Past Event Category: GNS+ Events
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Dec 1Presentations, Exhibit, Reception: “Early Anabaptist Documents at the Max Kade Institute”
University Club, 432 East Campus Mall, Room 313
Join us at the Max Kade Institute to celebrate the recent acquisition of a collection of books, some of them quite rare, published by and about Anabaptists. Donated by J. Denny Weaver, these mostly German- and Dutch-language items were collected by Weaver and his late father-in-law, J. C. Wenger, a professor at Goshen College who …
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Nov 20Virtual Lecture: The German Audience for the U.S. Declaration of Independence
Emily Sneff
Free and open to the public, but registration is required. Click here to register for a Zoom link. July 4, 2026, will mark the 250th anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence. Almost immediately after being adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, the document was translated into German. Join Dr. …
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Nov 16Madison Polish Film Festival ‘25
Marquee Cinema at Union South
Join us for the 2025 Madison Polish Film Festival at the Marquee Cinema at Union South!
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Nov 14Scandinavian Day at UW-Madison
Scandinavian Day at UW-Madison Celebrating 150 Years of Scandinavian Studies November 14th, 2025 For more information and registration, please go to: 150th Anniversary Celebration Join us for a day of seminars, tours, and performances celebrating the Nordic Unit at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, followed by a festive Scandinavian-inspired buffet dinner in the Fluno Center. Scandinavian …
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Nov 11“Research 101: Humanities Edition”
Washburn Observatory (1401 Observatory Drive)
Research 101: Humanities Edition What can research look like in the Humanities? Whether you’re just beginning to explore what research means or you’re gearing up to write a senior Honors thesis, this event is for you. Join us for a panel discussion and Q&A with faculty members and a current undergraduate researcher as they share …
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Nov 9Madison Polish Film Festival ‘25
Marquee Cinema at Union South
Join us for the 2025 Madison Polish Film Festival at the Marquee Cinema at Union South!
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Nov 4Ofer Ashkenazi, Rebekka Grossmann, Sarah Wobick-Segev, and Shira Miron, “Still Lives: Jewish Photography in Nazi Germany”
Virtual Event
Still Lives is a systematic study of the ways Jews used photographs to document their experiences in the face of National Socialism. In a time of intensifying anti-Jewish rhetoric and policies, German Jews documented their lives and their environment in tens of thousands of photographs. German Jews of considerably diverse backgrounds took and preserved these photographs: professional and amateurs, of different ages, gender, and classes.
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Oct 28The Danish Universal Child Care Model: Child Care for Every Child!
1418 Van Hise
Kathy Pomer, M.A. President & CEO GatherRound; Kate MacCrimmon, Ph.D. CEO & Founder Early Educators Exchange; Corrine Hendrickson Co-Founder, Wisconsin Early Childhood Action Needed Sponsors: Nordic (from GNS), European Studies, GatherRound, Mother Forward, Wisconsin Early Childhood Action Needed, National Association for Family Child Care This event is free and open to the public.
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Oct 28Folklore Program Pumpkin Carving Party / Open House
1st Floor of Union Commons (The University Club) 803 State Street
Come and join us for the Folklore Program Pumpkin Carving Party and Open House!
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Oct 27Alice Lovejoy, “Chemistry, Autarky, and Empire: Manufacturing Film in Fascist Germany”
Memorial Library Rm 126
We often think of cinema’s politics as matters of subject and style, distribution and reception. This talk, however, locates them in film’s raw materials—in substances like silver, gelatin, and cotton, on which cinema’s play of light and shadow depends. It does so through the case of Nazi Germany, examining the Agfa film company’s embrace of the fascist politics of autarky (material and economic self-sufficiency).