12/10/2025
On December 4th in Uppsala, Sweden, former Board President Philip J. Anderson and current Board of Directors member Bruce Karstadt, alongside 125 esteemed colleagues, friends, and officials from both Sweden and America, came together to celebrate the retirement of Dag Blanck at Uppsala University in Uppsala, Sweden.
What the assembled guests did not yet know was that Anderson and Karstadt would be presenting Dag Blanck with a festschrift, or a publication honoring his life's work assembled by 49 of his closest interlocutors.
Migration, Modernity, and Meaning: Studies of Sweden and America, Essays in Honor of Dag Blanck, published by the Swedish American Historical Society, is this festschrift. Today, we announce to a wider audience that our newest publication celebrates one of our longest-serving board members and a giant in the field of Swedish American Studies.
Migration, Modernity, and Meaning is now available for purchase via email and phone, and will be coming to our website soon.
