Calendar: Fall Semester, 2012

September 2012

• Thurs., Sept. 5

• Mon. Sept. 10

Norwegian Conversation Table (6-7 pm Black Ballroom)

• Tues. Sept. 11

• Wed. Sept. 12

• Thurs. Sept. 13

• Sat. Sept. 15

• Sun. Sept. 16

Homework Help. 4-6p.m. WLC Resource Room. Level I Tomson Hall.

• Mon. Sept. 17

Norwegian Conversation Table (6-7 pm Black Ballroom)

Reading and book signing: Karl Ove Knausgaard. 7 pm Trollhaugen Room.
Novelest and essayist Karl Ove Knausgaard was born in Norway in 1968. His debut novel Out of This World won the Norwegian Critics Prize in 2004 and his A Time for Everything (Archipelago) was a finalist for the Nordic Council Prize. For My Struggle, Knausgaard received the Brage Award in 2009 (for Book One), the 2010 Book of the Year Prize in Morgenbladet, and the P2 Listeners' Prize. My Struggle has been translated into more than fifteen languages. Kansugaard lives in Sweden with his wife and three children.

Review by James Wood in The New Yorker.

• Tues. Sept. 18

Homework Help. 7-9 p.m. WLC Resource Room.

Concert: Dr. Michael Jorgensen, Professor of Music at Gustavus Adolphus College, and his wife, Bonnie Jorgensen. This hour-long program presents the life and music of the first-generation Norwegian-American woman composer Theodora Cormontan (1840-1922). Cormontan immigrated to the United States in 1887 and lived in south-central Minnesota until 1917, when her sister Eivinda and she moved to the Aase Haugen Home near Decorah, Iowa, where she resided until her death in 1922. 7 pm Urnes Recital Hall.

• Thurs. Sept. 20

• Sun. Sept. 23

Homework Help. 4-6 p.m. WLC Resource Room. Level I Tomson Hall.

Episode 1 of Lilyhammer. A New York mobster goes into hiding in rural Lillehammer, Norway, after testifying against his former associates. Join us as we follow this mobster's charming, chilly adventure avoiding his Family. Tomson Hall 280. 8 pm

• Mon. Sept. 24

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

Kulturtema: Fairy tales!

• Tues. Sept. 25

• Thurs. Sept. 27

Homework Help. 9-11 p.m. WLC Resource Room.

• Sun. Sept. 30

Homework Help. 4-6 p.m. WLC Resource Room. Level I Tomson Hall.

Episode 2 of Lilyhammer. A New York mobster goes into hiding in rural Lillehammer, Norway, after testifying against his former associates. Join us as we follow this mobster's charming, chilly adventure avoiding his Family. Tomson Hall 280. 8 pm

October 2012

• Mon. Oct. 1

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

Concert: Fiddle and piano. Haldis and Åslaug Hegstad. Valhalla Room. 7 pm.

• Tues. Oct. 2

Homework Help. 7-9 p.m. WLC Resource Room.

• Thurs. Oct. 4

• Sun. Oct. 7

Homework Help. 4-6 p.m. WLC Resource Room. Level I Tomson Hall.

Episode 3 of Lilyhammer. A New York mobster goes into hiding in rural Lillehammer, Norway, after testifying against his former associates. Join us as we follow this mobster's charming, chilly adventure avoiding his Family. Tomson Hall 280. 8 pm

• Mon. Oct. 8

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

• Wed. Oct. 10

"Health For All: Healthcare the Norwegian Way." Lecture by visiting Norwegian physician, Ivar Halvorsen, Norwegian General Physician and Public Health Officer."The Norwegian healthcare system is affordable, efficient, and well-performing. It is based on equity and solidarity but is not without its pitfalls and worries. " Tomson Hall 280. 7 pm

• Thurs. Oct. 11

Lecture: "A Voyage Around the North Pole: Modern Exploration and Climate Change" by Norwegian marine explorer Thorleif Thorleifsson. It is free and open to the public, and will also be streamed and archived online.

In 2010 Thorleifsson and fellow explorer Børge Ousland became the first to sail around the North Pole in a single short season. Their voyage — which took them through the Northern Sea Route in Russia, the Northwest Passage in Canada, and across the North Atlantic — covered 10,000 nautical miles in a record-breaking 80 days. In his lecture, Thorleifsson will discuss his unprecedented voyage, the tremendous challenges encountered along the way, and the history of Norwegian Arctic exploration and the explorers of the past. He will also describe the effects of climate change that he witnessed in the Arctic. His talk will end with a question-and-answer session. Coffee and refreshments with Thorleifsson following the lecture. Thorleifsson will be introduced by Mari Sæther, an environmental counselor at the Norwegian Embassy in Washington, D.C. She has worked in the environmental field for more than 20 years and will speak briefly on climate change and the Arctic. 7 p.m. in Regents Hall 150.

