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Sponsored by CGES, CES and the Department of Art History.  Short narrative forms such as fables, novellas, prose poems, or video artworks are often considered to be marginally altered snippets of the factual world. We …

Folk musician-in-residence Renee Vaughan (nyckelharpa) will be performing alongside Tom Klein (uilleann pipes) and Dan Newton (accordion) as part of their band the McNordiques. As they write, the McNordiques “blend Celtic, French and Scandinavian music in a way that shines through to make your …

  The 11th Annual Colloquium of the UW-Madison Graduate Association of Medieval Studies (GAMS) will take place on April 5th, 2024, 9 a.m.-7 p.m., in the Conrad A. Elvehjem Building and Special Collections in Memorial Library. …

Hosted by Łukasz Wodzyński, UW-Madison. Please join us for a meeting with Jerzy Jarniewicz, one of Poland’s most acclaimed poets, translators, and critics. He is promoting his English-language debut, Landless Boys (MadHat Press, 2023), beautifully translated by …

Join us for the keynote lecture for the 2024 Wisconsin Slavic Conference by Dr. Rossen Djagalov! To view the details of the rest of the conference, taking place on April 13, visit the event page.

  The program can be accessed here. 

  This 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 …