Canada-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 …

Co-sponsored by the UW Center for German & European Studies. For almost six decades, Jost Hermand was one of the most renowned and influential social historians of literature of the late twentieth and early twenty-first …

Hadija Haruna-Oelker (she/her) is a prize-winning German author, journalist, and podcaster. She writes and speaks regularly in the media about migration, race, racism, discrimination, and the intersection of human identities. She is convinced that we …

Co-sponsored by the Center for German and European Studies and the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic +. Readings will be in German with projected English translation and bilingual discussion.  Premiering in Madison! Ulrike Draesner, renowned …

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, …

We're partnering with Allen Centennial Garden during their annual Harvest Folk Festival, so come out early and stay late for a full day of fun with great art, food, music, and an evening of dancing! …

Bring your lunch and join us for a brownbag session on Indigenous language revitalization in Sápmi co-sponsored by GNS+, the Language Institute, Enwejig Indigenous Language Advocates, European Studies, and Reilly Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment. Light …

Drawing on a global and comparative ethnography, this talk explores how Syrian men and women seeking refuge in a moment of unprecedented global displacement are received by countries of resettlement and asylum- the U.S., Canada, …

Co-sponsored by the Center for German and European Studies and the Department of European Studies. In this conversation, Ulrike Draesner and Michael Eskin think through what it means to be German – or to be …