Past Events
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Oct 15Immigrants from Mecklenburg in the Town of Middleton, Wisconsin
Speaker(s): Antje Petty Location: Pope Farm Conservancy, Town of Middleton, Wisconsin Co-sponsor(s): Pope Farm Conservancy Description: Learn about the people who lived in the first settler cabin on the land that today is Pope Fram Conservancy. Antje Petty is the Assistant Director of the Max Kade Institute.
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Mar 4The Amish of Wisconsin: A New Wave of Immigrants to the Badger State
Speaker(s): Mark L. Louden Location: University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh Campus, 1214 Sage Hall Co-sponsor(s): UW-Oshkosh departments of German, English, History, Geography, and Urban Planning Description: We welcome you to a presentation about Amish culture and language and a discussion of immigration and heritage in the context of global migration past and present. The presentations will be …
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Feb 15The Amish of Wisconsin: A New Wave of Immigrants to the Badger State
Speaker(s): Mark L. Louden Location: Chippewa Valley Museum in Eau Claire Co-sponsor(s): Chippewa Valley Museum Description: We welcome you to a presentation about Amish culture and language and a discussion of immigration and heritage in the context of global migration past and present. The presentations will be based on research conducted as part of the …
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Nov 21The Forgotten Minority: Urban Germans of the Confederate States During the American Civil War
Speaker(s): Andrea Mehrländer Location: University of Wisconsin–Madison, Memorial Union Co-sponsor(s): UW–Madison Lectures Committee, Department of German,Center for German and European Studies, Friends of the Max Kade Institute Description: Most German immigrants settled in America’s northern states, and most of the German Americans who took part in the American Civil War fought on the side of …
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Nov 20The Metamorphosis of a Reunified Berlin
Speaker(s): Andrea Mehrländer Location: University of Wisconsin–Madison, Memorial Union Co-sponsor(s): UW–Madison Lectures Committee, Department of German,Center for German and European Studies, Friends of the Max Kade Institute Description: This lecture, to be held two days before the 50th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, will juxtapose public activities in Berlin to commemorate JFK’s …
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Nov 9Reading Old German Script Workshop
Speaker(s): Karyl Rommelfanger Location: Memorial LIBRARY (Madison), Room 231 Co-sponsor(s): Wisconsin Historical Society Description: Do you have correspondence from a German ancestor written in a script that you cannot read? Do you have trouble finding your ancestor’s name in an official document, because you can’t make out the letters? This workshop will acquaint participants with …
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Oct 18Managing the Mississippi: German Engineering, POWs, and the Mississippi River Basin Model
Speaker(s): Cora Lee Kluge Location: University of Wisconsin–Madison, Memorial Union Description: Flood control became a priority in the U.S. following the catastrophic floods of major rivers during the 1920s and 1930s; and American civil engineers, enthusiastic about work being done in Germany, promoted the construction of laboratories where river hydraulics could be studied. The most …
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Oct 17Rocking the Wall: Bruce Springsteen in East Germany
Speaker(s): Erik Kirschbaum Location: University of Wisconsin–Madison, Memorial Union Co-sponsor(s): UW–Madison Department of German Description: How could a rock concert move an entire nation, like Springsteen did in July 1988 in East Berlin, to rise up and reach out for more freedom? How could one artist singing about “Chimes of Freedom” and speaking out against …
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May 1Die deutschsprachige Minderheit in Südtirol: Geschichte und linguistische Situation
Speaker(s): Christian A. Schwarz Location: University of Wisconsin–Madison, Memorial Union Co-sponsor(s): Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache, UW–Madison Department of German Description: This Lecture will be held in German Südtirol wurde nach dem Ende des Ersten Weltkrieges im Jahre 1919 von Österreich an Italien abgetreten, wodurch die mehrheitlich deutschsprachige Bevölkerung dieser Region von einem Tag auf den …
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Apr 26The German Diaspora before World War I: Destinations and Discourse
Speaker(s): Stefan Manz Location: UW Madison Campus – UNION SOUTH Description: By 1914, after decades of mass emigration, Germans were to be found in all parts of the world. Ethnic communities ranged from large-scale ‘Little Germanies’ in the United States or Brazil to small merchant communities in Western Europe, East Asia and other regions. Finding …