The Department of Scandinavian at the University of California, Berkeley seeks applications for an Assistant Professor in the area of Swedish or Norwegian Literature, Culture, and Society, with an expected start date of July 1, 2025.
The faculty of the Department of Scandinavian is thrilled to welcome a new colleague, Prof. Asta Mønsted, who begins her tenure-track appointment as Assistant Professor in July 2024.
In order to preserve the history and accomplishments of its distinguished faculty, the University of California Berkeley Emeriti Association (UCBEA) has begun making video recordings of interviews with individual emeriti.
Researchers use AI – and witchcraft folklore – to map the coronavirus conspiracy theories that have sprung up. Professor Timothy Tangherlini provides insight into the connection between conspiracy theories and folklore in this article in the Guardian.
In an article from USA Today, COVID conspiracy theories involving Bill Gates are compared to a with hunt.
Karen Møller started as Lecturer and Language Program Coordinator in the UC Berkeley Department of Scandinavian in 1991 and retired July 1, 2021, exactly 30 years later.
This course in conversational Modern Icelandic is being taught for the first time on the Berkeley campus in Fall 2015. Instructor Jackson Crawford will be offering the first part of the two-semester sequence in Fall and the second semester in Spring. This is a rare opportunity (unique inn the entire country) to study the language of the land of fire and ice set in the middle of the North Atlantic amid towering mountain crags and the aurora borealis. Icelandic is a very conservative language, preserving much of the character of Old Norse, while remaining very much the tongue of a unique nation participating fully in the modern world. The literature, both medieval and modern, is unbeatable.
During Fall Semester the course will be taught MWF from 9-10 in 6415 Dwinelle.