A legacy of historically white-dominated spaces + an inability/unwillingness to engage has come up in faculty meetings, not just in German Studies. Much nodding, very little engagement beyond meetings. Awareness is great. Action is better. We can do our part to enage & include👇🏼
🚨New Book Review!🚨
Check out Tobias Huff's review of “Saving Nature under Socialism: Transnational Environmentalism in East Germany, 1968-1990” by Julia E. Ault.
Read full review on @HGermantweets : https://t.co/JtLBdLnphb
#HNetReviews#BookReview
I have a new article in German Politics and Society (39:1) @berghahnbooks about #denazification and former #Nazis whitewashing their political pasts after the war. Check it out! https://t.co/E77lzYcDQn
John Eicher's "Exiled among Nations: German and Mennonite Mythologies in a Transnational Age," published in our @cambUP_History book series, is hailed as "important and timely" and "vivid" in a new @HGermantweets review https://t.co/5NXJGJVd1o
CFP: "Crip Time and the Tenure Clock"
Check out this panel organized by my colleague @PetraWatzke and please share in your networks! @DDGCtweets @DdfcTweets
For @NewBooksNetwork, I got to host wonderful Dr. Tiffany Florvil @tnflorvil (U New Mexico) for a chat about "Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement" (@IllinoisPress, 2020). Congrats!!! 🙏👏#BlackHistoryMonth https://t.co/qlUKvKpR7Q
CFP! BAHS are inviting abstracts for the 5th annual Postgraduate Conference that will take place online on Friday 11th June, 2021. Follow the link for the full CFP and details of how to apply 📚 👩🏻💻 🖊
https://t.co/704hxndcSk
The members of the Editorial Board for the #NewFascismSyllabus, along with a 130+ other scholars, have issued an open letter of concern regarding the threats posed by #neofascism, right-wing #populism, and #authoritarianism to democracies around the world.
https://t.co/eNhxMV5sTa
I'm very happy that my article on Foote's Afro-American Company, whose performers sang and danced their way through Germany and beyond from 1891, has just appeared in German History. Check it out! https://t.co/LdOu7zS1Qg
4 permanent/FT faculty running German Studies BA/MA/PhD here at @ucgerman! Our theme for grad seminars and programming this year is “Performance / Performativity.” Excited to teach some critical performative pedagogy in my SLA seminar in the spring!
Delighted to announce that Jennifer Allen (Yale), @tnflorvil (UNM) & @Daniel_Newcast (Newcastle) are joining Central European History's ed. board this month. These outstanding scholars' expertise will greatly enrich the journal. It's an honor to have a chance to work with them!
Like graphic novels? The blog The German Graphic Novel, featured in the @CollaboratoryGs's Digital Hub, is a great resource for instructors of German language and anyone who teaches with graphic novels. Also for people who love to read graphic novels! https://t.co/8LfylKXCOp
Why did Frederick the Great reject kingship by divine grace, endorse the social contract, and present himself as ‘the first servant of the state’? The first modern English edition of a broad range of his works can now be pre-ordered from @PrincetonUPress https://t.co/VMurfkVczj