Past Event Category: Conferences
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Sep 19Symposium: “From Russia with German: Migration Experiences across Three Continents”UW–Madison, Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St., Room 335, Madison, Wisconsin, AND live-streamed
Free and open to the public In person at the UW–Madison Pyle Center and live-streamed. Join us in Madison and meet our presenters. Ask questions and take part in discussions. Symposium Schedule and Program [click here] All presentations are now available online. Click here to watch! In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, over …
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Apr 27Society for German-American Studies Symposium in Alexandria, VA
Embassy Suites by Hilton Alexandria Old Town
The Max Kade Institute is co-organizing the 47th Symposium of the Society for German-American Studies (SGAS) which will be held in Alexandria, Virginia, April 27–29, 2023. The event includes over 40 scholarly presentations on a variety of German-American topics, a banquet, and a walking tour of German-American sites in Washington DC’s Penn Quarter. You will …
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Apr 18Symposium: “Nineteenth-Century Echoes: German Settlers and Explorers in South America”
Pyle Center
Free and open to the public. No registration required. During the 1800s, emigrants from German-speaking Europe came not only to the United States and Canada; they were also drawn to Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Peru, and other countries in South America. At the same time, German explorers, scientists, and businessmen crisscrossed the Atlantic and traveled …
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Apr 21Society for German-American Studies 45th Annual Symposium — Virtual Event
Virtual Event
In Real Time: German-American Studies Around the Globe The Max Kade Institute is co-organizing this four-day virtual conference. It features 15 sessions with presentations by over thirty scholars from around the world, covering the German-American experience from colonial times to the present. Topics include history, politics, culture, linguistics, science, and more. Participants will also have …
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Apr 11German in America: Words, Sounds, and Images – Society for German-American Studies Annual Symposium
Location: Madison, Wisconsin: Concourse Hotel, University Club, Wisconsin Historical Society Description: The Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison is the local cosponsor of the 43rd Annual SGAS Symposium. A thematic focus of the Symposium will be on the diverse expressions of German culture in America, past and present, including topics …
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Mar 30People of Faith, Languages of Tradition: Germanic Heritage Languages among Christians and Jews
Location: UW–Madison, University Club and Pyle Center Co-sponsor(s): Friends of the Max Kade Institute, Center for European Studies, Department of German-Nordic-Slavic, Religious Studies Program, Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies, Mayrent Institute for Yiddish Culture Description: Of the approximately 7,000 languages spoken around the world today, more than half are likely to no longer be spoken …
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Oct 8Outside the Kaiserreich: The German Diaspora in the World War I Era
Location: Pyle Center Co-sponsor(s): UW–Madison German Department, Center for European Studies, Center for German and European Studies, Department of History, Mosse/ Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies, Friends of the Max Kade Institute Description: This symposium is the forty-eighth Wisconsin Workshop, an annual interdisciplinary forum in German studies sponsored by the UW Department of German. It …
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Mar 3German and German-American Dimensions of the Civil War
Memorial Union
Location: UW–Madison, Memorial Union Co-sponsor(s): Wisconsin Veterans Museum in Madison; the Civil War Museum in Kenosha; the Friends of the Max Kade Institute; the Center for German and European Studies at UW–Madison; and the UW–Madison departments of German, History, Women and Gender Studies. Description: 2011 is the sesquicentennial of the inauguration of President Lincoln and …
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Nov 16Ethnicity, Identity, and Emigration from the Regions of the Austro-Hungarian Empire
Memorial Union
Location: UW-Memorial Union, Madison, Wisconsin Description: 3:00 – 3:15 Welcome 3:15 – 4:00 Annemarie Steidl (University of Vienna, Austria) “Understanding the Transatlantic Migration Experience: The Intermarriage of US-Migrants from Austria-Hungary as an Indicator of Acculturation, 1910 – 1950” 4:00 – 4:45 James Oberly (UW-Eau Claire) “Measuring the ‘börtönben nemzetek’ (‘Prison of Nations’): Census-Counting in the Kingdom of Hungary, …
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Sep 16Investigating Immigrant Languages in America
Memorial Union
Location: UW–Madison, Memorial Union Description: This event will bring together a set of scholars with the aim of creating new collaborations in linguistics and related areas. Wisconsin has a long tradition of research into immigrant languages in North America, led by luminaries like Einar Haugen (Scandinavian Studies), and others including Frederic Cassidy (English / Dictionary …