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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 …