Symposium: Performance Geographies After Communism (Day 1)

Pyle Center AT&T Lounge/106 702 Langdon St, Madison, WI, United States

An interdisciplinary symposium that will investigate the new sites of performance that have arisen in Russia and Eastern Europe after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the various cultural and political dislocations to which …

Symposium: Performance Geographies After Communism (Day 2)

Pyle Center AT&T Lounge/106 702 Langdon St, Madison, WI, United States

An interdisciplinary symposium that will investigate the new sites of performance that have arisen in Russia and Eastern Europe after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the various cultural and political dislocations to which …

Max Kade Institute Symposium

Pyle Center

Nineteenth-Century Echoes: German Settlers and Explorers in South America Max Kade Institute Symposium During the 1800s, emigrants from German-speaking Europe came not only to the United States and Canada; they were also drawn to Argentina, …

CREECA Panel Discussion: “The Anniversary of Martial Law in Poland”

Pyle Center/Room 335 702 Langdon St, Madison, WI, United States

CREECA Panel Discussion: “The Anniversary of Martial Law in Poland” with Lukasz Wodzynski, Krzysztof Borowski, and Brian Porter-Szucs. Moderated by Kathryn Ciancia Panelists: Łukasz Wodzyński is an Assistant Professor of Polish at UW-Madison. He published …

Mass Speaking, Public Thinking: Theatrical Cognition in Tret’iakov and Brecht

1418 Van Hise Hall

Devin Fore (Princeton) https://german.princeton.edu/department/people/faculty/core/devin-fore This lecture will explore the connections between, on the one hand, Sergei Tret’iakov and Sergei Eisenstein’s experiments with so-called “collective creation” in the Moscow Proletkul’t theater of the early 1920s and, …

Dis/Continuities: German Studies and Beyond

Pyle Center

"Dis/Continuities: German Studies and Beyond." The 52nd Wisconsin Workshop - a Conference in Honor of Marc Silberman The 52nd Wisconsin Workshop, an international conference hosted by the German Program in the Department of German, Nordic, …

“Corridors of Cooperation: US-GDR Film Relations,” Tobias Hering

206 Ingraham Hall 1155 Observatory Dr, Madison, WI

Sponsored by the Center for German and European Studies. Tobias Hering is an independent film curator and researcher. His work focuses on thematic film programs that deal with questions of image politics and the role …

Irrbloss: Songs from the Poetry of Signe Aurell

Tripp Commons at Memorial Union 800 Langdon St, Madison, WI, United States

Join us on Tuesday, October 4, from 6:00–7:30pm in Memorial Union for Signe Aurell: Irrbloss by Maja Heurling and Ola Sandström. Signe Aurell was a Swedish woman who came to the United States in 1913, …