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  • Oct 8
    When 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 …

  • Oct 12
    Catastrophic 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 …

  • Oct 13
    Study 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 …

  • Oct 15
    Maxi 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 …

  • Oct 16
    Casting 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 …

  • Oct 16
    Maxi 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 …

  • Oct 29
    Symposium: “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, and …

  • Oct 29
    Maxi 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 …

  • Nov 18
    From 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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