The 23rd Annual Conference of the German and Dutch Graduate Student Association at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Date: September 29–30, 2023 Keynote Address & Speaker "Stoffwechsel mit der Natur: Before-and Afterimages of State Socialist Environments?" Dr. Seth Howes (University of Missouri) Workshop Presentation & Speakers "Narrating (natural) 'environments'- Applying an …
Esther Dischereit, “Who was Fritz Kittel? A Reichsbahn Worker Decides 1933-2023”
Ingraham Hall, Room 206Sponsored by the Center for German and European Studies and the German unit of the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic +. In February of this year, Esther Dischereit created an exhibition in cooperation with …
Jane Bennett – The Efficacy of the Slight: Zhuangzi and Lucretius in Times of Ecological Crisis
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L150Jane Bennett’s talk explores a trans-temporal resemblance between the Zhuangzi (a source-text for Daoism, China, 5th-3rd century, BCE) and the materialism of Lucretius’s De Rerum Natura (Rome, 1st century, BCE). The two orientations affirm what she calls the efficacy of the …
Icelandic Heritage in North America
1312 Van Hise HallProfessors Úlfar Bragason and Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir of the University of Iceland will give a presentation based on their newly edited book, "Icelandic Heritage in North America." Light snacks and beverages will be provided.
Fall 2023 Graduate School Virtual Open House
Virtual EventIf you are a prospective student who wants to know more about applying to graduate programs at UW-Madison, then this is the event for you! The Fall 2023 Virtual Open House will be held virtually …
Andrea Rottmann: Queer Lives Across the Wall: Desire and Danger in Divided Berlin, 1945-1970
260 Bascom HallAndrea Rottmann is postdoctoral research fellow in the project "Human Rights, Queer Genders and Sexualities since the 1970s" at the Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut at Freie Universität Berlin. Her dissertation, "Queer Home Berlin? Making Queer Selves and Spaces …
Edward Broadbridge Denmark’s Catalyst: The Life and Letters of N.F.S Grundtvig
Van Hise Room 1418Come listen to Edward Broadbridge discuss the life and writing of N.F.S Grundtvig October 17, 2023! Edward Broadbridge has translated 5 volumes of Grundtvig's writing into English, as well as written a recent biography on …
Virtual Lecture: “Hessians: German Soldiers in the American Revolutionary War” with Friederike Baer
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) Between 1776 and 1783, Great Britain hire more than thirty thousand German soldiers …
Special screening of Agnieszka Holland’s Green Border (2023 Madison Polish Film Festival)
Marquee Cinema in Union SouthIn anticipation of the 2023 Madison Polish Film Festival, UW-Madison Polish Studies presents a free and open-to-the-public screening of Green Border (2023), Agnieszka Holland's latest—and perhaps most controversial yet—film. The Polish-Czech-French-Belgian co-production, which won the …
Der Hofmeister
Memorial Union Play CircleBerlin-based director Jürgen Kuttner and students in German 372, "Theater auf Deutsch," present a performance of JMR Lenz's 18th-century drama "Der Hofmeister" ("The Tutor") -- with a Brechtian twist! The performance will take place in …