Past Event Category: Guest Lectures
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Nov 2Mapping German Dialects: Georg Wenker’s Sprachatlas and its Successors
Speaker(s): Juerg Fleischer Location: UW Madison Memorial LIBRARY, room 126; 728 State Street Co-sponsor(s): Center for German and European Studies at UW–Madison Description: German dialect mapping began with Georg Wenker (1852–1911). Working as a librarian at the University of Marburg between 1879 and 1888, Wenker sent written questionnaires to all schoolmasters in the German Empire, …
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Feb 15The German Harmonica and African-American Blues
Speaker(s): Herbert Quelle Location: UW–Madison, Pyle Center Co-sponsor(s): Center for German and European Studies; Departments of Afro-American Studies, German-Nordic-Slavic, Comparative Literature and Folklore Studies; Mead Witter School of Music; Mills Music Library; CSUMC; Friends of MKI Description: For about a century, the German harmonica or mouth organ was one of the most popular musical instruments …
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Dec 14The History of the Moravian Star
Speaker(s): William Petig Location: Union South, UW–Madison, 1308 W Dayton St, Madison Description: Stars have been part of Advent and Christmas celebrations from the earliest days of Christianity, but one star has become a ubiquitous decoration in Europe and America: the multi-point Moravian star. Professor Petig’s presentation will trace the history of this ornament from …
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Nov 16Translation and the German-American Experience: Historical Letter Collections
Speaker(s): Viktorija Bilić Location: Union South, UW–Madison Description: Historical letters are a valuable source of information on the American immigrant experience. However, letters written in German and other immigrant languages are only accessible to those readers who speak the languages today. This lecture considers the interdisciplinary nature of translation studies and discusses translation challenges, the …
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Nov 13Germany Meets the US – Panel Presentations on German-American History
Speaker(s): Mark Louden, H. Glenn Penny, Antje Petty Location: UW-Milwaukee, Curtin Hall 175 Co-sponsor(s): UW-Milwaukee Description: The event is sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with support of German government grant. Presenters: Mark Louden (UW–Madison): “The Pennsylvania Dutch and German America” H. Glenn Penny (University of Iowa): “The German Midwest and Native Americans, 1881-1883” Antje …
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Oct 27Hermann Ahlwardt’s Antisemitic Campaign in the United States, 1895-97
Speaker(s): Mathew R. Lange Location: Memorial LIBRARY, room 126, UW–Madison Description: This presentation covers the visit by a notorious, German antisemitic politician, Hermann Ahlwardt, to the USA from December 1895 to January 1897 and his efforts to kindle antisemitism around the country, including in Milwaukee and the New York metropolitan area. Matthew Lange is Associate …
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Apr 19Of German Neighborhoods and Low German Villages: Spoken German in South Africa
Speaker(s): Peter Wagener Location: Union South, UW–Madison Co-sponsor(s): Department of German, Center for European Studies, Center for German and European Studies, African Studies Program, History Department Description: This lecture presents the results of recording sessions taken during a journey through South Africa, in February/March 2012 as part of the project „Spoken German in Southern Africa“. …
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Apr 7An Extraordinary Record: Three-Plus Centuries of Germans in New Orleans as Documented in the Holdings of The Historic New Orleans Collection
Speaker(s): Daniel Hammer Location: Union South, UW–Madison Co-sponsor(s): UW–Madison German Department, Center for German and European Studies, History Department, School of Library and Information Sciences Description: This talk uses primary source objects and documents to explore the history of Germans in New Orleans and ask questions about where this history is convergent with, and where …
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Mar 15Two Troubled Souls: A Moravian Couple in the 18th-Century Atlantic World
Speaker(s): Aaron Fogleman Location: UW Memorial LIBRARY, room 126 Co-sponsor(s): UW–Madison German Department, Center for German and European Studies, History Department, Religious Studies Description: In 1746, Maria Barbara Kroll (born a German Lutheran) and Jean François Reynier (a Huguenot from Switzerland) were married in a Moravian wedding ceremony near Frankfurt and immediately sent to Suriname …
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Oct 8Imperial Germany as a Country of Emigration and Immigration
Speaker(s): Werner Sollors Location: University Club, 803 State Street, Madison Co-sponsor(s): UW Lectures Committee Description: This lecture is the keynote address to the international symposium “Outside the Kaiserreich: the German Diaspora in the World War I Era.” About five million Germans—some political refugees but mostly economic migrants—came to the United States between 1850 and 1920 …