Thanks from organiser Dr Paul Leworthy to all of the funders who made this screening tour possible: Heinrich-Böll Foundation, the German Academic Exchange Service, the Goethe Institute and the Leverhulme Trust!
@boell.de @daad-uk-ireland.bsky.social @goetheinstitut.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk
Friday, 1st May 2026 (19:00) at The Goethe Institute in London
Tickets: www.goethe.de/ins/gb/en/ve...
Thursday, 30th April 2026 (20:00) at The Filmhouse in Edinburgh
Tickets: www.filmhouse.org.uk/movie/das-de...
Wednesday, 29th April (20:00) at the Grosvenor Picture Theatre in Glasgow
Tickets: www.grosvenorpicturetheatre.co.uk/movie/das-de...
Tuesday, 28th April 2026 (18:00) at the Hyde Park Picture House in Leeds
Tickets: hpph.co.uk/index.php/fi...
Monday, 27th April 2026 (17:15) at the Tyneside Cinema in Newcastle
Tickets: tynesidecinema.co.uk/event/das-de...
All screenings will be in German with English subtitles.
Here are the details of the individual screenings with booking links...
Filmed over 4+ years & focussed on the families of the victims, the doc is about the aftermath of the mass shooting by a right-wing extremist in Hanau in 2020.
It will be of interest to anyone thinking about cultural memory or questions relating to immigration, postmigration and structural racism.
🚨📽️ UK screening tour of acclaimed new German documentary Das deutsche Volk - NEXT WEEK!📽️🚨
There will be a Q&A with the director Marcin Wierzchowski after each screening.
In cinemas in NEWCASTLE (Mon), LEEDS (Tues), GLASGOW (Wed), EDINBURGH (Thursday) & LONDON (Fri).
Details & tickets below 🧵
Registration for the "Queer Lives and Trans* Formations: Reimagining Weimar Germany's LGBTQ+ Histories and Cultures" online conference is now live! Sign up to join us 30 - 31 March (Australia: 31 March - 1 April). With speakers from 6 (!) time zones & keynotes from Jonah Garde & Camilla Smith!
The German History Society is proud to release the call for papers for our 2026 Annual Conference, held this year at the University of Stirling!
The deadline for papers is the 14 April 2026.
For more information check our website here: www.germanhistorysociety.org/conference/
The project is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and its German counterpart, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
The exhibition is the product of the Anglo-German research project on “Canetti and the British in a European Context: Exile, Reception, Appropriation” and was introduced by Prof Julian Preece (Swansea), UK lead researcher on the project.
View of a crowd of people stood listening to a speaker in a white gallery space with a visible textual exhibit with the heading Elias Canetti
Colleagues at Newcastle University congregated this week to toast the opening of the “Elias Canetti. A Jewish Émigré in Britain: People, Places, Impressions 1939-1988” exhibition. The exhibition will remain on show in the Old Library Building throughout March.
⌛ Only a few hours left to get those abstracts in...
More details including the full letter can be found here: ags.ac.uk/ags-sends-jo...
A petition to support our colleagues at Heriot-Watt can be found here: heriotwatt.web.ucu.org.uk/2026/02/05/s...
Jointly with the Chair of W+IGS and the President of the GLA, the President of the AGS, @pdavies.bsky.social, has sent a letter to the Principal of Heriot-Watt University opposing proposed staff cuts to the Department of Languages and Intercultural Studies and threats to close German and Chinese.
🚨 The deadline for submitting papers for the AGS conference is fast approaching 🚨
If you are intending on submitting an abstract, do so by Friday!
94th AGS Conference will take place at University of Glasgow, 26-28 August 2026.
**Call for Papers has now been published **
Details and full CfP here: ags.ac.uk/conferences/...
Deadline for abstracts: 20 February 2026
Big thank you to the organising committee & esp @herrehrig.bsky.social 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Happy #ShoutOutForGerman week! Learning #German has lots of benefits, it’s fun and not as hard as some may think: theconversation.com/learning-ger... @uk.theconversation.com @goethe-institut-uk.bsky.social @daad-uk-ireland.bsky.social @uk.diplo.de @ags-gbi.bsky.social @britgerassoc.bsky.social
On the first Monday morning of 2026, we wish all members a productive and rewarding year ahead! We look forward to facing ongoing and new challenges together, to the highs and lows of teaching and research, and to the conversations and collaborations with colleagues that sustain us and our field…
Exciting news - details of next year's AGS conference, which will be held in Glasgow, will be published this week!
More to follow here soon too but in the meantime keep your eyes on your inboxes!
Thanks @Prof Godela Weiss-Sussex for sharing first 🙏
Insightful article by fellow ML scholars Wendy Ayres-Bennett, Charles Burdett, Emma Cayley and Marcela Cazzoli regards the proposed cuts at Nottingham and Leicester
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/late...
In response to recent news of the University of Nottingham's devastating plan to cut modern languages degrees, the AGS President (@pdavies.bsky.social) has sent a joint letter of protest to the UoN VC and the Chair of University Council on behalf of the AGS, W+IGS and the GLA.
Link to the letter 👇
The German Language Association (GLA) -
a platform for educators specialised in German
language teaching in HE in the UK and Ireland.
More info here: www.germanlanguageassociation.org
Women+ in German Studies (W+IGS) is an organisation for Women+ Germanists in Great Britain, Ireland and beyond, supporting them in all aspects of their professional life.
More info here: womeningermanstudies.wordpress.com
@wigsblog.bsky.social
