Past Event Category: Guest Lectures
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Mar 25Live Virtual Lecture: “From Farm to Farmers’ Market: Amish Folk Society in the Age of Fast Capitalism” with Simon Bronner
Virtual Event
Free and open to the public, but registration is required. Email Antje Petty (apetty@wisc.edu) to receive a link. Links will be sent on March 24, 2021 This presentation examines the twenty-first-century economic shift in Amish communities from local producers and artisans to participants in a national market system. One example is the dramatically increased presence, and …
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Feb 10Live Virtual Lecture: “The Lives of Amish Women” with Karen Johnson-Weiner
Virtual Event
Free and open to the public, but registration is required. Email Antje Petty (apetty@wisc.edu) to receive a link. (links will be mailed on February 9, 2021) Having researched Amish life for nearly forty years, Dr. Johnson-Weiner has turned her attention to Amish women. Where much of the existing scholarship had subsumed Amish women, assuming perhaps …
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Jan 28Live Virtual Lecture: “Folk Farmsteads on the Frontier”
Virtual Event
Folk Farmsteads on the Frontier: German-American Farm Buildings in Southwestern North Dakota Anna Andrzejewski and Travis Olson Free and open to the public, but registration is required. Email Antje Petty (apetty@wisc.edu) to receive a link. (links will be mailed on January 27, 2021) This talk focuses on farm buildings built by German Americans who immigrated …
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Dec 10Live Virtual Lecture: “On the Road to Prohibition: The Temperance Battle and German-American Brewers”
Virtual Event
This lecture is available to pre-registrants only. It will NOT be posted online. Email Antje Petty (apetty@wisc.edu) to receive a link to this webinar. Links will be sent a day before the event. A hundred years ago, Prohibition was enacted nationwide in the Unites States. This lecture juxtaposes the evolution of the temperance movement with …
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Nov 19Live Virtual Lecture: “From the Spanish Royal Court to the White House: Alexander von Humboldt’s Quest for Knowledge in a World of Politics”
Virtual Event
Free and open to the public, but pre-registration is required email Antje Petty (apetty@wisc.edu) to receive a link to the event The year 2019 marked the 250th anniversary the birth of Alexander von Humboldt, the Prussian explorer, naturalist, historian and humanist, whose wide-ranging work continues to influence scientific theories and movements to this day. This lecture discusses Humboldt’s role between the …
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Oct 29Live Virtual Lecture: “Thousands of Rhine-Hessians Are Living Here” — The Southwest German Immigrant Experience in 19th Century Wisconsin”
Virtual Event
Free and open to the public. This lecture requires pre-registration. Please RSVP to apetty@wisc.edu and you will be emailed a link to the event by October 29. In the mid-nineteenth century, emigrants from the present-day German state of Rhineland-Palatinate settled in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and in rural clusters in surrounding counties, such as Washington, Sheboygan and Fond du …
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Oct 1LIVE Virtual Lecture: Faithful to the Fatherland or Doughboys auf Deutsch? New Perspectives on the World War I Experience
Virtual Event
Free and open to the public, but pre-registration is required email Antje Petty (apetty@wisc.edu) to receive a link to the event This lecture examines the experiences of German-Americans during the Great War, focusing on their treatment by the Anglo-American society as well as their own attitudes toward the war and the Fatherland. Both groups failed to distinguish …
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Apr 20POSTPONED—Lecture by Sandra Rebok and Reception: “From the Spanish Royal Court to the White House: Alexander von Humboldt’s Quest for Knowledge in a World of Politics”
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO THE CURRENT PANDEMIC It will be rescheduled at a later date. 2019 marks the year of the 250th anniversary of Alexander von Humboldt, the Prussian explorer, naturalist, historian and humanist, whose comprehensive work has sparked universal scientific theories and movements to this day. This presentation will be a …
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Apr 1CANCELLED— LECTURE: “Adolf Cluss: From German Revolutionary to Architect of the American Capital”
UW-Madison Memorial Library, Rm 126
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO CURRENT COVID RESTRICTIONS Adolf Cluss (1825-1905) was a native of Heilbronn, Germany, who immigrated to America after the failed German revolution of 1848. A member of the German Communist Party, he was a friend of Karl Marx and continued to correspond with him from America. After a few …
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Mar 31WATCH LIVE ON FACEBOOK— Lecture: Pioneer Breweries of Western Wisconsin
Chippewa Valley Museum
This event will be presented live on Facebook. Go to https://www.cvmuseum.com/calendar/ , and click on the event in the calendar, to receive a link shortly before the event begins. This presentation is offered in conjunction with the display of MKI’s traveling exhibit “Neighbors Past and Present” at the Chippewa Valley Museum in Eau Claire. The …