Past Event Category: GNS+ Events
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Mar 21Rosemaling at the Chazen: An Afternoon with Painter Tara Austin and the Nordic Lights Dance Band
Mead Witter Lobby of the Chazen Museum of Art
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
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Mar 10Virtual Lecture: An Unusual Moravian Diary
Paul Peucker
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.
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Mar 9“Fugitive Logistics: Unsettling the German Archive”
Van Hise 1418
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.
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Feb 25Virtual Lecture: “German and American Protestant Pastors in Occupied Germany”
Brandon Bloch
This presentation examines the fraught interactions between German Lutheran pastors and their American Protestant counterparts, as well as U.S.-based faith organizations.
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Feb 17Reading to Live: From Symbolic Act to the Activity of Form
Dr. Jensen Suther
Elevhjem Building L166
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.
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Feb 16Virtual Lecture: Yugoslav & Post-Yugoslav Jewish Identity in the Balkans
Zoom
This talk will aim to better understand Jewish identity in Yugoslavia, and its implication on the wars that saw its dissolution and afterward.
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Feb 12Virtual Lecture: “German Americans and the Founding of the United States”
Emily Sneff
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.
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Feb 3Language and Place: Poetry in Yiddish and Pennsylvania Dutch
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
This event will showcase poetic works in Yiddish and Pennsylvania Dutch that deal with the concept of place.
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Feb 2‘МОСТ’ WANTED”: Intergenerational Bridge-Building in Bulgarian Village Revitalization
1418 Van Hise Hall
This presentation explores why and how young, urban Bulgarians are addressing rural depopulation, and especially how recovery of traditional cultural practices plays into their endeavors.
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Jan 30GNS+ Book Talk – The Not-Quite Child
Dr. Liina-Ly Roos, Dr. Ida Moen Johnson, and Dr. Mary Hennessy
Madsen Room (1312 Van Hise)
The discussion will focus on Liina-Ly Roos’s recent publication, The Not-Quite Child (University of Washington Press, 2025). The event will take the form of a conversation among three of our wonderful GNS colleagues: Dr. Liina-Ly Roos, Dr. Ida Moen Johnson, and Dr. Mary Hennessy. Snacks will be served.