Just signed ✍️ What a shame that we now have to sign these kind of petitions on a regular basis to save our subject(s). c.org/h8R2VTQjZx

First review of Agency and Author in GSR 📖 Die Beiträger*innen lenken den "Blick auf ein Forschungsgebiet, das immer noch zu wenig beachtet wird—gerade in Zeiten, in denen der Gegenstand dieser Forschung, der Literaturbetrieb, einem radikalen Wandel unterworfen ist." 👇 muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

NEUBAU ATMOSPHERES: East German Cultural Remediations of Modernist Architecture by Stephan Ehrig @herrehrig.bsky.social has now been published! Find out more here: bit.ly/3JZJa4a #FilmStudies #LiteraryStudies #History

Finally managed to read this gem and once again I am regretting that I did not become a Neue Sachlichkeit scholar 📚👨🏻‍🏫

*please share widely* Dear Network, I am looking for temp work: translation/copy-editing German to Dutch and English and English↔️Dutch, as well as fundraising. All leads very welcome! DM or email at meindertpeters @ gmail ☺️🙏

#SALE ends Thurs! Use code GSA25 for 35%off ALL #GermanStudies #GermanHistory books:bit.ly/46iWObl @nikolasfunke.bsky.social @klingstedt.bsky.social @chewschaper.bsky.social @duerrbortolotti.bsky.social @philiphahn.bsky.social @herrehrig.bsky.social @elizabethward.bsky.social @kyfrack.bsky.social

It's the #GermanHistSoc2025 @germanhistsoc.bsky.social! Check out our #OpenAccess #GermanHistory titles: bit.ly/3VxOMos incl. @claudiakreklau.bsky.social @duerrbortolotti.bsky.social @philiphahn.bsky.social @herrehrig.bsky.social @chewschaper.bsky.social @elizabethward.bsky.social @timondegroot.com

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

I left with a notebook full of ideas and incredibly helpful feedback. Thank you to all the contributors, to Ben Schaper @chewschaper.bsky.social for his invaluable feedback as our workshop respondent, and to colleagues at @unileipzig.bsky.social for all the behind the scenes support.

That's a wrap! A fascinating workshop at @unileipzig.bsky.social to kick off our forthcoming @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social book "East German Film and Cultural Diplomacy". In person and online, we came together to share and discuss thematic and methodological approaches.

For the #SHS2025 (‪@socialhistsoc.bsky.social‬) conference, check out some #History, #CulturalStudies & #Sociology titles. Browse more: bit.ly/4n9XK8l includes @chewschaper.bsky.social @chbrauner.bsky.social @duerrbortolotti.bsky.social @philiphahn.bsky.social @eirinikaramouzi.bsky.social

For a shameless plug… “Deterritorializing the Stasi in Deutschland 83/86/89” is free to download in Ben Schaper @chewschaper.bsky.social, Stephan Ehrig @herrehrig.bsky.social and my @berghahnbooks.bsky.social edited volume “Entertaining German Culture: Contemporary Transnational Television and Film”

Check out the programme of the public film festival in Amherst and Northampton, MA, curated by Maria Stehle and myself as part of the SFI, starting Sunday next! #DEFA #GDR #DDR umass.edu/defa/sites/d...

I'm super pleased to share that my upcoming book, Neubau Atmospheres, is now featured on Berghahn's website 📷 It will come out in October but anyone working for a university is already kindly invited to suggest it to their library! berghahnbooks.com/title/EhrigN... #gdr #defa #ddr

Interested in the strategies series runners use that underpinned the global success of German series such as Dark, Charité & Deutschland 83? “Entertaining German Culture” is free to download in full at www.berghahnbooks.com/title/EhrigE... #SCMS25 @chewschaper.bsky.social @herrehrig.bsky.social

Welcome to the German Screen Studies Network official Bluesky page! Here we will share information about interesting events, conference CfPs & news, job advertisements, as well as keep you up to date on our @daad-uk-ireland.bsky.social 'Promoting German Studies Networking Grant' activities!

