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NEWSLETTER Volume 40, N Umber 1 Spring 2019 SOCIETY FOR GERMAN-AMERICAN STUDIES NEWSLETTER Volume 40, N umber 1 Spring 2019 EDITOR'S MESSAGE IN THIS ISSUE We?re getting ready for our annual symposium in Madison! Many thanks go to Vice President Cora Lee Kluge and local organizers at the Max Kade Institute Antje Petty EDITOR'S MESSAGE and Mark Louden for their work in planning the Symposium. We simply would not have as exciting a schedule, as fascinating a venue, nor co?hosts as gracious as the SGAS OFFICER MKI without their efforts. Included in this issue are the Symposium schedule and NOMINEES registration form. I would like to bring your attention to three presentations in the schedule?those of A LOOK TOWARDS the graduate students who have received funding awards from SGAS to present at MADISON the Symposium: Ryan Smolko (Texas A&M University), ?The Hated Heils of Hitler: American Communities and Their Detested Nazi Neighbors,? Victoria Jesswein 2019 SYMPOSIUM (University of Texas at Austin / University of Liverpool), ?Welche Sprache ist sie any- SCHEDULE way? The Use of Borrowed ?anyway/anyhow? in Texas German,? and Courtland D. McEneny Ingraham (George Washington University), ?The Decline of Deutsch: A SYMPOSIUM Study on the Declining Use of German in America through the German?speaking REGISTRATION Community of Albany, New York.? Not only do these students receive funding from the Karl J. R. Arndt Publication Fund, they also submit a revised version of their Symposium presentations for consideration in the Yearbook. Upcoming this year will be elections for several open officer positions?the nomi- nees are announced in this issue. See you in Madison! Josh Brown, Ph.D. LEARN. JOIN. DONATE. SGAS.org "From the Old to the New World," Harper's Weekly, 7 November 1874 SGAS OFFICER NOMINEES Vice President Secretary Mark L. Louden is the Alfred L. William E. Petig received his Shoemaker, J. William Frey, and A.B., M.A., and Ph.D. in Ger- Don Yoder Professor of Ger- man from Stanford University manic Linguistics at the Univer- and also studied at the Uni- sity of Wisconsin?Madison, versity of Hamburg, Germany. where he also directs the Max He taught German at Stanford Kade Institute for German- University for over four American Studies. A fluent decades and served as director speaker of Pennsylvania Dutch, of Lower Division German. For eight years he was the Mark devotes most of his re- managing editor of the journal Die Unterrichtspraxis and search and public outreach to the language and the faith served as its book review editor for fifteen years. He is the and culture of its speakers. He received his undergradu- author of Literary Antipietism in Germany during the First ate and graduate training at Cornell University and Half of the Eighteenth Century, co?author of German: A taught for 12 years at the University of Texas at Austin Structural Approach, and translated and annotated the au- before joining the UW?Madison faculty in 2000. He is tobiography of the German composer and pianist, Xaver the author of the 2016 book, Pennsylvania Dutch: The Scharwenka: Sounds from My Life: Reminiscences of a Musi- Story of an American Language, which will be reprinted cian. From 2009 to 2015 he chaired the SGAS Nominat- this spring as a paperback by the Johns Hopkins Univer- ing and Elections Committee and is currently a member sity Press. of the Karl J. R. Arndt Publication Fund Committee. Karen Roesch is currently Director of the IUPUI Max Kade German- Treasurer American Center in Indianapolis. Achim Kopp is Professor of Foreign She is also the Hoyt?Reichmann Languages and Literatures and As- Scholar of German?American Stud- sociate Dean in the College of Lib- ies and an Assistant Professor of eral Arts at Mercer University in German in the Department of World Macon, Georgia. He earned his Languages at Indiana Univer- Ph.D. in English linguistics at Hei- sity?Purdue University Indianapolis delberg. He has published The (IUPUI). She currently serves on the Phonology of Pennsylvania German SGAS Albert B. Faust Research Fund Committee, but also English as Evidence of Language served as co?editor of the SGAS Newsletter from Maintenance and Shift and Francis 2014?2017. She is the author of Language Maintenance and Lieber?s Brief and Practical German Grammar. Since 2004, Language Death: The Decline of Texas Alsatian as well as of he has been collaborating with his colleague John several articles and book chapters on German?American Thomas Scott on a research and publication project on dialects in Texas and Indiana, including ?Mir reda ka the Moravians in colonial Georgia. Kopp joined SGAS in richtiges Dietsch: Self?stigmatization in German- 1994 and has been serving on the YGAS Editorial Board American Dialects,? ?F.C.D. Wyneken, Thunder on the since 2005. He completed two terms as the Society?s Indiana Frontier,? and ?Morphological Leveling in Indi- treasurer between 2011 and 2015 and has been in his ana German.? third term since July 2017. 