Zoom @ 6:00 pm CST - 7:00 pm CST
This talk will aim to better understand Jewish identity in Yugoslavia, and its implication on the wars that saw its dissolution and afterward.
Events Category: GNS+ Events
Reading to Live: From Symbolic Act to the Activity of Form
Dr. Jensen Suther
Elevhjem Building L166 @ 5:30 pm CST
Drawing on the account of a “bio-aesthetics,” I develop in my recent book, True Materialism, I will show that Jameson's provocative idea of the symbolic act fails to live up to its own promise: instead of grasping artistic and literary works as coded representations of class struggle, Marxist criticism must understand narrative not primarily as representation but as an essential dimension of the self-reproduction of animals like us.
Virtual Lecture: “German and American Protestant Pastors in Occupied Germany”
Brandon Bloch
@ 6:00 pm CST
https://uwmadison.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8hq7_WMqTI6iSh06ocWevw
This presentation examines the fraught interactions between German Lutheran pastors and their American Protestant counterparts, as well as U.S.-based faith organizations.
“Fugitive Logistics: Unsettling the German Archive”
Van Hise 1418 @ 4:00 pm CDT
Nathan Taylor's talk, "Fugitive Logistics: Unsettling the German Archive,” is drawn from his forthcoming book of the same name with Cornell University Press. It shifts from discourses of value to global value chains and draws on an emerging field of ‘infrastructural’ and critical logistics studies to rethink paradigms of exile and Atlantic migration in German Studies.
Virtual Lecture: An Unusual Moravian Diary
Paul Peucker
@ 6:00 pm CDT
Join us and Dr. Peucker as he explores the history of the Moravians and examines the diary itself—who these men were, the topics they discussed in London, and why this source remains relevant today.
Rosemaling at the Chazen: An Afternoon with Painter Tara Austin and the Nordic Lights Dance Band
Mead Witter Lobby of the Chazen Museum of Art @ 11:30 am CDT - 1:30 pm CDT
Join Tara Austin (MFA 2017), UW–Madison’s Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Culture’s 2026 Folk-Artist-in-Residence and for a live rosemaling demonstration accompanied by Nordic American old-time music from the Nordic Lights Dance Band. Please …
GNS+ Lecture: The Last Aurochs: Zoopolitics, Memorialization, and Early Modern Extinction
Thomasz Grusiecki (Queen’s University, Canada)
Pyle Center Room 332 @ 4:00 pm CDT
From the 16th century onward, Jaktorów Forest in Mazovia, Poland, became the last refuge of the aurochs, a now-extinct species of long-horned wild cattle. Despite the Polish kings’ best efforts at conservation, the species perished …
Virtual Workshop: “Learn to Read the Old German Script: Letters and Personal Documents”
Mark L. Louden, Antje Petty
@ 10:00 am CDT - 12:00 pm CDT
This workshop is designed for scholars, family historians, students, and anyone curious about Kurrent. You will learn how to decipher individual characters, words, and simple texts, even if you do not speak German. We will also discuss common structures and phrases found in personal documents that can help you better understand their content.
German Play: “Die unwürdige Greisin” (“The Shameless Old Lady)
Deluca Forum @ 7:00 pm CDT - 8:30 pm CDT
Berlin-based director Jürgen Kuttner, theater specialist Helga Angarano, and students in the German Theater class will present a performance of Bertolt Brecht’s subversively funny short story “Die unwürdige Greisin” (“The Shameless Old Lady”). The performance …