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 …
Exploring the Soviet Century, a lecture by Karl Schloegel
Karl Schlögel is a noted German historian of Eastern Europe who specializes in modern Russia, the history of Stalinism, the Russian diaspora and dissident movements, Eastern European cultural history and theoretical problems of historical narration. …
Lecture: Mapping Early Sounds of a Czech Singer in the USA
Memorial Library, Room 126, 728 State StFree and Open to the Public The period of large-scale migration from Europe to North America during the 19th and into the 20th century coincided with the invention of recorded sound. Through obsolete media such …