GNS+ Events
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Feb12
Virtual Lecture: “German Americans and the Founding of the United States” @ 6:00 pm CST https://uwmadison.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1UOtwOHvSIOb93RMGB1i5g
This lecture will examine the roles of military leaders, early officeholders, and supporters on the home front, including members of the Muhlenberg family (Peter, Frederick, and Catherine); Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben; Michael Hillegas; Mary Ludwig Hays—better remembered as Molly Pitcher—and other men and women whose influence can still be felt today.
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Feb16
Virtual Lecture: Yugoslav & Post-Yugoslav Jewish Identity in the Balkans @ 6:00 pm CST - 7:00 pm CST Zoom
This talk will aim to better understand Jewish identity in Yugoslavia, and its implication on the wars that saw its dissolution and afterward.
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Feb17
Reading to Live: From Symbolic Act to the Activity of Form @ 5:30 pm CST Elevhjem Building L166
Drawing on the account of a “bio-aesthetics,” I develop in my recent book, True Materialism, I will show that Jameson's provocative idea of the symbolic act fails to live up to its own promise: instead of grasping artistic and literary works as coded representations of class struggle, Marxist criticism must understand narrative not primarily as representation but as an essential dimension of the self-reproduction of animals like us.
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Feb25
Virtual Lecture: "German and American Protestant Pastors in Occupied Germany” @ 6:00 pm CST https://uwmadison.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8hq7_WMqTI6iSh06ocWevw
This presentation examines the fraught interactions between German Lutheran pastors and their American Protestant counterparts, as well as U.S.-based faith organizations.
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Mar09
"Fugitive Logistics: Unsettling the German Archive” @ 4:00 pm CDT Van Hise 1418
Nathan Taylor's talk, "Fugitive Logistics: Unsettling the German Archive,” is drawn from his forthcoming book of the same name with Cornell University Press. It shifts from discourses of value to global value chains and draws on an emerging field of ‘infrastructural’ and critical logistics studies to rethink paradigms of exile and Atlantic migration in German Studies.
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Mar10
Virtual Lecture: An Unusual Moravian Diary @ 6:00 pm CDT
Join us and Dr. Peucker as he explores the history of the Moravians and examines the diary itself—who these men were, the topics they discussed in London, and why this source remains relevant today.
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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) @ 7:00 pm CDT - 8:30 pm CDT Deluca Forum
Berlin-based director Jürgen Kuttner, theater specialist Helga Angarano, and students in the German Theater class will present a performance of Bertolt Brecht’s subversively funny short story “Die unwürdige Greisin” (“The Shameless Old Lady”). The performance …