Thursday, September 7
4:30 Reception at the MKI (dinner afterwards)


Friday, September 8
8:30 Coffee and pastries
9:15 Opening remarks: Joseph Salmons (UW) & Heike Bungert (Universität zu Köln)
"How this project developed"
9:45 Helmut Schmahl, Universität Mainz
"The Darmstädter settlements in Wisconsin"
10:35 Johannes Strohschänk, German, UW-Eau Claire
"Piecing together a critical history of German immigration to Wisconsin"
11:25 Anke Ortlepp, Universität zu Köln
"Leaving the Eifel: Farming conditions southeast of Adenau"

12:15 Lunch

Friday afternoon: Excursion to Cross Plains and Reeseville


Saturday, September 9
9:30 Ute Langer, Universität zu Köln
"Using archival resources in Germany"
10:20 Ulrich Sänger, Universität zu Köln
"Before Cross Plains: Auswanderer aus der Kölner Bucht"
11:10 Suzanne Townley, German, UW
"Rhenish settlement in western Dane County, Wisconsin"

12:00 Lunch

1:30 Anke Ortlepp, Universität zu Köln
"Aus dem Wiedschen Land: Families from the Westerwald"
2:20 Kevin Neuberger, Laywers Title Insurance Corporation
"Westerwald immigrants at Reeseville-Lowell, Wisconsin, 1847-1920"
3:10 Beth Schlemper, Geography, UW
"Selecting and delineating a church-based community: Johnsburg, Wisconsin"
4:00 Scott Moranda, History, UW
"Forest and prairie in German-American settlement and agriculture"

4:50 Break

5:30 Bob Ostergren (Geography, UW), Kevin Neuberger (LTIC), Cora Lee Nollendorfs (German, UW)
"Thoughts on where we go from here"
5:45 Closing discussion

Saturday evening: Informal dinner at 127 S. Brittingham Place (Partners/spouses heartily invited.)