Past Events
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Feb 28Virtual Lecture: Luxembourg Immigration to Southern BrazilCarlo Krieger and Jean Ensch
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 February 27, 2024. In the mid-1820s, the newly independent country of Brazil invited Europeans to settle its southern lands and provide a bulwark along the borders to Argentina and Paraguay. These efforts …
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Feb 3Learn to Read the Old German Script—Part IIMark L. Louden and Antje Petty
Join Mark L. Louden and Antje Petty and learn to read Kurrent, the old German handwriting most widely used in the 18th to early 20th centuries. Through presentations and practical exercises, you will learn strategies for how to decipher this script even if you don’t speak German. Part II: Deciphering Kurrent — Intermediate Level Saturday, February 3, 10:00 am – 3:00 pm, …
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Jan 27Learn to Read the Old German Script—Part I
Mark L. Louden and Antje Petty
Join Mark L. Louden and Antje Petty and learn to read Kurrent, the old German handwriting most widely used in the 18th to early 20th centuries. Through presentations and practical exercises, you will learn strategies for how to decipher this script even if you don’t speak German. Part I: Deciphering Kurrent for Beginners Saturday, January 27, 10:00 am …
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Dec 5Hybrid Lecture: “German-Romance Language Contact in the Italian Alps” with Stefan RabanusUW-Madison Memorial Library, Rm 126, 728 State St, Madison, WI 53706 and via Zoom
HYBRID LECTURE Tuesday, December 5 , 2023, 6:00 pm Central Time In-person: UW–Madison Memorial Library, Rm 126 728 State St, Madison, WI 53706 Via Zoom: Pre-Registration Required Email Antje Petty (apetty@wisc.edu) to receive a Zoom link. (Links will be emailed the day before the event) Since ancient times, the Alps have been a transitional space …
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Nov 15Virtual Lecture: “Text Mining America’s German-Language Newspapers, 1830-1914” with Jana KeckVIRTUAL LECTURE Wednesday, November 15 , 2023, 6:00 pm Central Time PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED Email Antje Petty (apetty@wisc.edu) to receive a Zoom link. (Links will be emailed the day before the event) During the era of transatlantic mass migration in the nineteenth century, texts spread extensively through the emerging German American press network. This was made …
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Nov 1Exhibit: “Neighbors Past and Present: The Wisconsin German Experience” in Mayville, WI
Ted & Grace Bachhuber Memorial Library, 234 N. John St, Mayville, WI
Display of MKI’s traveling exhibit “Neighbors Past and Present: the Wisconsin German Experience.” On fourteen panels that draw largely on images and resources from the MKI Library and Archives, the exhibit covers German migration and settlement in Wisconsin, questions of ethnicity and identity in newly forged communities, and the cohesiveness of these communities over the …
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Oct 28Exhibit: “Neighbors Past and Present: The Wisconsin German Experience” in Waupaca, Wisconsin
Waupaca Area Public Library, 107 S. Main Street, Waupaca, WI 54981
Display of MKI’s traveling exhibit “Neighbors Past and Present: the Wisconsin German Experience.” On fourteen panels that draw largely on images and resources from the MKI Library and Archives, the exhibit covers German migration and settlement in Wisconsin, questions of ethnicity and identity in newly forged communities, and the cohesiveness of these communities over the …
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Oct 17Virtual Lecture: “Hessians: German Soldiers in the American Revolutionary War” with Friederike BaerVIRTUAL LECTURE Tuesday, October 17, 2023, 6:00 pm Central Time PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED Email Antje Petty (apetty@wisc.edu) to receive a Zoom link. (Links will be emailed the day before the event) Between 1776 and 1783, Great Britain hired more than thirty thousand German soldiers to fight in its war against the American rebels. Collectively known as …
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Sep 28Lecture: “The Wisconsin v. Yoder Supreme Court Case” with Mark L. Louden, Monticello, WI
416 E. Lake Ave. (Zwingli Church), Monticello, WI 53570
Cosponsored by the Monticello Area Historical Society.
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Sep 21Lecture: “Who Are the Amish?” with Mark L. Louden, Waupaca, WI
Holly History and Genealogy Center, 321 S. Main St., Waupaca, WI 54981
Co-sponsored by the Waupaca Historical Society.