Past Events
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Mar 25Virtual Workshop: “Learn to Read the Old German Script”
Virtual Event
VIRTUAL WORKSHOP MARCH 25, 2023, 10:00 am – 3:00 pm Central Time Are you a scholar trying to decipher resources written in the old German handwriting? A family historian wishing to read documents written by your German-speaking ancestors? This workshop will provide an introduction to Kurrent, the old German script most widely used in the 18th …
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Feb 9Virtual Lecture: “Comanches, Captives, Germans: Transactions on the Texas Frontier, 1847”Virtual Event
VIRTUAL LECTURE February 9, 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) In 2021, three finely worked sketches dating back to the middle of the nineteenth century were brought to the attention of scholars studying the relationship between …
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Nov 12Virtual Workshop: “German Genealogy” with Antje Petty
Over 40% of Wisconsinites trace their ancestral roots to German-speaking countries. Are you one of them? Willkommen! Join Antje Petty, Associate Director of the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies at UW–Madison, as we explore German genealogy. The virtual workshop includes four, hour-long sessions with Q&A, as well as time for breaks. Sessions topics: • Overview …
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Nov 10Hybrid Lecture: “African Voices in German-Language Publications: Slave Ship Survivors in the Atlantic World, 1739-1932” with Aaron Fogleman
UW-Madison Memorial Library, Rm 126
HYBRID LECTURE Attend in person: UW– Madison Memorial Library, room 126 Receive a Zoom link: email apetty@wisc.edu (links will be emailed the day before the event) Millions of Africans were victims of the transatlantic slave trade, and scholars generally believe only a handful of publications exist that include the Africans’ own accounts of life in …
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Oct 13Virtual Lecture: “New York’s German-Language Press in Times of Peace and War (late 19th Century to 1918)” with Peter Conolly-Smith
Virtual Event
VIRTUAL LECTURE PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED Email Antje Petty (apetty@wisc.edu) to receive a Zoom link. (Links will be emailed the day before the event) This presentation examines New York City’s thriving German-language press on the eve of World War I by looking at three representative newspapers: the bourgeois New Yorker Staats-Zeitung, the socialist New Yorker Volkszeitung, and the William …
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Sep 24LECTURE: “Jacob Sternberger: The Story of an Immigrant from German-Speaking Bohemia” with Antje Petty
Karl Junger Memorial Library
In 1851, Jacob Sternberger (1822-1889), a young man from the town of Kaaden (Kadaň) in northwestern Bohemia (today in the Czech Republic) walked across Wisconsin to find land to purchase and farm, eventually settling near Portage. He had studied mining and law at the University of Prague where he was involved in the failed uprisings …
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Sep 1St. Lucas, Iowa — MKI Traveling Exhibit “Neighbors Past and Present”
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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May 15Friends of the MKI Annual Meeting in Port Washington and Grafton, May 15, 2022
Port Washington Exploreum
We will explore the maritime history of Port Washington, a beautiful Lake Michigan harbor town, where many immigrants from Luxembourg and Germany first set foot on Wisconsin soil. Our program includes a self-guided tour of the Exploreum, the town’s new maritime museum; a guided tour of the historic Light Station and Museum; and a visit …
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May 10Sun Prairie: Traveling Exhibit “Neighbors Past and Present: The Wisconsin German Experience
Crosse House
Free and open to the public 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 …
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Apr 18Symposium: “Nineteenth-Century Echoes: German Settlers and Explorers in South America”
Pyle Center
Free and open to the public. No registration required. During the 1800s, emigrants from German-speaking Europe came not only to the United States and Canada; they were also drawn to Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Peru, and other countries in South America. At the same time, German explorers, scientists, and businessmen crisscrossed the Atlantic and traveled …