CREECA Lecture: “Art in Doubt: Tolstoy, Nabokov, and the Problem of Other Minds” with Tatyana Gershkovich [VIRTUAL LECTURE]
go.wisc.edu/0v9791Dr. Tatyana Gershkovich contests the familiar opposition of Tolstoy the moralist and Nabokov the aesthete. She argues that their divergent stylistic and philosophical trajectories were in fact parallel flights from the same fear: that one’s …
Harvest Festival – Vidar Skrede, Norwegian folk musician
Allen Centennial Garden 620 Babcock Dr, Madison, WIJoin us Saturday, October 8, at Allen Centennial Garden at 4:00pm as we welcome Vidar Skrede, Norwegian folk musician, as he performs as part of the Harvest Festival. Beginning at noon on Saturday, along with …
CREECA Lecture: “Sovereign Fiction: The Poetics and Politics of Russian Realism” with Ilya Kliger
206 Ingraham Hall 1155 Observatory Dr, Madison, WIThis lecture will outline an approach to the study of “sociotopes” in narrative fiction and beyond. Defining sociotopes as specific configurations of sociality, presupposing and projecting diverse scenarios and normative principles of affiliation and detachment, …
Talk by Tanja Dückers: “Home away from Home: Ukrainian Writers in Exile in Germany.”
206 Ingraham Hall 1155 Observatory Dr, Madison, WITalk by Tanja Dückers (German author and German PEN-Center Activist; Max Kade Writer in Residence at UW Madison in Fall 2022): “Home away from Home: Ukrainian Writers in Exile in Germany.” Friday, October 14, 4:00-5:30pm. …
CREECA Lecture: “The Russian 1990s and Soviet Writers: Market, Marginalization and Decay in the Writers’ Town of Peredelkino” with Kelly Smith
206 Ingraham Hall 1155 Observatory Dr, Madison, WIRussians today often remember the “Wild 1990s” as a time of chaos, impoverishment and disorientation. Through the lens of the privileged Writers’ Town, which had been built under Stalin and once been home to Isaac …
Old-time Barn Dance! Featuring Beth Hoven Rotto, Jon Rotto, and the Scandinavian American Old-time Dance Music Ensemble
The Old Barn on Capitol View 4796 Capitol View Rd, Middleton, WI, United StatesMark your calendars for another great performance and dance featuring former Musician-in-Residence Beth Hoven Rotto, Jon Rotto, and the Scandinavian-American Old-time Dance Music Ensemble! Beth, Jon, and the Ensemble will be performing their old-time …
READING NABOKOV’S THE GIFT (“LE CAHIER ROSE” REVISITED), a lecture by GRIGORI UTGOF (Tallinn University, Estonia)
382 Van Hise Hall 1220 Linden Dr, Madison, WI, United StatesIn this lecture Grigori Utgof will focus on one of the major twentieth-century novels Dar / The Gift by Vladimir Nabokov. Specifically, he will concentrate on issues of reading, transcribing, and publishing the holograph draft …
The Swedish Theory of Love: Individualism and Social Trust in Modern Sweden
121 Psychology Building 1202 W Johnson St, Madison, WI, United StatesThe acclaimed Swedish journalist Henrik Berggren will speak about his book The Swedish Theory of Love: Individualism and Social Trust in Modern Sweden, co-authored with Lars Trägårdh. The English translation of this book is being …
“‘Harlem in Germany’: Race, Migration, and the American Analogy in the Federal Republic”
Ingraham Hall, Room 206As West Germans discussed “difference” after 1945, they sought out a self-consciously “Western” and liberal way to discuss difference. The talk examines different examples of how US social science on race shaped policies on …
ASTRASYMPOSIUM 2022 Vem är svensk?
Pyle CenterCo-sponsored by ASTRA (the Association of Swedish Teachers and Researchers of America), the Department of German, Nordic & Slavic+, with the Center for European Studies. 11:00-11:45 Lecture: Vem är vanligt folk? Patrik Lundberg Pyle …