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2004 Events
May 7, 2004
"Quotidian Globalities"
A Lecture by Steven Flusty
U of M - 445 Blegen Hall, West Bank, 3:30 PM
Dr. Flusty is Assistant Professor in Geography at York University, Canada. His book De-Coca-Colonization was published by Routledge in the beginning of 2004. This lecture was part of the Geography Coffee Hour Series. Dr. Flusty's visit in Minneapolis was sponsored by the Institute of Global Studies, Space/Place Group, Department of Geography, and the Government of Finland/David and Nancy Speer Visiting Professorship in Finnish Studies.
May 5, 2004
"Coexistence in Finland"
A Lecture by Pauliina Raento
Downtown Minneapolis
Lobby of One Financial Plaza, 120 South Sixth Street at 12 noon
The lecture was part of the Coexistence Exhibition's public lecture series, sponsored by the Center for German and European Studies at the University of Minnesota.
April 28, 2004
"Swedish-Speakers in Finland"
A Lecture by Pauliina Raento
American Swedish Institute
2600 Park Avenue, Minneapolis, 7 PM
The lecture was part of the Library Forum Series. Dr. Raento is the Government of Finland/David and Nancy Speer Visiting Professor in Finnish Studies and Visiting Associate Professor in Geography at the University of Minnesota.
March 2004
"Mapping Finland with Mental Images: Finnish Press Cartography, 1989-1942"
A Lecture by Katariina Kosonen
U of M - 445 Blegen Hall, West Bank, 3:30 pm
Dr. Kosonen is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Helsinki. The lecture was part of the Geography Coffee Hour series. Dr. Kosonen's visit was sponsored by the Government of Finland/David and Nancy Speer Visiting Professorship in Finnish Studies and Department of Geography.
February 13, 2004
"The Nation, the State, and the Postage Stamp in Twentieth-Century Finland"
A Lecture by Pauliina Raento
U of M - 445 Blegen Hall, West Bank at 3:30 PM
The lecture was part of the Geography Coffee Hour series.
January 26, 2004
"Pulp Architecture: A Movement in Progress!"
A Lecture by Roger Connah
U of M - Ralph Rapson Hall (East Bank) at 5:45 PM
Filmmaker, writer, and architectural historian Roger Connah is based in Stockholm and Ruthin, North Wales, where he runs The Hotel Architecture Retreat and Resistance Center. He is Visiting Professor at the University of Texas at Arlington and author of numerous books, including 40/40 Young Architects from Finland (2002); How Architecture Got its Hump (2001); Aaltomania (200); Sa[l]vaged Modernism (2000); Grace and Architecture (1998); and Welcome to the Hotel Architecture (1998). The presentation was part of the Cass Gilbert Series and sponsored jointly by the College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture and the Government of Finland/David and Nancy Speer Visiting Professorship in Finnish Studies.
January 16-30, 2004
Bittersweet Twist: The Films of Aki Kaurismäki
A Cinema Event at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Two Pre-Screening Lectures by Markku Koski, January 28 and 30 at 7 pm.
Markku Koski is a free-lance journalist who specializes in cinema and popular culture. Koski holds a Master's degree in Communications and Sociology (University of Tampere, Finland). He is editor of the Finnish cinema magazine Filmihullu and lecturer at the Lahti Polytechnic Institute of Design in Finland. Koski has published several Finnish-language books on Finnish popular culture, including Olavi Virta (1878, with Peter von Bagh and Pekka Aarnio), Armin vuodet (1982, with Leo Linsten), Alemmat taiteet (1985), The Beatles (1986), Sorsa-diagnoosi (1989), Lööppikirja (2000, with Peter von Bagh), and Julkisia eläimiä (2001).
A Pre-Screening Lecture by Roger Connah, January 23 at 7 pm
Filmmaker, writer, and architectural historian Roger Connah is based in Stockholm and Ruthin, North Wales, where he runs The Hotel Architecture Retreat and Resistance Center. He is the author of the book on Kaurismäki, titled K/K: A Couple of Finns and Some Donald Ducks (1991). His films include Take Five (1993), 27 Minute Lies (1994), Drive (1996), and Aaltomania (1996).
The program was made possible by the Finnish Film Foundation and BAM cinématek. Roger Connah and Markku Koski appeared courtesy of the Government of Finland/David and Nancy Speer Professorship in Finnish Studies at the University of Minnesota.