EXPAND YOUR NORDIC KNOWLEDGE.Byline: Daily News THOUSAND OAKS Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown. - More than 150 participants are expected this weekend for the annual Nordic Symposium at California Lutheran University Mission statement The University's mission statement is as follows: "California Lutheran University is a diverse, scholarly community dedicated to excellence in the liberal arts and professional studies. . Academic talks on a range of topics, from Scandinavian folk art folk art, the art works of a culturally homogeneous people produced by artists without formal training. The forms of such works are generally developed into a tradition that is either cut off from or tenuously connected to the contemporary cultural mainstream. to being Swedish in America, will be presented during the conference. On Sunday, an afternoon forum will be devoted to the historic debate over the controversial Kensington Rune Stone Kensington Rune Stone, much-disputed stone found (1898) on a farm near Kensington, Minn., SW of Alexandria. Inscribed on the stone in runes is an account of a party of Norse explorers, 14 days' journey from the sea, who camped nearby in 1362 and lost 10 of their men, , organizers said. ``It is an event to educate people - Scandinavian-American people - about their heritage,'' said C. Allan Carlson, a board member of the area's Scandinavian Cultural and Historical Foundation. Events will be held at CLU (language) CLU - (CLUster) An object-oriented programming language developed at MIT by Liskov et al in 1974-1975. CLU is an object-oriented language of the Pascal family designed to support data abstraction, similar to Alphard. , where the campus' Scandinavian Cultural Center houses a collection of books and resources, including an oral history collection of interviews with more than 300 immigrants, he said. The symposium will begin today and will continue from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Saturday and 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday at the school's Preus-Brandt Forum, 60 W. Olsen Road. Tickets are available at the door from $15 to $60. |
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