Past Events
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Oct 16“Immigrants around the Sacred Table: Charity, Consumerism, and St. Joseph Altars as Contact Zones in Queens, New York.”
1310 Sterling
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 and Italian, Department of Religious Studies, Department of Art History, European Studies Program, UW Lectures Committee
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Oct 16“Visualizing Intimacies and Emerging Identities: Photographs of Italian Migrant Home Visits”
1418 Van Hise
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+), Department of French and Italian, Department of Religious Studies, Department of Art History, European Studies Program, UW Lectures Committee
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Oct 10Barn Dance at The Old Barn on Capitol View
The Old Barn, 4796 Capitol View Rd, Middleton, WI 53562
Featuring Foot-Notes of Decorah, Iowa, and the ScandiAm Jam of Madison, Wisconsin
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Oct 9Reading Disability in Old Norse Literature with Dr. Natalie Van Deusen (University of Alberta)
1418 Van Hise
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.
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Oct 6A German Music Student in Madison, 1966-67: The Letters of Michael Kopfermann
5520 Humanities
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.
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Oct 4Harvest Folk Festival
Allen Centennial Garden
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.
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Sep 11“Russian Poetry and Its Freedom: Reflections After 2022,” a lecture by Stephanie Sandler
206 Ingraham Hall
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.
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Aug 9Nordic Socialism: The Path Toward a Democratic Economy
A Room of One's Own Bookstore
A conversation between Danish MP, Pelle Dragsted, and author of the book, Nordic Socialism: The Path Toward a Democratic Economy, and Dean Krouk, Professor of German, Nordic, and Slavic+ at UW-Madison. This event is presented in collaboration with the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic+ at UW-Madison, The Havens Wright Center for Social Justice, and …