Our 2022 spring program, Crossing Borders: Historical Relations Between Sweden and the United States, explored an exciting new avenue in Swedish-American and migration history, namely “borderland studies,” which includes a pathbreaking cross-disciplinary examination of the countless aspects of historical and cultural relations between the two countries. This program was based on the new book edited by Society leaders Dag Blanck and Adam Hjorthén, Swedish-American Borderlands: New Histories of Transatlantic Relations (University of Minnesota Press, 2021). Swedish-American Borderlands is comprised of nineteen essays by leading scholars in their field of study. Our panel included four of them, two from Sweden and two from the United States.
The program was introduced and moderated by one of the volume editors, Adam Hjorthén, followed by presentations from Jennifer Eastman Attebery, Angela Hoffman, and Adam Kaul, and took place via Zoom on Sunday, April 24th, 2022 from 1:00-2:30 PM Central time. You may read more about the program in the March 2022 SAHS Newsletter and view the recording HERE.
