Can’t wait www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

The 8th German Studies Library Group/British Library Graham Nattrass Lecture will take place on 17 June at the BL. @herrehrig.bsky.social will be speaking on ‘Prefab Atmospheres: East German Modernist Mass Housing in Film‘. Details and how to book here: gslg.org.uk/2026/02/09/e...

Turns out that Germany's boozy Father's Day tradition is actually related to the religious holiday it shares a date with. The Feast of the Ascension, which is 40 days out from Easter Sunday (see Acts 1:3), was celebrated with all-male processions that usually wrapped up at a tavern.

Mann 👅, Musil and two Sebalds in this 👌 www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...

Hey Bluesky folks. If you’re in education or just follow for my thirst traps, would you please sign this if you can, and share far and wide? c.org/dCKk9vjqxY It’s much appreciated. My university is cancelling all UG humanities degrees. We need support and love right now x

Listen up, Glasgow #replacetheM8

Pleased to read more work engaging with Hans Mayer. As much as I share Wolf's criticism of Goebel's claim that Mayer prepared queer theory as anachronistic, I think he oversimplifies the take on Israel and Zionism by also forcefully applying Mayer to the present. literaturkritik.de/public/rezen...

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Very pleased to read about the positive reception of Henrike Naumann's and Sung Tieu's German Pavilion www.artforum.com/columns/veni...

Spent a very lovely day in Perth this weekend.

Pleased to see a shout out to the Gorbals here. Go Gorbals! www.theguardian.com/travel/2026/...

Fantastic to have Marcin Wierzchowski present his film Das deutsche Volk (the German people) on the Hanau attacks in Glasgow tonight and discuss it with Paul Leworthy afterwards. Powerful yet depressing stuff. #germanfilm

Excellent news that Jügler got translated! His first novel was impressive already. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...

Glasgow feeling pretty Mediterranean tonight

Or speaks another language.

'The south-east London university, known for its teaching of the creative arts, has announced plans to cut a further £22 million from its budget, the third major restructure since 2019.' Student numbers have dropped by more than 25% in the past 5 years. Great work external consultants! 1/2

And here we go again - please consider signing! c.org/7ntNZsBZ8N

Excited to receive my author copy of this excellent volume today! Thanks @profannasaunders.bsky.social and Caroline Summers for their brilliant work 👏

Sad to see it.

I didn't want to post about it while the war is going on, but the haters in Turkey are already running very hot... My new book, coming out in June, Germans and Turks—A Forgotten History of Europe (and it's very different from what the haters expect...) www.bloomsbury.com/uk/germans-a...

Falls jemand morgen Abend Zeit hat: ich rede mal wieder über Halle-Neustadt :) www.moderne-regional.de/halle-online...

The other side got a look in on the news! "I'm constantly being forced onto the road or crossing in between parked cars where they shouldn't be and where you've not got visibility of the traffic." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Pleased to be in Erfurt for the international DEFA conference on mobility and space.

I’m currently doing oral exams on Kleist’s novellas and it’s such a joy, year in, year out, to see how much the students enjoy reading him and how he challenges them to delve deeper into textual analysis. #germanistik

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

The Government wants to force millions of people who work in our hospitals, care homes and schools to wait decades before they can stay here permanently. Sign the open letter to the Home Secretary and oppose these disastrous plans. act.praxis.org.uk/open-letter-...

Gut 18 % rechsextreme Stimmen in einem der reichsten Bundesländer. Wir müssen mal wieder über die Folgen der neoliberalen und patriarchalen Strukturen der alten Bundesrepublik und die Baseballschlägerjahre in Westdeutschland inklusive Mölln und Solingen sprechen, um das erklären zu können.

Closure of language courses is ‘national catastrophe’, warns VC www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

Wir müssen alle aufmerksam sein - in Kanada wie in Deutschland - wegen solche Massnahmen. Ich schätze, sie werden mehr und nicht weniger in den kommenden Jahren.

Someone has compiled a list of cultural spaces in Glasgow that have closed this year. It's embarrasing and really highlights how badly the city is failing arts & culture. eblknd.leaflet.pub/3mg6akzx3n22l

On Thursday 5 March at 4.30 our visiting Boston College Irish Studies scholar, Marcus Breen, will be speaking about 'The Struggle for Meaning in Irish Cultural Studies: Kneecap and Sinners'. All welcome in-person (Lanyon 01/052) or online. www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...

Der Perlentaucher meldet heute: Übrigens: Das gab es noch nie in der Geschichte des Perlentaucher: In keiner der vom Perlentaucher ausgewerteten Zeitungen - FAZ, FR, NZZ, SZ, taz, Welt, Zeit - gibt es auch nur eine einzige Buchkritik, nicht eine! #booksky #germanbooksky #literaturkritik

Had the great luck to see the incredible historical document Indian director Chetna Vora produced in East Berlin in 1982. The intimate and unfiltered interviews with women of all ages and class identities are fascinating and I could have listened to them for even longer than its 2h20 running time.

Can’t wait for my swing through the UK to talk about queer women in Nazi Germany

Save the date! Sam Huneke @schuneke.bsky.social is coming to Glasgow to present his new book next month www.goethe.de/ins/gb/en/ve...

Had a great time at the St Andrews Debating Society last night, debating whether Germany should have stayed divided, in great company.

One of my favourite public art works in Glasgow. The Empire sign by Douglas Gordon (1998) is a reverse-written, illuminated neon sign referring to Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo and exploring the Merchant City's historical ties to the slave trade and the British Empire.

Come to Glasgow in August!

Hervorragendes Gespraech. Absolut hoerenswert. Grosses Kompliment an beide Gespraechsteilnehmer!

wildes Gefühl: Erst langes Interview mit Dagmar Herzog über die Geschichte und wirklich gruselige Gegenwart der Euthanasie in Deutschland führen – und paar Tage später bei Springer lesen, warum "wir" / "die Kommunen" uns die Kosten für Behinderte jetzt leider nicht mehr leisten können sollen

Need to make sure to see this! #glasgow www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

With the UK continuing to make bad academic decisions and making itself intellectually poorer, it's fair to ask as Zara Fahim so eloquently does: www.thelanguagesgateway.uk/blog/are-we-...

Ja: Alle, deren Verträge an der Uni Leipzig in den nächsten zwei Jahren auslaufen, sind raus. Die Lehre soll über Lehraufträge abgedeckt werden. Sachmittel werden gekürzt. Zudem sollen alleine an der Phil Fak 4 Professuren und 11 Mitarbeiterstellen abgebaut werden. Grund sind sinkende Zuweisungen.

In Giessen: 2-jähriges Stellenmoratorium: keine Stelle - ob Verwaltung, wiss. Mitarbeiter, Professur - wird besetzt oder vertreten (auch nicht bei Elternzeit, Krankheit, Vakanz). Verlängert (3+2) wird aber. Meine Fakultät wird 20% der Professuren ersatzlos streichen. Die Landesregierung will es so.

Ja. Alle, deren Verträge in den nächsten zwei Jahren auslaufen, sind raus. Die Lehre soll über Lehraufträge abgedeckt werden. Alle Sachmittel werden gekürzt. Zudem sollen alleine an der Phil Fak 4 Professuren und 11 Mitarbeiterstellen abgebaut werden.

Nicht mehr verlängert, würde doch bedeuten, dass ein größerer Teil des befristeten Mittelbaus entlassen wird?