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September 2019
A Musical Lecture: “Displaced Sympathies: Finnish Out- and In-Migration, Then and Now”
Jimmy Träskelin, Musician and Publisher Co-sponsored by the Center for European Studies, the Sustaining Scandinavian Folk Arts in the Upper Midwest grant, and the Margaret B. Cargill Philanthropies in the Department of German, Nordic &…
Find out more »Brown Bag: Female SS Guards and Workaday Violence
Elissa Mailänder is an Associate Professor at Sciences Po Paris where she works at the Center for History and serves as a Deputy Director of the Centre interdisciplinaire d’études et de recherches sur l’Allemagne. Originally trained…
Find out more »Self-Confident, Autonomous, and Liberated? Politicized Gender Relations in Nazi Entertainment Movies, 1939-1945
Elissa Mailänder, Sciences Po Paris Sponsored by the Center for German & European Studies (CGES) and the the Department of German, Nordic & Slavic. The Nazis were masterful consumers of modern media, despite their…
Find out more »IRIS Fall Welcome Celebration
The IRIS Fall 2019 Welcome event will be on Thursday, September 26, 5:00-8:30 pm, in the Wisconsin Historical Society theater and foyer. This event is free and open to the public as well as the…
Find out more »October 2019
Marco Cursi, University of Naples Federico II
Marco Cursi, Professor of Palaeography, University of Naples Federico II Marco Cursi will be holding workshops and office hours for undergraduate and graduate students during his scholarly visit. He will also be delivering public lectures…
Find out more »Marilyn Migiel, Cornell University
Marilyn Migiel, Professor of Romance Studies, Cornell University Marilyn Migiel is professor of Romance Studies in the Department of Romance Studies at Cornell. Migiel received her A.B. in Medieval Studies (as an independent major) from…
Find out more »Comparative Politics Colloquium: Amy Erica Smith
Amy Erica Smith Associate Professor of Political Science, Iowa State University As an Associate Professor of Political Science and Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean’s Professor at Iowa State University, Amy Erica Smith's research examines…
Find out more »Borrowing the German Advantage in Civil Procedure – but without the German System?
Co-sponsored by the Center for German and European Studies and The Global Legal Studies Center. Professor James Fowkes, University of Münster, Germany, will speak on "Borrowing the German Advantage in Civil Procedure - but without…
Find out more »A German-Jewish “University” in China during World War II: A Unique Case of Transnational Refugee Education
Co-sponsored by the Center for German and European Studies, Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education (WISCAPE) and the Center for East Asian Studies. Weijia Li, assistant professor of German and the director of…
Find out more »The Wends of Texas: A Case Study of German Minority Immigration to the U.S.
David Zersen President Emeritus, Concordia University Texas Co-sponsored by the Center for European Studies and the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies at UW-Madison Sorbs or Wends are a Slavic minority living in a region…
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