A conversation between Danish MP, Pelle Dragsted, and author of the book, Nordic Socialism: The Path Toward a Democratic Economy, and Dean Krouk, Professor of German, Nordic, and Slavic+ at UW-Madison.
This event is presented in collaboration with the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic+ at UW-Madison and A Room of One’s Own bookstore.
Pelle Dragsted is the leader of the Enhedslisten party, or Red-Green Alliance, in Denmark and a representative in the Folketing, the Danish parliament. He is the author of Nordisk Socialisme: På vej mod en demokratisk økonomi, which was first published in Danish to great acclaim.
Dean Krouk is Professor and Associate Chair of the German, Nordic, and Slavic+ department, as well as Director of Graduate Students (Nordic). His main area of research is Norwegian literature since the nineteenth century, especially its intersections with modern political ideologies during the interwar period and World War II. Dean’s first book, Fascism and Modernist Literature in Norway (University of Washington Press, 2017), examines the work of four authors with varying responses to Norwegian fascism and the Nazi occupation of Norway in World War II. His second book, The Making of an Antifascist: Nordahl Grieg between the World Wars (University of Wisconsin Press, 2022) is the first comprehensive treatment in English of the major Norwegian writer Nordahl Grieg, a poet, journalist, novelist, playwright, and icon of the Norwegian resistance during the occupation. Since 2023, Dean has been the editor of the journal Scandinavian Studies.