#DGfA2025: „Die Versammelten trieb die Frage um: Wie geht eine wissenschaftliche Fachgesellschaft, die über reine Amerikaforschung hinaus … immer auch die Auseinandersetzung mit sich wandelnden politischen Verhältnissen und zu Ideen suchte, mit der Präsidentschaft Trumps um?“
And it's a wrap for #DGfA2025! Here are some impressions of the presentation of the Handbooks of English and American Studies, with our brilliant volume editors Hubert Zapf (Augsburg), Sabine Sielke (Bonn), Katja Sarkowsy (Augsburg) & Mita Banerjee (Mainz):
Big thanks to all presenters & attendees!
some of you asked for this: here is the unmixed tracklist from my opening set at our closing party #dgfa2025
open.spotify.com/playlist/6P8...
thought-provoking panels, great keynotes, closing with a bang — #dgfa2025 is a wrap (almost… says the bookkeeper)
#dgfa2025 beats party better with you
new provocation: my inability to use the hashtag correctly 🤪 #dgfa2025
#dgfa2025 if I didn't shove a flyer into your hand the last few days, let me make up for that digitally:
the volume co-edited with @improbable.bsky.social has finally seen the light of day and you can see it, too, at 30% off if you add EVENT30 at checkout
www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...
Black and white photo of Siegen main station.
Byyyyyyeeee 🙋🏻♀️
Siegen #dgfa25 #dgfa2025
P.S.: looking forward to seeing you all next year for the #dgfa26 #dgfa2026 in Münster 🫶🏻
Calling all #dgfa2025 peeps!
Here's reading for the journey back from Siegen.
Aaaand: it’s a wrap at the Surfer’s Club. Thanks a bunch for the excellent #DGfA2025 Siegen Times @danstein2025.bsky.social @marsimekko.bsky.social & Maxie Albrecht, you were fabulous hosts!
Closeup of a Street sign in Siegen that says “P (for parking) Wochenende (weekend)”
#dgfa2025 #dgfa25 that’s a wrap. A huge thank you (and congratulations) to the local organizers @danstein2025.bsky.social @marsimekko.bsky.social and Maxi Albrecht and the entire team. The past 3 days have been wonderful! We will come back to Siegen. And now: ⬇️
Thank you for an inspiring day at #dgfa2025 at #universityofsiegen! I will #archive all the new ideas this day triggered in my long-term-memory!
P.S.:I love the pen!
What a fantastic conference! Thanks to @danstein2025.bsky.social and his team for organizing #dgfa2025. And many many thanks to @drjanaweiss.bsky.social for organizing our roundtable on German-American archives which explored the value of ethnic archives and linking different digital collections.
Wanddekoration Uni Siegen. Kafkaesk. Käfer auf dem Rücken liegend.
Wanddekoration Uni Siegen. Kafkaesk. Käfer auf dem Rücken liegend. Hörsaal
What a wonderful panel! Thanks to all our speakers talking about "Digital Archives and American Studies" on day 2 of #DGfA2025.
@hollywoodmemories.bsky.social
A different (architectural) form of archive and archiving ⬇️
#dgfa25 #dgfa2025 #gaas25 #gaas2025 in Siegen
On day 3 of #DGfA2025, @astarre.bsky.social leads the way by introducing @kinohi.bsky.social s wonderful keynote on Toni Morrison’s Literary Archaeology & Productive Disremeberings
Photo shows a powerpoint solide with the speaker's photo and the title of the lecture.
3rd Day of #dgfa2025!
Looking forward to @kinohi.bsky.social's keynote on "The Making and Remaking of Beloved".
Day 3 of #DGfA2025: Alexander Starre @astarre.bsky.social introduces the conference's 3rd keynote - Kinohi Nishikawa on Toni Morrison's Beloved.
Collage of four photos showing speakers in front of a large screen. Slides depict poetry manuscripts and paper titles.
For this afternoon's DGfA session, I picked a panel on "Transmedial (Un)Archiving: Poetry Transposition into New Media" with four wonderful talks featuring #poetry, visual art, film, video games & poetry by #MinaLoy, #WaltWhitman, and #SylviaPlath. #AmericanStudies #DGfA2025
Closeup of a fan in pink and purple colors
That’s what I call a fan @spychalam.bsky.social ⬇️
It’s evening. It’s warm. It’s been a looooong day. But now: Current events panel on precarious archives.
#dgfa25 #dgfa2025 #siegen
After the Diversity Roundtable Meeting and the FLINTA Caucus for Gender Equity Meeting – and a dinner break – we're wrapping up the day with the Current Events Panel.
#dgfa2025
Proof. That the building in which the conference #dgfa25 #dgfa2025 takes place used to be the Karstadt department store.
The (ruins of the) department store as cultural (temporal-spatial) archive (of the city).
That's a wrap on our panel on literary institutions & periodicals. Great turnout, innovative contributions. C19 studies going strong! #dgfa2025
Collage of two photos featuring Rene Dietrich and Katja Sarkowsky presenting in front of a room of people.
I think I picked the perfect panel for this first stream: with a focus on "Waters, Oceans, Maps: Archiving thr Environment, Environment as American #Archive", both René Dietrich & Katja Sarkowsky spoke beautifully about contemporary Indigenous #poetry. #AmericanStudies #DGfA2025
