Past Event Category: Virtual Lectures
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Mar 15Virtual Lecture: “American Dreams: A New Life in the USA”Christina A. Ziegler-McPherson
This lecture is organized by the German Society of Pennsylvania with co-sponsorship of the Max Kade Institute for German American Studies at UW–Madison and the German Historical Institute of Washington. Click here to receive a Zoom Link. Take a virtual tour through the special exhibition American Dreams, A New Life in the USA, now on …
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Feb 28Virtual Lecture: Luxembourg Immigration to Southern BrazilCarlo Krieger and Jean Ensch
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 February 27, 2024. In the mid-1820s, the newly independent country of Brazil invited Europeans to settle its southern lands and provide a bulwark along the borders to Argentina and Paraguay. These efforts …
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Dec 5Hybrid Lecture: “German-Romance Language Contact in the Italian Alps” with Stefan RabanusUW-Madison Memorial Library, Rm 126, 728 State St, Madison, WI 53706 and via Zoom
HYBRID LECTURE Tuesday, December 5 , 2023, 6:00 pm Central Time In-person: UW–Madison Memorial Library, Rm 126 728 State St, Madison, WI 53706 Via Zoom: Pre-Registration Required Email Antje Petty (apetty@wisc.edu) to receive a Zoom link. (Links will be emailed the day before the event) Since ancient times, the Alps have been a transitional space …
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Nov 15Virtual Lecture: “Text Mining America’s German-Language Newspapers, 1830-1914” with Jana KeckVIRTUAL LECTURE Wednesday, November 15 , 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) During the era of transatlantic mass migration in the nineteenth century, texts spread extensively through the emerging German American press network. This was made …
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Oct 17Virtual Lecture: “Hessians: German Soldiers in the American Revolutionary War” with Friederike BaerVIRTUAL LECTURE Tuesday, October 17, 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) Between 1776 and 1783, Great Britain hired more than thirty thousand German soldiers to fight in its war against the American rebels. Collectively known as …
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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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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 …