Dr Mikkel Zangenberg from the Department of Comparative Literature will be participating at Nordicana: Nordic Noir & Beyond, the UK festival of Scandinavian drama and fiction.
The event will be held over this weekend, Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 June. The event plays host to stars from the Scandinavian television shows and crime fiction, including The Bridge’s Sofia Helin as well as Sofie Grabol, who played the iconic Sarah Lund in three seasons of The Killing.
Mikkel will participate in a panel on Sunday, alongside historians, linguists from UCL and the Nordic Film Festival, entitled ‘1864 as National “Wound”, Then and Now’, discussing the television series 1864, currently being shown on BBC4. Mikkel will talk on the disastrous reception of the programme in Denmark, as opposed to the comparatively benign reception in the UK.
The event will be held at the Troxy theatre in East London. For more details on the event, please see the page here: http://nordicnoir.tv