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SUMMARY:Thurs. Swedish Literature - Karlsson
DESCRIPTION:This class meets weekly for 12 Thursdays from September 17–December 10\, 2026. Class does not meet the week of November 23.  \n\nAn advanced-level Swedish literature course taught by Jessica Karlsson. This class will start reading a new novel\, Je M’appelle Agneta by Emma Hamberg\, and will read around 25 pages per week\, finishing the novel in one term. The instructor incorporates layers of cultural concepts from the book to enhance class discussions. \nRequired materials: Je M’appelle Agneta by Emma Hamberg. Advanced registration required.
URL:https://asimn.org/events-calendar/thurs-swedish-literature-karlsson-2/
LOCATION:American Swedish Institute
CATEGORIES:Language & Culture,Language Learning
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SUMMARY:Simple Cinnamon Roll Variations with Kristi Bissell
DESCRIPTION:Gear up for baking season with some fun variations on the classic Swedish cinnamon roll! Kanelbullar are a staple treat for a Swedish fika or coffee break and usually feature a cinnamon filling\, cardamom scented sweet dough\, and pearl sugar on top. But Kristi Bissell of the Nordic-inspired food blog True North Kitchen is ready to share not only her favorite cinnamon roll dough\, but two fun new ways to put it to use: cute gifflar (mini crescent buns) and entertaining-worthy apple filled slices. After this demonstration\, students will be ready to knead\, shape\, and bake their own buns just in time for Cinnamon Bun Day on October 4! \nAdditional information:\nAdvanced registration required. \nVirtual class requirements: This is a live virtual class taught over Zoom. Students need a strong internet connection and a device with video capabilities. \nClass structure: This class is designed as a demonstration so students can watch the entire process and ask questions before tackling the dishes at home. The recipe packet will be available for download one week in advance. \nClass recording: Anyone is welcome to register for the class even if they don’t plan to attend live\, as the class is recorded. The recording will be available for all registrants to review one month after class.
URL:https://asimn.org/events-calendar/simple-cinnamon-roll-variations-with-kristi-bissell/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Food Programs
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SUMMARY:Thurs. Swedish Literature - Edberg-Caldwell
DESCRIPTION:This class meets weekly for 12 Thursdays from September 17–December 10\, 2026. Class does not meet the week of November 23. \n\nAn advanced I level Swedish course taught by Gunn Edberg-Caldwell\, starting the novel Andra andningen av Sofie Sarenbrant and finishing it in one term.  Advanced I level classes have completed Rivstart B1/B2. \nRequired materials: Andra andningen av Sofie Sarenbrant. Advanced registration required.
URL:https://asimn.org/events-calendar/thurs-swedish-literature-edberg-caldwell-2/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Language & Culture,Language Learning
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260917T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260917T170000
DTSTAMP:20260715T150900Z
CREATED:20260707T160215Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260715T150900Z
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SUMMARY:Thurs. New Beginning I Swedish - Willson-Broyles
DESCRIPTION:This class meets weekly for 12 Thursdays from September 17–December 10\, 2026. Class does not meet the week of November 23.  \nA new beginning I Swedish class taught by Rachel Willson-Broyles. This class is for students new to Swedish and uses the Rivstart A1/A2\, starting with chapter 1. This class moves at a slightly quicker pace than the Kort Kurs 1 Beginning I Swedish class\, as the Rivstart textbook is written entirely in Swedish. \nRequired materials: Rivstart A1/A2 textbok and övningsbok (workbook)\, *3rd edition (2023). Advanced registration required.
URL:https://asimn.org/events-calendar/thurs-new-beginning-i-swedish-willson-broyles/
LOCATION:American Swedish Institute
CATEGORIES:Language & Culture,Language Learning
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260917T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260917T173000
DTSTAMP:20260715T151029Z
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SUMMARY:Thurs. Intermediate II Swedish - Edberg-Caldwell
DESCRIPTION:This class meets weekly for 12 Thursdays from September 17–December 10\, 2026. Class does not meet the week of November 23.  \n\nAn intermediate II level Swedish course taught by Gunn Edberg-Caldwell starting in chapter 12 of Rivstart B1/B2. This class meets virtually. Intermediate II classes cover the B2 level\, the second half of Rivstart B1/B2. It typically takes around two to three terms of study to finish one level. \nRequired materials: Rivstart B1/B2 textbok and övningsbok (workbook)\, *2nd edition (2015). Advanced registration required.
