GNS+ Events
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Feb03
Language and Place: Poetry in Yiddish and Pennsylvania Dutch @ 4:00 pm CST UW–Madison Memorial Union, Old Madison Room, 800 Langdon Street https://mki.wisc.edu/event/language-and-place-poetry-in-yiddish-and-pennsylvania-dutch/
Sunny Yudkoff (UW–Madison), Mark Louden (UW–Madison), Matt Johnson (UW–Madison), Josh Brown (UW–Eau Claire)
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Feb12
Virtual Lecture: “German Americans and the Founding of the United States” @ 6:00 pm CST https://mki.wisc.edu/event/virtual-lecture-german-americans-and-the-founding-of-the-united-states/
Details about this lecture and registration information will be posted closer to the event.
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Feb25
Virtual Lecture: ” German and American Protestant Pastors in Occupied Germany” @ 6:00 pm CST https://mki.wisc.edu/event/virtual-lecture-german-and-american-protestant-pastors-in-occupied-germany/
Free and open to the public, but registration is required. This presentation will examine the fraught interactions of German Lutheran pastors with their American Protestant counterparts and U.S.-based faith organizations, which helped pave the way for the German Protestant Church’s evolution from its historic association with German nationalism to a new postwar orientation toward peace, human rights, and democracy.
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Apr10
GNS+ Lecture: The Last Aurochs: Zoopolitics, Memorialization, and Early Modern Extinction @ 4:00 pm CDT Pyle Center Room 332
From the 16th century onward, Jaktorów Forest in Mazovia, Poland, became the last refuge of the aurochs, a now-extinct species of long-horned wild cattle. Despite the Polish kings’ best efforts at conservation, the species perished …
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Apr24
German Play: "Die unwürdige Greisin" ("The Shameless Old Lady) @ 6:30 pm CDT Deluca Forum
More information to come.