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We would like to draw your attention to a virtual event to be held over Zoom on Thursday, November 5, 2020 from 6:30-8:30pm. The event is called “EnCompassing Culture: Reclaiming Indigenous Space through StoryMap,” and …

We at CSUMC are excited to report on two new grants that are being administered through our center for the next three years.

Since we learned of his passing on August 11, Phillip R. Certain has been on our minds a lot (https://ls.wisc.edu/news/remembering-phil-certain). Phil served as Dean of Letters and Science at UW–Madison from 1993 until 2004. When …

Two groundbreaking Wisconsin artists have been named 2020 National Heritage Fellows by the National Endowment for the Arts, the highest honor awarded to folk and traditional artists in the United States. Karen Ann Hoffman of …

CSUMC is co-sponsoring an upcoming lecture by visiting scholar, Eija Stark, Docent in Folklore Studies at the Finnish Literature Society and Åbo Akademi University. Stark’s lecture, entitled “Masculine Ideals: Folklore and Narratives on Men’s Work,” …

CSUMC is co-sponsoring an exciting lecture and concert on Monday, September 23rd from 7-8:30pm in Memorial Union on the UW-Madison campus (800 Langdon St.). The evening event entitled “Displaced Sympathies: Finnish Out- and In-Migration Then …

The Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures and the Mills Music Library have been awarded $230,000 by the National Endowment for the Humanities for the digital preservation of a unique collection of historic …

Janet Gilmore recently was featured on the Joy Cardin show talking about lutefisk. You can listen to the program here: www.wpr.org/shows/tell-joy-where-lutefisk

This September, folklorist Richard March will be teaching a Continuing Studies course, “Europe’s Musical Heritage in the Midwest: Polka, Balkan, Scandinavian Traditions.”  The course will start around the time March’s book on polka comes out. …