URL:https://asimn.org/events-calendar/thurs-intermediate-ii-swedish-edberg-caldwell/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Language & Culture,Language Learning
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260917T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260917T180000
DTSTAMP:20260715T150756Z
CREATED:20260707T155259Z
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SUMMARY:Thurs. Beginning II Swedish - White
DESCRIPTION:A beginning II level Swedish course taught by Gregg White starting in chapter 5 of Rivstart A1/A2. Beginning II level Swedish courses cover the A1 level\, the first half of Rivstart A1/A2. It typically takes around two-three terms of study to finish one level. \nRequired materials: RivstartA1/A2 textbok and övningsbok (workbook)\, *3rd edition (2023). Advanced registration required.
URL:https://asimn.org/events-calendar/thurs-beginning-ii-swedish-white-2/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Language & Culture,Language Learning
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260917T171500
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260917T184500
DTSTAMP:20260715T150900Z
CREATED:20260707T155918Z
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SUMMARY:Thurs. Beginning II Swedish - Willson-Broyles
DESCRIPTION:This class meets weekly for 12 Thursdays from September 17–December 10\, 2026. Class does not meet the week of November 23. \n\nA beginning II level Swedish course taught by Rachel Willson-Broyles starting in chapter 5 of Rivstart A1/A2. This class meets in person at ASI. Beginning II level Swedish courses cover the A1 level\, the first half of Rivstart A1/A2. It typically takes around two to three terms of study to finish one level. \nRequired materials: Rivstart A1/A2 textbok and övningsbok (workbook)\, *3rd edition (2023). Advanced registration required.
URL:https://asimn.org/events-calendar/thurs-beginning-ii-swedish-willson-broyles-3/
LOCATION:American Swedish Institute
CATEGORIES:Language & Culture,Language Learning
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260917T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260917T190000
DTSTAMP:20260715T150940Z
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SUMMARY:Thurs. Beginning II Finnish - Haataja
DESCRIPTION:This class meets weekly for 12 Thursdays from September 17–December 10\, 2026. Class does not meet the week of November 23. \nA beginning II level Finnish course taught by Daniel Haataja starting in chapter 7 of Suomen Mestari 1 (new edition)\, available in the ASI Museum Shop. Beginning II Finnish classes cover the Suomen Mestari 1 book. \nRequired materials: Suomen Mestari 1. Advanced registration required.
URL:https://asimn.org/events-calendar/thurs-beginning-ii-finnish-haataja-2/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Language & Culture,Language Learning
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260917T203000
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SUMMARY:Makers Night
DESCRIPTION:Gather with other makers for a friendly and productive evening! Makers Night is a monthly opportunity every third Thursday for anyone interested in craft to work in community in our Berglund Studio Classroom or in the summer\, on our beautiful front lawn! Bring a project to work on and any tools you need\, and be ready to share conversation\, tips and questions. \nFree; no advanced registration required. ASI also offers weekly\, Virtual Makers Mornings.
URL:https://asimn.org/events-calendar/makers-night-2/2026-09-17/
LOCATION:American Swedish Institute
CATEGORIES:Nordic Handcraft
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260917T181500
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260917T194500
DTSTAMP:20260715T150756Z
CREATED:20260707T154049Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260715T150756Z
UID:10008303-1789668900-1789674300@asimn.org
SUMMARY:Thurs. Intermediate I Swedish - White
DESCRIPTION:This class meets weekly for 12 Thursdays from September 17–December 10\, 2026. Class does not meet the week of November 23. \n\nAn intermediate I level Swedish course taught by Gregg White starting in chapter 1 of Rivstart B1/B2. This class meets virtually. Intermediate I classes cover the B1 level\, the first half of Rivstart B1/B2. It typically takes around two-three terms of study to finish one level. \nRequired materials: Rivstart B1/B2 textbok and övningsbok (workbook)\, *2nd edition (2015). Advanced registration required.
URL:https://asimn.org/events-calendar/thurs-intermediate-i-swedish-white-2/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Language & Culture,Language Learning
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260917T181500
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260917T194500
DTSTAMP:20260715T151029Z
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SUMMARY:Thurs. Swedish Literature - Edberg-Caldwell
DESCRIPTION:This class meets weekly for 12 Thursdays from September 17–December 10\, 2026. Class does not meet the week of November 23. \n\nAn advanced I level Swedish literature course taught by Gunn Edberg-Caldwell starting Mina vänner by Fredrik Backman and finishing it in one term. Advanced I level classes have completed Rivstart B1/B2. \nRequired materials: Mina vänner by Fredrik Backman. Advanced registration required.
