Want to take an interesting course this summer? Take SCAND ST 430 this summer! By tracing the evolution of Viking identity, students gain insight into the medieval world and the forces that continue to shape cultural memory today.
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Interested in Norway? Want to take fun and interactive courses? Study Norwegian this Summer!
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#norwegian #summer2026 #uwmadison
Check out this interesting article about the Spark learning community, led by Professor of Scandinavian Folklore, Folklore, and Religious Studies Tom Dubois, and their insightful trip to the Madison Municipal Center here: univercity.wisc.edu/2026/02/25/s...
Please join us on Monday, March 9, at 4 pm in 1418 VH for a fascinating talk by Nathan Taylor, Research Director of the Frankfurt Humanities Center.
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Join us for a presentation by Assistant Professor Brandon Bloch that examines the fraught interactions between German Lutheran pastors and their American Protestant counterparts, as well as U.S.-based faith organizations! Information and registration are on the GNS+ website.
Join us for a presentation by Dr. Jensen Suther titled "Reading to Live: From Symbolic Act to the Activity of Form" on February 17th! More information can be found on the GNS+ website.
This talk will be hosted by the Balkan Badgers Association and will aim to better understand Jewish identity in Yugoslavia, and its implication on the wars that saw its dissolution and afterward. More information is available on the GNS+ website, or by sending a DM to @balkanbadgers_uw on Instagram.
Thomas A. Dubois published the article "An epic border: Finland’s poetic masterpiece, the Kalevala, has roots in 2 cultures and 2 countries." Read it here: theconversation.com/an-epic-border-finlands-poetic-masterpiece-the-kalevala-has-roots-in-2-cultures-and-2-countries-261444
#uwmadison #finnish
Studying Norwegian? Beginners, intermediate and advanced levels are all welcome at language tables this spring!
#norwegian #languagelearning #languagetable #uwmadison
Join us for a presentation by Sarah Craycraft, PhD, that explores why and how young, urban Bulgarians are addressing rural depopulation, and especially how recovery of traditional cultural practices plays into their endeavors! gns.wisc.edu/event/%d0%bc...
Congrats to all of our Fall 2025 grads! A full list of graduates as well as featured student profiles can be found on the GNS+ website at gns.wisc.edu/fall-2025-gn...
This graduate seminar in Spring 2026 engages foundational and contemporary scholarship on race, racialization, decoloniality, and critical race theory, with a particular focus on the Nordic countries. Taught in English, the seminar is open to graduate students across disciplines!
Join us for the 2025 Madison Polish Film Festival at the Marquee Cinema at Union South!
Thank you to our fellow sponsors!
The Lapinski Family Fund
CREECA
WUD
Polish Heritage Club of Madison
The Polish Student Association at UW-Madison
Next Tuesday, October 28th, three panelists specializing in early childhood education will present a panel at 1418 Van Hise. Join us for the panel, a Q&A, and light refreshments!
Where did Bucky get his name? What’s the wildest thing that ever happened at Mifflin? The answer to those questions and more are waiting for you in “Folklore 315: Badgerlore: Campus Traditions and Student Culture” gns.wisc.edu/folklore-spr...
Join us to celebrate a pumpkin carving party, put on by the Folklore program!
The event will be held from 4:00 - 6:00 pm on Tuesday, October 28th in the University Club.
Join us to hear about the interlinkages of migration policies and European discourses from our very own Benjamin Mier-Cruz, Liina-Ly Roos, and Leonie Schulte!
Beginning at 9:00 a.m. on November 14th at 313 Pyle Center.
Join us Friday, Oct. 24 at 3:30 p.m. to hear CalArts professor and 'boundary 2' co-editor Arne De Boever speak. If you'd like to explore wild thought, inconstancy of the real, Nietzsche, Borges, and science fiction, we'll see you next Friday!