It's important to advance research & scholarship. In addition to our #OpenAccess titles, we're now offering another FREE #ChapterSampler, bringing key title extracts together in a curated #GermanCinema collection. Download today & enjoy: https://buff.ly/3EQL6ZW #academicsky #FilmStudies

🚨 Please sign the petition to save MLANG at @cardiffuni 🖊️ Solidarity with colleagues affected ✊🌹 chng.it/QZXxggtLjh

🔥off the press 🖨️ Agency and Author: German Literature Beyond the Bestseller List out now in @berghahnbooks and @TheGSA Spektrum Series 🎉🍾 DM for 50% discount code valid until 28th February 💸 www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Halver...

My intermezzo (📖 reference intended) in 🇮🇪 is coming to an end with more than one💧in my 👁️ Particularly ♥️-warming interactions with students have given me so much joy and vigour 🍀 Go raibh maith agat 🙏 #ireland #tcd #germanindublin #germanstudies

APPLY BY FEBRUARY 10, 2025! The weeklong institute traces cinematic depictions of urban, rural and industrial spaces to examine how East German films address questions of social and environmental justice at moments of crisis or impasse. More info: umass.edu/defa

This article excellently catches one of the reasons why I quit as Stipendiary Lecturer at Oxford last year 🚫 Whilst it describes the wage-related shortfalls very well 📉, there are other factors involved that leave ECRs in a very precarious situation 🚨 🧵 below 👇 www.theguardian.com/education/20...

After turbulent few months, in which I • moved countries(🇬🇧▶️🇮🇪) • submitted an application for MSCA 🇮🇹🤞 • wrote two book chapters and one article💻 • submitted proofs for an upcoming edited volume📕 I treated myself with a well-deserved afternoon at the Irish Sea 🌊⛵️

🥁📣 Delighted to unveil the cover for the book you have all been waiting for ⌛📘 Agency and Author: German Literature Beyond the Bestseller List will be available 🔜🎄🎆 Check out details below. Don't forget to recommend the book to libraries 👇🤓✉️ www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Halver...

Today I will be at @UnivAveiro ⛵️for the annual ECR researchers in 🇩🇪 Studies in 🇵🇹 meeting It will be my first time presenting ideas on depictions of Portugal in German literature and film 🇵🇹🤝❤️🇩🇪 Wish me luck ☘️

Thrilled that my project on loneliness and human-machine interaction got selected for the University of Padua's #MSCA Marathon 😍🤖 Beyond excited to meet the team in Italy next month 🇮🇹

Let’s go 🎞️📽️🇵🇱

I got mail from Berghahn Film 🎞️📬 Available open access 👇 www.berghahnbooks.com/title/EhrigE...

Lovely afternoon in Padua 🍷📖🇮🇹

Over the 🌗 that my article on the lonely nerd in Fincher's "Social Network" and bo Odar's "Who am I" made it into @exchangesjournal.bsky.social's Top 10 downloaded articles of 2023 🪅🎉🥳 If you haven't read it yet 🔜 exchanges.warwick.ac.uk/index.php/ex...

Back to my roots 🫚 For these past few weeks I had the pleasure to teach 🇩🇪 (and at times cover adventurous lessons in drama 🎭, music🎵, or land and the environment 🌍) at Lord Williams’s School in lovely Thame. Let’s see which adventures the new year will bring 🤞🏼🍀

🎉 Some good news 🎉 The contract for my second volume with Berghahn Books is signed 📑🖋 “Agency and Author: German Literature Beyond the Bestseller List”, co-edited with Rachel Halverson, will be out late next year 🎊 #Gegenwartsliteratur #Literaturbetrieb

With the promise to post more regularly 🤝 The second work I would like to present is my recent article on Marlen Haushofer's Die Wand 🏔🐕🐈🐄 and Thomas von Steinacker's Die Verteidigung des Paradieses in the latest issue of the Journal of 🇦🇹 Studies #loneliness muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...

It's International OpenAccess Week, so excuse the self-promotion: our 2023 edited volume "Entertaining German Culture. Contemporary Transnational Television and Film" is available to download for free. #OpenAccess @herrehrig.bsky.social @chewschaper.bsky.social www.berghahnbooks.com/title/EhrigE...

I find it hard to start a new profile 📱 Not sure how much overlap there is with my community at the other place, so I decided to post previous work in the coming days 📮 First up: My 📘 Poetik und Politik der Lesbarkeit #deutscheliteratur #gegenwartsliteratur www.winter-verlag.de/en/detail/97...