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Language and Culture Booth
Visit the Language and Culture Booth to find out about different countries and cultures. Learn a fun fact about a country or a phrase from a different language. Open until 5 p.m.
This is one of Augustana's Diversity Week events.
Latinx Jeopardy!
Latinx Unidos challenges you to test your cultural knowledge at LatinX Jeopardy night! Categories include Latinx pop culture, history, music, sports and food. Up to five teams of four people are allowed per room. Prizes included.
This is one of Augustana's Diversity Week events.
International Street Fest
The Office of International Student and Scholar Services will sponsor the annual International Street Fest. Students showcase their talents and unique cultures to the campus community through fashion, dance, poetry, music and more.
The event continues until 6 p.m. The rain location is Wallenberg Hall in the Denkmann Memorial Building.
The fest kicks off Augustana's Diversity Week.
Augie Feud
More than $225 will be given away to the winners of Augie Feud.
Six teams will be selected to compete from 7-8 p.m. and 8:00-9 p.m.
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Class Notes April 2021
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“An End to All Questions": Scandinavian Immigrants, Abolition, and the Impeachment of President Johnson
Dr. Anders Bo Rasmussen will give a talk, ""An End to All Questions": Scandinavian Immigrants, Abolition, and the Impeachment of President Johnson."
Dr. Rasmussen is an associate professor of US history at the University of Southern Denmark.
The talk will be followed by a live Q&A with the speaker.
The lecture is part of the Lunchtime Lecture Series organized by the Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center, highlighting the work being done by scholars using materials in the Swenson Center library and archival collections.
Dr. Rasmussen’s research examines transnational relations between the United States and Europe from the middle of the 19th century to the present. His current book project, For God and Country: Scandinavians, Citizenship, and American Empire, looks at transatlantic diplomacy and the history of Scandinavian immigrants before, during, and after the American Civil War.
Understanding the Environmental History of Swedish America through Veterinary Scrapbooks, Farm Advertisements, and Mining Diaries
Dr. Brian Leech will give a talk, “Animals/Vegetables/Minerals: Understanding the Environmental History of Swedish America through Veterinary Scrapbooks, Farm Advertisements, and Mining Diaries.”
Dr. Leech is an associate professor of history at Augustana.
He will discuss what historians can learn about Americans’ changing relationship to the environment through author Ernst Skarstedt’s scrapbooks about animals and health in the Pacific Northwest, promotional literature for the Andover Children's Home and Farm in Illinois, and Alex Erickson’s diary about the multi-racial coal community of Buxton, Iowa.
The talk will be followed by a live Q&A with the speaker.
The lecture is part of the Lunchtime Lecture Series organized by the Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center, highlighting the work being done by scholars using materials in the Swenson Center library and archival collections.
Dr. Leech's recent research has focused the histories of food production, energy policy, and mining communities, including a 2018 book "The City That Ate Itself: Butte, Montana and its Expanding Berkeley Pit."