Past Event Category: Virtual Lectures
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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 …
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Nov 18Virtual Lecture: “Healing Traditions of the Pennsylvania Dutch”
Virtual Event
This virtual lecture is free and open to the public! To receive a link, contact Antje Petty: apetty@wisc.edu Exploring the cultural and historical roots of Pennsylvania Dutch healing traditions, Patrick Donmoyer will introduce the customs, folkways, and rituals widely used for treating illness among humans and domesticated animals. Drawing upon the speaker’s family experiences with …
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Oct 31Virtual Lecture “German-American Cookbooks and Foodways” with Antje Petty
When German-speaking immigrants came to America, they brought with them their culinary traditions. Before long, cookbooks specifically written for Germans appeared in this country. This presentation will examine changes in the foodways of German Americans through the lens of these cookbooks. Free and open to the public, but registration is required. REGISTER HERE to receive …
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Oct 19Live Virtual Lecture: “The German-Jewish Diaspora — From China to the US” with Weijia Li
This virtual lecture is 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 October 18, 2021 From 1938 to 1941, more than 17,000 German and Austrian Jewish refugees fled from the Nazi terror to Shanghai, China. The refugees’ hope to use …
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Oct 9The Place of Faith in Wisconsin German Communities (lecture and tour)
by Mark Louden, Professor of German at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Director of the Max Kade Institute Join Mark Louden for a look at the central role religion has played in German heritage communities in Wisconsin. The talk will include the history of two Eau Claire congregations founded by German immigrants: St. John’s German …
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Oct 5In Their Own Words: German-American Newspapers in the World War I Era (virtual lecture)
Virtual Event
Virtual Lecture presented by Antje Petty, Associate Director, Max Kade Institute When the Great War broke out in Europe in 1914, 8 million Americans or 8.7 % of the population were German born or had parents born in German-speaking Europe. In Wisconsin the numbers were 2.4 million and 38%. The vast majority were loyal Americans who …
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May 8Virtual Lecture: “From Humble Stew to Elegant Kaffee” with Antje Petty
Virtual Event
When German-speaking immigrants came to America, they brought with them their culinary traditions. Before long, cookbooks specifically written for Germans appeared in this country. This presentation will examine changes in the foodways of German Americans through the lens of the cookbooks. This event is sponsored by the Pommerscher Verein Freistadt. For more information and to …
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Mar 25Live Virtual Lecture: “From Farm to Farmers’ Market: Amish Folk Society in the Age of Fast Capitalism” with Simon Bronner
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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 24, 2021 This presentation examines the twenty-first-century economic shift in Amish communities from local producers and artisans to participants in a national market system. One example is the dramatically increased presence, and …
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Feb 10Live Virtual Lecture: “The Lives of Amish Women” with Karen Johnson-Weiner
Virtual Event
Free and open to the public, but registration is required. Email Antje Petty (apetty@wisc.edu) to receive a link. (links will be mailed on February 9, 2021) Having researched Amish life for nearly forty years, Dr. Johnson-Weiner has turned her attention to Amish women. Where much of the existing scholarship had subsumed Amish women, assuming perhaps …