URL:https://asimn.org/events-calendar/thurs-swedish-literature-edberg-caldwell/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Language & Culture,Language Learning
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260917T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260917T200000
DTSTAMP:20260714T205720Z
CREATED:20260707T164035Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260714T205720Z
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SUMMARY:Elin Anna Labba Book Talk: The Home of the Drowned
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a book talk featuring Sámi author and journalist Elin Anna Labba in conversation with Minnesota based North Sámi language educator\, Dr. Áila O’Loughlin. Drawing on her own family’s history of forced relocation and violent colonial dispossession\, Anna Labba’s debut novel\, The Home of the Drowned\, brings Sámi history to the fore through this intimate story. \n\nMake it a night out—the Turnblad Mansion with Eyes as Big as Plates on view\, FIKA Café\, and the ASI Museum Store will be open until 8 pm on 9/17! Books will be available for purchase at the event in collaboration with event partner\, University of Minnesota Press. \n\nAbout the Book:\n\nThe haunting\, multigenerational saga of a family of Sámi women fighting the devastation of their way of life. Nothing is true\, and everything is true; poetry will never hurt more than what has happened. Every summer\, Iŋgá\, her mother Rávdná\, and her Aunt Ánne travel west to their village on the lake. But the summer Iŋgá is thirteen\, they arrive to find their home and possessions have disappeared under water\, the land flooded by a dam built to supply hydropower to a society that has continually stolen from them. \n\n\nThe Home of the Drowned follows these women’s fortunes over forty years— from 1942 to 1982—as the water their people have lived near for centuries is transformed into a menacing force that threatens all they hold dear. Defying the authorities\, Rávdná decides to build a proper house on the lake to replace what was lost\, becoming an unlikely activist even as her actions isolate her family from the rest of the community. Meanwhile\, Ánne’s health is in decline\, and a concerned Iŋgá merely longs to live like everyone else—an impossible wish when the Swedish state is relentlessly drowning her world. \n\n\nDrawing on her own family’s history of forced relocation and violent colonial dispossession\, Elin Anna Labba’s debut novel brings Sámi history to the fore through this intimate story. In poetic prose deftly translated by Elizabeth Clark Wessel\, she reveals connections between land\, water\, and people that hauntingly reverberate with the question: what is it that makes a home? \n\nAbout the presenters:\n\nElin Anna Labba is a Sámi journalist and author from the arctic region of Sweden. Her first book\, The Rocks Will Echo Our Sorrow: The Forced Displacement of the Northern Sámi\, also published in translation by the University of Minnesota Press\, won the 2020 August Prize for Best Nonfiction in Sweden. The Swedish publication of The Home of the Drowned was awarded the Norrland Literature Prize in 2025. \n\n\nDr. Áila O’Loughlin is a Sámi-American philosophy professor at North Hennepin Community College and a former high school English teacher of ten years. As a heritage learner of North Sámi\, Áila is passionate about cultivating Sámi language and culture groups in Minnesota–home to the largest population of Sámi diaspora in the United States. \n\n\nAdvanced registration required
URL:https://asimn.org/events-calendar/elin-anna-labba-book-talk-the-home-of-the-drowned/
LOCATION:American Swedish Institute
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260917T210000
DTSTAMP:20260715T150940Z
CREATED:20260707T153835Z
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SUMMARY:Thurs. Advanced Finnish Literature - Haataja
DESCRIPTION:This class meets weekly for 12 Thursdays from September 17–December 10\, 2026. Class does not meet the week of November 23.  \n\nAn advanced level Finnish course taught by Daniel Haataja starting a new novel Kolibri by Kati Hiekkapelto. This class will read around 20 pages per week and discuss the material in Finnish. Advanced Finnish classes are suitable for students who have completed all levels of Suomen mestari or otherwise feel comfortable reading Finnish literature.  \nRequired materials: Kolibri by Kati Hiekkapelto. This book is available as an e-book from various sites or students can purchase a paperback copy through the Finnish bookstore Akateeminen. It is not available in the ASI store. Advanced registration required.
URL:https://asimn.org/events-calendar/thurs-advanced-finnish-literature-haataja/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Language & Culture,Language Learning
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