This week was our first study tour with our core courses. Each class spends three days in another location in Sweden. My literature core course was in Uppsala, focusing on the theme of constructing national narratives and how that contributes to the process of othering. We had a very busy week, so I'll do my …
Month: February 2019
Melodifestivalen and Semla Day!
This Saturday was the first week of Melodifestivalen, the Swedish preliminary competition to see who will represent the country at this year's Eurovision Song Contest. It's six weeks of over-the-top music and very interesting performances, voting is open to the entire country, and it's honestly a pretty big deal here (especially in the queer community). …
Fika and Psychology
DIS has a very large psychology program, with 3 different core courses in different concentrations. I decided, even as a literature student, to take one psych class to get out of my academic comfort zone. I was also interested in studying education in a Scandinavian context, so I enrolled in Psychology of Emerging Adulthood, a …
Finding Home in Stockholm 