Upcoming Lectures & Talks
3 upcoming lectures and talks from Scandinavian Cultural Center, with dates, venues and ticket links taken from the organization’s own pages and refreshed weekly. All lectures in Greater Boston →
Sat Oct 17 · 1pm
Jay Raymond presents the research behind Mangle Boards of Northern Europe: A Definitive Guide to the Geographic Origins of Mangle Boards. A mangle board is a carved plank used from the sixteenth to the twentieth century to press wrinkles out of linen; Raymond surveyed more than seven thousand of them in museums across Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands.
Sat Oct 24 · 1pm
Anne Ipsen gives an illustrated talk on hygge, drawing on Meik Wiking's The Little Book of Hygge and on Happier Longevity, the book she wrote with Tami Muller. The Danish term covers the ordinary business of curling up with a book or eating with friends, and has been exported as a wellbeing concept rather than a domestic habit.
Sat Oct 31 · 1pm
A Halloween talk on the monsters of the Norse world — not spirits but physical things that killed, and that Vikings and Icelanders went on arming themselves against well into the modern period. The Scandinavian Cultural Center puts it on at its West Newton premises as a seasonal one-off.