The Memory and Memorialization of World War II in Norway: Speakers from The Norwegian University of Science and Technology and Nord University
Van Hise 104Prof. 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 …
2023 Ojibwe Winter Games
Dejope LawnOn 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: “Comanches, Captives, Germans: Transactions on the Texas Frontier, 1847”
Virtual (Zoom)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 …
A Brief History of Finnish Folk Music & Folk Music Improvisation
Memorial Library 126Alyssa 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 …
Gender and Equality in Finnish Film Industry: A Panel Discussion
Virtual EventPlease 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 …
Scandinavian World Literature Today: Uphill Struggles Beyond the Modernist Highs
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".
Wisconsin Slavic Conference 2023 Keynote Lecture
Van Hise Hall 104Wisconsin Slavic Conference 2023 – On the Edge: Cultural Geographies of Resistance
Pyle Center 335The 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 …
Skye Doney, Director, George L. Mosse Program in History, UW-Madison “The Persistence of the Sacred: German Catholic Pilgrimage, 1832-1937”
Curti Lounge, 5243 Mosse Humanities BuildingChaired 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 …
History, Disrupted: How Social Media and the World Wide Web Have Changed the Past
De Luca Forum, Discovery Building 330 N. Orchard St., Madison, WIPlease join the Friends of UW-Madison Libraries for this free public event: Tuesday, March 28 – Best-selling Author & Public Historian Jason Steinhauer presents History, Disrupted: How Social Media and the World Wide Web …