"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, …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …