#SCMS2026 starts today @scmstudies.bsky.social ! Use code SCMS26 for 35% off ALL #FilmStudies books until 17th April: bit.ly/47LcEvu
Browse our #OpenAccess books here: bit.ly/41mjzaR
#CinemaStudies #TelevisionStudies
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Just signed ✍️
What a shame that we now have to sign these kind of petitions on a regular basis to save our subject(s).
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First review of Agency and Author in GSR 📖
Die Beiträger*innen lenken den "Blick auf ein Forschungsgebiet, das immer noch zu wenig beachtet wird—gerade in Zeiten, in denen der Gegenstand dieser Forschung, der Literaturbetrieb, einem radikalen Wandel unterworfen ist."
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NEUBAU ATMOSPHERES: East German Cultural Remediations of Modernist Architecture by Stephan Ehrig @herrehrig.bsky.social has now been published!
Find out more here: bit.ly/3JZJa4a
#FilmStudies #LiteraryStudies #History
Finally managed to read this gem and once again I am regretting that I did not become a Neue Sachlichkeit scholar 📚👨🏻🏫
*please share widely*
Dear Network,
I am looking for temp work: translation/copy-editing German to Dutch and English and English↔️Dutch, as well as fundraising.
All leads very welcome! DM or email at meindertpeters @ gmail
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It's the #GermanHistSoc2025 @germanhistsoc.bsky.social! Check out our #OpenAccess #GermanHistory titles: bit.ly/3VxOMos
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The AGS Conference @ags-gbi.bsky.social starts today! Browse our German Studies titles: bit.ly/4lUraW8
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@herrehrig.bsky.social
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@philiphahn.bsky.social
@chewschaper.bsky.social
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A group of people walking through a former textile factory
The former headquarters of Leipzig's Konsumzentrale
I left with a notebook full of ideas and incredibly helpful feedback.
Thank you to all the contributors, to Ben Schaper @chewschaper.bsky.social for his invaluable feedback as our workshop respondent, and to colleagues at @unileipzig.bsky.social for all the behind the scenes support.
The conference room with the conference poster
A villa
A group of people looking at a painting
A group of people looking at an exhibition
That's a wrap!
A fascinating workshop at @unileipzig.bsky.social to kick off our forthcoming @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social book "East German Film and Cultural Diplomacy".
In person and online, we came together to share and discuss thematic and methodological approaches.
For the #SHS2025 (@socialhistsoc.bsky.social) conference, check out some #History, #CulturalStudies & #Sociology titles. Browse more: bit.ly/4n9XK8l
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@chbrauner.bsky.social
@duerrbortolotti.bsky.social
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@eirinikaramouzi.bsky.social
For a shameless plug… “Deterritorializing the Stasi in Deutschland 83/86/89” is free to download in Ben Schaper @chewschaper.bsky.social, Stephan Ehrig @herrehrig.bsky.social and my @berghahnbooks.bsky.social edited volume “Entertaining German Culture: Contemporary Transnational Television and Film”
Check out the programme of the public film festival in Amherst and Northampton, MA, curated by Maria Stehle and myself as part of the SFI, starting Sunday next! #DEFA #GDR #DDR
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I'm super pleased to share that my upcoming book, Neubau Atmospheres, is now featured on Berghahn's website 📷
It will come out in October but anyone working for a university is already kindly invited to suggest it to their library! berghahnbooks.com/title/EhrigN... #gdr #defa #ddr
Interested in the strategies series runners use that underpinned the global success of German series such as Dark, Charité & Deutschland 83?
“Entertaining German Culture” is free to download in full at
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Welcome to the German Screen Studies Network official Bluesky page! Here we will share information about interesting events, conference CfPs & news, job advertisements, as well as keep you up to date on our @daad-uk-ireland.bsky.social 'Promoting German Studies Networking Grant' activities!
It's important to advance research & scholarship. In addition to our #OpenAccess titles, we're now offering another FREE #ChapterSampler, bringing key title extracts together in a curated #GermanCinema collection.
Download today & enjoy: https://buff.ly/3EQL6ZW
#academicsky #FilmStudies
I have been waiting for this for months 😂
🚨 Please sign the petition to save MLANG at @cardiffuni 🖊️
Solidarity with colleagues affected ✊🌹
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🔥off the press 🖨️
Agency and Author: German Literature Beyond the Bestseller List out now in @berghahnbooks and @TheGSA Spektrum Series 🎉🍾
DM for 50% discount code valid until 28th February 💸
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My intermezzo (📖 reference intended) in 🇮🇪 is coming to an end with more than one💧in my 👁️
Particularly ♥️-warming interactions with students have given me so much joy and vigour 🍀
Go raibh maith agat 🙏
#ireland #tcd #germanindublin #germanstudies
APPLY BY FEBRUARY 10, 2025! The weeklong institute traces cinematic depictions of urban, rural and industrial spaces to examine how East German films address questions of social and environmental justice at moments of crisis or impasse. More info: umass.edu/defa
(5) I am of course aware that this doesn't cover everyone's individual experience and I have never been on an hourly-paid contract only. But hopefully this helps to shed some light on the plight of precariously employed staff at Oxford.
(4.2) in their contracts. Despite many SLs having several years of teaching and research experience, the SL automatically keeps them quite far down the hierarchy within the college and university and hardly offers any chances for career progression.
(4.1) And research leads me to another paradox. Even though SLs are expected to provide world-class research-led teaching, even the university doesn't really recognise them as independent researchers. SLs are rarely, and often only following their own initiative, considered as research active
(3.2) employees paid vastly different wages for at times more or less doing the same job but SLs are often unable to produce the research and outputs that could get them hired in more secure positions.
(3.1) The teaching load is so intense that there is hardly any time for research during regular working hours during term time. Besides, many SLs have to take on two 0.5 jobs in order to sustain themselves. And that never adds up to simply one full-time job but always more. Therefore, not only are
(2) College-only employees are not included in any legal disputes between UCU and the university and cannot take strike action to improve their situation. Through this system, strikes hardly ever have any impact at Oxford as most employees and classes are college-based.
(1) The "calorie wage" gives you (a number of) free meals. Does this really make up for the wage differences? This is a nice thing per se but for whom? Are employees with familial or care duties really able to make full use of it? Does this advance the university's inclusivity and diversity agenda?