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.

Madison Polish Film Festival ‘25

Marquee Cinema at Union South
@ 3:00 pm CST

Join us for the 2025 Madison Polish Film Festival at the Marquee Cinema at Union South!

“Research 101: Humanities Edition”

Washburn Observatory (1401 Observatory Drive)
@ 5:30 pm CST

Research 101: Humanities Edition What can research look like in the Humanities? Whether you’re just beginning to explore what research means or you’re gearing up to write a senior Honors thesis, this event is for …

Scandinavian Day at UW-Madison

Scandinavian Day at UW-Madison Celebrating 150 Years of Scandinavian Studies November 14th, 2025 For more information and registration, please go to: 150th Anniversary Celebration Join us for a day of seminars, tours, and performances celebrating …

“Migration and Memory in Contemporary Europe”

Brandon Bloch [UW-Madison, History] Michelle Khan [University of Richmond, History] Liina-Ly Roos [UW-Madison, GNS+] Benjamin Mier-Cruz [UW-Madison, Nordic Studies] Chris Molnar [University of Michigan-Flint, History] Nana Osei-Kofi [Oregon State University, Nordic Studies] Ayşe Parla [Boston University, Anthropology] Leonie Schulte [UW-Madison, Anthropology] Phi H. Su [Williams College, Sociology]
313 Pyle Center

This cross-disciplinary one-day workshop brings together six invited scholars and experts (alongside the three organizers) to examine the interlinkages of migration policies and European discourses over historical memory. We interrogate how competing historical narratives (of …

Madison Polish Film Festival ‘25

Marquee Cinema at Union South
@ 3:00 pm CST

Join us for the 2025 Madison Polish Film Festival at the Marquee Cinema at Union South!

Presentations, Exhibit, Reception: “Early Anabaptist Documents at the Max Kade Institute”

University Club, 432 East Campus Mall, Room 313
@ 4:00 pm CST - 6:00 pm CST
https://mki.wisc.edu/event/presentation-exhibit-reception-early-anabaptist-documents-at-the-max-kade-institute/

Join us at the Max Kade Institute to celebrate the recent acquisition of a collection of books, some of them quite rare, published by and about Anabaptists. Donated by J. Denny Weaver, these mostly German- …