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 …
Past Events
“Research 101: Humanities Edition”
Washburn Observatory (1401 Observatory Drive) @ 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 …
Madison Polish Film Festival ‘25
Marquee Cinema at Union South @ 3:00 pm CST
Join us for the 2025 Madison Polish Film Festival at the Marquee Cinema at Union South!
Luke Plonsky, “AI and Questionable Research Practices: Ethical Considerations for Authors, Journal Editors, and Reviewers”
1418 Van Hise Hall @ 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 …
Ofer Ashkenazi, Rebekka Grossmann, Sarah Wobick-Segev, and Shira Miron, “Still Lives: Jewish Photography in Nazi Germany”
Virtual Event @ 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.
The Danish Universal Child Care Model: Child Care for Every Child!
1418 Van Hise @ 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 …
Folklore Program Pumpkin Carving Party / Open House
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!
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).
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 …
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.”