Introduction to Folklore Workshop – Online

Online
@ 10:00 am CDT

Join post-doc Chrissy Widmayer for her online workshop on folklore! Participants will learn about folklore in all its manifestations, and consider how we all are already engaged in heritage and traditional practices that could be …

Telling the Family Story Workshop – Online

Online
@ 10:00 am CDT - 11:30 am CDT

Join post-doc Chrissy Widmayer for her online workshop on telling the family story with our friends at the Norwegian American Genealogical Center. Participants will consider best practices for telling or writing their family story. How …

Oral History & Interviewing Workshop – Online

Online
@ 10:00 am CDT - @ 12:00 pm CDT

Join post-doc Chrissy Widmayer for her online workshop on oral history and interviewing with our friends at the Norwegian American Genealogical Center. Participants will learn the full process of how to conduct an oral history …

CANCELED Culture, Community, and the Classroom: Teaching Artist Showcase

Arts + Literature Laboratory 111 S. Livingston Street #100
@ 6:00 pm CDT

CANCELED DUE TO WEATHER Join us for the culminating teaching artist showcase of the Wisconsin Culture, Community, and the Classroom workshop that began in August of 2025. Local educators and teaching artists will be on …

Indigenous Education in the Nordic Region and the Upper Midwest

1418 Van Hise
@ 9:00 am CDT - 12:30 pm CDT

Join us to hear from researchers, teachers, and culture workers from the College of Menominee Nation, institutions throughout Sápmi, and the University of Wisconsin for two panels on Indigenous education on both sides of the …

Craft Psychology

1418 Van Hise Hall
@ 3:00 pm CDT

Join Dr. Anne Kirketerp, the author of Craft Psychology, as she discusses her work about the intersections of craft and health. This event is free and open to the public.

An Afternoon with Painter Tara Austin and the Nordic Lights Dance Band

Chazen Museum of Art
@ 2:30 pm CDT - 4:30 pm CDT

Join Tara Austin (MFA 2017), UW–Madison’s Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Culture’s 2026 Folk-Artist-in-Residence for a live rosemaling demonstration accompanied by Nordic American old-time music from the Nordic Lights Dance Band. Rosemaling is …

Community of Practice: Teaching Teachers in Norway

Online
@ 4:00 pm CST

The Folklife and Education Community of Practice will be joined by Silje Solheim Karlsen who will be discussing her work teaching teachers in Norway and how she uses her work as a literary scholar in …