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Beck Lectures are free and open to the public.

01/21/2019

We are sponsoring an Icelandic Film at the Victoria Film Festival. The film, Woman at War (2018), directed by Benedikt Erlingsson, will be shown in the Vic Theatre (808 Douglas Street) at 9:15 pm on Saturday, February 9th. The film is a comedy/drama/thriller about an eco-terrorist who is given the opportunity to adopt a child. It has won multiple prizes and awards, including the 2018 Lux Prize Award of the European Parliament, the 2018 Nordic Council Film Prize, and it was Iceland’s submission for Best Foreign Film to the 91st Academy Awards.

More information about the film at https://do250.com/events/2019/2/9/woman-at-war-kona-fer-i-stri

11/01/2018

Wow! it was a great turnout for the previous lecture. Sadly, only one has left :( .
Come on Sunday, November 25, 2018
2:00 – 3:30 pm, Clearihue A212. Guðrún Björk will talk about Huldufolk – Elves, Faeries.
Of shared European ancestry, like giants and trolls, elves – or huldufólk and álfar, hidden people and faeries – have worked powerfully upon the imagination of Icelanders on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, and have become an important Icelandic Canadian identity theme. You will learn about some of the complex associations, meanings and manifestations of the hidden people in the European, including the Icelandic, background, as well as in Icelandic Canadian writing.

10/11/2018

It's coming! The second Beck Series lecture of 2018 by Dr. Guðrún Björk Guðsteinsdóttir "Giants and Trolls" will take place on Sunday, October 28, at 2:00 pm in CLE A212.

In rough lava-fields, in cliffs, and in rocks rising from the sea in Iceland, the faces and forms of giants sometimes emerge distinctly, accompanied by stories explaining how they turned to stone. Although seemingly embedded in Norwegian as well as Icelandic landscape, giants or tröll go back to the shared northern European legacy and faith recorded in the Eddas as þurs and undergo interesting transformations in the Icelandic Canadian literary heritage.

Skogtroll (Forest Troll), by Theodor Kittelsen, 1906:

09/21/2018

Do not miss out! On Sunday, September 23, at 2:00 pm in CLE A212, Dr. Guðrún Björk Guðsteinsdóttir will give her first Beck series lecture "Weird Visitations".
Conviction that there is more to life than can be easily explained by science and technology has been persistent among Icelanders and their descendants in Canada. This lecture will consider how contemporary authors of the Icelandic diaspora draw upon stories of ghosts and other weird visitations in their works.

Picture credit https://www.yourfriendinreykjavik.com/icelandic-mythical-walk/

08/15/2018

Please meet our Beck Series lecturer for 2018, Dr. Guðrún Björk Guðsteinsdóttir.

08/13/2018

Hallo, aficionados of all things Icelandic. We are excited to announce a new season of Richard and Margaret Beck lectures at the University of Victoria.
This year our guest of honor will be Dr. Guðrún Björk Guðsteinsdóttir, Professor of English Literature in the Faculty of Languages and Cultures at the University of Iceland. She is the coordinator of a graduate program on Literature, Culture and Media run jointly by English and French Studies, and of Inter-American Studies, offered by English, Spanish and French Studies. Her main research interests involve Icelandic Canadian literature, cultural politics – multicultural literature, narratology, cross-cultural mediation and adaptation of literature (including translation and teaching as well as story-telling through audial and visual media).

07/09/2018

In addition to the three public lectures (see previous post), Dr. Guðrún Guðsteinsdóttir will teach a credit course GMST 369 "Legacy of Icelandic Folklore". This course will meet on Mondays and Thursdays from 1:00 to 2:20 pm in CLE A316.
Course registration number: 11865.
If you are a community member interested in taking the GMST 369: Special Topics in Scandinavian Studies "Legacy of Icelandic Folklore", please read the instructions:

07/09/2018

Dr. Guðsteinsdóttir will give three public lectures, all in Clearihue A212, 2:00 - 3:30 pm

Sunday, September 23, 2018: "Weird Visitations"
Sunday, October 28, 2018: "Giants and Trolls"
Sunday, November 25, 2018: "Huldufolk – Elves, Faeries"

All these lectures are free and open to the public.

09/05/2017

A reminder not to miss a unique course which will be taught only once! GMST 369 "From the Sagas to Sigur Ros" by visiting Professor Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir from the University of Iceland. Community members can take this course, too!

08/30/2017

If you are a community member interested in taking the GMST 369: Special Topics in Scandinavian Studies please read the instructions:

08/30/2017

Please meet our new Beck Lecture Series lecturer Dr. Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir. Birna is a Professor of Second Language Studies and Associate-Dean of the Department of Languages and Cultures at the University of Iceland. Her main research interest is language contact. She directs the research project, English as a Lingua Franca in Iceland: The Status of English in a Changing Linguistic Environment. She is the project director for www.icelandiconline.com, a series of free and open online courses in Icelandic. Birna is also actively involved in research on heritage languages, especially North American Icelandic.
She will teach one course to UVic students (GMST 369) and give three lectures during the Fall term of 2017.

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