Past Events
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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 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 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 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 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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Sep 24“Witold Gombrowicz’s Theatrophobia: The Playwright and His Double,” a lecture by Allen Kuharski
Allen Kuharski, Professor Emeritus, Swarthmore College
206 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive CREECA Event Page
This lecture is co-sponsored by the Lapinski Family Fund and the Polish Heritage Club of Madison. About the Lecture: Witold Gombrowicz is Poland’s most produced playwright around the world—and more performed abroad than in Poland itself. His first play Ivona, Princess of Burgundia is the most-produced Polish play of all time outside of Poland. Gombrowicz’s theater leads a …
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Sep 23International Majors and Opportunities Fair
Gordon Dining and Event Center, 770 W Dayton St.
The International Majors and Opportunities Fair will be held on Wednesday 9/23/26 in the Gordon Dining and Event Center from 3:00-5:00pm. You can learn about the many majors, certificates, funding and scholarship opportunities, student organizations, events, and post-graduate support and programming on campus that has an international component. Use the QR code in the flyers …
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Sep 18A talk on the book “Viacheslav Ivanov: A Symbolist Life”
Michael Wachtel (Princeton U)
1312 Van Hise
Michael Wachtel (Princeton U), will discuss his recent book “Viacheslav Ivanov: A Symbolist Life”.
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Sep 17Maxi Obexer, Reading in German, “Odysseus‘ Hund” and “Unter Tieren”
Maxi Obexer, Co-sponsored by the Center for German and European Studies and the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic+.
336 Ingraham
This talk will be held in German. A year before Maxi Obexer published her novel Unter Tieren (Among Animals, 2023), she wrote a widely acclaimed essay titled “Über Tiere schreiben, über Tiere sprechen” (Writing About Animals, Speaking About Animals, 2022). In it, Obexer grapples with what it means to write about animals in a language deeply shaped …
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Sep 17“A Voice in the Wilderness: The Vita Nova Publishing House and Its Anti-Nazi Program,” a lecture by Michael Wachtel
Michael Wachtel, Princeton University
206 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive CREECA Event Page
Co-sponsored by the Center for German and European Studies, the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic+, and the Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies. About the lecture: The talk is based on approximately 800 pages of unpublished correspondence between the Jewish philosopher and musician Evsei Davidovich Shor and the Protestant writer and publisher Rudolf Roessler. After leaving …