Today (20 June) at the Taylorian: Freebie book event! Come and grab a book pre-loved by some of the Russian and German lecturers

Wadham College Oxford is seeking to appoint to a one-year part-time (three-hour) Stipendiary Lectureship in German, starting 1 September 2025. Apply by 1 July. Further details: www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/about/jobs/s...

Only discovered today the full page article in the Cherwell edition of 1st week cherwell.org/2025/05/05/m... 📯 @oxmedstud.bsky.social @stedmundhall.bsky.social @oxfordgerman.bsky.social

Lesenswertes Interview mit Henrike Lähnemann über Frauenklöster im Mittelalter: Frauen im Kloster: Spottlied auf den Priester (Paywall) www.spiegel.de/geschichte/f... #medievalsky

Ten versions of Kafka Taylor Institution, 6pm, 13 June tinyurl.com/4x265bbs Join Ian Ellison in conversation with prize-winning author Maïa Hruska. @oxfordcct.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @oxhumanities.bsky.social @oxfordgerman.bsky.social @engfac.bsky.social @mfoxford.bsky.social @torchoxford.bsky.social

New pub alert: I wrote about De Keersmaeker's staging of Rilke's The Cornet, including her engagement with its afterlife in World War II. About how her choreography explores its powerful imagery and form, and her evocation of the Nazi salute. doi.org/10.3366/drs....

StPeter's College & Hertford College:one-year lectureship in German, from 1 October 2025, 6 hours teaching per week. Apply by 21 May: www.spc.ox.ac.uk/about/vacanc... @ox.ac.uk @ags-gbi.bsky.social

Hannah Arendt: In Conversation with Thomas Meyer and Lyndsey Stonebridge 13 May 16:00 Tuesday 13th of May, 4.00pm, Christ Church Research Centre. Join us for a discussion with two foremost scholars of Arendt’s life and work

Departmental Lecturer in German @ Exeter, Merton &Pembroke Colleges, £38,674 to £46,913. Fixed term, 01 September 2025-31 August 2026. Closing Date: 30 May Further particulars: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMZ880/d...

Sabbatical cover for Joanna Neilly: one-year lectureship St Peter’s College, @ox.ac.uk, in association with Hertford College. Apply by Wednesday 21 May www.spc.ox.ac.uk/about/vacanc...

A post for up to two years as 'Lektor*in' (stipendiary lecturer in German language) @stjohnsox.bsky.social @queenscollegeox.bsky.social - contact Barry Murnane for more info; for the attention of @ags-gbi.bsky.social www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/vac...

Her work centres on social & cultural histories of sixteenth & seventeenth century Germany; gender history; witchcraft; and the German Reformation. Her most recent work 'Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants' War' was published in 2025. 2/2

🚨GHS CONFERNECE KEYNOTE REVEAL 🚨 The GHS Annual conference is fast approaching and we're happy to announce that Prof. Lyndal Roper FBA (@orieloxford.bsky.social) is our first keynote speaker! Prof. Roper is Regius Chair in History, the first woman and first Australian to hold the position. 1/1

🚨CFP: GHS Annual Conference🚨 The GHS are proud to share the call for papers for our upcoming conference at the University of Loughborough on the 4-6 September 2025 The deadline for applications is 19 April 2025. For more info see: www.germanhistorysoc... #GermanHistSoc2025

A welcome statement! Professor of German @tcddublin.bsky.social "reaffirming its commitment to the role of languages in the humanities and to the central role of the humanities in realizing the academic and societal goals of a 21st century university." my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui...

Aus gegebenem Anlass: Lecture on Anatomy of Populism: A Critical Analysis of the AfD and Its Rhetoric by Henk de Berg @sheffielduni.bsky.social for Historical Linguistics topic 'Language of Totalitarianism' @tayoxford.bsky.social, Room2, Fr 28 Feb, 2pm

It's a new day at the Taylorian, and a new social media platform 🦋 What to expect? The same content from our previous posts on other sites: Modern Languages events in Oxford, library updates, and top tips for using the Taylorian! Let's chat! Let us know what you'd like to see on our feed 🌞

Printed Heritage Collections @britishlibrary.bsky.social & Digital Research team are co-supervising a placement on Computational analysis of early printed book descriptions. For humanities people who want to learn about digital research tools. Deadline this Friday! www.bl.uk/more/researc...

