1st Floor of Union Commons (The University Club) 803 State Street @ 4:00 pm CDT - 6:00 pm CDT
Come and join us for the Folklore Program Pumpkin Carving Party and Open House!
Past Events
Alice Lovejoy, “Chemistry, Autarky, and Empire: Manufacturing Film in Fascist Germany”
Memorial Library Rm 126 @ 4:00 pm CDT
We often think of cinema’s politics as matters of subject and style, distribution and reception. This talk, however, locates them in film’s raw materials—in substances like silver, gelatin, and cotton, on which cinema’s play of light and shadow depends. It does so through the case of Nazi Germany, examining the Agfa film company’s embrace of the fascist politics of autarky (material and economic self-sufficiency).
Qinna Shen, “Visualizing German and European Politics through Jiny Lan’s Message Painting”
206 Ingraham @ 3:30 pm CDT
Qinna Shen will present a lecture based on her forthcoming book, “Jiny Lan and the Art of Subversion: Chinese-German Culture and Politics through a Feminist Lens.”
Arne de Boever, “When the Wild Things Are: Variations on the Eternal Return (of the Same)”
6191 Helen C. White @ 3:30 pm CDT - 5:00 pm CDT
A lecture by Arne de Boever, professor at the California Institute of the Arts teaching in American studies and the Aesthetics and Politics M.A. program. Prof. De Boever is also a co-editor of the journal boundary …
“Immigrants around the Sacred Table: Charity, Consumerism, and St. Joseph Altars as Contact Zones in Queens, New York.”
1310 Sterling @ 2:25 pm CDT - 3:15 pm CDT
A lecture by Joseph Sciorra, Director for Academic and Cultural Programs at the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, The City University of New York. Sponsored by the Folklore Program (GNS+), Department of French …
“Visualizing Intimacies and Emerging Identities: Photographs of Italian Migrant Home Visits”
1418 Van Hise @ 11:00 am CDT - 12:00 pm CDT
A lecture by Joseph Sciorra, Director for Academic and Cultural Programs at the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, The City University of New York. Lunchtime reception following. Sponsored by the Folklore Program (GNS+), …
Barn Dance at The Old Barn on Capitol View
The Old Barn, 4796 Capitol View Rd, Middleton, WI 53562 @ 6:30 pm CDT - 8:30 pm CDT
Featuring Foot-Notes of Decorah, Iowa, and the ScandiAm Jam of Madison, Wisconsin
Reading Disability in Old Norse Literature with Dr. Natalie Van Deusen (University of Alberta)
1418 Van Hise @ 4:00 pm CDT - 5:00 pm CDT
Through a presentation of interrelated examples from a variety of Old Norse texts, this lecture focuses on the importance of reading across traditionally defined Old Norse genre boundaries in order to better understand how physical, sensory, and mental difference was named, experienced, and treated in medieval Iceland.
A German Music Student in Madison, 1966-67: The Letters of Michael Kopfermann
5520 Humanities @ 4:00 pm CDT
The German composer and musicologist Michael Kopfermann (1936-2010) spent his student years on a scholarship that brought him to Madison in 1966-67 to study with Pro Arte violinist and School of Music faculty member Rudolf Kolisch. Musicologists Dörte Schmidt (Berlin) and Reinhard Kapp (Vienna) have uncovered a large cache of Kopfermann’s letters to his family, in which he offers a rare and detailed account of the cultural and intellectual life in Madison in the 1960s and the vibrancy of the community of German émigrés who made Madison their home after World War II.
Harvest Folk Festival
Allen Centennial Garden @ 12:00 pm CDT - 6:00 pm CDT
In partnership with Allen Centennial Garden, Norden Haus students will be raising a may pole, assisting with a flower-crown making workshop, and teaching (and learning) Scandinavian dances with music performed by Ph.D. student Cait Vitale-Sullivan. Cait will also be presenting Swedish herding music on stage.