every Sunday evening in the Norwegian House (Swanson House 1108 W. 1st St.) and Wednesday evening in the WLC, level 1 Rolvaag Library.

  • Mon. Oct. 22

Norwegian Conversation Table (6-7 pm, Black Ballroom)

Frederick Gaylord Grose Lecture in Norwegian Studies. Ingeborg Kongslien: "Literary Voices of the Immigrant Experience: Scandinavian-American and Contemporary Nordic Perspectives" 7-8 pm Viking Theater.

Nordic Jam Music Evening, 7:00 pm, Eagles Club, 304 Water Street South.

  • Wed. Oct. 24
 Homework Help. 8:00-9:00 PM. Every Sunday evening in the Norwegian House (Swanson House 1108 W. 1st St.) and Wednesday evening in the WLC, level 1 Rolvaag Library.
  • Sat. Oct. 27
Concert: The Merchant Male Choir of Arendal Norway will give a concert of Norwegian Romantic (Edvard Grieg) Swedish, Irish, American and English Ballads/choir works 7:30 PM at
St John's Lutheran Church 500 3rd St. W.
Free Admission, free will offering
  • Sun. Oct. 28
 Homework Help. 8:00-9:00 PM. Every Sunday evening in the Norwegian House (Swanson House 1108 W. 1st St.) and Wednesday evening in the WLC, level 1 Rolvaag Library.
  • Mon. Oct. 29

Norwegian Conversation Table (6-7 pm, Black Ballroom)

Olelaget singing group. 7 pm Black Ballroom. Come make music--sing, play guitar, kazoo, fiddle, whatever!

Nordic Jam Music Evening, 7:00 pm, Eagles Club, 304 Water Street South.

  • Tues. Oct. 30

The Carleton Music Department will sponsor a guest lecture, "The Song
of the Saami: The Music of Armas Launis" presented by Erkki Pekkilä,
Professor of Ethnomusicology, from the University of Helsinki, Finland,
on Tuesday, October 30 during common time (11:55-1:15). The lecture will be held in the Music Hall Room 103.

Professor Pekkilä's talk will engage the music of the little-known
Finnish composer Armas Launis, and his music that is based on folk
music of the indigenous Finnish people, the Saami. Specifically,
Professor Pekkilä will discuss Launis's opera Aslak Hetta (1930), and
music to the early documentary film, A Wedding in the Karelian
Songlands (1921).

Everyone is invited to this event.
  • Wed. Oct. 31
Homework Help. 8:00-9:00 PM. Every Sunday evening in the Norwegian House (Swanson House 1108 W. 1st St.) and Wednesday evening in the WLC, level 1 Rolvaag Library.

November 2007
  • Thurs. Nov. 1

Film Series. Fritt vilt . 7:30-9:30 pm Old Main 15.

  • Sun. Nov. 4

Homework Help. 8:00-9:00 PM. Every Sunday evening in the Norwegian House (Swanson House 1108 W. 1st St.) and Wednesday evening in the WLC, level 1 Rolvaag Library.

  • Mon. Nov. 5

Norwegian Conversation Table (6-7 pm, Gold Ballroom)

Norwegian Presentation: Study in Norway (7-8 pm. Gold Ballroom)
Presented by students in the Norwegian House

Nordic Jam Music Evening, 7:00 pm, Eagles Club, 304 Water Street South.

  • Tues. Nov. 6
2nd Julia Watkin Memorial Kierkegaard Lecture
Speaker: C. Stephen Evans, University Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Baylor University
Title: "Kierkegaard: Father of Existentialism or Critic of Existentialism?"
7:15 PM. Trollhaugen/Kings Room, Buntrock Commons
  • Wed. Nov. 7
Homework Help. 8:00-9:00 PM. Every Sunday evening in the Norwegian House (Swanson House 1108 W. 1st St.) and Wednesday evening in the WLC, level 1 Rolvaag Library.
  • Sun. Nov. 11

Kebabkveld (Kebab Evening). 7-9 pm. Norwegian House
(Swanson House 1108 W. 1st St.)
Come and learn to make kebabs with the students in the House.

