Past Events
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Mar 8Virtual Lecture: “Making English Canada: German and French Bilingual Schools in Ontario, 1880-1912”
Virtual Event
This virtual lecture is free and open to the public! To receive a link, contact Antje Petty: apetty@wisc.edu When Anglophones and Francophones debated bilingual education in Ontario from the 1880s to the eve of the First World, they often spoke of German schools. Beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, German stood alongside French and English as …
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Feb 17Virtual Lecture: “The German-American Feminist and the Rape Trial of a Yankee Abolitionist: Insights from the Letters of Mathilde Franziska Anneke”
Virtual Event
This virtual lecture is free and open to the public! To receive a link, contact Antje Petty: apetty@wisc.edu Alison Clark Efford explores how German-American feminist Mathilda Franziska Anneke responded to the 1859 “seduction” trial of Wisconsin’s leading abolitionist, Sherman Booth. Anneke, a Forty-Eighter and woman suffragist, was a friend and comrade of Sherman Booth, whose …
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Jan 27Virtual Panel: “COVID in Context: Health Culture among Yiddish and Pennsylvania Dutch Speakers”
Virtual Event
The Mayrent Institute for Yiddish Culture & The Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies present Covid in Context: Health Culture among Yiddish & Pennsylvania Dutch Speakers A panel discussion featuring Zackary Sholem Berger, Heather Mundro, Mark Louden, and Cara Rock-Singer How do diverse religious groups respond in the face of global pandemic? This panel will …
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Dec 9Virtual Lecture: “How Swiss German is Amish Shwitzer?”
Virtual Event
This virtual lecture is free and open to the public! To receive a link, contact Antje Petty: apetty@wisc.edu Adams County, Indiana, is home to the Swiss Amish, a population that does do not speak Pennsylvania Dutch, but Shwitzer. The language sounds surprisingly familiar to speakers of modern Swiss-German dialects – and very different at the …
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Dec 9Chicago, IL — MKI Traveling Exhibit “Neighbors Past and Present”
DANK Haus German-American Cultural Center
Open Mondays – Wednesday, 10:00 am to 3:00 pm Saturdays by appointment. Contact Rosa Gallagher: rosa@dankhaus.com 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 …
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Nov 18Virtual Lecture: “Healing Traditions of the Pennsylvania Dutch”
Virtual Event
This virtual lecture is free and open to the public! To receive a link, contact Antje Petty: apetty@wisc.edu Exploring the cultural and historical roots of Pennsylvania Dutch healing traditions, Patrick Donmoyer will introduce the customs, folkways, and rituals widely used for treating illness among humans and domesticated animals. Drawing upon the speaker’s family experiences with …
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Nov 8Phillips, WI — MKI Traveling Exhibit “Neighbors Past and Present”
Phillips Public Library, 286 Cherry Street, Phillips, WI 54555
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 31Virtual Lecture “German-American Cookbooks and Foodways” with Antje Petty
When German-speaking immigrants came to America, they brought with them their culinary traditions. Before long, cookbooks specifically written for Germans appeared in this country. This presentation will examine changes in the foodways of German Americans through the lens of these cookbooks. Free and open to the public, but registration is required. REGISTER HERE to receive …
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Oct 19Live Virtual Lecture: “The German-Jewish Diaspora — From China to the US” with Weijia Li
This virtual lecture is 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 October 18, 2021 From 1938 to 1941, more than 17,000 German and Austrian Jewish refugees fled from the Nazi terror to Shanghai, China. The refugees’ hope to use …
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Oct 9The Place of Faith in Wisconsin German Communities (lecture and tour)
by Mark Louden, Professor of German at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Director of the Max Kade Institute Join Mark Louden for a look at the central role religion has played in German heritage communities in Wisconsin. The talk will include the history of two Eau Claire congregations founded by German immigrants: St. John’s German …