York Anglo Scandinavian Society ​

By Professor Knut Øystein Høvik and Dr Beck Sinar Sometimes, dreams—and beautifully awkward diplomatic dilemmas—really do come true. This Saturday, England faces Norway in the quarter-finals of the World Cup. For the York Anglo-Scandinavian Society, this is the ultimate test of our allegiances. This blog is a truly collaborative effort, co-written by the Director of the Norwegian Study Centre (a football-obsessed Norwegian riding a wave of national euphoria), Knut Øystein, an

It was billed as ‘a new musical’ and ‘a journey through the dark’. I’m not a fan of musicals, and morality tales usually leave me unmoved. I only went because it was Norwegian! Not a clue what to expect, and the flyer didn’t give too much away. So it was an act of faith, on a baking hot day in York, to head for a small studio theatre with an entirely black interior where even if you’d sat in the back row – and I sat right at the front – you’d have still been in the way of t

A moment to pause and remember a candlelit Sankta Lucia evening.

by Amy Sinar, age 13, from York "I know it’s only November," but Saturday honestly felt like Christmas had already arrived—Scandinavian style. The York Anglo-Scandinavian Society held a Christmas craft event at the Norwegian Study Centre, and about fifty people showed up. It felt like stepping into a tiny Nordic village for the afternoon and it was a-mazing! When we walked in, the first thing I noticed was the giant screen showing a crackling fire, like those cosy TV fireplac