Events
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Oct 1Maxi Obexer, Documentary Radio Play and Discussion: Im Auge des Sturms. Das Kapitol im Januar 2021 (2024)
Maxi Obexer, Co-sponsored by the Center for German and European Studies (CGES) and the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic +.
336 Ingraham
Probably everyone is familiar with the images of the attack on the United States Capitol in Washington D.C. on January 6, 2021. But what happened inside the building on that day? In her award-winning documentary radio play Im Auge des Sturms, Maxi Obexer shifts the lens away from the mob outside to focus on the lawmakers …
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Oct 5Afropean: Black People and Blackness in Europe
Discovery Building, UW-Madison Department of African American Studies Event Page
Panelists and Moderators Michelle Moyd is Red Cedar Distinguished Associate Professor of History at MSU. Her book,Violent Intermediaries: African Soldiers, Conquest, and Everyday Colonialism in German East Africa, was published by Ohio University Press in 2014. Her peer-reviewed articles have appeared in Radical History Review, International Labor and Working Class History, and Slavery and Abolition. She is currently at …
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Oct 8When Difficulty Motivates (and When It Doesn’t): What Identity-Based Motivation Theory Can Offer to Second Language Acquisition
Sophia Strietholt
1418 Van Hise Hall
Please join the Language Institute; the Second Language Acquisition PhD Program; the German Program in the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic+; and the Language Ideologies and Linguistic Discrimination working group for the second lecture in a series on identity and language learning. RSVP here (not required) Abstract Why do learners who clearly imagine their future …
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Oct 8Hilldale Lecture: Defining Enlightenment: Kant, Mendelssohn, Arendt
Liliane Weissberg, Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor in Arts and Science emerita and Professor of Francophone, Italian, and Germanic Studies
Pyle Center Rm 226
What is Enlightenment? In 1783 Berlin monthly Berlinische Monatsschrift asked its readers to submit answers to this question, and both Immanuel Kant and Moses Mendelssohn sent essays to the journal. Their submissions, both published in 1784, offered very different responses. In 1933, shortly after Hitler’s rise to power, Hannah Arendt also reflected on Enlightenment. She would implicitly refer to Kant …
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Oct 12Catastrophic Belatedness (Celan, Darwish, Derrida)
Peter Makhlouf
Ingraham 206
Declarations on the fate of poetry after mass violence—enshrined most notably in Theodor Adorno’s indictment of “poetry after Auschwitz”—have tended to stress poetry’s impotence in the face of representing past destruction. Arriving too late to catastrophe constitutes the primordial belatedness of any poetics of witness. But what happens when we shift the locus of poetry from …
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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 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