Past Events
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May 9Our German Ancestors and Their World: A Workshop for Genealogists
Speaker(s): Lori Bessler and Antje Petty Location: UW–Madison Memorial LIBRARY, Room 126 Co-sponsor(s): Wisconsin Historical Society Description: This all-day workshop will be conducted by Lori Bessler, Reference Librarian for the Wisconsin Historical Society (WHS) Library Archives, and Antje Petty, Assistant Director of the Max Kade Institute. You will learn how to find your family’s place …
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May 2The Personal Library of Carl Schurz
Location: Max Kade Institute, 432 East Campus Mall, Madison Description: This exhibit highlights events and episodes in the life of German-American immigrant and later U.S. Senator Carl Schurz’s through the lens of his personal library. A large part of Carl Schurz’s personal library is now in the Max Kade Institute Library collection.
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Apr 16‘Deliver Us from Temperance!’: Christian Essellen’s Play on Milwaukee’s German-Language Stage
Speaker(s): Cora Lee Kluge Location: UW–Madison, Union South Co-sponsor(s): UW–Madison German Department Description: Professor Kluge will discuss the historical background of this German-American play that was performed for the first time in 1853 in Milwaukee, and will be performed again by students of the UW–Madison German Department in May. See events calendar. Cora Lee Kluge …
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Apr 6The German-American Community and the First World War
Speaker(s): Cora Lee Kluge Location: St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, 2921 Mt. Zion Ave., Janesville, WI
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Mar 28German-Language Resources for Genealogists in America
Speaker(s): Antje Petty Location: Sheraton Madison, 706 John Nolan Drive Co-sponsor(s): Wisconsin State Genealogical Society Description: This presentation is part of the Wisconsin Genealogical Society’s 2015 Gene-A-Rama, a two-day event held March 27-28 in Madison. More information at http://www.wsgs.org and in the attached brochure. Attachment: 2015_WSGS-GAR_Brochure.pdf
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Mar 7Germany Under Glass
Location: Mitchell Park Domes, Milwaukee, WI Description: Visit the Max Kade Institute’s exhibit table, and enjoy lectures, music, and good food at this Milwaukee community event. Attachment: GermanyUnderGlass-2015-Poster.jpg
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Feb 14Who are the Amish?
Speaker(s): Mark L. Louden Location: Plymouth Arts Center, 520 East Mill Street, Plymouth, WI Co-sponsor(s): Sheboygan County Historical Society Description: The program is led by Mark Louden, MKI Co-Director and Professor of German Linguistics at UW–Madison, a fluent speaker of Pennsylvania Dutch and an expert on Amish faith and culture. He is also the founder …
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Jan 29Pennsylvania Dutch in the Public Eye
Speaker(s): Mark L. Louden Location: University of Wisconsin–Madison, 254 Van Hise Hall Co-sponsor(s): Language Institute, UW–Madison Description: Pennsylvania Dutch is a North American language that developed from the migration of German speakers to eighteenth-century Pennsylvania. Though it resembles southwestern German dialects, it is not mutually intelligible with standard German. Until the twentieth century, most active …
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Jan 16Voices from the Past: Interviews with Low German Speakers in New Holstein, Wisconsin
Speaker(s): Mark L. Louden Location: New Holstein Historical Society, New Holstein, Wisconsin
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Nov 25Highlights from the Milvoker Vokhenblat
Speaker(s): Mark L. Louden Location: Congregation Shalom Yiddish Club, Fox Point, Wisconsin Co-sponsor(s): Congregation Shalom, Fox Point Description: Mark L. Louden is Professor of German Linguistic at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, focusing his research on Pennsylvania Dutch and Yiddish. He is an Executive Committee member for the Mosse Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies at UW–Madison …