The Old Barn, 4796 Capitol View Rd, Middleton, WI 53562 @ 6:30 pm CDT - 8:30 pm CDT
Featuring Foot-Notes of Decorah, Iowa, and the ScandiAm Jam of Madison, Wisconsin
Past Events
Reading Disability in Old Norse Literature with Dr. Natalie Van Deusen (University of Alberta)
1418 Van Hise @ 4:00 pm CDT - 5:00 pm CDT
Through a presentation of interrelated examples from a variety of Old Norse texts, this lecture focuses on the importance of reading across traditionally defined Old Norse genre boundaries in order to better understand how physical, sensory, and mental difference was named, experienced, and treated in medieval Iceland.
A German Music Student in Madison, 1966-67: The Letters of Michael Kopfermann
5520 Humanities @ 4:00 pm CDT
The German composer and musicologist Michael Kopfermann (1936-2010) spent his student years on a scholarship that brought him to Madison in 1966-67 to study with Pro Arte violinist and School of Music faculty member Rudolf Kolisch. Musicologists Dörte Schmidt (Berlin) and Reinhard Kapp (Vienna) have uncovered a large cache of Kopfermann’s letters to his family, in which he offers a rare and detailed account of the cultural and intellectual life in Madison in the 1960s and the vibrancy of the community of German émigrés who made Madison their home after World War II.
Harvest Folk Festival
Allen Centennial Garden @ 12:00 pm CDT - 6:00 pm CDT
In partnership with Allen Centennial Garden, Norden Haus students will be raising a may pole, assisting with a flower-crown making workshop, and teaching (and learning) Scandinavian dances with music performed by Ph.D. student Cait Vitale-Sullivan. Cait will also be presenting Swedish herding music on stage.
“Russian Poetry and Its Freedom: Reflections After 2022,” a lecture by Stephanie Sandler
206 Ingraham Hall @ 4:00 pm CDT - 5:15 pm CDT
This lecture will survey the possibilities for freedom in poems, journals, anthologies, podcasts, radio programs, and social media posts after 2022, with examples from Israel, Latvia, Germany, the United States, and Russia. Poets and editors discussed may include Igor Bulatovsky, Dmitry Kuz’min, Lev Oborin, Irina Prokhorova, Alexander Skidan, Maria Stepanova, and Evgenia Vezhlian.
Nordic Socialism: The Path Toward a Democratic Economy
A Room of One's Own Bookstore @ 2:00 pm CDT - 3:30 pm CDT
A conversation between Danish MP, Pelle Dragsted, and author of the book, Nordic Socialism: The Path Toward a Democratic Economy, and Dean Krouk, Professor of German, Nordic, and Slavic+ at UW-Madison. This event is presented …