Check out this blog post in which Helen Gunn and Cynthia Shin from Indiana University reflect on some of the work they undertook to bring people together during times difficult for community-making over at IU. www.ddgccollective.org/ddgc-blog/a-...

Check out the series of DDGC Blog posts on solidarity infrastructures in our collective and the work of our comrades over at @ddfccollective.bsky.social. On the joys and the pain of community organizing at times of intersecting crises. More on series here: www.ddgccollective.org/ddgc-blog/so...

@ddgc.bsky.social Symposium: Germany has a "special responsibility" to Palestine. Please register for a link to attend! www.ddgccollective.org/german-studi...

Join us for our next reading group dedicated to Ghassan Kanafani’s “Returning to Haifa” (1970) and Michael Rothberg’s "The Implicated Subject: Beyond Victims and Perpetrators" (2019). To find out more about the group, visit the link below. www.ddgccollective.org/ddgc-reading...

We are proud to announce the launch of the latest DDGC Research Co-Ops dedicated to antifascisms. To learn more about the co-op with info on how to join, check out the following website: www.ddgccollective.org/ddgc-antifas....

Support our work ! There are so many ways to get involved.

We convene a mutual aid network for our comrades in German studies. To find out more about how to request resources, share resources, or help get involved with convening the network, check out our website: www.ddgccollective.org/ddgc-mutual-....

I wrote a piece on IHRA and the impact it’s having on the German and North American discourse around anti-antisemitism. Thankful for the @ddgc.bsky.social and its support!

The sign-up period for our online writing support groups (asynchronous and write-on-site) is now live. You can learn more about the groups and how to sign up on our website. www.ddgccollective.org/writing-supp...

ISO Language teachers for gender justice Are you a language teacher who wants to learn more about gender justice & collaboratively make free resources to support the teaching and learning of nonbinary ways of doing languages other than English? Interest form: bit.ly/GenderJustPL... Please share!

Comrades in German studies: we run a mutual aid network with a robust infrastructure to support comrades requiring resources. Fill out the aid request form and our team will work hard to support you. Funding, mentoring, local organizing, etc. www.ddgccollective.org/ddgc-mutual-...

We are excited to announce the conference program for DDGC 2025, which is dedicated to conversations about interdependence and solidarity formations in German studies and the arts. The conference is co-organized by @jeannetteoho.bsky.social and @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social.

protest the theft of public money + public goods! TOMORROW all over! protests, rallies + press conferences coordinated by AFCSME, AAUP, AFT, UAW, HELU+ others, for researchers+ public servants + their supporters. find your local action! www.labor4highered.org chicago join us at 10am!

Vor der DDGC Konferenz veranstalten wir eine Lesegruppe. Wir sprechen über "Hass" und "All About Love". Meldet euch gerne online bis zum 28.02. dafür an. ⤵️

In preparation for the 2025 DDGC Conference dedicated to the theme of solidarity and interdependence in German studies, @jeannetteoho.bsky.social and @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social are hosting a reading group on Şeyda Kurt’s "Hass" and bell hooks’ "All About Love." www.ddgccollective.org/ddgc-reading...

Check out the DDGC Queer and Trans German Studies Research Cooperative (aka the Pink Pony Club). The conveners are @jonahgarde.bsky.social and @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social. Reach out to them if you would like to join and be added to the email list for the group. www.ddgccollective.org/ddgc-queer-a...

Let me know if you want to participate!

Check out the DDGC Critical Food Studies Research Collectives. The co-op is convened by Bradley Boovy, @mariakatze.bsky.social, and @beverlyweber.bsky.social. Contact the conveners to get on the email list and to get involved with the group. www.ddgccollective.org/ddgc-critica...

For the past few months @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social and I have been scheming to launch the Pink Pony Club - or the queer and trans German studies research cooperative. Check out the description and reach out if you want to join our email list and future activities! Excited for what's ahead! 🦄

New DDGC Research Cooperative: Queer & Trans German Studies (the Pink Pony Club), convened by @jonahgarde.bsky.social & @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social. Check out the description for the co-op & reach out to the conveners if you are interested in being involved. www.ddgccollective.org/ddgc-queer-a...

New DDGC Research Cooperative: Critical Food Studies, convened by Bradley Boovy, Maria Stehle, and @beverlyweber.bsky.social! Check out the work of this co-op and write to the conveners if you'd like to get involved. www.ddgccollective.org/ddgc-critica...

Friendlies, @jonahgarde.bsky.social and I started the Pink Pony Club, which is a @ddgc.bsky.social research cooperative dedicated to queer and trans German studies. Check out the description and if you are up for it, join us. We are starting an email list! www.ddgccollective.org/ddgc-queer-a...

Trying to build a starter kit for Black Europe and Afropean scholars and activists - but many ppl I can think of are not (yet) on blusky. I need HELP 🖤 @eraldo.bsky.social @tnflorvil.bsky.social @afropean.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social @camillahawth.bsky.social @jeannetteoho.bsky.social

Liebe Freund*innen! Am Montag (25.11.) darf ich in Hamburg über das Leben von Liddy Bacroff und trans*/queere Erinnerung vortragen, danach eine Diskussion mit tollen Referent*innen. 19.00 Uhr im Stadthaus — Voranmeldung erforderlich aber kostenlos! stadthaus.gedenkstaetten-hamburg.de/de/veranstal...

