Lecture on Swedish Immigrant Women
Sep 22, 2008
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REBECCA AMUNDSEN, assistant to the Dean, Academic Affairs
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AMY KELLY, Media Relations director
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SESQUICENTENNIAL LECTURE ON SWEDISH IMMIGRANT WOMEN
Concordia College will present a second Minnesota Sesquicentennial Lecture at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 30 in Birkeland Alumni Lounge on the Moorhead, Minn., campus. Dr. Joy Lintelman, professor of history at Concordia, will present “Beyond the Farmstead: The Social Worlds of Minnesota’s Swedish Immigrant Women.”
Lintelman’s lecture is drawn from her forthcoming book “I Go to America: Swedish American Women and the Life of Mina Anderson,” which provides an intimate and detailed portrait of young Swedish women who chose to immigrate to America in the nineteenth century—why they left, what they found, and how they survived. Viewed largely through the experiences of one woman who lived in rural Minnesota from 1893 until her death in 1955, this presentation examines the ways in which rural Swedish immigrant women participated in social networks outside their homestead and family, and the important roles such communities played in their lives.
The lecture is free and open to the public.
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