Some reflections on the last two days co-hosting (with Dr. Cedar Lensing-Sharp) the "Queer Lives and Trans* Formations: Reimagining Weimar Germany's LGBTQ+ Histories and Cultures" conference!

Great reflection on our wonderful keynote by @jonahgarde.bsky.social yesterday! Exciting to be in this space with so many fabulous thinkers!

Many thanks to @mharrabin.bsky.social and Cedar Lensing-Sharp for the opportunity to present today! Hopefully my illness didn’t deter its legibility.

The Spring edition of WeimarCinema.org is here! The issue brings together three original essays and a new film dossier, each offering fresh perspectives on Weimar Cinema. www.weimarcinema.org

A wonderful day dedicated to Queer Central European History - thank you @ankahajkova.bsky.social for bringing us together!

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!

Delighted to have received my author copy of Weimar weiblich, Filmpionierinnen des Kinos der Moderne (1918-1933) this week! I co-authored the biography on Ossi Oswalda with the wonderful Mary Hennessy!

Dr Harrabin reporting for duty 🫡 A wonderful day yesterday celebrating with family, friends & colleagues, all of whom have played an integral part in my PhD journey! Feeling very grateful to have so much support & love ❤️

Do you teach/research gender/sexuality w/ German sources? Have you had access issues or needed to translate sources yourself bc English versions don’t exist? Fill in this survey (by 2/15) to identify core texts for an anthology of translations in scientific & literary sexology between 1890 & 1930.

This article appeared in December. #Metropolis #FritzLang #ShellShockCinema #Antisemitism #TheavonHarbou @mharrabin.bsky.social

Thrilled to share that I’ve signed a book contract for my monograph to appear with Camden House in their Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual series! Disclaimer - this is what AI thinks the cover will look like. I’ve got to finish it before I can find out how close it is to the reality!

Join us at the University of Warwick next week for a free screening of Die freudlose Gasse as part of Dr. Ian Roberts' Weimar 100 project! Registration here: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/EShTmXnxZF

@linguacene.bsky.social and I are hosting a reading group in Feb and March 2026 to examine the keywords for our new multi-year research project titled "Linguaphobia, Linguistic Indifference, and the Monolingual University." If you are up for it, join us. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Delighted to have contributed to the new issue of Filmblatt with an Ossi Oswalda filmography that I curated with Mary Hennessy & Philipp Stiasny! The issue also features a brilliant essay by @hennefem.bsky.social on an unmade Oswalda film! Long live Ossi Oswalda!

New issue alert!! I was chuffed to write this short piece on Ossi Oswalda for FILMBLATT -- *many thanks* to Philipp Stiasny for translating to German. 🎞️ www.filmblatt.de/2025/11/22/f... Lots of gems in here by @mharrabin.bsky.social et al + gorgeous images courtesy of @blomamsterdam.bsky.social!

Please sign to prevent the closure of Modern Languages at Nottingham.

Had great fun in Exeter yesterday, presenting the beginnings of my postdoc project! Thank you to Ina Linge for the invite & to all who came!

Join us on 20 November at 5pm (UK) for an online event with Dr. Paul Flaig (University of St. Andrews) to celebrate the release of his new book: Weimar Slapstick and Hollywood Comedy Transformed! Sign up via this form to receive the joining details shortly before the event

📢🚨 ONLY 24 HOURS TO GO BEFORE THE DEADLINE FOR THE CFP CLOSES!!

Reminder: The deadline GSSN/DAAD-sponsored conference 'Rethinking Weimar Cinema' conference (University of Oxford, 17-19 June 2026) is only one week away – 31 October 2025. We would be grateful if you could share the call with any students or colleagues who may be interested!

Congratulations to our very own Paul Flaig on the publication of his book: Weimar Slapstick and Hollywood Comedy Transformed - out today with Bloomsbury, in the World Cinema series edited by Lúcia Nagib and Julian Ross www.bloomsbury.com/uk/weimar-sl...

Looking forward to presenting at the @thegsa.bsky.social conference in Arlington on Sunday!

We are pleased to announce that the fall edition of WeimarCinema.org is now live, featuring new essays and film dossiers as well as updates on recent publications and restorations. We hope you enjoy the new essays and dossiers, and find the updates and news helpful!

The German Screen Studies Network is excited to announce a CFP for the conference, "Rethinking Weimar Cinema Conference" to be held at Oxford University 17-19 June 2026, co-organised by Lawrence Alexander and Molly Harrabin! germanscreenstudies.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/09/08/c...

Calling all German teachers: the German Screen Studies Network is running a DAAD-funded workshop in October at the University of Warwick on "Teaching German Through Film and Television: Language, Culture, and Context"! Spread the word: germanscreenstudies.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/09/05/w...

