Past Events
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Nov 14“Migration and Memory in Contemporary Europe”
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
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 World War II-era genocide and expulsion, postwar labor migrations, Communism, decolonization, and/or EU expansion) shaped elite and popular attitudes toward …
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Nov 11“Research 101: Humanities Edition”
Washburn Observatory (1401 Observatory Drive)
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 you. Join us for a panel discussion and Q&A with faculty members and a current undergraduate researcher as they share …
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Nov 9Madison Polish Film Festival ‘25
Marquee Cinema at Union South
Join us for the 2025 Madison Polish Film Festival at the Marquee Cinema at Union South!
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Nov 6Luke Plonsky, “AI and Questionable Research Practices: Ethical Considerations for Authors, Journal Editors, and Reviewers”
1418 Van Hise Hall
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 Plonsky (PhD, Michigan State) is Professor of Applied Linguistics at Northern Arizona University. His scholarly work, addressing substantive and methodological topics …
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Nov 4Ofer Ashkenazi, Rebekka Grossmann, Sarah Wobick-Segev, and Shira Miron, “Still Lives: Jewish Photography in Nazi Germany”
Virtual Event
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.
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Oct 28The Danish Universal Child Care Model: Child Care for Every Child!
1418 Van Hise
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 Childhood Action Needed, National Association for Family Child Care This event is free and open to the public.
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Oct 28Folklore Program Pumpkin Carving Party / Open House
1st Floor of Union Commons (The University Club) 803 State Street
Come and join us for the Folklore Program Pumpkin Carving Party and Open House!
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Oct 27Alice Lovejoy, “Chemistry, Autarky, and Empire: Manufacturing Film in Fascist Germany”
Memorial Library Rm 126
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).
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Oct 24Arne de Boever, “When the Wild Things Are: Variations on the Eternal Return (of the Same)”
6191 Helen C. White
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 2. The event will be 1hr, 30 minutes with a Q&A portion after. Sponsored by the UW Anonymous Fund, English, …
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Oct 24Qinna Shen, “Visualizing German and European Politics through Jiny Lan’s Message Painting”
206 Ingraham
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.”