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”

Pyle Center, Room 235

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 …

Ulrike Draesner, Reading

Ingraham Hall, Room 206

Co-sponsored by the Center for German and European Studies and the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic +. Readings will be in German with projected English translation and bilingual discussion.  Premiering in Madison! Ulrike Draesner, renowned …

Annika Pasanen, Professor of Sámi Linguistics and Rauni Äärelä-Vihriälä, Associate Professor of Pedagogy from Sámi University of Applied Sciences, Guovdageaidnu, Norway: Revitalization of Sámi Languages: Language Nests as an Example

1312 Van Hise Hall

Bring your lunch and join us for a brownbag session on Indigenous language revitalization in Sápmi co-sponsored by GNS+, the Language Institute, Enwejig Indigenous Language Advocates, European Studies, and Reilly Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment. Light …