Events
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Oct 13Study and Intern Abroad in Germany & Austria Info Session
1418 Van Hise Hall
Want to learn about options for studying German language abroad? Don’t know German but interested in studying in Germany or Austria? Join us to learn about study abroad programs and international internships in Germany and Austria and get advice from returned students and advisors – including available scholarships, important deadlines, and more! For questions, please …
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Oct 15Maxi Obexer (trans. Neil Blackadder), “The Daughters of Oresteia” Dramatic Reading (English)
Maxi Obexer and Neil Blackadder, Co-sponsored by the Center for German and European Studies (CGES) and the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic+.
332 Pyle Center
First performed in 458 BCE, Aeschylus’ The Oresteia is traditionally viewed as the depiction of a society transitioning from chaotic blood vengeance to structured, democratic justice. Yet this foundational drama of democracy also marks the birth of the tragic hero: Orestes, who slays his mother as commanded, only to be consumed by remorse. Maxi Obexer …
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Oct 16Casting Weimar: Selection, Surplus, and the Film Actor
Paul Dobryden
Van Hise Room 1418
This presentation tracks modern discourses of human selection as they converged in discussions of film acting in Weimar Germany. In the early years of narrative cinema and beyond, the question of how to select actors for films—the question of casting, in other words—preoccupied filmmakers, actors, critics, and audiences. I trace this question to features of …
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Oct 16Cultural Fibers: Folk Art in Conversation, Featuring Lesley Darling
Lesley Darling
L150, Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, 800 University Ave., Madison, WI 53706
Join the Nordic Folklife project for a wide-ranging conversation with celebrated fiber artist Lesley Darling, current MA candidate in Material Culture and Textile Studies at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Darling will speak about the scope and nature of her work, and answer questions about her perspectives on traditional art, sustainability, folk art pedagogy, place, and …
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Oct 16Maxi Obexer’s Dramatic Oeuvre: A Conversation with Maxi Obexer and Neil Blackadder about Translating for Theater
Maxi Obexer and Neil Blackadder, Co-sponsored by the Center for German and European Studies (CGES) and the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic+.
336 Ingraham
Join us for a reading of select passages of Obexer’s plays in German and English by Maxi Obexer and Neil Blackadder, followed by a conversation about Neil’s translation of Maxi’s plays. About the author: Maxi Obexer is a prominent German-language author and playwright whose work examines language, power, and political imagination. Raised in South Tyrol and thus …
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Oct 16Barn Dance at The Old Barn on Capitol View
Featuring Foot-Notes of Decorah, Iowa, and the ScandiAm Jam of Madison, Wisconsin
The Old Barn, 4796 Capitol View Rd, Middleton, WI 53562
Sponsored by CSUMC, GNS+, Folklore Program, Nordic Folklife. This event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be provided. For more information, www.folklife.wisc.edu
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Oct 27Think Blue: How Literary History Can Prepare Us For a Wetter World
Søren Frank, Professor, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
1312 Van Hise
More information to come!
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Oct 29Symposium: “German Influences on Wellness, Health, and Pharmaceuticals in America”
Memorial Library, Room 126, 728 State St, Madison
Free and Open to the Public In person at the UW–Madison Memorial Library and livestreamed. Symposium Program and Schedule [click here] >>Join us in Madison and meet our presenters. Ask questions and take part in discussions. No preregistration necessary.>>Join the livestream via Zoom. Preregistration is required. Register here to receive a link. German influences on wellness, health, and …
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Oct 29Maxi Obexer, Katrin Sieg, Sonja Klocke, “Maxi Obexer’s Oeuvre”
Maxi Obexer, Katrin Sieg, Sonja Klocke, Co-sponsored by the Center for German and European Studies (CGES) and the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic+.
Pyle Center 309
Political and ethical questions lie at the center of Obexer’s work. From a distinctly feminist perspective, she investigates the ways language shapes structures of power, belonging, and exclusion. Her writing engages with migration and displacement, competing visions of Europe, and the rights of marginalized communities—particularly queer people, women, and animals. Shaped by her experience of …
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Nov 18From Near Obscurity to Iconic Works: Bach’s Cello Suites
Edward Klorman, Cellist Matthew Zalkind
Hamel Music Center, Collins Recital Hall, 740 University Ave.
A Focus on the Humanities Lecture and Performance with Edward Klorman with Matthew Zalkind The six suites for unaccompanied cello by Johann Sebastian Bach—once dismissed as mere curiosities—are now revered as iconic works. They are performed worldwide by cellists of all ages, and they are moreover prominently used in pop culture such as film and television as …