Very .uch looking forward to this.

I am very excited to announce the publication of this blog

@wigsblog.bsky.social It was a pleasure hosting the Women+ in German Studies Conference at Aberystwyth University last week. Great community and great papers!

We’re kicking off our programme this afternoon with a workshop for #pgrs and #ecas in #GermanStudies hosted by the wonderful Professor Sara Jones. Thank you so much for joining us Sara, and for helping us with our #researchimpact and #engagement.

Now onto our Keynote:

The wonderful Susannah Eckersley is presenting her research on “Memory, Belonging, and Democracy in Germany: Museums and the Politics of Difference”

We’re very excited to learn more about the relationship between museums and German identity!

The #W+IGS committee have landed in @aberuni.bsky.social for our annual conference #W+IGS #GermanStudies

And last but not least… our final paper by Elizabeth Ramsey examines the question of nudity, nakedness, and male desire in her paper “The madwoman on the stage: Goethe’s Aurelie and Schnitzler’s Fräulein Else as representations of the modern woman’s fractured self”

Next up is Katy Heady, with a paper on Jewish male reactions to female suffrage in the mid-1920s. Katy’s paper has considered perspectives from liberal and orthodox authors on women’s political participation in Jewish communities

#Day2 of the annual W+IGS conference begins! Out first paper is by Gwendolin Choi on “Staging Otherness, Staging the Self: Human Zoos, Exhibitions and the Colonial Imaginary”

The winning entries were titled:

Isabel Parkinson: “In Two Minds: Consciousness, Gender, and Voice in German-to-English Translation”

Miriam Schwarz: “The Forms of Friendship. How Women’s Friednships Shape and Challenge Narrativity in Contemporary German and Anglophone Literature”

Congratulations👏

Announcing the TWO winners of #W+IGS annual #ECA #BookPrize 🎉

Isabel Parkinson & Miriam Schwarz

Congratulations to them both! 🎉

Now on the GHIL #Blog:

A three-part series on the migration history of Wales by Andrea Hammel (@andreahammel.bsky.social)!
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Thanks to everyone who attended our launch event at the Senedd on Tuesday! It was a successful evening with speeches from Elin Jones MS, @andreahammel.bsky.social, @jacksargeantms.bsky.social, Victoria Kazymova, Iryna Kolpakova, Mohamad Karkoubi and Morris Brodie.

Exhibition on until 22 Jan 2026

A Senedd exhibition about the impact of war and displacement in Wales which commemorates refugees has been opened by Culture Minister Jack Sargeant MS and the Llywydd Elin Jones MS.

🖱️ tinyurl.com/4cdatrzp

@andreahammel.bsky.social
#senedd #wales #refugees #exhibition

@andreahammel.bsky.social

Our exhibition setup at the Senedd is now complete! You can join us at the launch event for 'Unsettled Lives: War and Displacement in Wales' on 11 Nov at 18.00

@aberuni.bsky.social @prifaber.bsky.social @andreahammel.bsky.social

Last session at the #AGS on the Elias Canetti project

The inaugural panel continues: we’ve heard Sophia Buck on her fascinating project on “Enemy Studies”, charting claims about “Two Germanies” esp in UK German Studies. Now Bill Niven talking about meta-memory, meta-memorials and the Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas

The AGS Conference @ags-gbi.bsky.social starts today! Browse our German Studies titles: bit.ly/4lUraW8

authors incl.
@claudiakreklau.bsky.social
@herrehrig.bsky.social
@duerrbortolotti.bsky.social
@philiphahn.bsky.social
@chewschaper.bsky.social
@nasimaselim.bsky.social
@elizabethward.bsky.social

Looking forward to seeing everyone at AGS 2025! Please stop by the #PeterLangOxford stand to say hello! @ags-gbi.bsky.social

Classroom seen from the rear with the backs of the audience’s heads visible and a speaker at the front of the room facing the camera

The first panel and the first break is behind us (and the coffee is drinkable ☕️👍). Now for Panel 2: convened by Gillian Pye and Anne Fuchs, this parallel panel is on “the good enough life” in Germanaphone literature and film. First speaker is Maria Roca-Lizarazu on Shida Bazyar’s Drei Kameradinnen

Hello #AGS2025! Call by our stand to check out these and more brand new titles in #GermanStudies. buff.ly/S0B7Ihh @ags-gbi.bsky.social

Two speakers sit in armchairs on stage

Beautiful readings and fascinating discussion from Natasha Kelly - what a treat! Fortunately, for those who aren’t able to be here, the event was filmed so keep an eye out for the recordings. Now drinks and dinner! 🥂🍽️

Two seated speakers on a stage at the front of a fairly full semicircular auditorium

After the first few panels and before the Conference Dinner, a plenary many of us having been really looking forward to: the President's Guest Natasha A. Kelly in conversation with Kirstin Gwyer 🎤👌

A wide angle view of a dining hall full of long tables with seated guests

After an aperitif in the charming courtyard, dinner in the elegant dining hall of St John’s College

Entrance to an old stone college building in Oxford with an open door leading to a grassed quad

Back in St John’s College for Day 2 of #AGS2025 🙂

A classroom photographed from outside through the window with the words “Larkin Room” written on the window pane

A classroom photographed from outside through the window with the words “Prestwich Room” written on the window pane

Full classrooms at 9am - delegates at #AGS2025 are making the most of a great choice of parallel panels in the first session of day 2

The front of a classroom with the panel’s two co-chairs standing next to a television screen

Last session of talks on Day 2 at #AGS2025 is (for me and all the other delegates packing the Prestwich Room) the first of two panels on Black Literature and Culture in German…

@ags-gbi.bsky.social snippets

An audience stands listening to a speaker on stage

An audience equipped with Austrian wine listens as Henrike Lähnemann begins the festivities around the opening of the exhibition “German in the World” at the Taylor Institution #AGS2025