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October 2003
Dr. Jon Gjerde,
Professor of History and
Department Chair at the University of California-Berkeley
"Freedom and the Immigrant Myth: European
Immigrants in the United States"
November
2001
Keynote address of “Being
Swedish-American Today” Conference.
Dr. Barbro Klein,
Swedish Collegium for Advanced
Studies in the Social Sciences, Uppsala University
October 2000
Maria Jarlsdotter Enckell,
Independent Scholar in Ethnology
“Scandinavians in Russian Alaska: 1800-1867.”
October 1999
Dr. Ulf Jonas Björk,
Associate Professor of
Journalism, Indiana University at Indianapolis
“The Swedish-American Press as an
Immigrant Institution.”
October 1998
Keynote of “Migration of Ideas” Conference.
Dr. H. Arnold Barton,
Southern Illinois University
“Crossings and Recrossings: America and Sweden in the 20th
Century.”
October 1997
Dr. Nils Hasselmo,
President Emeritus of the
University of Minnesota.
"Language Policy and Language Politics," exploring the role languages play
and have played for ethnic and minority groups in both the U.S. and Europe.
April 1996
Keynote Address of the "O
Pioneers" Conference
Dr. Kathleen Conzen,
University of Chicago
“Pioneering as an Immigrant Process in the 19th Century American
West.”
April 1995
Dr. Byron Nordstrom,
Professor of History and
Scandinavian Studies, Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minnesota
“Dead Uncertainties: Swedish-American Images of History” (How
Swedish-Americans became aware of their own history and set out to record
and preserve it in different ways).
April 1994 Keynote
Address of the Conference of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian
Study (SASS)
Dr. Nils William Olsson, F.A.S.G.,
author, diplomat, editor of
Swedish
American Genealogist
“Naming Patterns Among Swedish Americans.”
April 1993
Dr. Mary Swanson
of the College of St. Thomas in St Paul, MN
“Swedish American Art and Artists.”
October 1991
in conjunction with the
Center’s 10th Anniversary
Dr. Harold Runblom,
Associate Professor of History,
Uppsala University:
“‘We are all Swedish here, aren’t we, Mrs. O’Brien?’ Swedes and other Ethnic
Groups in American Life.”
April 1990
Professor Rudolph Vecoli
“The Trials and Tribulations of an Immigration Historian: George Stephenson
and the Swedish-American Community.”
April 1989
Dr. Robert Ostergren,
Professor of Geography,
University of Wisconsin at Madison
“Geographic Perspectives on Swedish Immigrant Settlement in North America.”
May 1988
Professor John Bodnar
“The Origin and Function of Memory in Ethnic Communities.”
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