• Oct. 13-16

• Thurs. Oct. 18

Homework Help. 9-11 p.m. WLC Resource Room.

• Sun. Oct. 21

Homework Help. 4-6 p.m. WLC Resource Room. Level I Tomson Hall.

Episode 4 of Lilyhammer. A New York mobster goes into hiding in rural Lillehammer, Norway, after testifying against his former associates. Join us as we follow this mobster's charming, chilly adventure avoiding his Family. Tomson Hall 280. 8 pm

• Mon. Oct. 22

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

Culture Table: Norwegian Politics (Pål Mori)

• Tues. Oct. 23

• Thurs. Oct. 25

4-5 pm Lecture: Jacob Buksti, former member of the Danish Parliament and professor of Political Science for the Danish International Study Program: "The European Union: An Unidentified Political Object." What is the EU? What has been the impact of the present Euro crisis to the European integration? What will be the future of the EU? 4 pm Tomson 310

7 pm Lecture by Dr. Claire Kramsch, Professor of German and Education, UC Berkeley. Viking Theater.

Homework Help. 9-11 p.m. WLC Resource Room.

• Fri. Oct. 26

• Sun. Oct. 28

Homework Help. 4-6 p.m. WLC Resource Room. Level I Tomson Hall.

Episode 5 of Lilyhammer. A New York mobster goes into hiding in rural Lillehammer, Norway, after testifying against his former associates. Join us as we follow this mobster's charming, chilly adventure avoiding his Family. Tomson Hall 280. 8 pm

• Mon. Oct. 29

Norwegian Conversation Table (6-7 pm, Valhalla Room)

7 pm Jo Nesbø reading. Nesbø will read from Phantom, his latest Harry Hole thriller, at St. Anthony Park Lutheran Church, 2323 Como Ave. Nesbo is the author of more than a dozen novels, including The Snowman and The Leopard. Detective Harry Hole, one of his most popular characters, is an Oslo detective with a drinking problem who fights not just criminals, but his own personal demons. Writeup in Star Tribune.

• Tues. Oct. 30

November 2012

• Thurs. Nov. 1

Homework Help. 9-11 p.m. WLC Resource Room.

• Sun. Nov. 4

Homework Help. 4-6 p.m. WLC Resource Room. Level I Tomson Hall.

Episode 6 of Lilyhammer. A New York mobster goes into hiding in rural Lillehammer, Norway, after testifying against his former associates. Join us as we follow this mobster's charming, chilly adventure avoiding his Family. Tomson Hall 280. 8 pm

• Mon. Nov. 5

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

6 pm Lecture: Irene Levin Berman Gives a lecture on her book: "We Are Going to Pick Potatoes: Norway and the Holocaust, The Untold Story" Monday November 5th 2012 - 6pm The Larson Room, American Swedish Institute, 2600 Park Ave Minneapolis, MN 55407 Light refreshments RSVP by Nov1st : hcg.minneapolis@mfa.no or 612-332-3338

• Tues. Nov. 6

• Wed. Nov. 7

• Thurs. Nov. 8

Homework Help. 9-11 p.m. WLC Resource Room.

• Sun. Nov. 11

Homework Help. 4-6 p.m. WLC Resource Room. Level I Tomson Hall.

Episode 7 of Lilyhammer. A New York mobster goes into hiding in rural Lillehammer, Norway, after testifying against his former associates. Join us as we follow this mobster's charming, chilly adventure avoiding his Family. Tomson Hall 280. 8 pm

• Mon. Nov. 12

Norwegian Conversation Table (6-7 pm Black Ballroom)

Culture Table: Folk High Schools in Norway

• Tues. Nov. 13

• Wed. Nov. 14

• Thurs. Nov. 15

• Sun. Nov. 18

Homework Help. 4-6 p.m. WLC Resource Room. Level I Tomson Hall.

Episode 8 of Lilyhammer. A New York mobster goes into hiding in rural Lillehammer, Norway, after testifying against his former associates. Join us as we follow this mobster's charming, chilly adventure avoiding his Family. Tomson Hall 280. 8 pm

• Mon. Nov. 19

No Conversation Table

• Nov. 21-25

• Mon. Nov. 26

Norwegian Conversation Table (6-7 pm Black Ballroom)
Christmas Singing Rehearsal (at Conversation Table), 6:45-7:30 pm.

• Tues. Nov. 27

Homework Help. 7-9 p.m. WLC Resource Room.

• Wed. Nov. 28

• Thurs. Nov. 29

December 2012

• Sun. Dec. 2

• Mon. Dec. 3

Norwegian Conversation Table (6-7 pm Black Ballroom)
Culture Table:
Norwegian Christmas Choir Rehearsal (8:00-8:45 pm in Boe Chapel).

• Tues Dec. 4

• Thurs. Dec. 5

• Wed. Dec. 12

• Dec. 13-18