Latest Past Events
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 …
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 …
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 …