Event Category: German Events
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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 6Glikl’s Melancholia: Gender, Affect, and the Afterlives of Early Modern Yiddish Literature
CEMS New Faculty Affiliate Lecture by Matthew Johnson (German, Nordic and Slavic+)
Van Hise 1312 - Madsen Room
This talk will offer a brief introduction to early modern or “old” Yiddish literature, with a focus on the work of Glikl bas Judah Leib, who, between 1691-1719, wrote a series of complex and enduring texts about the personal, social, and ethical problems that both animated and unsettled her life. The talk will center on …
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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 …