Past Event Category: Lecture
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Sep 21Lecture: “Who Are the Amish?” with Mark L. Louden, Waupaca, WI
Holly History and Genealogy Center, 321 S. Main St., Waupaca, WI 54981
Co-sponsored by the Waupaca Historical Society.
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May 7Lecture: “‘Where They Came From’ – German-Speaking Immigrants in Wisconsin” with Antje Petty
South Wood County Historical Society
Nineteenth-century German-speaking immigrants who settled in Wisconsin, came from many different states and cultural regions. They spoke different dialects and had different traditions. This lecture will focus on how their experiences in Europe shaped the communities they built in Wisconsin, and how over time, German-American identities were forged.
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Apr 5Virtual Lecture: “‘Wo man singt:’ German-American Singing Festivals, 1849–1914” with Heike Bungert
Virtual Event
VIRTUAL LECTURE Wednesday, April 5, 2023, 12:00 pm Central Time PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED Email Antje Petty (apetty@wisc.edu) to receive a Zoom link. (Links will be emailed the day before the event) Between 1849 and 1914, German-American singing festivals with thousands of participants and visitors were a constant yet changing element in the cultural landscape of the …
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Feb 9Virtual Lecture: “Comanches, Captives, Germans: Transactions on the Texas Frontier, 1847”Virtual Event
VIRTUAL LECTURE February 9, 2023, 6:00 pm Central Time PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED Email Antje Petty (apetty@wisc.edu) to receive a Zoom link. (Links will be emailed the day before the event) In 2021, three finely worked sketches dating back to the middle of the nineteenth century were brought to the attention of scholars studying the relationship between …
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Nov 10Hybrid Lecture: “African Voices in German-Language Publications: Slave Ship Survivors in the Atlantic World, 1739-1932” with Aaron Fogleman
UW-Madison Memorial Library, Rm 126
HYBRID LECTURE Attend in person: UW– Madison Memorial Library, room 126 Receive a Zoom link: email apetty@wisc.edu (links will be emailed the day before the event) Millions of Africans were victims of the transatlantic slave trade, and scholars generally believe only a handful of publications exist that include the Africans’ own accounts of life in …
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Oct 13Virtual Lecture: “New York’s German-Language Press in Times of Peace and War (late 19th Century to 1918)” with Peter Conolly-Smith
Virtual Event
VIRTUAL LECTURE PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED Email Antje Petty (apetty@wisc.edu) to receive a Zoom link. (Links will be emailed the day before the event) This presentation examines New York City’s thriving German-language press on the eve of World War I by looking at three representative newspapers: the bourgeois New Yorker Staats-Zeitung, the socialist New Yorker Volkszeitung, and the William …
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Sep 24LECTURE: “Jacob Sternberger: The Story of an Immigrant from German-Speaking Bohemia” with Antje Petty
Karl Junger Memorial Library
In 1851, Jacob Sternberger (1822-1889), a young man from the town of Kaaden (Kadaň) in northwestern Bohemia (today in the Czech Republic) walked across Wisconsin to find land to purchase and farm, eventually settling near Portage. He had studied mining and law at the University of Prague where he was involved in the failed uprisings …
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Mar 8Virtual Lecture: “Making English Canada: German and French Bilingual Schools in Ontario, 1880-1912”
Virtual Event
This virtual lecture is free and open to the public! To receive a link, contact Antje Petty: apetty@wisc.edu When Anglophones and Francophones debated bilingual education in Ontario from the 1880s to the eve of the First World, they often spoke of German schools. Beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, German stood alongside French and English as …
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Feb 17Virtual Lecture: “The German-American Feminist and the Rape Trial of a Yankee Abolitionist: Insights from the Letters of Mathilde Franziska Anneke”
Virtual Event
This virtual lecture is free and open to the public! To receive a link, contact Antje Petty: apetty@wisc.edu Alison Clark Efford explores how German-American feminist Mathilda Franziska Anneke responded to the 1859 “seduction” trial of Wisconsin’s leading abolitionist, Sherman Booth. Anneke, a Forty-Eighter and woman suffragist, was a friend and comrade of Sherman Booth, whose …
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Dec 9Virtual Lecture: “How Swiss German is Amish Shwitzer?”
Virtual Event
This virtual lecture is free and open to the public! To receive a link, contact Antje Petty: apetty@wisc.edu Adams County, Indiana, is home to the Swiss Amish, a population that does do not speak Pennsylvania Dutch, but Shwitzer. The language sounds surprisingly familiar to speakers of modern Swiss-German dialects – and very different at the …