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Event poster and further information for Exhibition Transformation EAST, Jan 22, 2021.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19
Welcome
9:00 – 9:30 a.m.
Keynote
9:30 – 10:30 a.m.
Stefan Manz, Professor of Global History, Aston University, Birmingham, United
Kingdom: In the fold of a “Greater German Empire”? ‘Russian Germans’ and
Diasporic Connectedness before 1914
10:45 –11:45 a.m.
Eric J. Schmaltz, Professor of History, Northwestern Oklahoma State University, Alva:
“Voices Crying Out in the Wilderness”: Germans from Russia Transnational Networks
across Eurasia and North America during the Soviet Dissident Period, 1972–1987
LUNCH
1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
Peter Rosenberg, Senior Scholar of Linguistics, European University Viadrina,
Frankfurt (Oder), Germany: A Brief Sociolinguistic History of Plautdietsch in the Altai
(Russia)
2:15 – 3:15 p.m.
Göz Kaufmann, Adjunct Professor of German Linguistics, Albert Ludwig University
of Freiburg, Germany: Russian Mennonites in North America: Three Countries – Three
Identities?
3:30 – 4:30 p.m.
Aileen Friesen, Associate Professor of History, The University of Winnipeg: When the
Russlaender met the Kanadier: Cultural Complexities of a Mennonite Reunion
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20
9:00 – 10:00 a.m.
Travis Olson, Ph.D. candidate in Art History, University of Wisconsin–Madison:
“Making It” on the Edge of the Edge of the American West: The Prospective
Landscapes of German Russian Settlers in Southwestern North Dakota
10:15 – 11:15 a.m.
Ann Braaten, Associate Professor [retired], School of Design, Art, and Architecture,
North Dakota State University: Ethnic Textiles and Clothing of the Germans from
Russia
11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Nancy Martin, Lecturer in Apparel Design, San Francisco State University: “A Stocky,
Almost Round, Appearance”: An Analysis of German Russian Women’s Dress from
1850 to 1900
LUNCH
1:30 – 2:30 p.m.
Claudia Maria Riehl, Professor of Germanic Linguistics, Ludwig Maximilian
University of Munich, Germany: Being Volga German: Historical Background,
Sociolinguistic Development, and the Formation of Identity
2:45 – 3:45 p.m.
Mark L. Louden, Professor of Germanic Linguistics, University of Wisconsin–
Madison: Germans from Russia and Diversity in German America
4:30 – 5:30 p.m.
Visit of Max Kade Institute Library and Archives
The symposium is cosponsored by the UW–Madison’s Center for European Studies; the Department of German,
Nordic, Slavic+; and by the Friends of the Max Kade Institute. It is made possible through the generous financial
support of the UW–Madison Anonymous Fund and significant financial contributions by our cosponsors.

A list of the speakers for the International Educational Knowledge Spring 2021 public talks.

International Studies 602, Section 1 (Spring 2021) Capitalism in the Age of Divided Government
Syllabus -Dr. Elizabeth Covington

This course focuses on capitalism, as understood in advanced industrial nations of today’s European Union (January 2021) and the U.S., where those ideologies first developed in the late eighteenth century. It will also include brief discussions of newer variants of capitalism in China and Russia. Up to one half of our texts will be historical; however, much will be drawn from very contemporary (2019-2021) attempts to explain abrupt changes in our notions of social organization (neoliberalism, nationalism, etc.) and the very language we utilize to explain these changes. Noted economist Branko Milanovic claims that “There is no system that is an obvious successor to capitalism,” and our goal will be to assess whether this is true, and if so, if “liberal meritocratic capitalism” is over, given challenges to it such as inherited wealth, opt-outs in social welfare, assortative mating, and “low-knowledge” voters. If so, is “political capitalism” (e.g., China’s version of social organization) ascendant? In all of these cases, we will focus on the “political philosophy” of capitalism or how it is justified and strengthened in the societies where it is present.

This is an interdisciplinary seminar, based upon the Socratic method which be adapted to an online world