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Vigdis Ystad's lecture: "Ibsen on the World's Stage"
Video of Lecture (made available under a Creative Commons license)
"Ibsen on the World's Stage" by Vigdis Ystad and German & Scandinavian Studies, UMass Amherst is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.Selected Texts by Dr. Ystad
Biographical Information, Henrik Ibsen
"The Dramatist: Henrik Ibsen" by Bjorn Hemmer (University of Oslo)
Ibsen Online Resources
Centre for Ibsen Studies, University of Oslo (Norwegian) (English)
Searchable Database of Ibsen's Plays in Norwegian
Ibsen's Letters, Speeches, and Articles (Norwegian)
Ibsen's Manuscripts in Facsimile (ca. 19,600 pages)
International Ibsen Bibliography
Current Ibsen Drama Productions Worldwide
Ibsen Studies (international scholarly journal dedicated to Henrik Ibsen)
Web Resources for the Study of Ibsen (from the Centre for Ibsen Studies)
The Kautokeino Rebellion and the Sámi people'
Video of Presentations by Kathleen Osgood Dana and Richard Jones-Bamman (made available under a Creative Commons license)
"The Kautokeino Rebellion" by Kathleen Osgood Dana, Richard Jones-Bamman, and German & Scandinavian Studies, UMass Amherst is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.Assorted Resources
Film trailer for The Kautokeino Rebellion
Detailed production information for The Kautokeino Rebellion
Short article on the making of The Kautokeino Rebellion
Documentary film on “Yoik” (traditional Sámi vocal music)
Centre for Saami Studies, University of Trømso, Norway
Sámi University College in Kautokeino/Guovdageaidnu
Sámi musician Mari Boine (who contributed to the soundtrack of “The Kautokeino Rebellion”)
Louise Wallenberg's Lecture: "Male Elegance and the Vestimentary System: On Belonging and Exclusion"
Video of Lecture (made available under a Creative Commons License)
"Male Elegance and the Vestimentary System: On Belonging and Exclusion" by Louise Wallenberg and German & Scandinavian Studies, UMass Amherst is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.Assorted Resources
Swedish Film Institute (founded by Harry Schein) (English)
Brief History of the Swedish Film Institute
Schein Obituary by the Ingmar Bergman Foundation
Guardian Newspaper Obituary for Actress Ingrid Thulin, Wife of Harry Schein
Jytte Klausen: "The Cartoons That Shook the World"
Audio of Lecture (made available under a Creative Commons license)
"The Danish Cartoons and Muslim-West Relations" by Jytte Klausen and German & Scandinavian Studies, UMass Amherst is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.Klausen's book The Cartoons That Shook the World and the surrounding discussion/controversy
The Cartoons That Shook the World
New York Times Article on the Yale University Press Decision
Interview with Professor Jytte Klausen in Brandeis Now (2009)
Audio Interview with Jytte Klausen About the Cartoon Controversy on the Program “Electric Politics”
“Free Speech at Risk” website by Professor Gary Hull (Duke University)
Selected Viewpoints, Analyses, and Background for the Cartoon Controversy and its Aftermath
The Original Twelve Cartoons from Jyllands-Posten
Timeline of the Muhammad Cartoon Controversy
Guardian (UK) newspaper articles on the cartoon controversy
A Mideast Perspective on the Cartoons (National Public Radio story)
Sigur Rós and Heima
Sigur Rós MySpace Page with Song Samples
Screaming Masterpiece Documentary on Icelandic Music
Julie Brigham-Grette: "Arctic Research Immersion on Svalbard's Icy Margins"
Video of Lecture (made available under a Creative Commons License)
"Arctic Research Immersion at Svalbard's Icy Margins" by Julie Brigham-Grette and German & Scandinavian Studies, UMass Amherst is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.The Svalbard Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU)
James Balog's work, Extreme Ice Survey
Julie Brigham-Grette's article in Earth magazine: "The Thrill to Drill in the Chill"
The University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS), the World’s Northernmost Higher Education Institution
Climate System Research Center
The Svalbard Pages: General Information About Svalbard
Edvard Munch Film (dir. Peter Watkins, 1974)
Gísli Pálsson: "DeCODE Me! On Personal Genomics"
Video of Lecture (made available under a Creative Commons License)
"DeCODE Me! On Personal Genomics by Gísli Pálsson and German & Scandinavian Studies, UMass Amherst is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.Selected Publications by Gísli Pálsson Related to Human Genome Research
“Spitting Image.” Anthropology Now 1:3 (2009): 12–22.
