Past Events
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Mar 6Genealogy Webinar: “The Lives and Times of Our German-Speaking Ancestors”
Virtual Event
Co-sponsored by the Wisconsin Historical Society and the Friends of the Max Kade Institute Registration deadline: 12:00 p.m., Thursday, March 4, 2021 REGISTER HERE Fee: $40 (discount available for members of the Friends of the MKI and the WHS) Many genealogists write their family histories. They strive to not simply create a family tree, but to flesh …
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Mar 1Germantown — MKI Traveling Exhibit: “Neighbors Past and Present: The Wisconsin German Experience”
Germantown Community Library
The Germantown Community Library is CLOSED on Saturday, March 6. 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 …
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Feb 10Live Virtual Lecture: “The Lives of Amish Women” with Karen Johnson-Weiner
Virtual Event
Free and open to the public, but registration is required. Email Antje Petty (apetty@wisc.edu) to receive a link. (links will be mailed on February 9, 2021) Having researched Amish life for nearly forty years, Dr. Johnson-Weiner has turned her attention to Amish women. Where much of the existing scholarship had subsumed Amish women, assuming perhaps …
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Jan 28Live Virtual Lecture: “Folk Farmsteads on the Frontier”
Virtual Event
Folk Farmsteads on the Frontier: German-American Farm Buildings in Southwestern North Dakota Anna Andrzejewski and Travis Olson Free and open to the public, but registration is required. Email Antje Petty (apetty@wisc.edu) to receive a link. (links will be mailed on January 27, 2021) This talk focuses on farm buildings built by German Americans who immigrated …
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Dec 10Live Virtual Lecture: “On the Road to Prohibition: The Temperance Battle and German-American Brewers”
Virtual Event
This lecture is available to pre-registrants only. It will NOT be posted online. Email Antje Petty (apetty@wisc.edu) to receive a link to this webinar. Links will be sent a day before the event. A hundred years ago, Prohibition was enacted nationwide in the Unites States. This lecture juxtaposes the evolution of the temperance movement with …
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Nov 19Live Virtual Lecture: “From the Spanish Royal Court to the White House: Alexander von Humboldt’s Quest for Knowledge in a World of Politics”
Virtual Event
Free and open to the public, but pre-registration is required email Antje Petty (apetty@wisc.edu) to receive a link to the event The year 2019 marked the 250th anniversary the birth of Alexander von Humboldt, the Prussian explorer, naturalist, historian and humanist, whose wide-ranging work continues to influence scientific theories and movements to this day. This lecture discusses Humboldt’s role between the …
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Oct 29Live Virtual Lecture: “Thousands of Rhine-Hessians Are Living Here” — The Southwest German Immigrant Experience in 19th Century Wisconsin”
Virtual Event
Free and open to the public. This lecture requires pre-registration. Please RSVP to apetty@wisc.edu and you will be emailed a link to the event by October 29. In the mid-nineteenth century, emigrants from the present-day German state of Rhineland-Palatinate settled in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and in rural clusters in surrounding counties, such as Washington, Sheboygan and Fond du …
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Oct 20MKI on the Road: “Reconstructing Linguistic History: What did Ontario’s Earliest Amish Speak?” with Mark Louden
Conrad Grebel University College, Great Hall, Waterloo, Ontario
What language did Amish Mennonites speak when they began migrating to Southern Ontario from dialectally-diverse regions in German-speaking Central Europe? This lecture will analyze the speech of their descendants from East Zorra-Tavistock and Wilmot townships, compare it with what Amish and Old Order Mennonites speak elsewhere, and explore important implications for our understanding of the linguistic …
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Oct 5Beloit—MKI TRAVELING EXHIBIT “NEIGHBORS PAST AND PRESENT: THE WISCONSIN GERMAN EXPERIENCE”
Beloit Public Library
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 1LIVE Virtual Lecture: Faithful to the Fatherland or Doughboys auf Deutsch? New Perspectives on the World War I Experience
Virtual Event
Free and open to the public, but pre-registration is required email Antje Petty (apetty@wisc.edu) to receive a link to the event This lecture examines the experiences of German-Americans during the Great War, focusing on their treatment by the Anglo-American society as well as their own attitudes toward the war and the Fatherland. Both groups failed to distinguish …