Dr. Silje Solheim Karlsen: “With and Without Borders: Contemporary Fiction from Sápmi”
1418 Van Hise HallCo-sponsored by the Center for European Studies and The Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic +. Abstract: Sápmi crosses four national borders, encompasses several Sámi languages, four national languages, and minority languages such as Kven and …
Pumpkin Carving Party/Open House
Union Commons 803 State Street, MadisonCome join the Folklore Program for some Halloween fun for a pumpkin carving party and open house! The event will take place on Thursday, October 24 from 4-6pm at the 1st Floor of Union Commons …
Sabine Hake, “The Nazi Worker” and the “Proletarian Dream Project”
Virtual EventSponsored by European Studies, the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic+, and the George L. Mosse Program in History. Sabine Hake is the Professor of Germanic Studies at The University of Texas at Austin where …
Ostap Slyvynsky, A Reading from “Winter King” and “A Ukrainian Dictionary of War”
Ingraham Hall, Room 206Ostap Slyvynsky is a Ukrainian poet, translator, essayist, and scholar. He is a recipient of the Hubert Burda Prize for young poets from Eastern Europe (2009) and the Kovaliv Fund Prize (2013). In 2022, he …
Sibylle Schönemann, Screening and Discussion of “Locked Up Time” (1990)
Virtual EventCo-sponsored by the Center for German & European Studies and the Department of German, Nordic & Slavic+. Registration is required. Screening available here. Sibylle Schönemann was born on October 5, 1953 in Berlin, Germany. She …
2024 Madison Polish Film Festival
Marquee Cinema in Union SouthThe Madison Polish Film Festival is back! This year, the festival will take place on November 10 and November 17 at the Marquee Cinema (located in Union South) on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. All …
Frances Tanzer: “Vanishing Vienna: Modernism, Philosemitism, and Jews in a Postwar City”
Ingraham Hall, Room 206Frances Tanzer will discuss her new book, Vanishing Vienna: Modernism, Philosemitism, and Jews in a Postwar City (University of Pennsylvania Press), which traces the reconstruction of Viennese culture from the 1938 German Anschluss through the early 1960s. The book …
2024 Madison Polish Film Festival
Marquee Cinema in Union SouthThe Madison Polish Film Festival is back! This year, the festival will take place on November 10 and November 17 at the Marquee Cinema (located in Union South) on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. All …
Zafer Şenocak, “First Light” (A Bilingual Reading)
Ingraham Hall, Room 206November 22, Friday @3-5pm Join us for a reading in Turkish and English by Zafer Şenocak and Kristin Dickinson, followed by a conversation about Kristin’s translation of Zafer Şenocak’s most recent bilingual poetry book First …