Friday, November 03, 8:30 am–10:00 am
Directors Suite
This live event will not be recorded.
Chair: Sallie Anna Pisera (UW-Madison Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures)
8:30 am
Rice Lake Pageant 1920: Roots, Uprooting, Racism
James P. Leary (University of Wisconsin, Madison, emeritus)
9:00 am
Dwelling Together in Heritage and Memory: Synchronous Presentation of Somali and Scandinavian Homes in Museum Settings
Sallie Anna Pisera (UW-Madison Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures)
9:30 am
Local Centers/Global Sounds: Historic Recordings and Upper Midwestern Music Vernaculars
Nathan D. Gibson (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
The Upper Midwest of the United States has long been home to a shifting array of immigrant diasporas which have interacted within and built up emergent social spaces in concert and in conflict with other ethnic communities, settler and indigenous. This panel explores a few examples of the creative productions ethnic communities in the Upper Midwest have employed in establishing their presence in the region and in negotiating their identities in diaspora and in relation to neighboring groups.