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. ✊🧵

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👇

Safe travels to all colleagues who attended #AGS2025! Thanks for coming and see you in Glasgow next year… 👋

As the final sessions come to a close, #AGS2025 approaches its end. First to lunch but then final farewells and departures. Huge thanks to all of the Oxford colleagues who helped organise the conference and thanks too to all of the staff at St John’s College. Thanks for having us! 🙏🙏

Great to hear all the good news relayed by AGS VP @profannasaunders.bsky.social in the business meeting: so many new appointments, completed PhDs and prizes won by colleagues in German Studies in the UK and Ireland! 👏👏👏👏

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…

An audience equipped with Austrian wine listens as Henrike Lähnemann begins the festivities around the opening of the exhibition “German in the World” at the Taylor Institution #AGS2025

@ags-gbi.bsky.social snippets

Last session of talks on Day 2 at #AGS2025 is (for me and all the other delegates packing the Prestwich Room) the first of two panels on Black Literature and Culture in German…

Refreshed by lentil shepherds pie, Day 2 of #AGS2025 continues apace! Hard decisions with so many excellent parallel panels… 🤔

An excellent first session - for me a parallel panel exploring some of the exciting opportunities for German Studies offered by the Environmental Humanities. Now, coffee! ☕️☕️

Full classrooms at 9am - delegates at #AGS2025 are making the most of a great choice of parallel panels in the first session of day 2

Back in St John’s College for Day 2 of #AGS2025 🙂

After an aperitif in the charming courtyard, dinner in the elegant dining hall of St John’s College

After the first few panels and before the Conference Dinner, a plenary many of us having been really looking forward to: the President's Guest Natasha A. Kelly in conversation with Kirstin Gwyer 🎤👌

Hello #AGS2025! Call by our stand to check out these and more brand new titles in #GermanStudies. buff.ly/S0B7Ihh @ags-gbi.bsky.social

The first panel and the first break is behind us (and the coffee is drinkable ☕️👍). Now for Panel 2: convened by Gillian Pye and Anne Fuchs, this parallel panel is on “the good enough life” in Germanaphone literature and film. First speaker is Maria Roca-Lizarazu on Shida Bazyar’s Drei Kameradinnen

Looking forward to seeing everyone at AGS 2025! Please stop by the #PeterLangOxford stand to say hello! @ags-gbi.bsky.social

The AGS Conference @ags-gbi.bsky.social starts today! Browse our German Studies titles: bit.ly/4lUraW8 authors incl. @claudiakreklau.bsky.social @herrehrig.bsky.social @duerrbortolotti.bsky.social @philiphahn.bsky.social @chewschaper.bsky.social @nasimaselim.bsky.social @elizabethward.bsky.social

The inaugural panel continues: we’ve heard Sophia Buck on her fascinating project on “Enemy Studies”, charting claims about “Two Germanies” esp in UK German Studies. Now Bill Niven talking about meta-memory, meta-memorials and the Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas

The conference proper begins with Ian Cooper’s “Critique of pure worldliness” and a discussion David Blackbourn, the Reformation, and “global Germany”…

The 2025 AGS Conference is declared officially open!

Safe travels to all colleagues already on their way to Oxford today for the AGS 2025 annual conference taking place over the next few days! 🚅🚲🚗🛫

Very much looking forward to the AGS 'German in the World' conference taking place at the University of Oxford next week (1-3 Sept). Decide which sessions you're going to attend by consulting the programme here: ags.ac.uk/conferences/... 🤓

📯An updated programme for the AGS 'German in the World' conference (Oxford, 1-3 Sept) is now available on the AGS website 📯 ❗Registration closes on the 28th July so make sure you have registered before then ❗ 👇Links to the programme, registration page and details of how to join the AGS below 👇

As a very late contribution to #ShoutOutForGerman, a little piece on the benefits of learning German (and any language, really!) & why it’s not as hard as some may think: theconversation.com/learning-ger... #languages #German #LanguageLearning @ucflangs.bsky.social @uk.diplo.de @ags-gbi.bsky.social

One last reminder about this AGS/W+IGs event about careers beyond academia that will be taking place this afternoon...

Join me and the other @ags-gbi.bsky.social and @wigsblog.bsky.social PG/ECA reps online next Tues (17th June), 5-6pm to hear about the types of careers that recent German Studies PhD graduates are pursuing beyond academia. Free to attend. All welcome. Register here: shorturl.at/KdDL7

📯Aufgepasst alle #PGR und #ECA Mitglieder der AGS! Next week, our brilliant PG & ECA reps, @katherine-calvert.bsky.social & Joe Prestwich, will be talking-alongside their @wigsblog.bsky.social counterparts-to recent German Studies PhD graduates about careers beyond academia... Details below👇👇

📣 Calling all #PGR and #ECA members! Curious about where a German Studies PhD can take you beyond academia? Join your reps Louise, Lara, and Liza — along with our friends at @ags-gbi.bsky.social — on Tuesday 17th June to hear from three PhD graduates who’ve built exciting careers outside academia.

📢 #W+IGS and @ags-gbi.bsky.social stand in solidarity with US colleagues facing increasing attacks on academic freedom, research, and the right to teach and learn. We remain committed to a diverse, inclusive, and free academic space. (1/4) #StandWithEducators #SpeakUpForEducation

Not quite in time for #shoutoutforgerman but perfectly timed to cater to post- #shoutoutforgerman excitement: the University of Edinburgh students’ German Play 2025. Supported by the @daadworldwide.bsky.social and coordinated by DAAD Lektor, the brilliant Stefan Sadecki

This week we're asking Britons with a passion for German to #ShoutOutForGerman! Share the joys of language-learning, post your favourite German words or tell us how learning German enriched your life. Excited to see your posts! And thanks to Axel Scheffler!

"The ability to speak each other’s language fosters trust, facilitates collaboration, & strengthens bilateral ties." Of course, Germany is not the only place German is spoken. Learning German opens up lots of possibilities for communication and exchange... 🇩🇪🇦🇹🇨🇭🇱🇮🇱🇺🇧🇪🇮🇹🇩🇰🇵🇱🇳🇦🇷🇺🇷🇴🇭🇺🇨🇿🇸🇰 #ShoutOutForGerman

"The benefits of learning German are clear: it provides students with communication skills and enhances career opportunities, but it also fosters closer economic & cultural ties between the UK & Germany." Full article, co-authored by the German Embassy & the DAAD, linked here. #ShoutOutForGerman

Are you participating in the #ShoutOutForGerman campaign this week? Reply to this post and let us know how... #ShoutOutForGerman is a celebration of the German language in the United Kingdom – organised by the German Embassy in London with the Goethe-Institut UK & the DAAD

Save modern languages at Cardiff! www.change.org/p/save-mlang...

🚨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

Thread: historical posters celebrating International Women's Day. Firstly, 'Heraus mit dem Frauenwahlrecht': a Women's Day poster from 8 March 1914 (1/20) #Weltfrauentag

Hallo zusammen! 👋👋 The Associate of German Studies is now on BlueSky! Follow us for updates on all things German Studies in the UK, Ireland and beyond. Looking forward to building a vibrant community together here! #GermanStudies #BlueSkyLaunch