Max Kade Institute Virtual Lecture: “How Swiss German is Amish Shwitzer?”
ZoomAdams County, Indiana, is home to the Swiss Amish, a population that does do not speak Pennsylvania Dutch, but Shwitzer. The language sounds surprisingly familiar to speakers of modern Swiss-German dialects – and very different …
Signe Baumane, “Gender, Marriage, and Depression in the Animated Stories of Latvian Women”
Signe Baumane will discuss her animated films, particularly Rocks in my Pockets (2014), which is about five Latvian women throughout the twentieth century, depression, suicide, marriage, and gender roles in Soviet-occupied and post-Soviet Latvia. Signe …
GDGSA 22nd Annual Conference: Mind & Memory in Germanic Studies
ZoomThis conference seeks to shed light on how our experiences interacting with the Germanic world can impact us. The conference will explore how the mind interacts with language, can adapt to various language environments, and …
Symposium: Performance Geographies After Communism (Day 1)
Pyle Center AT&T Lounge/106 702 Langdon St, Madison, WIScholars from several disciplines will investigate the new sites of performance that have arisen in Russia and Eastern Europe after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the various cultural and political dislocations to which …
Symposium: Performance Geographies After Communism (Day 2)
Pyle Center AT&T Lounge/106 702 Langdon St, Madison, WIScholars from several disciplines will investigate the new sites of performance that have arisen in Russia and Eastern Europe after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the various cultural and political dislocations to which …