Lessons from the Revolutions of 1989 in East Central Europe

Pyle Center

  This event is free and open to the public. What lessons might be drawn—for us in the here and now—from studying the cultural space of pre-1989 (post-)totalitarian East Central Europe? How might dissidentism as …

GNS+ Lecture: Juliane Egerer, “The Art of Change: Decolonization, Indigenous Gender Struggles, and the Environment in Cultural Creations by Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and Ann-Helén Laestadius”

TBA

Canada-based Blackfoot (Kainai) and Sámi filmmaker Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and Sweden-based Sámi and Tornedalian writer Ann-Helén Laestadius neither define themselves as environmentalists nor activists, although their artistic works actively engage with the complex issues of environmental …

Iliane Thiemann Lecture

Virtual (Zoom)

More information to come. This will be a virtual event via Zoom.

Fatma Aydemir, “Dschinns (English: Djinns)”

206 Ingraham Hall 1155 Observatory Dr, Madison, WI

Co-sponsored by the Center for German and European Studies and GNS+. Join us for a reading in German and English by Fatma Aydemir and Jon Cho-Polizzi, followed by a conversation about Jon’s translation of Fatma’s …