1418 Van Hise (1220 Linden Dr) @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
What does the displaced Finnish child in the postwar Swedish welfare state say about ethnicity, whiteness, transcultural memory, and national identity? By focusing on a Swedish-Finnish Elina: as if I wasn’t there (Klaus Härö, 2002) …
4070 Vilas Hall (821 University Ave) @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Sponsored by UW Cinematheque. The final film from the late, beloved Agnès Varda is a characteristically playful, profound, and personal summation of the director’s own brilliant career. At once impish and wise, she acts as …
1418 Van Hise (1220 Linden Dr) @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
A leading literary figure in his native Denmark, Carsten Jensen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carsten_Jensen) is the author of the international bestseller We, the Drowned, which has sold more than half a million copies in twenty languages. As well …
1418 Van Hise (1220 Linden Dr) @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
In this talk, Benjamin Mier-Cruz will compare Sweden’s social democratic ideal of the folkhemmet (the people’s home)—which regards society as a family unit—with the survivalist “house-building” of Black and Latinx youth in two documentary films, …