Past Event Category: GNS+ Events
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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).
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Oct 24Qinna Shen, “Visualizing German and European Politics through Jiny Lan’s Message Painting”
206 Ingraham
Qinna Shen will present a lecture based on her forthcoming book, “Jiny Lan and the Art of Subversion: Chinese-German Culture and Politics through a Feminist Lens.”
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Oct 16“Immigrants around the Sacred Table: Charity, Consumerism, and St. Joseph Altars as Contact Zones in Queens, New York.”
1310 Sterling
A lecture by Joseph Sciorra, Director for Academic and Cultural Programs at the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, The City University of New York. Sponsored by the Folklore Program (GNS+), Department of French and Italian, Department of Religious Studies, Department of Art History, European Studies Program, UW Lectures Committee
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Oct 16“Visualizing Intimacies and Emerging Identities: Photographs of Italian Migrant Home Visits”
1418 Van Hise
A lecture by Joseph Sciorra, Director for Academic and Cultural Programs at the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, The City University of New York. Lunchtime reception following. Sponsored by the Folklore Program (GNS+), Department of French and Italian, Department of Religious Studies, Department of Art History, European Studies Program, UW Lectures Committee
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Oct 10Barn Dance at The Old Barn on Capitol View
The Old Barn, 4796 Capitol View Rd, Middleton, WI 53562
Featuring Foot-Notes of Decorah, Iowa, and the ScandiAm Jam of Madison, Wisconsin