05/18/2024
MAY MEETING
DATE: Saturday, May 18, 2024
TIME: 9:30 a.m.
WHERE: All-Purpose Room at McMillan Memorial Library, Wisconsin Rapids
PROGRAM: Neighbors Past and Present: The Wisconsin German Experience
This will be a virtual presentation by Antje Petty. Antje is the Associate Director of the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies in the College of Letters and Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It is dedicated to researching, preserving, and sharing the stories of German-speaking immigrants and their descendants in the larger context of global migration past and present.
Antje's presentation covers German migration and settlement in Wisconsin, questions of ethnicity and identity in newly forged communities, and the cohesiveness of these communities over the decades, especially in times of economic crisis or war.
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