Events
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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, …
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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 8Madison Polish Film Festival ’26: Altar Boys
Marquee Cinema, Union South
Altar Boys Directed by Piotr Domalewski, 2025, 106 min Frustrated by adult and church indifference to social injustice, a group of young, devout teenage altar boys decide to take matters into their own hands.
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Nov 8Madison Polish Film Festival ’26: Home Sweet Home
Marquee Cinema, Union South
Directed by one of Poland’s most critically acclaimed filmmakers, Home Sweet Home is a gripping psychological drama that probes into the mechanisms of domestic abuse as the protagonists’ marriage takes a dark turn.
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Nov 15Madison Polish Film Festival ’26: The Good Boy
Marquee Cinema, Union South
Tommy, a 19-year-old criminal, is kidnapped and forced into a rehabilitation process by a dysfunctional couple and must devise a way to escape.
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Nov 15Madison Polish Film Festival ’26: The Duel/Gorky Resort
Marquee Cinema, Union South
Confronted with a malevolent interrogator in a Soviet prisoner-of-war camp, a young Polish lieutenant fights for his life and the soul of his country.
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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 …
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Feb 24“The Predicament of Privilege” Book Talk
Devika Sharma, Associate Professor of Modern Culture at the University of Copenhagen
TBD
Devika Sharma, Associate Professor of Modern Culture at the University of Copenhagen will be talking about her book, The Predicament of Privilege: Inequality and Ambivalence in Contemporary Scandinavian Culture(University of Washington Press, 2026). This event is co-sponsored by GNS+ and the department of European Studies. More information TBD.