A flyer with bold text, "Reading Disability in Old Norse Literature", with subtext, "Professor Natalie Van Deusen, University of Alberta", with details, "Thursday, October 9th, 4:00-5:00 pm, 1418 Van Hise Hall, Free and open to the public." The departments credited are: Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic+, Center for German and European Studies, Medical History and Bioethics, Medieval Studies Program, and University Lectures
As part of GNS+ 150th year anniversary, we're excited to welcome Dr. Van Deusen to present examples from Old Norse texts that reveal how physical, sensory and mental difference was named, experienced, and treated in Medieval Iceland.
Please join us in welcoming Dr. Van Deusen next Thursday!
Join us on Monday, October 6 at 4:00 pm, 5520 Humanities for A German Music Student in Madison, 1966-67: The Letters of Michael Kopfermann!
PRESENTERS: Dörte Schmidt and Reinhard Kapp
A poster showcasing two events. Joseph Sciorra, Director for Academic and Cultural Programs at the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, The City University of New York. Two talks, October 16, 2025: "Visualizing Intimacies and Emerging Identities: Photographs of Italian Migrant Home Visits". From 11:00 am-12:00 pm in 1418 Van Hise, lunchtime reception following. "Immigrants around the Sacred Table: Charity, Consumerism, and St. Joseph Altars as Contact Zones in Queens, New York." 2:25-3:15, in 1310 Sterling. Sponsored by the Folklore Program (GNS+), Department of French and Italian, Department of Religious Studies, Department of Art History, European Studies Program, UW Lectures Committee.
Join us on October 16 for two talks by Joseph Sciorra, Director for Academic and Cultural Programs at the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, The City University of New York!
Join us on Saturday, October 4th for the Harvest Festival!
Pop in from noon to 6 pm and leave with a flower crown, seeds to plant, and a proper welcome into the autumnal season. @driftlessseeds.bsky.social
Poster for an event on October 10th from 6:30-8:30 pm in Middleton WI (4796 Capitol View Rd) featuring refreshments, live folk music and barn dancing.
Join us for live folk music, barn dancing and refreshments on October 10th!
Beginners, intermediate and advanced levels all welcome at conversation tables this fall!
A graphic showing Baiterek in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Above it words say "Why should I learn Kazakh?"
A graphic with a Kazakh landscape and facts about our Kazakh language program.
A graphic with a Kazakh landscape and reasons you should study Kazakh at UW-Madison.
To learn more about our Kazakh courses, visit gns.wisc.edu/languages/ka...!
#kazakh #languages #collegecourses
For more in-depth information about our Icelandic program, visit gns.wisc.edu/languages/ic....
#uwmadison #languages #icelandic
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Moving into a new learning community, these students are ready for a full-scale immersion in the Wisconsin Idea. As part of Spark, residents have the option to earn one credit through a seminar focused on interdisciplinary collaboration and community engagement.
In our department, elementary Finnish is taught every second year, often by a visiting scholar from Finland. For more information about our Finnish program, visit gns.wisc.edu/languages/fi...
#finnish #courses
At top, a banner made of repeating images of the book cover of Nordic Socialism, set at an angle. Then photos of Pelle Dragsted and Dean Krouk. Then information on the event: Pelle Dragsted in conversations with Dean Krouk, August 9, 2025, 2-3 PM, A Room of One's Own, 2712 Atwood Ave, Madison, WI, with the Havens Wright Center for Social Justice and the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic+. Then logos for the University of Wisconsin Press and the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung New York Office, which supported the book tour
Madison, WI: reminder! @pelledragsted.bsky.social's U.S. book tour for Nordic Socialism will bring him to town TOMORROW, Saturday, August 9. Thanks to @roomofonesownbooks.bsky.social for hosting Pelle Dragsted, in conversation with Dean Krouk, with @uwmadgns.bsky.social & Havens Wright Center.
This summer, we're sharing what makes the languages GNS+ offers so great! For more information about Danish, visit gns.wisc.edu/languages/danish. Danish is regularly taught from 1st through 5th semester and fulfills the language requirements.
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