BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Find Local//findlocal.community//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/Los_Angeles
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:19700308T020000
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:19701101T020000
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:1a113075-1e75-4677-aee6-0158bfa1e3c4@findlocal.community
DTSTAMP:20261015T121532Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261019T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261019T210000
SUMMARY:Liina-Ly Roos w/ Olivia Gunn
DESCRIPTION:Liina-Ly Roos\, associate professor at University of Wisconsi
 n-Madison\, presents her book The Not-Quite Child: Colonial Histories\, 
 Racialization\, and Swedish Exceptionalism\, examining Swedish depiction
 s of childhood that expose the country's colonial past and racial hierar
 chies. She’ll be joined by UW professor Olivia Gunn. Registration is not
  required\, but helps us anticipate audience size. If you'd like to RSVP
 \, please do so here! Figures like Pippi Longstocking and Greta Thunberg
  exemplify an ideal mainstream Swedish childhood: they are autonomous\, 
 competent\, and the voices of moral truths. In this innovative work\, Li
 ina-Ly Roos analyzes the figure of the “not-quite child”—children who\, 
 while appearing white\, have been marginalized due to historical raciali
 zation and colonialism—to challenge this established ideal. Through anal
 yses of films and literature that portray Indigenous Sámi\, Tornedalian\
 , and Finnish-speaking children\, The Not-Quite Child reveals how these 
 figures disrupt the normative understanding of growing up in Sweden. The
 se cultural texts are filled with tensions of assimilation\, invisibilit
 y\, and the struggle to grow in a society that demands conformity to a s
 pecific “Swedishness.” The children in these stories are both minoritize
 d and\, at the same time\, have the privilege of passing\, and share a l
 ong cultural history with and within the dominant culture. Through nuanc
 ed attention to these important narratives\, The Not-Quite Child contrib
 utes to dialogue on the complexities of identity\, race\, and the hidden
  colonial legacies that continue to shape understandings of childhood in
  Sweden. Liina-Ly Roos is Associate Professor of Scandinavian Studies at
  University of Wisconsin-Madison. She specializes in Nordic and Baltic f
 ilm\, television and cultural studies\, with a specific focus on migrati
 on\, ethnicity and race\, sexual politics\, postcolonial\, and childhood
  studies. Olivia Noble Gunn is Associate Professor and the Sverre Aresta
 d Endowed Chair in Norwegian Studies in the Department of Scandinavian S
 tudies at the University of Washington\, Seattle.\n\nTickets: https://ww
 w.eventbrite.com/e/liina-ly-roos-w-olivia-gunn-the-not-quite-child-ticke
 ts-2001034564248\n\nhttps://findlocal.community/event/1a113075-1e75-4677
 -aee6-0158bfa1e3c4
LOCATION:Comstock's Bindery & Bookshop\, WA
URL:https://findlocal.community/event/1a113075-1e75-4677-aee6-0158bfa1e3c
 4
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SEQUENCE:0
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR