Nordic Spirit Symposium

Nordic seekers, adventurers and explorers from the 18th to the 21st centuries will highlight this dynamic symposium featuring distinguished speakers and polished performers. The public is invited to share the time-honored spirit of a symposium, blending music, dining and the free exchange of ideas to enhance the pleasure of learning.

Friday, Feb. 5, 5:30 p.m.
Scandinavian Center, 26 Faculty St.
Reception. Reservations requested. Admission is $10.
Limited parking is available in the Roth Nelson Room parking lot. Additional visitor parking is available in the parking lots on Mountclef Boulevard north and south of Olsen Road. Street parking is by permit only Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Friday, Feb. 5, 7 p.m.
Samuelson Chapel
The Friday evening program will open with an illustrated presentation of the historic conquest of the planet’s unconquered polar frontiers by Nordic explorers. Two Minnesotans, a Scandinavian scholar and a nature photographer, will then retrace the first and last journeys of the famed pioneering ethnobotanist Carl Linnaeus through the northern and southernmost provinces of Sweden.

“Ultima Thule – Polar Exploration and the Heroic Imagination”
Sherrill Harbison, Ph.D., Lecturer in Scandinavian Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

“Skåne to Lappland – Travels through Sweden with Carl Linnaeus”
Roland Thorstensson, Ph.D., Chair of Scandinavian Studies, Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minn.; and Anders Björling, nature photographer, St. Peter, Minn.

Admission is $20; free for students.

For information and early registration fees, call (818) 788-4552 or e-mail seeallan@sbcglobal.net. The Nordic Spirit Symposium is sponsored by the Scandinavian American Cultural and Historical Foundation and California Lutheran University, and is made possible by generous grants from the Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation and the Royal Norwegian Consulate General in San Francisco.

Image: Linnea Borealis, Twinflower