Symposium: Magic, Creatures and Legends - A Journey into Nordic Folklore includes Essential and Optional Magic in Finnish Daily Life: The Logic of Spells and Incantations in the Era before Magic Denial by Prof. Thomas DuBois, Halls-Bascom Professor of Scandinavian Studies and Folklore of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a past FFN Lecturer of […]
Soile Anderson and Eleanor Ostman will demonstrate making the popular Finnish Celebration Cake in their FFN Lecturer of the Year program as part of the Cook & Eat series.
Past FFN Lecturer of the Year Thomas Dubois presents Songs of the Finnish Migration, and guitarist Jimmy Traskelin sings and performs songs from Lahtolaulu.
Lecturer of the Year Suzanne Matson, and author and poet, will talk about her work and conduct a writing workshop. Time and other details to come.
FFN Lecturer of the Year Suzanne Matson will talk about her writing, and tapping her family and personal history in her works.
Meet the author and FFN Lecturer of the Year, who will read from her book, talk about the process of researching and writing "The End of Drum-Time" and sign books. […]