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).
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 …
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.”
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 …
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+), …
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
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.
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.
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.
206 Ingraham Hall @ 4:00 pm CDT - 5:15 pm CDT
This lecture will survey the possibilities for freedom in poems, journals, anthologies, podcasts, radio programs, and social media posts after 2022, with examples from Israel, Latvia, Germany, the United States, and Russia. Poets and editors discussed may include Igor Bulatovsky, Dmitry Kuz’min, Lev Oborin, Irina Prokhorova, Alexander Skidan, Maria Stepanova, and Evgenia Vezhlian.