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 …
The Voice of “Nature Poetry”: A Meeting with Julia Fiedorczuk
Ingraham Hall, Room 206Julia Fiedorczuk is a writer, poet, translator, scholar, and editor. Her creative work has been translated into several languages and includes volumes of poetry, essays, short stories, and novels. She is also an Associate Professor …
Focus on the Humanities: Francine Hirsch | Family Ties: An Entangled History of Russia, America, and Germany in the 20th Century
Elvehjem Building, Room L160, 800 University AvenueHow can the history of one family from Ukraine shed new light on the history of the Russian Revolution, Soviet internationalism, Stalinism, and world capitalism? In this Focus on the Humanities talk, Professor Hirsch will …
Virtual Lecture: Luxembourg Immigration to Southern Brazil
Virtual EventFree and open to the public, but registration is required. Email Antje Petty (apetty@wisc.edu) to receive a link. Links will be sent on February 27, 2024. In the mid-1820s, the newly independent country of Brazil …