Homework Help. 8:00-9:00 PM. Every Sunday evening in the Norwegian House (Swanson House 1108 W. 1st St.) and Wednesday evening in the WLC, level 1 Rolvaag Library.

  • Mon., Nov. 12

Norwegian Conversation Table (6-7 pm Trollhaugen Room)

Norwegian Christmas Choir rehearsal (at conversation table).

Nordic Jam Music Evening, 7:00 pm, Eagles Club, 304 Water Street South.

  • Wed. Nov. 16
 Homework Help. 8:00-9:00 PM. Every Sunday evening in the Norwegian House (Swanson House 1108 W. 1st St.) and Wednesday evening in the WLC, level 1 Rolvaag Library.
  • Sun. Nov. 18

Homework Help. 8:00-9:00 PM. Every Sunday evening in the Norwegian House (Swanson House 1108 W. 1st St.) and Wednesday evening in the WLC, level 1 Rolvaag Library.

  • Mon. Nov. 19

Nordic Jam Music Evening, 7:00 pm, Eagles Club, 304 Water Street South.

  • Nov. 21-25
 Thanksgiving break
  • Mon. Nov. 26

Christmas Choir Rehearsal / Olelaget 7:00-8:00 pm. Christiansen Hall of Music 232

Nordic Jam Music Evening, 7:00 pm, Eagles Club, 304 Water Street South.

  • Wed. Nov. 28

Filmkveld: Shrek. Old Main 15. 7:30 pm. Norwegian with English subtitles.

Homework Help. 8:00-9:00 PM. Every Sunday evening in the Norwegian House (Swanson House 1108 W. 1st St.) and Wednesday evening in the WLC, level 1 Rolvaag Library.

December 2007
  • Nov. 29-Dec. 2
Christmas Festival
  • Sun. Dec. 2

Homework Help. 8:00-9:00 PM. Every Sunday evening in the Norwegian House (Swanson House 1108 W. 1st St.) and Wednesday evening in the WLC, level 1 Rolvaag Library.

  • Mon. Dec. 3

Norwegian Conversation Table (6-7 pm Black Ballroom) Christmas Singing Rehearsal (at Conversation Table), 6:30-7:00 pm.

Nordic Jam Music Evening, 7:00 pm, Eagles Club, 304 Water Street South.

  • Tues. Dec. 4
Norwegian Christmas Chapel. 11:10 am Boe Chapel
  • Wed. Dec. 5
Homework Help. 8:00-9:00 PM. Every Sunday evening in the Norwegian House (Swanson House 1108 W. 1st St.) and Wednesday evening in the WLC, level 1 Rolvaag Library.
  • Fri-Sat., December 7-8
 Symposium: "Kierkegaard and Death" Buntrock Commons and Kierkegaard Library www.home.vicnet.net.au/~kierk/deathsymposium/
  • Sun. Dec. 9
Julefest. Norskhuset. 7-9 pm Norwegian House (Swanson House 1108 W. 1st St.)
  • Mon. Dec. 10

Norwegian Conversation Table (6-7 pm Black Ballroom)

Nordic Jam Music Evening, 7:00 pm, Eagles Club, 304 Water Street South.

Filmkveld: Himmelfall. 7:30 pm Viking Theater.
Reidar is a resident at Solihøgda psychiatric institution. He is expecting the Earth to be hit by a huge meteor any time now, but until then he is busy trying to keep his fellow patient, Juni, from killing herself. And it doesn't happen often. But maybe one is allowed to hope. That when the quarks in the ball are correctly aligned with the quarks in the wall that you throw it at, there won't be a collision. But a moment of harmony when everything is balanced. And that moment could be now.

  • Tues. Dec. 11

Last Day of Class
  • Dec. 13-18
 Final Exams