Past Event Category: MKI Presentations
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Jan 27West Bend, WI: “German Community Life and Traditions in Wisconsin”
Antje Petty
Cedar Community, 5577 Home Drive, West Bend, WI
German immigrants kept many of their traditions while also being part of the state’s multi-lingual and multi-ethnic society. This presentation will look at their organizations and clubs; music, theater, and tavern culture; newspapers and magazines; as well as events today that have a German angle, such as Christmas markets and Oktober fests, but represent a …
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Dec 1Presentations, Exhibit, Reception: “Early Anabaptist Documents at the Max Kade Institute”Mark L. Louden, J. Denny Weaver
University Club, 432 East Campus Mall, Madison. Room 313 (presentations at 4pm), 4th floor (exhibit, reception at 5pm)
Join us at the Max Kade Institute to celebrate the recent acquisition of a collection of books, some of them quite rare, published by and about Anabaptists. Donated by J. Denny Weaver, these mostly German- and Dutch-language items were collected by Weaver and his late father-in-law, J. C. Wenger, a professor at Goshen College who …
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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 12Virtual Workshop: “German Genealogy” with Antje Petty
Over 40% of Wisconsinites trace their ancestral roots to German-speaking countries. Are you one of them? Willkommen! Join Antje Petty, Associate Director of the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies at UW–Madison, as we explore German genealogy. The virtual workshop includes four, hour-long sessions with Q&A, as well as time for breaks. Sessions topics: • Overview …
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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 …