Super excited about this conference - welcome one & all! Featuring keynotes by @pdobryden.bsky.social Sara Hall & Qinna Shen!

Friendlies: the fabulous comrades over at VPL have fixed the sound system. The event has been rescheduled: October 9! I'll introduce the film and the Magazinist duo will accompany the screening with a NEW score. Registration free and open to public. vpl.bibliocommons.com/events/68a5f...

The clock is ticking! Get those abstracts in!

Not long until the deadline! We can’t wait to hear from you! Please share with your networks - @ddgc.bsky.social @ags-gbi.bsky.social @wigsblog.bsky.social

Our writing support groups are forming for Sept-Dec. They have been around since 2018 and are a vital component of community building in German studies. Join us! Reach out if you have questions. And pls share with colleagues, students. @ddgc.bsky.social www.ddgccollective.org/writing-supp...

UBC Queer and Trans German Studies is hosting Andrea Rottmann (FU Berlin) as the next Tobin Distinguished Lecture in Queer and Trans German Studies! The event will take place in person at UBC as well as online. We would be grateful if you could pass the announcement on to your networks.

Louise Brooks masterpiece, Pandora's Box (1929), explored in new multi-page Weimar Cinema dossier. More at louisebrookssociety.blogspot.com/2025/07/pand...

Well, I finally got around to creating an account. Follow-me if you are interested in modern German History, the First World War in particular.

Absolutely delighted to officially be Dr. Harrabin after passing my viva with minor corrections this morning! Thank you to my examiners @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social & @katherinestone.bsky.social for their meaningful engagement with my work!

The GSSN would like to congraulate our founder, Professor Erica Carter, who has been made a Fellow of the British Academy in recognition of her outstanding contributions to the humanities and social sciences.This is wonderful news and very much deserved!

We're excited about the recent publication of Charting Asian German Film History, ed. by Qinna Shen, Zach Ramon Fitzpatrick and Qingyang Freya Zhou! You can find out more on our website, with a feature by Zach (!), and don't forget to purchase your copy today!

Looks like a great resource for anyone teaching or researching Weimar film!

Delighted to announce that I have joined WeimarCinema.org as Associate Editor, working alongside Anton Kaes & Cynthia Walk! Followers may be interested to read the latest issue which includes a dossier on Pandora's Box by Shoshana Schwebel! www.weimarcinema.org/page/pandora...

Reposting to remind people of our CfP! I’m really excited about this conference & looking forward to some great discussions about queer Weimar!

Look what arrived today @jonahgarde.bsky.social!

If you're a cis person in the US, today would be a really good day to find out how you can help your local trans community organisation. Money, time, professional skills, and care, are all useful.

Elizabeth Ward is keen to hear from academics with an expertise in either film relations between the GDR & African countries or film relations between the GDR & Southern/East Asian countries for a potential edited volume contribution should contact Elizabeth directly. Contact details below.

Hugely looking forward to giving this talk at the Queer Kinship network: “Pets Portraits and Sapphic Modernism: Queer Kinship beyond the Human” Thursday 26 June 2025 5 pm (Italy) - 4 pm (UK) - 11 am (Toronto & East Coast) Join online! 🌈🎓 www.queerkinshipnetwork.com/seminars?fbc...

CfP: Queer Lives & Trans* Formations: Reimagining Weimar Germany’s LGBTQ+ Histories and Cultures, an online conference that I have co-organized with Cedar Lensing-Sharp! Deadline for submissions: 30 August 2025! Keynotes from @manwithoutatan.bsky.social @jonahgarde.bsky.social & Camilla Smith!

Das Letzte Ghetto ist nun vorbestellbar (€35). Danke, @megalley.bsky.social @transcript-verlag.bsky.social www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...

Super grateful to @mharrabin.bsky.social for this eloquent and insightful review of Historical Turns in the new issue of Oxford German Studies!

Pleased to see my review of @nwbaer.bsky.social's latest book Historical Turns: Weimar Cinema and the Crisis of Historicism' out in Oxford German Studies today - www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Today marks Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 80th birthday - Fassbinder is widely regarded as one of the major figures and catalysts of the New German Cinema movement, with films including Angst essen Seele auf (1974) & Die Ehe der Maria Braun (1979)

Sharing the below petition to protest against the proposed changes to Modern Languages at Bangor University

This bank holiday weekend I went to @hayfestival.bsky.social for the first time! With fabulous talks from Daniel Kehlmann, @mishaglenny.bsky.social, @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social, @anneapplebaum.bsky.social, Edi Rama, Anthony Seldon & @frederick65.ft.com I’ll be back again I think!