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.
Tomasz 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 …
Mead Witter Lobby of the Chazen Museum of Art @ 2:30 pm CDT - 4:30 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 RSVP ahead of time: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rosemaling-at-the-chazen-tickets-1982713339973?aff=WEev03212026
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Emily Sneff
@ 6:00 pm CST
https://uwmadison.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1UOtwOHvSIOb93RMGB1i5g
This lecture will examine the roles of military leaders, early officeholders, and supporters on the home front, including members of the Muhlenberg family (Peter, Frederick, and Catherine); Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben; Michael Hillegas; Mary Ludwig Hays—better remembered as Molly Pitcher—and other men and women whose influence can still be felt today.
Josh Brown (UW–Eau Claire), Matt Johnson (UW–Madison), Mark Louden (UW–Madison), Sunny Yudkoff (UW–Madison)
UW–Madison Memorial Union, Old Madison Room, 800 Langdon Street @ 4:00 pm CST
This event will showcase poetic works in Yiddish and Pennsylvania Dutch that deal with the concept of place.