Oh, the pressure of that first post... maybe I can begin with a little bit of self promotion? It was a long time in the making: boydellandbrewer.com/978164014169...

Would you like to be involved in our collective? We are currently looking for a group of people to reanimate what used to be a successful syllabus/pedagogy workshop with a focus on anti-fascist education (2 times a year). DM here to express interest. www.ddgccollective.org/ddgc-syllabu...

Would you like to be involved in our collective? We are currently looking for comrades to revive and host regular community get-togethers/check-ins (about 6-8 times a year). The program was a success in the past. DM here to express interest. www.ddgccollective.org/ddgc-communi...

Jason, Adrienne, and I are hosting the next instalment of the @ddgc.bsky.social reading group where we will read Ibtisam Azem’s "The Book of Disappearance." For those of you interested, come join us. We meet starting in January. www.ddgccollective.org/ddgc-reading...

@ervinmalakaj.bsky.social und ich organisieren die nächste DDGC Konferenz, die im April 2025 online stattfindet. Den CfP findet ihr unten. Teilt den Post gerne auch mit anderen interessierten Menschen. Konferenzsprachen sind Deutsch und Englisch.

Excited to announce the CfP for the 5th biennial DDGC conference (April 10-12, 2025, online). Theme: Interdependence & Solidarity Formations in German Studies & the Arts. Pls share widely. Organized by @jeannetteoho.bsky.social & @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social www.ddgccollective.org/ddgc-confere...

Transitioning from summer to fall terms can be a challenging time for our comrades. Keep the DDGC Mutual Aid Network in mind as an important resource for sharing resources. We can help with financial, housing, food, and related insecurities and more. www.ddgccollective.org/ddgc-mutual-...

Our writing support groups are forming for September-December. Join us! Anyone working on any writing project is welcome. Reach out to the co-conveners if you have any questions. And do share widely. www.ddgccollective.org/writing-supp...

My book THE CANCEL CULTURE PANIC comes out in a month — on September 24! amazon.com/dp/1503640841/ I received some book swag just this week — it looks great! SO: If you preorder a copy and send me a receipt at [email protected] I WILL SEND YOU SAID SWAG!

Sign up for our next reading group is open. We are coming together to learn from Esra Özyürek's "The Subcontractors of Guilt: Holocaust Memory and Muslim Belonging in Postwar Germany" (SUP, 2023). For more info about group and how to register: www.ddgccollective.org/ddgc-reading...

Mit dem wunderbaren @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social plane ich gerade die nächste DDGC Konferenz, die 2025 stattfinden wird. Der CfP kommt demnächst! Das DDGC Kollektiv ist für mich seit Jahren ein Ort der Solidarität und Inspiration. Mehr Infos findet ihr hier: www.ddgccollective.org

Join our mutual aid network. In this DDGC Blog Post by the network collective facilitating it, you can find out what sorts of things you could ask for and what types of resources you could share with our network. www.ddgccollective.org/ddgc-blog/ai...

We are starting our May-September 2024 virtual writing support groups in the coming weeks. Come write with us. Writers of any kind with any project are welcome. For more info about the groups and how to sign up, visit the link. And invite your friends. www.ddgccollective.org/writing-supp...

Following our reading group dedicated to Adania Shibli's magnificent "Minor Detail," we are gearing up for the next instalment of our reading group dedicated to Palestine featuring Sa’ed Atshan and Katharina Galor’s "The Moral Triangle." More info in link. www.ddgccollective.org/ddgc-reading...

In our recent DDGC Blog, Suzuko Knott and Ervin Malakaj reflect on their work developing and conventing the DDGC Research Cooperatives. Check out the essay and join the work of the co-ops by pitching one. www.ddgccollective.org/ddgc-blog/in...

After years of work, we are proud to announce the DDGC Research Cooperatives: infrastructures for scholarship and practice in German Studies. Information about the initiative and how to pitch a co-op are on the website. Please share widely. www.ddgccollective.org/ddgc-researc...

Just under the wire in 2023: this new publication on teaching grammar in the German classroom beyond the gender binary, with my wonderful Grenzenlos Deutsch collaborators. www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/...

My book is coming up in the brand new year 2024: "Breathing Hearts: Sufism, Healing, and Anti-Muslim Racism in Germany" by Berghahn Books www.berghahnbooks.com/title/SelimB...

Our mutual aid network facilities the sharing of resources among our comrades. Check out our work. Join the network by filling out a resource sharing or resource request form. We are always running a fundraiser, too. www.ddgccollective.org/ddgc-mutual-...

Our virtual writing support groups are forming for January-May 2024. Read more about them and find out how to sing up on our website. Reach out to any of the conveners for questions. www.ddgccollective.org/writing-supp...

Friends! It gives me great joy that, just in time for Christmas, my article on Liddy Bacroff is finally available in open access, freely available to read. I would be thrilled if you were to do so: Liddy was an extraordinary person. academic.oup.com/gh/advance-a...

We are starting up the Jan-May DDGC Writes writing support groups. The groups have been meeting for years and are in place to help facilitate mutual support for writing. All welcome. Check out the link for more information and pass it on to your friends. www.ddgccollective.org/writing-supp...

We are over here now, too. Check out some of our past, current, and future work on our website. For instance, we have a day of community and care planned for April 2024. Join us! www.ddgccollective.org/ddgc-mutual-...