An open interdisciplinary panel. Emerging from several courses taught by UW-Madison faculty this semester focusing on Ukraine, the panel will address questions submitted by the students in these courses relating to the histories and cultures in …

Prof. Jon Reitan, “Memories and microhistories of the Holocaust” Prof. Trond Risto Nilssen, “The legal purges in Norwegian Post-war memory” Prof. Leiv Sem, “The traitors in Norwegian cultural memory”   Co-sponsors: GNS+, Lectures Committee, Center …

On Friday, February 3rd from 3PM to Sundown, stop by Lake Mendota near Dejope Lawn to play snow snake, hoop and spear, and more! The Opening Welcome will be held in the Mendota Room of …

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) In 2021, three finely worked sketches dating back to the middle of the …

Alyssa Rodriguez will present on her Fulbright research conducted in Finland 2021-2022 at the Sibelius Academy Folk Music Department in a lecture recital featuring live performance demonstrations on nyckelharpa, the Nordic keyed fiddle. She will …

Please join us Tuesday, February 28 at 11 am for a virtual panel discussion: Gender and Equality in Finnish Film Industry. To register for the event and stream the film, please visit the Scandinavia House …

Please join us for a Talk by Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, Professor, University of Aarhus, Denmark! "Scandinavian World Literature Today: Uphill Struggles Beyond the Modernist Highs".

The Wisconsin Slavic Conference Slavic's annual graduate-student run conference—with the theme of "On the Edge: Cultural Geographies of Resistance"—will take place this Friday and Saturday, March 24 and 25. Dr. Yuliya Ilchuk (Stanford University) will …

  Chaired by Laird Boswell, Professor of History For millions of Catholic believers, pilgrimage has offered possible answers to the mysteries of sickness, life, and death. The Persistence of the Sacred explores the religious worldviews …