"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

Deberlinizing Berlin: In highly symbolic & emotionally charged celebration, Berlin gave great Black German philosopher of Early Enlightment period, a permanent home in former colonial metropole: Anton Wilhelm Amo (Afer).

Hive mind: Empfehle mir einen großartigen deutschsprachigen Roman aus den letzten 5 Jahren

#Berlin Wir feiern trotzdem! 🥳 Morgen (Samstag, 23.08) ab 14:00Uhr am Hausvogteiplatz Kommt zahlreich! 🫶🏾 #AntonWilhelmAmoStraße #Amofest

Die Mohrenstraße trägt ab 23. August den Namen "Anton-Wilhelm-Amo-Straße" – zu Ehren des ersten schwarzen Philosophen in Deutschland. Bereits am Freitag werden neue Schilder montiert. Die alten Straßenschilder bleiben für sechs Monate durchgestrichen weiter hängen. rbburl.de/neuername

Come to the launch of the Routledge Handbook to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Huge thanks to the editors for a Herculean effort. Includes chapter by me on the first Frankfurt Trial and by my former PhD student Marianne Zwicker on Romani testimonies,plus all sorts of excellent folk eg @ankahajkova.bsky.social

Resonance (UC Press) is looking for humanities research across the following topics: Sound in Political Crisis, Sound and Social Justice, Experiments in Sound, Sound Archives and Preservation, and we're convening a permanent series that'll examine "Film and Cinema Sound" in 2026. Please circulate!

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

EAJS Virtual 2025 - the online event for members of the European Association for Jewish Studies - on 'Translating Maimonides' and translation in more general terms. Confirmed date: 7 December 2025 Deadline for paper submission: 5 Oct 2025 www.eurojewishstudies.org/eajs-virtual/ Spread the news!

Just over a thousand euros missing for this campaign to reach its target

Hostile dahlia, Gärten der Welt, Berlin-Marzahn

Invalidenstr., Berlin

One of the fun things about teaching German at a Scottish university is waiting for the moment when each year group finds out that there are shops called McPaper and Mäc-Geiz

My ERC project FeMMiWork is hiring a postdoctoral researcher. Must have strong German language skills and archival research experience. Please help spread the word! Deadline is Sept. 1. Postdoctoral Researcher on Women Migrants in Postwar Germany vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

Slightly surprised to find myself researching in the Evangelisches Zentralarchiv Berlin (Central Archive of the German Lutheran Church). Always fun to discover a new archive tho

Family used to live a short walk from this…

I love automated emails… Good morning, Some changes happened on your course […] yesterday (01/Aug/2025): No changes have occurred on this course instance. We'll notify you again if anything changes.

Nope

Caspar David Friedrich vibes over the city #Berlin

Just watched one of the local kestrels being chased off the square by a crow. (aka things you can see in Berlin)

@ankahajkova.bsky.social just saw your book on the shelf in Dussmann, Berlin…

Colleagues in Holocaust studies. A question. What do you assign for the week on Perpetrators? I usually teach Sereny's Into that darkness which I learned from Doris Bergen; we read a long chunk. But if I wanted to read something else, ideally that exists as ebook/open access?

Da ist ein Beitrag von uns drin 🙂

A friend of mine is directly involved in this campaign to evacuate writers Husam Marouf and Yousri Al Ghoul from Gaza - please consider giving what you can. All information (in English below the French) can be found here: www.gofundme.com/f/aider-les-...

This is great.

Enjoyed Claudia Neumann’s German commentary for zdf on the European final last night. I intend to introduce the phrase ‘rustikaler Klärungsversuch’ (that she used to describe a defender’s wild swing at the ball) as an idiom meaning ‘ridiculous excuse’

So-called «artificial intelligence» is essentially an explication machine, rendering explicit not only latent patterns in masses of data, but also fascist tendencies in liberal democracies as well as the exploitative, extractivist, and ultimately destructive business models of platform capitalism 1/

“No longer”🙄Austria’s security was guaranteed by not being part of the soviet bloc…

Was für ein 🔥 Text von Alfonso Pantisano, Queerbeauftragter des Berliner Senats: "Lasst euch nicht einreden, dass wir zu laut sind. Wir waren nie laut genug [...] Und wer uns die Sichtbarkeit nehmen will, will, dass wir verschwinden. Aber wir waren nie still. Und wir werden es nie sein" #CSD 🌈 🏳️‍🌈

Erm…

So close