Past Events
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Mar 24Reading Old German Script
Speaker(s): Karyl Rommelfanger Location: UW Memorial Library, Room 212 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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Mar 18Tracing Your Jewish Roots from German-Speaking Europe
Speaker(s): Fran Loeb Luebke Location: UW Memorial Library, room 231 Co-sponsor(s): Wisconsin Historical Society, UW–Madison Mosse/ Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies Description: This workshop will provide an overview of resources and research techniques that address the unique challenges faced by genealogists looking for their Jewish ancestors from German-speaking Europe. The workshop will cover sources that …
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Mar 3Genealogical Resources for German-American Ancestry, Online and Off
Memorial Library, Room 231
Speaker(s): Lori Bessler Location: UW Memorial Library, room 231 Co-sponsor(s): Wisconsin Historical Society Description: This hands-on computer workshop will help the family researcher identify resources that are found on the Web as well as those that are not online. There are many collections that record the lives of our ancestors in Germany as well as …
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Mar 3German and German-American Dimensions of the Civil War
Memorial Union
Location: UW–Madison, Memorial Union Co-sponsor(s): Wisconsin Veterans Museum in Madison; the Civil War Museum in Kenosha; the Friends of the Max Kade Institute; the Center for German and European Studies at UW–Madison; and the UW–Madison departments of German, History, Women and Gender Studies. Description: 2011 is the sesquicentennial of the inauguration of President Lincoln and …
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Nov 18Literature of the Inner Emigration, 1933-1944
UW-Madison Hillel The Barbara Hochberg Center for Jewish Student Life
Speaker(s): Jost Hermand Location: UW–Madison Hillel The Barbara Hochberg Center for Jewish Student Life, 611 Langdon Street, Madison, Wisconsin Co-sponsor(s): UW–Madison German Department and Center for German and European Studies Description: Jost Hermand received the Dr. phil. in German literature and art history from the University of Marburg in 1955 and joined the UW–Madison German …
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Nov 16Ethnicity, Identity, and Emigration from the Regions of the Austro-Hungarian Empire
Memorial Union
Location: UW-Memorial Union, Madison, Wisconsin Description: 3:00 – 3:15 Welcome 3:15 – 4:00 Annemarie Steidl (University of Vienna, Austria) “Understanding the Transatlantic Migration Experience: The Intermarriage of US-Migrants from Austria-Hungary as an Indicator of Acculturation, 1910 – 1950” 4:00 – 4:45 James Oberly (UW-Eau Claire) “Measuring the ‘börtönben nemzetek’ (‘Prison of Nations’): Census-Counting in the Kingdom of Hungary, …
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Sep 16Investigating Immigrant Languages in America
Memorial Union
Location: UW–Madison, Memorial Union Description: This event will bring together a set of scholars with the aim of creating new collaborations in linguistics and related areas. Wisconsin has a long tradition of research into immigrant languages in North America, led by luminaries like Einar Haugen (Scandinavian Studies), and others including Frederic Cassidy (English / Dictionary …
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Mar 25Representing and Experiencing Transnationalism: Germanic Languages and Cultures in Global Perspective
Memorial Union
Location: Memorial Union, UW–Madison Co-sponsor(s): Worldwide University Network (WUN) Description: This 2-day conference Representing and Experiencing Transnationalism: Germanic Languages and Cultures in Global Perspective held at the University of Wisconsin. Madison, is organized by Kristine Horner (University of Leeds) in cooperation with Cora Lee Kluge and Antje Petty (Max Kade Institute, University of Wisconsin–Madison), and …
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Apr 2Excursions in German-American Studies: An International Conference and Public Discussion
Description: This international conference celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Max Kade Institute and its accomplishments in the field of German-American studies. A variety of topics are addressed in four sessions: America and Her Immigrants: Ethnicity, Policy, Ideas, German-American Language and Literature, Creating the American Myth, and Learning from Eachother. For lecture titles, abstracts and …
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Apr 1Forced Out of Hitler’s Reich: Five Eminent Madisonians
Memorial Union
Speaker(s): Jost Hermand Location: Memorial Union, UW–Madison – Tripp Commons Description: This lecture is the keynote address for the Conference “Excursions in German-American Studies” Jost Hermand is William F.Vilas Emeritus Research Professor of German at the University of Wisconsin–Madison