Past Events

Emily Sneff
Virtual Lecture
November 20, 2025 @ 6:00 pm CST
https://mki.wisc.edu/event/virtual-lecture-the-german-audience-for-the-u-s-declaration-of-independence/

Free and open to the public, but registration is required. Click here to register for a Zoom link.   July 4, 2026, will mark the 250th anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence. Almost immediately …

Marquee Cinema at Union South
November 16, 2025 @ 3:00 pm CST

Join us for the 2025 Madison Polish Film Festival at the Marquee Cinema at Union South!

Brandon Bloch [UW-Madison, History] Michelle Khan [University of Richmond, History] Liina-Ly Roos [UW-Madison, GNS+] Benjamin Mier-Cruz [UW-Madison, Nordic Studies] Chris Molnar [University of Michigan-Flint, History] Nana Osei-Kofi [Oregon State University, Nordic Studies] Ayşe Parla [Boston University, Anthropology] Leonie Schulte [UW-Madison, Anthropology] Phi H. Su [Williams College, Sociology]
313 Pyle Center
November 14, 2025

This cross-disciplinary one-day workshop brings together six invited scholars and experts (alongside the three organizers) to examine the interlinkages of migration policies and European discourses over historical memory. We interrogate how competing historical narratives (of …

November 14, 2025

Scandinavian Day at UW-Madison Celebrating 150 Years of Scandinavian Studies November 14th, 2025 For more information and registration, please go to: 150th Anniversary Celebration Join us for a day of seminars, tours, and performances celebrating …

Washburn Observatory (1401 Observatory Drive)
November 11, 2025 @ 5:30 pm CST

Research 101: Humanities Edition What can research look like in the Humanities? Whether you’re just beginning to explore what research means or you’re gearing up to write a senior Honors thesis, this event is for …

Marquee Cinema at Union South
November 9, 2025 @ 3:00 pm CST

Join us for the 2025 Madison Polish Film Festival at the Marquee Cinema at Union South!

1418 Van Hise Hall
November 6, 2025 @ 11:30 am CST

Sponsored by the Language Institute, Second Language Acquisition PhD Program, Language Sciences, and Data Science Institute. Dr. Plonksy will present “A brownbag for a series on generative artificial intelligence in research in language studies” Luke …

Virtual Event
November 4, 2025 @ 11:00 am CST

Still Lives is a systematic study of the ways Jews used photographs to document their experiences in the face of National Socialism. In a time of intensifying anti-Jewish rhetoric and policies, German Jews documented their lives and their environment in tens of thousands of photographs. German Jews of considerably diverse backgrounds took and preserved these photographs: professional and amateurs, of different ages, gender, and classes.

1418 Van Hise
October 28, 2025 @ 6:00 pm CDT - 7:30 pm CDT

Kathy Pomer, M.A. President & CEO GatherRound; Kate MacCrimmon, Ph.D. CEO & Founder Early Educators Exchange; Corrine Hendrickson Co-Founder, Wisconsin Early Childhood Action Needed Sponsors: Nordic (from GNS), European Studies, GatherRound, Mother Forward, Wisconsin Early …

1st Floor of Union Commons (The University Club) 803 State Street
October 28, 2025 @ 4:00 pm CDT - 6:00 pm CDT

Come and join us for the Folklore Program Pumpkin Carving Party and Open House!