| 2010 | |||
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| March 6 | Thórrablot | 5:30pm to late | Norway House |
The next series of Beck lectures will be given by Dr. Jón Karl Helgason, Assistant Professor of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Iceland. Helgason is a scholar, translator, radio producer, editor and novelist. His scholarly fields of interest include the post-medieval reception of the Icelandic sagas and 20th-century Icelandic cultural history. His books include the scholarly work Hetjan og höfundurinn (1998), translations into Icelandic of Kate Chopin's The Awakening (1997) and Hanif Kureishi's Intimacy (1999), the novel Næsturgalinn (1998), and The Rewriting of Njáls Saga: Translation, Politics and Icelandic Sagas (1999). His latest book, a biography of cultural patron Ragnar Jónsson (1904-1984), was nominated for the Icelandic Literary Prize in 2009.
For more information on the Beck lectures and other resources visit the Beck Trust web site.
Last updated February 20, 2010