This will be of interest for the newly created account of the Association of German Studies (AGS) @ags-gbi.bsky.social

Career Development Fellowship in German at St Hilda's College, @ox.ac.uk. Apply by 25 February 2025 www.st-hildas.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/ca...

Our edition of 'Von der Freiheit eines Christenmenschen' is now #openaccess available on google books thx to @emmahuber.bsky.social: books.google.co.uk/books?id=oIx... @oxfordgerman.bsky.social #Reformation #pamphlets #Christian #freedom

Pls sign the petition to save Modern Languages at Cardiff University! More information on the German Studies jisc-mail list chng.it/6gFzQJy9RP #ModernLanguages

Our amazing Kafka show and accompanying book (from @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social & @oxfordgerman.bsky.social) is in the new issue of the New York Review of Books! Come & see the show now at the Morgan Library in NY! www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

just gone online: youtu.be/ilvXfw8fdXI - thx @torchoxford.bsky.social for having me, Nancy Thebaut & Lyndal Roper for discussing with me, @openbookpublish.bsky.social & Eva Schlotheuber for publishing with me! @oxmedstud.bsky.social @oxfordgerman.bsky.social @bkhistox.bsky.social

Somerville College invites applications for the Mary Somerville Junior Research fellowship in German Studies. Full-time, 1/10/20205 - 30/9/2028, salary £38,674p.a. isw.changeworknow.co.uk/somerville_c... Closing date 18 March 2025

Mein Buch «Die Rhetorik der Rechten» ist leider sehr aktuell. Ich schaffe es zeitlich nicht, eine überarbeitete Neuauflage zu veröffentlichen. Das Buch ist mittlerweile vergriffen.Ich habe mich entschieden, es gratis zum Download zur Verfügung zu stellen: www.franziskaschutzbach.com/die-rhetorik...

This is a terrific review of our Kafka show, developed @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social from our Kafka archive & curated by scholars @oxfordgerman.bsky.social @oxfordkafka.bsky.social & now on show at the Morgan Library in NY. Bizarrely these key facts don’t appear in the review! on.ft.com/3Wi3iS7

CfP Proposals for the 2025 Sylvia Naish Lecture on 1 May 2025 at the Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies from research students in Germanic studies in the UK. Prize of £400 & publication Abstracts to [email protected] by 31 Jan

Congratulations to Tom Kuhn & the Brecht team on their award-winning 'brecht: fragments' exhibition which was named as "one of the worldwide best exhibitions or 2024"! @ox.ac.uk ravenrow.org/exhibitions/...

Could we please be added? Not much posted yet but will come - promised! And a shout out for the brilliant blog posts by our History of the Book students such as these '10 rules for an Oxford internship' historyofthebook.mml.ox.ac.uk/10-rules-for...

Gail Beadnell of @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social now moves us to definition of metadata: #Metadata provides information about other data & supports many library functions​ - Acquisitions processes​ - Cataloguing​ - Collection Management​ - User discovery experience​ #NAGWebinarWeek

To sign up for our LGBTQ+ Hackathon on November 29th, click here: forms.office.com/pages/respon... Please repost, share with friends, and let us know if you're coming! This is a brilliant collaborative opportunity for budding librarians and anybody interested in LGBTQ+ histories.

Had a really great time yesterday at the Oxford Digital Festival, representing the Taylor Institution's information skills project, Taylor Editions: editions.mml.ox.ac.uk. I learnt about a huge number of different initiatives. Look out for the event write up and recordings of the main talks!

Oxford has one of the oldest, largest and most active departments of German in the country, with an excellent record in teaching and research, an intake of about 90 undergraduates a year, and a strong and flourishing graduate presence youtu.be/f8FCYBBBvhI

Job opportunity: Professor of German www.st-hughs.ox.ac.uk/associate-pr...