PetrSU teachers held master classes by correspondence with foreign friends for the students of the Lomonosov gymnasium.Classes with schoolchildren were the first stage in the implementation of the joint project Mit freundlichen Grüßen ("With friendly
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Swedish pancakes waiting to be slathered in butter and lingonberries. (Image by Catherine Lambrecht)
Highland Park Highland Park Historical Society will host Swedish Pancakes for Breakfast? with Marcus Cederström on March 4, 2021 at 7:00 pm via Zoom. Why do we eat the things we eat? And how do those things change due to migration?
This talk explores what the foods we eat can tell us about immigration, identity, and Nordic-American life in the Upper Midwest, by focusing on coffee, lutefisk, and, of course, Swedish pancakes.
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Marcus Cederström earned his B.A. from the University of Oregon in Sports, Business, History, and Scandinavian Studies, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Scandinavian Studies from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. It is there that he works in the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic Studies as the community curator of Nordic-American folklore for the Sustaining Scandinavian Folk Arts in the Upper Midwest project.
Rachel Feldhay Brenner, the Elaine Marks WARF Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, died on Thursday, February 4 in Madison. She was 74.
Born in Zabrze, Poland, Brenner moved to Israel with her family in 1956. She studied at the Hebrew University, Tel Aviv University, and the University of York in Toronto before coming to Madison, where she joined the Department of Hebrew and Semitic Studies in 1992. In addition to chairing the department from 2004 to 2007, Brenner was an active member of the George L. Mosse/Laurence A. Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies, the Middle East Studies Program, and the Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia. She was also a senior fellow at the Institute for Research in the Humanities.