Events
GNS+ Events
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Oct 29Symposium: “German Influences on Wellness, Health, and Pharmaceuticals in America”
Free and Open to the Public In person at the UW–Madison Memorial Library and livestreamed. Symposium Program and Schedule [click here] >>Join us in Madison and meet our presenters. Ask questions and take part in discussions. No preregistration necessary. >>Join the livestream via Zoom. Preregistration is required. Register here to receive a link. German influences on wellness, health, …
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Oct 29Maxi Obexer, Katrin Sieg, Sonja Klocke, “Maxi Obexer’s Oeuvre”
Political and ethical questions lie at the center of Obexer’s work. From a distinctly feminist perspective, she investigates the ways language shapes structures of power, belonging, and exclusion. Her writing engages with migration and displacement, competing visions of Europe, and the rights of marginalized communities—particularly queer people, women, and animals. Shaped by her experience of …
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Nov 6Glikl’s Melancholia: Gender, Affect, and the Afterlives of Early Modern Yiddish Literature
This talk will offer a brief introduction to early modern or “old” Yiddish literature, with a focus on the work of Glikl bas Judah Leib, who, between 1691-1719, wrote a series of complex and enduring texts about the personal, social, and ethical problems that both animated and unsettled her life. The talk will center on …
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Nov 8Madison Polish Film Festival ’26: Altar Boys
Altar Boys Directed by Piotr Domalewski, 2025, 106 min Frustrated by adult and church indifference to social injustice, a group of young, devout teenage altar boys decide to take matters into their own hands.
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Nov 8Madison Polish Film Festival ’26: Home Sweet Home
Directed by one of Poland’s most critically acclaimed filmmakers, Home Sweet Home is a gripping psychological drama that probes into the mechanisms of domestic abuse as the protagonists’ marriage takes a dark turn.
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Nov 15Madison Polish Film Festival ’26: The Good Boy
Tommy, a 19-year-old criminal, is kidnapped and forced into a rehabilitation process by a dysfunctional couple and must devise a way to escape.
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Nov 15Madison Polish Film Festival ’26: The Duel/Gorky Resort
Confronted with a malevolent interrogator in a Soviet prisoner-of-war camp, a young Polish lieutenant fights for his life and the soul of his country.
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Nov 18From Near Obscurity to Iconic Works: Bach’s Cello Suites
A Focus on the Humanities Lecture and Performance with Edward Klorman with Matthew Zalkind The six suites for unaccompanied cello by Johann Sebastian Bach—once dismissed as mere curiosities—are now revered as iconic works. They are performed worldwide by cellists of all ages, and they are moreover prominently used in pop culture such as film and television as …
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Feb 24“The Predicament of Privilege” Book Talk
Devika Sharma, Associate Professor of Modern Culture at the University of Copenhagen will be talking about her book, The Predicament of Privilege: Inequality and Ambivalence in Contemporary Scandinavian Culture(University of Washington Press, 2026). This event is co-sponsored by GNS+ and the department of European Studies. More information TBD.