Past Event Category: Virtual Lectures
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Mar 10Virtual Lecture: An Unusual Moravian DiaryPaul Peucker
Virtual Lecture
Free and open to the public, but registration is required. Click here to register for a Zoom link. Members of the Moravian Church (Brethren) were among the earliest German-speaking settlers in the American colonies. This presentation is anchored in a unique document that was passed down for generations within an American family: a diary of …
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Feb 25Virtual Lecture: ” German and American Protestant Pastors in Occupied Germany”Brandon Bloch
Free and open to the public, but registration is required. Click here to register for the Zoom Webinar Following Germany’s defeat in 1945 and its occupation by the Allied powers, the German Protestant Church assumed critical social and political roles as both a provider of humanitarian aid and a mediator between the German population and …
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Feb 12Virtual Lecture: “German Americans and the Founding of the United States”Emily Sneff
Free and open to the public, but registration is required. Click here to register for a Zoom link. The names of German Americans do not often come to mind when we think about the founding of the United States. In fact, some of the “Founding Fathers” held negative views of German communities. However, immigrants and …
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Nov 20Virtual Lecture: The German Audience for the U.S. Declaration of IndependenceEmily Sneff
Virtual Lecture
Free and open to the public, but registration is required. Click here to register for a Zoom link. July 4, 2026, will mark the 250th anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence. Almost immediately after being adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, the document was translated into German. Join Dr. Emily …
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Apr 10Virtual Lecture: “Translating History: The Milwaukee Pabst Family Letters (1841–1887)”Viktorija Bilić
Virtual Lecture
Free and open to the public but registration is required. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER A link to the Zoom webinar will be sent to you after registration. In 2005, about 350 letters dated between 1841 and 1887 were discovered at Pabst Farms in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. They were written in the old German Kurrent script by …
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Mar 12Virtual Lecture: “Building Bridges: Interactions between Plain and Non-Plain Communities”Mark L. Louden
Virtual Lecture
Please notice the new date! Free and open to the public but registration is required. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER A link to the Zoom webinar will be sent to you after registration. As Amish, traditional Mennonite, and Hutterite (Plain) groups in North America experience exponential growth – their numbers are doubling every twenty years – …
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Dec 4Virtual Lecture: “The Shared Histories of German Immigrants and African Americans in Missouri”Cecilia Nadal & Sydney Norton
Free and open to the public but registration is required. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER! A link to the Zoom webinar will be sent to you after registration. Within the social and political context of nineteenth-century Missouri, Sydney Norton will examine the impacts of German immigrants who were dedicated to ending slavery, and who, in …
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Sep 19Symposium: “From Russia with German: Migration Experiences across Three Continents”UW–Madison, Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St., Room 335, Madison, Wisconsin, AND live-streamed
Free and open to the public In person at the UW–Madison Pyle Center and live-streamed. Join us in Madison and meet our presenters. Ask questions and take part in discussions. Symposium Schedule and Program [click here] All presentations are now available online. Click here to watch! In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, over …
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Apr 24Virtual Lecture: “German American Freemasons in the United States” with Jesse David CharitonFree and open to the public but registration is required. Email apetty@wisc.edu for a Zoom Link. Links will be emailed a day before the event During the nineteenth century, German-speaking immigrants to the United States joined and formed Masonic lodges, just as they founded religious congregations, shooting clubs, and singing societies. This presentation will outline …
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Mar 21Virtual Lecture: ‘The Mysteries of New Orleans:’ Fictions and Facts in the ‘Louisiana Staats-Zeitung,’ 1854″
Caroline Huey
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 20, 2024. This presentation will explore the complex and conflict-ridden society experienced by German immigrants who lived in antebellum New Orleans, a port city known for its multicultural and international population …