Past Event Category: MKI Presentations
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Nov 21The Forgotten Minority: Urban Germans of the Confederate States During the American Civil War
Speaker(s): Andrea Mehrländer Location: University of Wisconsin–Madison, Memorial Union Co-sponsor(s): UW–Madison Lectures Committee, Department of German,Center for German and European Studies, Friends of the Max Kade Institute Description: Most German immigrants settled in America’s northern states, and most of the German Americans who took part in the American Civil War fought on the side of …
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Nov 20The Metamorphosis of a Reunified Berlin
Speaker(s): Andrea Mehrländer Location: University of Wisconsin–Madison, Memorial Union Co-sponsor(s): UW–Madison Lectures Committee, Department of German,Center for German and European Studies, Friends of the Max Kade Institute Description: This lecture, to be held two days before the 50th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, will juxtapose public activities in Berlin to commemorate JFK’s …
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Oct 18Managing the Mississippi: German Engineering, POWs, and the Mississippi River Basin Model
Speaker(s): Cora Lee Kluge Location: University of Wisconsin–Madison, Memorial Union Description: Flood control became a priority in the U.S. following the catastrophic floods of major rivers during the 1920s and 1930s; and American civil engineers, enthusiastic about work being done in Germany, promoted the construction of laboratories where river hydraulics could be studied. The most …
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Oct 17Rocking the Wall: Bruce Springsteen in East Germany
Speaker(s): Erik Kirschbaum Location: University of Wisconsin–Madison, Memorial Union Co-sponsor(s): UW–Madison Department of German Description: How could a rock concert move an entire nation, like Springsteen did in July 1988 in East Berlin, to rise up and reach out for more freedom? How could one artist singing about “Chimes of Freedom” and speaking out against …
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May 1Die deutschsprachige Minderheit in Südtirol: Geschichte und linguistische Situation
Speaker(s): Christian A. Schwarz Location: University of Wisconsin–Madison, Memorial Union Co-sponsor(s): Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache, UW–Madison Department of German Description: This Lecture will be held in German Südtirol wurde nach dem Ende des Ersten Weltkrieges im Jahre 1919 von Österreich an Italien abgetreten, wodurch die mehrheitlich deutschsprachige Bevölkerung dieser Region von einem Tag auf den …
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Apr 26The German Diaspora before World War I: Destinations and Discourse
Speaker(s): Stefan Manz Location: UW Madison Campus – UNION SOUTH Description: By 1914, after decades of mass emigration, Germans were to be found in all parts of the world. Ethnic communities ranged from large-scale ‘Little Germanies’ in the United States or Brazil to small merchant communities in Western Europe, East Asia and other regions. Finding …
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Nov 18Literature of the Inner Emigration, 1933-1944
UW-Madison Hillel The Barbara Hochberg Center for Jewish Student Life
Speaker(s): Jost Hermand Location: UW–Madison Hillel The Barbara Hochberg Center for Jewish Student Life, 611 Langdon Street, Madison, Wisconsin Co-sponsor(s): UW–Madison German Department and Center for German and European Studies Description: Jost Hermand received the Dr. phil. in German literature and art history from the University of Marburg in 1955 and joined the UW–Madison German …
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Apr 1Forced Out of Hitler’s Reich: Five Eminent Madisonians
Memorial Union
Speaker(s): Jost Hermand Location: Memorial Union, UW–Madison – Tripp Commons Description: This lecture is the keynote address for the Conference “Excursions in German-American Studies” Jost Hermand is William F.Vilas Emeritus Research Professor of German at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
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Oct 23The Lusitania Effect: German Propaganda and German-American Identity in World War I
Memorial Union
Speaker(s): Frank Trommler Location: Memorial Union, UW–Madison Description: The lecture is the Keynote address at the 25th anniversariy celebration of the Max Kade Institute. Frank Trommler is Professor Emeritus of German at the University of Pennsylvania