Wisconsin Slavic Conference 2024
Pyle Center 235The program can be accessed here.
Lessons from the Revolutions of 1989 in East Central Europe
Pyle CenterThis event is free and open to the public. What lessons might be drawn—for us in the here and now—from studying the cultural space of pre-1989 (post-)totalitarian East Central Europe? How might dissidentism as …
GNS+ Lecture: Juliane Egerer, “The Art of Change: Decolonization, Indigenous Gender Struggles, and the Environment in Cultural Creations by Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and Ann-Helén Laestadius”
Pyle Center, Room 235Canada-based Blackfoot (Kainai) and Sámi filmmaker Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and Sweden-based Sámi and Tornedalian writer Ann-Helén Laestadius neither define themselves as environmentalists nor activists, although their artistic works actively engage with the complex issues of environmental …
Eva Stubenrauch, Talk: “Theory or Method? Jost Hermand and the Social Dimension of Literature.”
1418 Van Hise HallMore information to come.
Ulrike Draesner, Reading
1418 Van Hise HallMore information to come.
Iliane Thiemann: “Erase the Traces! or Murder in the Elevator Shaft: Detective Work in the Archives of the Academy of Arts, Berlin”
Virtual (Zoom)In collaboration with the Center for German and European Studies at the University of Minnesota. THIS LECTURE WILL BE IN GERMAN. This event will be virtual (via Zoom). Registration is required for the Zoom link, …
Ulrike Draesner and Michael Eskin: “Speaking of Germany and the World Today: A Discussion”
206 Ingraham Hall 1155 Observatory Dr, Madison, WICo-sponsored by the Center for German and European Studies and the Department of European Studies. In their conversation revolving around Germany, Ulrike Draesner and Michael Eskin think through what it means to be German – …
Fatma Aydemir, “Dschinns (English: Djinns)”
206 Ingraham Hall 1155 Observatory Dr, Madison, WICo-sponsored by the Center for German and European Studies and GNS+. Join us for a reading in German and English by Fatma Aydemir and Jon Cho-Polizzi, followed by a conversation about Jon’s translation of Fatma’s …