• DRIVING MUM

    This fall at Scandinavia House, experience Nordic comedy at its darkest with “Svart Humor”! “If there’s a dead body in Denmark, someone is going to make a joke about it,” director Anders Jensen once said; Nordic comedies are as known for their deadpan, dry wit as for their occasionally noir subject matter, celebrating the “svart/sort” (dark) […]

  • SWEDISH INTERMEDIATE 1

    SWEDISH INTERMEDIATE 1
    Scandinavia House 58 Park Avenue, New York, NY, United States

    Learn the Nordic languages in classes offered at Scandinavia House! Intermediate Swedish 1 classes will take place on Thursday evenings.

  • EDVARD MUNCH: TRANSFORMING NATURE

    Scandinavia House 58 Park Avenue, New York, NY, United States

    On October 7, join us for the discussion Edvard Munch: Transforming Nature. Jay A. Clarke, who received a grant from the American-Scandinavian Foundation to conduct research for the current exhibition and publication Edvard Munch: Trembling Earth on view now at the Clark Art Institution through October 15, is Rothman Family Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Art Institute […]

  • HOLIDAY BUILDING CLOSURE

    Scandinavia House 58 Park Avenue, New York, NY, United States

    Scandinavia House will be closed for the holiday on Monday, October 9, 2023.

  • THE RED BOOK OF FAREWELLS BY PIRKKO SAISIO

    Read and discuss literature with our Nordic Book Club Online! On October 10, translator Mia Spangenberg joins us for a special talk on The Red Book of Farewells by Finnish author Pirkko Saisio, out now from Two Lines Press. Pirkko Saisio’s autofictional novel, in Mia Spangenberg’s tender translation, is a mesmerizing account of radical politics and sexual awakening […]