2 A LOOK TOWARDS MADISON, WISCONSIN ANTJE PETTY Germany, to New York City in 1905, where he built a suc- cessful pharmaceutical company. In 1956, Dr. Kade es- Madison is the site of the 2019 SGAS Symposium. The tablished the Max Kade Foundation to promote scientific Max Kade Institute for German?American Studies (MKI) and technical progress and to further the peaceful coexis- at the University of Wisconsin?Madison is delighted to tence of nations, especially to advance relations between help host the Symposium. America and Europe?s German?speaking countries. Over 35 years later, MKI is now one of the most prominent orga- nizations in the United States, if not the world, for research and outreach on German?American topics. The Institute?s growing li- brary and archives house one of the largest collections of German- language materials published in North America, as well as primary source documents, such as letters, diaries, and business records. These resources are the basis for the Institute?s outreach activities and also draw scholars from around the world. They include thousands of books, articles, pam- phlets, and other items published in America, which deal with the Downtown Madison experiences of German?speaking (image credit: UW?Madison Photo Library) immigrants and the political, cul- tural, and religious aspects of Ger- man, Swiss, and Austrian settlement in North America; a The Max Kade Institute collection of several hundred family histories, diaries, and manuscripts of German?speaking immigrants and their The MKI was founded in 1983, the 300?year anniver- descendants; more than thirty current journals or sary of the first German settlement in America, as an newsletters on the subject of German?American studies or interdisciplinary university institute with a three?part genealogy; and many other materials. mission: to research the story of German?speaking im- migrants and their descendants in a global, multicul- The Institute also houses the North American German tural, and interdisciplinary context; to preserve Ameri- Dialect Archive, which contains thousands of hours of can print culture and personal documents in the Ger- recordings of immigrant dialects from the mid?1940s to man language and make them part of America?s story the present. Most of the recordings are of heritage speak- and historiography; and to share the Institute?s re- ers, i.e., individuals who are at least one generation re- sources through publications, community outreach, and moved from immigration, but still speak the language of educational programming. their immigrant ancestors. To listen to audio samples from our sound archive, complete with translations and Initially funded with a grant from the Max Kade Foun- background information on MKI?s German?American dation in New York, MKI is named after Dr. h.c. Max and American English Dialects pages, visit: Kade (1882?1967), who came from Schwäbisch Hall, language.mki.wisc.edu 3 MKI research projects based on these resources are as ?Research? initiatives; check out upcoming ?Events?; and multifaceted as the life of German Americans them- explore ?Genealogy? resources. selves. Over the years, MKI?s research has focused on From its founding, the MKI has had a close relationship topics such as Germans and the land, German Ameri- with the SGAS. Now we look forward to showcasing the cans in the Civil War and World War I eras, oral histo- Institute at the 2019 SGAS Symposium. On Saturday, ries of twentieth-century German immigrants, and Ger- April 13, at 5:00 p.m., the MKI will open a new exhibit man language education in America. Thanks to the ?Neighbors Past and Present: the Wisconsin German Ex- scholarship of former MKI Director Cora Lee Kluge, perience? on the fourth floor of the University Club. At MKI has been on the forefront of research on the Ger- the same time, the MKI Library and Archives will be open man?American theater (especially the Milwaukee Ger- for a special tour. At the SGAS banquet on Saturday man theater), and German?American literature. Cora evening, MKI Director Mark Louden will speak on ?The Lee Kluge?s Other Witnesses: An Anthology of Literature of German Presence in Wisconsin.? the German Americans, 1850?1914, published by the MKI in 2007, has become the seminal text on the experiences and insights of American authors who wrote in German. The University of Wisconsin?Madison MKI is also a leading center for research on varieties of German spoken in America. In particular, under the The mission of MKI is grounded in a multidisciplinary leadership of MKI Director Mark L. Louden, the Insti- approach to learning about the past while focusing on the tute has become a center for Pennsylvania Dutch studies present. Thus, being part of the University of Wisconsin- and is the home of the Pennsylvania Dutch Documen- Madison has been crucial to the Institute?s success.
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