Showing of CROSSING
4070 Vilas HallThu., Oct. 3 | 7:00 PM, 4070 Vilas Hall Sweden, Turkey | 2024 | DCP | 106 min. | Georgian, Turkish with English subtitles Director: Levan Akin Cast: Mzia Arabuli, Lucas Kankava, Deniz Dumanli In rural Georgia, retired schoolteacher Lia sets off on a quest …
24th Annual GDGSA Conference – Movement in German & Dutch Studies
Memorial UnionThe German and Dutch Graduate Student Association (GDGSA) presents it 24th annual conference with the theme "Movement in German & Dutch Studies." Over the course of two days, graduate students will present their research on …
Showing of FAR FROM HOME (DAR GHORBAT)
4070 Vilas HallWest Germany, Iran | 1975 | DCP | 93 min. | Turkish, German Director: Sohrab Shahid-Saless Cast: Parviz Sayyad, Cihan Anasai, Muhammet Temizkan Turkish immigrant Husseyin (Sayyad) endures a monotonous existence as a "guest worker" in '70s West Berlin, sharing a cramped apartment and toiling …
Fatma Aydemir, “Dschinns (English: Djinns)”
206 Ingraham Hall 1155 Observatory Dr, Madison, WICo-sponsored by the Center for German and European Studies and GNS+. Join us for a reading in German and English by Fatma Aydemir and Jon Cho-Polizzi, followed by a conversation about Jon’s translation of Fatma’s …
Dr. Silje Solheim Karlsen: “With and Without Borders: Contemporary Fiction from Sápmi”
1418 Van Hise HallMore information to come.
Sabine Hake, “The Nazi Worker” and the “Proletarian Dream Project”
Virtual EventSponsored by European Studies, the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic+, and the George L. Mosse Program in History. Sabine Hake is the Professor of Germanic Studies at The University of Texas at Austin where …
Frances Tanzer: “Vanishing Vienna: Modernism, Philosemitism, and Jews in a Postwar City”
Ingraham Hall, Room 206Frances Tanzer will discuss her new book, Vanishing Vienna: Modernism, Philosemitism, and Jews in a Postwar City (University of Pennsylvania Press), which traces the reconstruction of Viennese culture from the 1938 German Anschluss through the early 1960s. The book …