Excited to receive my author copy of this excellent volume today! Thanks @profannasaunders.bsky.social and Caroline Summers for their brilliant work 👏

Hampshire College to close at end of 2026 The college in Amherst, Mass., has been facing financial difficulties for years.

Sad to see it.

Germans and Turks German-Turkish relations form an integral backdrop to many of today's most pressing political concerns, including the absorption of refugees from the Middle Eas…

I didn't want to post about it while the war is going on, but the haters in Turkey are already running very hot...
My new book, coming out in June, Germans and Turks—A Forgotten History of Europe
(and it's very different from what the haters expect...)
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/germans-a...

Halle-Online Am 14. April 2026 spricht der Germanist Stepan Ehrig in einem Online-Vortrag zum Thema "Der Aufbau von Halle-Neustadt in Literatur und Film der DDR".

Falls jemand morgen Abend Zeit hat: ich rede mal wieder über Halle-Neustadt :) www.moderne-regional.de/halle-online...

Parking charge plan: 'It's like the wild west at the moment' Proposals for new parking zones in Glasgow are controversial but some residents say they would tackle the current chaotic situation.

The other side got a look in on the news!

"I'm constantly being forced onto the road or crossing in between parked cars where they shouldn't be and where you've not got visibility of the traffic."

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Pleased to be in Erfurt for the international DEFA conference on mobility and space.

I’m currently doing oral exams on Kleist’s novellas and it’s such a joy, year in, year out, to see how much the students enjoy reading him and how he challenges them to delve deeper into textual analysis. #germanistik

Talk is precious: in the age of communication collapse, Jürgen Habermas’s message remains vital | Eva von Redecker The philosopher, who has died aged 96, was often caricatured as a consensus-seeking liberal. But his belief in the need for shared understanding had a radical underpinning, says German philosopher Eva...

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Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

‘Sound of Falling’ Review: Four Generations of German Girls Suffer the Same Growing Pains in Mascha Schilinski’s Mesmerizing Stunner This Cannes stunner unfolds like 100 years of home video footage that were shot by the family ghosts.

www.indiewire.com/criticism/mo...

Sign the open letter to Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood - Stop the disastrous earned settlement plans On 11th March, hundreds of people from all four nations of the UK united in Parliament for the Mass Lobby for Migrant Rights. From grassroots migrant-led groups to union leaders, the call to MPs was l...

The Government wants to force millions of people who work in our hospitals, care homes and schools to wait decades before they can stay here permanently.

Sign the open letter to the Home Secretary and oppose these disastrous plans.

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Gut 18 % rechsextreme Stimmen in einem der reichsten Bundesländer. Wir müssen mal wieder über die Folgen der neoliberalen und patriarchalen Strukturen der alten Bundesrepublik und die Baseballschlägerjahre in Westdeutschland inklusive Mölln und Solingen sprechen, um das erklären zu können.

Closure of language courses is ‘national catastrophe’, warns VC - Research Professional News Birmingham leader Adam Tickell says “institutional mergers” may be needed to protect “national cultural assets”

Closure of language courses is ‘national catastrophe’, warns VC www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

Wir müssen alle aufmerksam sein - in Kanada wie in Deutschland - wegen solche Massnahmen. Ich schätze, sie werden mehr und nicht weniger in den kommenden Jahren.

Culture and Leisure at Risk, Glasgow 2026 - eblknd

Someone has compiled a list of cultural spaces in Glasgow that have closed this year. It's embarrasing and really highlights how badly the city is failing arts & culture. eblknd.leaflet.pub/3mg6akzx3n22l

On Thursday 5 March at 4.30 our visiting Boston College Irish Studies scholar, Marcus Breen, will be speaking about 'The Struggle for Meaning in Irish Cultural Studies: Kneecap and Sinners'. All welcome in-person (Lanyon 01/052) or online. www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...

Der Perlentaucher meldet heute:
Übrigens: Das gab es noch nie in der Geschichte des Perlentaucher: In keiner der vom Perlentaucher ausgewerteten Zeitungen - FAZ, FR, NZZ, SZ, taz, Welt, Zeit - gibt es auch nur eine einzige Buchkritik, nicht eine!

#booksky #germanbooksky #literaturkritik

Had the great luck to see the incredible historical document Indian director Chetna Vora produced in East Berlin in 1982. The intimate and unfiltered interviews with women of all ages and class identities are fascinating and I could have listened to them for even longer than its 2h20 running time.

Can’t wait for my swing through the UK to talk about queer women in Nazi Germany

Events | Goethe-Institut UK Mon, 09.03.2026 – Samuel Clowes Huneke in Conversation

Save the date! Sam Huneke @schuneke.bsky.social is coming to Glasgow to present his new book next month www.goethe.de/ins/gb/en/ve...

Exactly. And we pointed out the many shortcomings of the actual unification.

On the pro side, for the fun of the argument :)

Had a great time at the St Andrews Debating Society last night, debating whether Germany should have stayed divided, in great company.

One of my favourite public art works in Glasgow. The Empire sign by Douglas Gordon (1998) is a reverse-written, illuminated neon sign referring to Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo and exploring the Merchant City's historical ties to the slave trade and the British Empire.

In Somerset, I found glorious proof that the UK can build great council houses. So what is holding us back? | John Harris It was life-affirming to meet the residents of Rainbow Way in Minehead. But so much still stands in the way of Labour’s vision for social housing, says Guardian columnist John Harris

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Come to Glasgow in August!

Hervorragendes Gespraech. Absolut hoerenswert.

Grosses Kompliment an beide Gespraechsteilnehmer!

wildes Gefühl: Erst langes Interview mit Dagmar Herzog über die Geschichte und wirklich gruselige Gegenwart der Euthanasie in Deutschland führen – und paar Tage später bei Springer lesen, warum "wir" / "die Kommunen" uns die Kosten für Behinderte jetzt leider nicht mehr leisten können sollen

‘The Red Road flats were spectacular – and terrifying’: striking photographs of Glasgow in flux From Franz Ferdinand fusing a basement pub’s lights to high-rise flats just days before their demolition, a new show captures the changing city. Its photographers talk us through their shots

Need to make sure to see this! #glasgow
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...