GNS+ Events
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Oct16
"Visualizing Intimacies and Emerging Identities: Photographs of Italian Migrant Home Visits" @ 11:00 am CDT - 12:00 pm CDT 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+), …
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Oct16
"Immigrants around the Sacred Table: Charity, Consumerism, and St. Joseph Altars as Contact Zones in Queens, New York." @ 2:25 pm CDT - 3:15 pm CDT 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 …
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Oct24
Qinna Shen, TBD @ 3:30 pm CDT 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.”
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Oct27
Alice Lovejoy, “Chemistry, Autarky, and Empire: Manufacturing Film in Fascist Germany” @ 4:00 pm CDT 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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Oct28
The Danish Universal Child Care Model: Child Care for Every Child! @ 6:00 pm CDT - 7:30 pm CDT Memorial Union, Check monitors for Today in the Union (TITU)
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 …
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Nov04
Ofer Ashkenazi, Rebekka Grossmann, Sarah Wobick-Segev, and Shira Miron, “Still Lives: Jewish Photography in Nazi Germany” @ 11:00 am CST 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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Nov14
Scandinavian Day at UW-Madison
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 …
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Nov20
Virtual Lecture: The German Audience for the U.S. Declaration of Independence @ 6:00 pm CST Virtual Lecture https://mki.wisc.edu/event/virtual-lecture-the-german-audience-for-the-u-s-declaration-of-independence/
Free and open to the public, but registration is required. Click here to register for a Zoom link. July 4, 2026, will mark the 250th anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence. Almost immediately …