Colonial Heroism? The Story of Christian Krohg’s “Leif Erickson Discovering America” (1893)

Tomson 280

The St. Olaf community is invited to the 2024 Frederick Gaylord Grose Lecture in Norwegian Studies delivered by Dr. Øystein Sjåstad, Professor of Art History at the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas at the University of Oslo, Norway. Did Krohg's much-loved painting of the famous Viking explorer represent the colonial ideology […]

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Southern Minnesota as a Borderland

Viking Theater, Buntrock Commons

The St. Olaf community is welcome to attend a talk on Southern Minnesota as a Boarderland. Homesteading, war, and immigration all intersected in the southern plains of Minnesota in 1862. Just as immigrants flooded into Minnesota with the hopes of claiming up to 160 acres of land, the US-Dakota War broke out. This presentation will […]

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