Badger Talk: Nordic Food and Fun During the Holiday Season

This talk focuses on two specific traditions in the Nordic countries and how they’ve changed, and also how they’re celebrated in the US. The talk will also touch on holiday foods. Presenter Marcus Cederström earned his BA from the University of Oregon in Sports Business, History, and Scandinavian Studies and his MA and PhD in Scandinavian Studies from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is a folklorist working in the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic at UW-Madison as the community curator of Nordic-American folklore for the “Sustaining Scandinavian Folk Arts in the Upper Midwest” project. His research interests include immigration to the United States, identity formation, North American Indigenous communities, and sustainability.