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Dis/Continuities: German Studies and Beyond
"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, …
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“Corridors of Cooperation: US-GDR Film Relations,” Tobias Hering
“Corridors of Cooperation: US-GDR Film Relations,” Tobias Hering
Sponsored 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
Irrbloss: Songs from the Poetry of Signe Aurell
Join 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, …
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CREECA Lecture: “Art in Doubt: Tolstoy, Nabokov, and the Problem of Other Minds” with Tatyana Gershkovich [VIRTUAL LECTURE]
CREECA Lecture: “Art in Doubt: Tolstoy, Nabokov, and the Problem of Other Minds” with Tatyana Gershkovich [VIRTUAL LECTURE]
Dr. 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 …
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Harvest Festival – Vidar Skrede, Norwegian folk musician
Harvest Festival – Vidar Skrede, Norwegian folk musician
Join 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 …
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CREECA Lecture: “Sovereign Fiction: The Poetics and Politics of Russian Realism” with Ilya Kliger
CREECA Lecture: “Sovereign Fiction: The Poetics and Politics of Russian Realism” with Ilya Kliger
This 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, …
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Talk by Tanja Dückers: “Home away from Home: Ukrainian Writers in Exile in Germany.”
Talk by Tanja Dückers: “Home away from Home: Ukrainian Writers in Exile in Germany.”
Talk 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. …
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CREECA Lecture: “The Russian 1990s and Soviet Writers: Market, Marginalization and Decay in the Writers’ Town of Peredelkino” with Kelly Smith
CREECA Lecture: “The Russian 1990s and Soviet Writers: Market, Marginalization and Decay in the Writers’ Town of Peredelkino” with Kelly Smith
Russians today often remember the “Wild 1990s” as a time of chaos, impoverishment and disorientation. Through the lens of the privileged Writers’ Town, which had been built under Stalin and once been home to Isaac …
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Old-time Barn Dance! Featuring Beth Hoven Rotto, Jon Rotto, and the Scandinavian American Old-time Dance Music Ensemble
Old-time Barn Dance! Featuring Beth Hoven Rotto, Jon Rotto, and the Scandinavian American Old-time Dance Music Ensemble
Mark your calendars for another great performance and dance featuring former Musician-in-Residence Beth Hoven Rotto, Jon Rotto, and the Scandinavian-American Old-time Dance Music Ensemble! Beth, Jon, and the Ensemble will be performing their old-time …
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READING NABOKOV’S THE GIFT (“LE CAHIER ROSE” REVISITED), a lecture by GRIGORI UTGOF (Tallinn University, Estonia)
READING NABOKOV’S THE GIFT (“LE CAHIER ROSE” REVISITED), a lecture by GRIGORI UTGOF (Tallinn University, Estonia)
In this lecture Grigori Utgof will focus on one of the major twentieth-century novels Dar / The Gift by Vladimir Nabokov. Specifically, he will concentrate on issues of reading, transcribing, and publishing the holograph draft …
The Swedish Theory of Love: Individualism and Social Trust in Modern Sweden
The Swedish Theory of Love: Individualism and Social Trust in Modern Sweden
The acclaimed Swedish journalist Henrik Berggren will speak about his book The Swedish Theory of Love: Individualism and Social Trust in Modern Sweden, co-authored with Lars Trägårdh. The English translation of this book is being …
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ASTRASYMPOSIUM 2022 Vem är svensk?
Co-sponsored by ASTRA (the Association of Swedish Teachers and Researchers of America), the Department of German, Nordic & Slavic+, with the Center for European Studies. 11:00-11:45 Lecture: Vem är vanligt folk? Patrik Lundberg Pyle …
“‘Harlem in Germany’: Race, Migration, and the American Analogy in the Federal Republic”
“‘Harlem in Germany’: Race, Migration, and the American Analogy in the Federal Republic”
As West Germans discussed “difference” after 1945, they sought out a self-consciously “Western” and liberal way to discuss difference. The talk examines different examples of how US social science on race shaped policies on …
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MAKING A DIFFERENCE: Helping Ukrainian Refugees on the Ukraine-Poland Border
MAKING A DIFFERENCE: Helping Ukrainian Refugees on the Ukraine-Poland Border
The panelists will share their experiences volunteering to help Ukrainian refugees in border regions of Poland and Ukraine: Kari Anderson University of Wisconsin-Madison alumna Head of Operations for Operation SafeDrop of the Make a …
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Virtual Book Discussion: Afro-Sweden: Becoming Black in a Color-Blind Country
Virtual Book Discussion: Afro-Sweden: Becoming Black in a Color-Blind Country
Join author Ryan Thomas Skinner in virtual conversation with Dr. Ethelene Whitmire (Professor and Department Chair of Afro-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison) as he discusses his book, Afro-Sweden: Becoming Black in a Color-Blind Country. Contemporary …
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