“Biosocial Relations of Production.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 51:2 (2009): 288–313.
“The Web of Kin: An Online Genealogical Machine.” In S. Bamford and J. Leach, eds., Kinship and Beyond: The Genealogical Model Reconsidered. Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2009. Pp. 84–110.
“The Rise and Fall of a Biobank: The Case of Iceland.” In Herbert Gottweis and Alan Peterson, eds., Biobanks: Governance in Comparative Perspective. London: Routledge, 2008.
“Genomic Anthropology: Coming in from the Cold?” Current Anthropology 49:4 (2008): 545–68.
“How Deep is the Skin? The Geneticization of Race and Medicine.” BioSocieties 2:2 (2007): 257–73.
“Nature and Society in the Age of Postmodernity.” In Aletta Biersack and James Greenberg, eds., Reimagining Political Ecology. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. Pp. 70–93.
“Appropriating Family Trees: Genealogies in the Age of Genetics.” In Franz von Benda-Beckmann, Keebet Benda-Beckmann, and Melanie G. Wiber, eds., Changing Properties of Property. New York: Berghahn Books, 2006. Pp. 309–329.
“Of Althings!” In Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel, eds., Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy. Cambridge, MA.: MIT Press, 2005. Pp. 250–57.
(With Paul Rabinow) “The Iceland Controversy: Reflections on the Trans-National Market of Civic Virtue.” In Aihwa Ong and Stephen J. Collier, eds., Global Assemblages: Politics, and Ethics as Anthropological Problems. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005. Pp. 91-103.
“Decoding Relatedness and Disease: The Icelandic Biogenetic Project.” In Jean-Paul Gaudillére and Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, eds., From Molecular Genetics to Genomics: The Mapping Cultures of Twentieth-Century Genetics. London: Routledge, 2004. Pp. 180–99.
“The Life of Family Trees and the Book of Icelanders.” Medical Anthropology 21:3/4 (2002): 337–67.
(With Kristín Harðardóttir) “For Whom the Cell Tolls: Debates about Biomedicine.” Current Anthropology 43:2 (2002): 271-301.
(With Paul Rabinow) “Iceland: The Case of a National Human Genome Project.” Anthropology Today 15:5 (October, 1999): 14–18.
"Spitting Image" online article from Anthropology Now
Personal Genetic Information Companies
Other Selected Publications by Gísli Pálsson
Professor Pálsson’s biography of Stefansson, Travelling Passions: Stefansson, the Arctic Explorer
"Folk Fiddling Across Sweden: A Smörgåsbord of Musical Traditions"
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"Folk Fiddling Across Sweden: A Smörgåsbord of Musical Traditions" by lydia ievins, Andrea Larson, and German & Scandinavian Studies, UMass Amherst is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.Links
Crisis for European Social Democracy? A Swedish Perspective
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"Crisis for European Social Democracy? A Swedish Perspective" by Thomas Bodström and German & Scandinavian Studies, UMass Amherst is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.Related material:
Thomas Bodström Homepage (Swedish)
Thomas Bodström's Novels (Swedish)
Einhorn, Eric. “Liberalism and Social Democracy in Western Europe” in Comparative Democracy and Democratization, H.J. Wiarda, ed. (2001)
Nordic Larp: Grassroots Expression and Playful Art
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"Nordic Larp: Grassroots Expression and Playful Art" by Markus Montola and German & Scandinavian Studies, UMass Amherst is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.Links
