Such a key point about cutting back on language provision - it’s not good for science and it’s not good for growth www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Kino Kultur Kombination

Join us in London in July! CALL FOR PAPERS NOW LIVE #BIAJS2026 “Space and place in Jewish studies” 13-15 July Birkbeck bajsbulletin.wpcomstaging.com/2025/11/03/c...

Excellent article here. Our students are our greatest advocates. Counter proposals will be put forward, and we are supporting colleagues in Music, Modern Languages, Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies at Nottingham with their campaigns www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Please consider signing against this nonsensical absurdity! c.org/vGgNqmXhNx

The AGS's President (@pdavies.bsky.social) and VP (@profannasaunders.bsky.social) have put out a joint statement with Women+ in German Studies and the German Language Association in response to today's announcement of the University of Nottingham's plan to close all modern language degrees. ✊🧵

I dare them to invite Trump to the ceremony and then award it to Roy Keane

Have discovered you can get almost a whole language class out of getting people to pronounce Südschleswigscher Wählerverband

Registration for the #W+IGS Annual Conference closes tomorrow! Check out the exciting programme & register below!

In her new book, People Without History are Dust, Dr Anna Hájková explores same-sex desire in the Holocaust, telling the gripping stories of queer Jews that have been long silenced by the homophobia of survivors. Sign up now to hear Dr Hájková speak about this important new work:

2026 Nobel Peace Prize for Pussy Riot

Have been rewatching the Golden Girls after many years and unlike many comedies of the era it still stands up pretty well. Apart from the occasionally overemphatic editing (HEY! ✂️ the punchline is coming ✂️ NOW!) it’s great… 1/2

Earlier this year we hosted the launch of a new book: Olga Lengyel, Auschwitz Survivor. This new work engages with one of the most intriguing aspects of testimony: how the remembering and telling of a Holocaust survivor changes through time. Catch up via our YouTube channel:

Does #German really sound aggressive? Why do some people find the sound of #French romantic and sexy? And how about the friendly-sounding Geordies? Join us for a public lecture by Prof Sascha Stollhans. 👉 Find out more: leedscityoflanguages.leeds.ac.uk/events/talk-... @saschastollhans.bsky.social

Anyone in London, recommend for the Disability and Design exhibition at the V&A. Full of objects and reminders of campaigns and protests, too. This ball for blind players took me back to going to watch my dad play when I was a kid

Memorial to Sinti and Roma victims of the Holocaust, outside the Civic Centre, Newcastle, with a quote by Ceija Stojka

That feeling of being cornered by a ‘history buff’ when you mention your research

Two fantastic writers in conversation. In English, readings in German with English text provided.

Happy to announce that a recording of the "President's Guest" event at the AGS 2025 conference in Oxford last month is now available to stream on the AGS website. The event saw writer, academic, artist & activist Prof Natasha A. Kelly in conversation with Dr Kirstin Gwyer. Link below👇

At the Battle of Cable Street on 4 October 1936, at least 100,000 people, including Jewish residents, Irish dock workers, Communists and Labour Party members prevented a march by Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists (BUF) from passing through the East End...

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

I can’t be the only British person who saw this and thought “Why is there a statue of Morecambe and Wise in DC”?

Our Lab Director reports on Gathering the Voices, a project based in Glasgow, Scotland, following recent fieldwork. Let us know what you think:

Opportunity to go and work in Jewish Studies with the excellent colleagues in Leeds!

Time to support the real needs of all our struggling kids? #edchat #school #education

"Tony Harrison (30 April 1937 – 26 September 2025) was an English poet, translator and playwright. He was born in Beeston, Leeds and he received his education in Classics from Leeds Grammar School and Leeds University." R.I.P.

Join @annierutherford.bsky.social for 'Reviewing Translations: Making the Translator Visible' ONLINE on Wednesday 22 October 📚 ✨ Find out more and book: www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c... In partnership with @goethe-institut-uk.bsky.social

Are you an MA or PhD student working on 20th-century European History or Holocaust studies? Join us for a digital skills workshop to discover highlights from our unique archive collections! Sign up now: bit.ly/4naClvi

Hessen 🤦🤡

"Modern Foreign Languages degrees are the most starkly affected, with the number of courses nearly halved since 2011" 👇

Dates for this session’s online meetings of the Teachers of German in Scotland (TOGS) network are available with registration now open! First event is 24 September. https://loom.ly/zHvXzaI #languageteaching #german

There is another urgent cause that I would like to solicit donations if you want to make me a gift for my birthday: @standing-together.bsky.social, the Israeli-Palestinian peace grassroots movement: www.standing-together.org/en/donate-en

Our members have no confidence in the VC & CFO, as they pursue the same failed cuts they used against @leicesterucu.bsky.social Spending £1.4 million of additional Welsh Gov funding on unplanned spend while making staff redundant was a disqualifying lack of judgement nation.cymru/news/bangor-...

My task was to write about BIIb, the Theresienstadt Family Camp, which I did gladly, since the book I am writing now has also a chapter on the topic. I benefited from the generosity of the colleagues in @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social especially Piotr Setkiewicz.

Great to see so many delegates bright and early at the AGS Business Meeting this morning. Thanks to AGS president @pdavies.bsky.social for his address and leadership. Peter called for members to contribute to a discussion over the coming year about the identity and direction of the association…

Check out this new piece by our research fellow Emily-Rose Baker on Auschwitz-Birkenau’s new digital camp replica! @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social @theconversationuk.bsky.social theconversation.com/the-problem-...

This cat has just conjured up the ghost of a butterfly it killed. This is not going to end well.

Small hint at good news…

🔈 Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship. The Fellowship by @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social aims to support early-career academics to turn book ideas into publishable works. Winner receives a full year of creative support in 2026. 📅 Apply 1 Sept–1 Oct 2025 Info 👉 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/...

CFP for Feminist Translation Studies journal think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

I love this bilingual version of Die Moorsoldaten / Peat Bog Soldiers by the excellent Tenementals

Great resource

Thanks to @biahs1.bsky.social for the opportunity to set out a few thoughts on first seeing the new film version of Peter Weiss’s Die Ermittlung/The Investigation The film does interesting new things with a fairly familiar theatre text biahs.co.uk/2025/08/25/o...

@sarahjyoung.bsky.social may be able to help with this?

Yet another book festival event with a (very good) author who doesn’t write in English where the fact that it’s in translation is not even mentioned and the translator is not named… Even though the author talked v interestingly about their own language use. #namethetranslator