Andrea Rottmann: Queer Lives Across the Wall: Desire and Danger in Divided Berlin, 1945-1970
260 Bascom HallAndrea Rottmann is postdoctoral research fellow in the project "Human Rights, Queer Genders and Sexualities since the 1970s" at the Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut at Freie Universität Berlin. Her dissertation, "Queer Home Berlin? Making Queer Selves and Spaces …
Edward Broadbridge Denmark’s Catalyst: The Life and Letters of N.F.S Grundtvig
Van Hise Room 1418Come listen to Edward Broadbridge discuss the life and writing of N.F.S Grundtvig October 17, 2023! Edward Broadbridge has translated 5 volumes of Grundtvig's writing into English, as well as written a recent biography on …
Virtual Lecture: “Hessians: German Soldiers in the American Revolutionary War” with Friederike Baer
Virtual (Zoom)VIRTUAL LECTURE PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED Email Antje Petty (apetty@wisc.edu) to receive a Zoom link. (Links will be emailed the day before the event) Between 1776 and 1783, Great Britain hire more than thirty thousand German soldiers …
Special screening of Agnieszka Holland’s Green Border (2023 Madison Polish Film Festival)
Marquee Cinema in Union SouthIn anticipation of the 2023 Madison Polish Film Festival, UW-Madison Polish Studies presents a free and open-to-the-public screening of Green Border (2023), Agnieszka Holland's latest—and perhaps most controversial yet—film. The Polish-Czech-French-Belgian co-production, which won the …
Der Hofmeister
Memorial Union Play CircleBerlin-based director Jürgen Kuttner and students in German 372, "Theater auf Deutsch," present a performance of JMR Lenz's 18th-century drama "Der Hofmeister" ("The Tutor") -- with a Brechtian twist! The performance will take place in …
Andrew I. Port, Professor of History, Wayne State University: “Never Again: Germans and Genocide after the Holocaust”
Ingraham Hall, Room 206As reports of mass killings in Bosnia spread in the middle of 1995, Germans faced a dilemma. Should the Federal Republic deploy its military to the Balkans to prevent a genocide, or would departing from …
Virtual Lecture: “Text Mining America’s German-Language Newspapers, 1830-1914” with Jana Keck
Virtual (Zoom)VIRTUAL LECTURE PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED Email Antje Petty (apetty@wisc.edu) to receive a Zoom link. (Links will be emailed the day before the event.) During the era of transatlantic mass migration in the nineteenth century, texts spread …
2023 Madison Polish Film Festival
Marquee Cinema in Union SouthThe Madison Polish Film Festival is back! This year, the festival will take place on November 19 and December 3 at the Marquee Cinema (located in Union South) on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. All …
2023 Madison Polish Film Festival
Marquee Cinema in Union SouthThe Madison Polish Film Festival is back! This year, the festival will take place on November 19 and December 3 at the Marquee Cinema (located in Union South) on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. All …
Hybrid Lecture: “German-Romance Language Contact in the Italian Alps” With Stefan Rabanus
HYBRID LECTURE In-person: UW-Madison Memorial Library, Rm 126 28 State St, Madison, WI 53706 Via Zoom: Pre-Registration Required Email Antje Petty (apetty@wisc.edu) to receive a Zoom link. (Links will be emailed the day before the …