Harvest Folk Festival

Allen Centennial Garden
@ 12:00 pm CDT - 6:00 pm CDT

In partnership with Allen Centennial Garden, Norden Haus students will be raising a may pole, assisting with a flower-crown making workshop, and teaching (and learning) Scandinavian dances with music performed by Ph.D. student Cait Vitale-Sullivan. Cait will also be presenting Swedish herding music on stage.

Barn Dance at The Old Barn on Capitol View

The Old Barn, 4796 Capitol View Rd, Middleton, WI 53562
@ 6:30 pm CDT - 8:30 pm CDT

Featuring Foot-Notes of Decorah, Iowa, and the ScandiAm Jam of Madison, Wisconsin

Qinna Shen, TBD

206 Ingraham
@ 3:30 pm CDT

Qinna Shen will present a lecture based on her forthcoming book, “Jiny Lan and the Art of Subversion: Chinese-German Culture and Politics through a Feminist Lens.”

Alice Lovejoy, “Chemistry, Autarky, and Empire: Manufacturing Film in Fascist Germany”

Memorial Library Rm 126
@ 4:00 pm CDT

We often think of cinema’s politics as matters of subject and style, distribution and reception. This talk, however, locates them in film’s raw materials—in substances like silver, gelatin, and cotton, on which cinema’s play of light and shadow depends. It does so through the case of Nazi Germany, examining the Agfa film company’s embrace of the fascist politics of autarky (material and economic self-sufficiency).

Ofer Ashkenazi, Rebekka Grossmann, Sarah Wobick-Segev, and Shira Miron, “Still Lives: Jewish Photography in Nazi Germany”

Virtual Event
@ 11:00 am CST

Still Lives is a systematic study of the ways Jews used photographs to document their experiences in the face of National Socialism. In a time of intensifying anti-Jewish rhetoric and policies, German Jews documented their lives and their environment in tens of thousands of photographs. German Jews of considerably diverse backgrounds took and preserved these photographs: professional and amateurs, of different ages, gender, and classes.