CREECA Panel Discussion: “The Anniversary of Martial Law in Poland”
Pyle Center/Room 335 702 Langdon St, Madison, WI, United StatesCREECA 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 …
German+ Undergraduate Excellences Award Ceremony
Van Hise Hall 1220 Linden Drive, Madison, WI, United StatesPrivate ceremony for award recipients, faculty, and TAs whose students are receiving awards.
Mass Speaking, Public Thinking: Theatrical Cognition in Tret’iakov and Brecht
1418 Van Hise HallDevin 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, WISponsored 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 StatesJoin 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, …
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. …