"Nordic Food and Fun During the Holiday Season": In-Person Badger Talk in Edgerton, WI

Name: "Nordic Food and Fun During the Holiday Season": In-Person Badger Talk in Edgerton, WI
Start: 2024-12-16T18:00:00-06:00
Location: Edgerton Public Library

Schedule

Mon Dec 16 2024 at 06:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

Edgerton Public Library | Edgerton, WI

📸Ribbe, Christmas dinner
Alexander Benjaminsen/Matprat.no
Join us for this free, in-person event on December 16th, 2024 at 6:00 PM at the Edgerton Public Library. Please register here: https://edgertonpubliclibrary.org/events/#/events/EzMSS0HFrm/instances/iQqBuQSBCO/
This talk focuses on two specific traditions in the Nordic countries and how they've changed, and also how they're celebrated in the US. The talk will also touch on holiday foods.
Presenter Marcus Cederström earned his B.A. from the University of Oregon in Sports Business, History, and Scandinavian Studies and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Scandinavian Studies from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is a folklorist working in the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic at UW-Madison as the community curator of Nordic-American folklore for the “Sustaining Scandinavian Folk Arts in the Upper Midwest” project. His research interests include immigration to the United States, identity formation, North American Indigenous communities, and sustainability.