Year: 2019

MKI Traveling Exhibit: “Neighbors Past and Present: The Wisconsin German Experience”

The Max Kade Institute is delighted to introduce a new community project, a traveling exhibit called“Neighbors Past and Present: the Wisconsin German Experience.” On fourteen panels that draw largely on images and resources from our Library and Archives, the exhibit covers German migration and settlement in Wisconsin, questions of ethnicity and identity in newly forged …

Four MKI Monographs Available ONLINE

         The Max Kade Institute is collaborating with the University of Wisconsin–Madison Digital Collections to bring some of our monographs to as many readers as possible. Check out the following four titles: “The German-American Press” “The German Language in America” “The Wisconsin Office of Emigration 1852-1855” and “Pickled Herring and Pumpkin Pie: …

“German in America: Words, Sounds, and Images” – The Society for German-American Studies 43rd Annual Symposium, April 11-13, 2019

The Max Kade Institute is delighted to co-host the 43rd Annual Symposiun of the Society for German-American Studies in Madison, April 11-13! We look forward to..  two days of over 50 presentations and panel discussions on a variety of topics that span the spectrum of the German-American experience, including art, music, language, literature, media and publications, history, …