Past Events
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Jul 29MKI at German Fest Milwaukee
Location: Henry Maier Festival Park, 200 North Harbor Drive, Milwaukee, WI Co-sponsor(s): Friends of the Max Kade Institute, Milwaukee German Fest Description: Visit the Max Kade Institute table in the Culture Pavilion at German Fest Milwaukee! http://germanfest.com/culture/
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May 5The Enemy at Home: German-Americans in the World War I Era
Speaker(s): Cora Lee Kluge Location: Wisconsin Veterans Museum, 30 W Mifflin St, Madison, WI 53703 Description: Quarterly dinner lecture event at the Wisconsin Veterans Museum. Join Cora Lee Kluge, Co-Director of the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, as she explores both the illiberalism and intolerance experienced by German Americans in the World War I …
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Apr 19Of German Neighborhoods and Low German Villages: Spoken German in South Africa
Speaker(s): Peter Wagener Location: Union South, UW–Madison Co-sponsor(s): Department of German, Center for European Studies, Center for German and European Studies, African Studies Program, History Department Description: This lecture presents the results of recording sessions taken during a journey through South Africa, in February/March 2012 as part of the project „Spoken German in Southern Africa“. …
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Apr 18Pennsylvania Dutch Folk Music
Speaker(s): Mark Louden Location: Memorial Library, room 126, UW–Madison Co-sponsor(s): Mayrent Institute for Yiddish Culture Description: An exploration of Pennsylvania Dutch folk music as part of the Mayrent Institute’s Sound Salon series.
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Apr 10Who Are the Amish?
Speaker(s): Mark Louden Location: Rib River Ballroom, 3237 WI-29, Marathon City, WI 54448 Co-sponsor(s): Pommerscher Verein Central Wisconsin
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Apr 7An Extraordinary Record: Three-Plus Centuries of Germans in New Orleans as Documented in the Holdings of The Historic New Orleans Collection
Speaker(s): Daniel Hammer Location: Union South, UW–Madison Co-sponsor(s): UW–Madison German Department, Center for German and European Studies, History Department, School of Library and Information Sciences Description: This talk uses primary source objects and documents to explore the history of Germans in New Orleans and ask questions about where this history is convergent with, and where …
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Mar 21Who Are the Amish?
Speaker(s): Mark Louden Location: Brookfield Public Library, 1900 North Calhoun Road, Brookfield Co-sponsor(s): Elmbrook Historical Society Attachment: Elmbrook Historical Society_Louden 1 page.pdf
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Mar 15Two Troubled Souls: A Moravian Couple in the 18th-Century Atlantic World
Speaker(s): Aaron Fogleman Location: UW Memorial LIBRARY, room 126 Co-sponsor(s): UW–Madison German Department, Center for German and European Studies, History Department, Religious Studies Description: In 1746, Maria Barbara Kroll (born a German Lutheran) and Jean François Reynier (a Huguenot from Switzerland) were married in a Moravian wedding ceremony near Frankfurt and immediately sent to Suriname …
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Mar 12German Genealogy Sessions
Speaker(s): Antje Petty Location: NIU Conference Center 1120 E. Diehl Rd. Naperville, IL Co-sponsor(s): DuPage County Genealogical Society Description: At the annual DuPage County Genealogical Society conference, Antje Petty will present four sessions on German genealogy topics: Introduction to German Genealogy Working With Documents in America and Germany Using German and European Online Resources for …
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Feb 24Our German-Speaking Ancestors: Strategies and Resources for Genealogists
Speaker(s): Antje Petty Location: Southminster Presbyterian Church, 200 Richard Street, Waukesha, WI Co-sponsor(s): Waukesha County Genealogical Society