Sponsored 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’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 …

Professors 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.

If 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 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 …

Come 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 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 …

In 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 …