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📢📢📢 The GSA is hiring!
We're looking for an Operations Director — could it be 👉 you 👈?
Position information and application instructions at
⏰ Application deadline: 11:59pm (Pacific), Friday, Nov. 8
The GSA condemns Russia's attack on the sovereign nation of Ukraine. We deplore the historical distortions of President Putin and their use to justify Russia's illegal expansion. We stand in solidarity with those in Ukraine, Russia, and the rest of the world in opposing this war.
50 German Studies researchers gathered last night to discuss this gutting job & labor justice crisis. A summary of their insights is forthcoming. This conference season, please listen closely to doctoral students, contingent faculty, & new PhD graduates. (H/T
@DDGCtweets
)
Dear provosts: every single program you close in languages and cultures (and their histories) makes us less and less equipped to deal honestly with days like today. And there will be many more days like today.
It's mid-September 2020, and this is what the German Studies ac jobs wiki looks like rn. Pls keep checking in with our graduate student colleagues, many of whom continue undaunted in envisioning scholarly futures. Let's uplift their work this Fall, & let's fix this wiki fast.
Germany has dealt with the shame of the Nazi past. It has not come to terms with its colonial history. Germany's first genocide was committed in Namibia, 1904 1908. The generals who sent people to concentration camps there still have street names and monuments in Germany, in 2020
We stand with and value our Jewish colleagues, their friends, and families who have been affected (in whatever way) by the wave of antisemitic attacks in the U.S., London, and beyond.
#theGSAtweets
Ok, BIG shout out this morning to our colleagues Dr. Benita Blessing (GSA Operations Director) & Dr. Margaret Menninger (incoming GSA Executive Director), who've been zooming from Texas to Oregon 8-12 hrs a day to perfect this conference program. DOORDASH THEM ICE CREAM pls.
In support of
@bpb_de
As an international, multidisciplinary association, the GSA recognizes the importance of the Federal Agency of Civic Education (BpB) as a valuable educational resource for scholars at all intersections of socio-political history.
We thank all of you—presenters, publishers, special guests, visitors—for your contributions and wish you a safe journey back! And a special thanks to those of you who have joined us here and on FB from afar, it means a lot to be able to hear you.
#thegsa2019
2021 Honorable Mention, 2021 DAAD/GSA Book Prize for the Best Book in Literature / Cultural Studies:
Tiffany N. Florvil, Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement (University of Illinois Press, 2020)
#thegsa2021
@IllinoisPress
Can't come soon enough! Meantime, please read
@kira_thurman
's award-winning article, "Black Venus, White Bayreuth: Race, Sexuality, and the Depoliticization of Wagner in Postwar West Germany" in our journal, GSR.
#theGSAtweets
I'm one of many people eagerly looking forward to
@kira_thurman
's first book, "Singing Like Germans: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven and Brahms." She gave me many crucial leads on the topic of Black Wagnerism (or Afro-Wagnerism, as Samuel Dwinell calls it).
wishing our colleagues and comrades at
@DDGCtweets
an amazing and transformative conference tomorrow thru Sun on anti-racism, antiblack racism, white supremacy, and Black resistance in German Studies 💜🤎💛🧡🖤
RIP Thomas Elsaesser, a pathbreaking Weimar cinema scholar and a great source of film studies "field memory." He is gone but not forgotten. In his honor, several interviews. 1/ monumental, by Patrice Petro (pdf).
#theGSAtweets
Like other JHUP journals, "The German Studies Review" will be free and open-access online until May 31. Downloading articles might be all many of us are capable of, but it's more than nothing. In solidarity.
#theGSAtweets
Would some of you be up for cross-institutional departmental collaborations on decolonizing the curricula, in a hands-on way (where to start, how to move, resource-sharing, etc.)? And what would the best formats look like?
#theGSAtweets
"Singing Like Germans: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven and Brahms" by
@kira_thurman
We can't share this widely or praise this highly enough
🌟 Herzlichen Glückwunsch 🌟
We officially suggest this book belongs at the top of every reading pile 📚
Congratulations,
@kira_thurman
, for receiving an award honoring your book "Singing Like Germans: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms" at the
#GSA2022
🎉🎉🎉
Please read this statement from the GSA's Initiative for Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion and join and support the work of anti-racism in the field, much of it conducted in these specific collectives. (link TK)
#theGSAtweets
German Studies teachers and scholars (in linguistics, literature, history, political science & media) have the insights to help people (including
@JoeBiden
and
@KamalaHarris
) better understand what is going on in the US today.
View a rare, pre-rerelease documentary of Paul Robeson (1898–1976) in the US, GDR, & USSR, as part of the Arts Night program at
#VirtualGSA2020
. Available to stream from Tues., 29 Sept. to Sat., 11 Oct., thanks to DEFA Film Library! Sign-in details here:
#thegsa2019
still has a few manels, some in traditionally male fields. It’s not hard to change! Calling on all established colleagues to use the conference as an occasion to meet young scholars and avoid repeats of this in the future.
It is not too early to get excited about the
@DDGCtweets
2021 conference in March, focusing on antiracism, antiblack racism, white supremacy, and resistance in German studies—with an absolutely mind-blowing line up of speakers and participants.
Just want to get out in front of the notion that we're "the GSA" that's blocking the BIden-Harris transition team atm.
@GSAEmily
is NOT one of us. We're the GSA that loves transition teams. Not that other GSA that protects sore losers.
What a national disgrace.
@GSAEmily
is blocking
@JoeBiden
from planning a peaceful transition of power. Your voice matters like your vote mattered. Make it clear:
#TimeToTransition
This Thursday! Nov. 18 noon-1:30pm EST: “Debates On Holocaust Memory: Coloniality, Black Lives, and Multidirectionality”w Michael Rothberg (UCLA) + Esra Özyürek (U Cambridge), moderator Damani Partridge (U Michigan). Pre-registration required, info here:
Update: Two tenure track German Studies positions in the US and Canada (3 if you're counting the Berkeley compl lit one), 5 visiting positions and... that's it for Fall 2021. Time, among other things, to schedule some heart-to-heart time with the dean. Bring your best data.
"Over the last several weeks, the news of the German Federal Government’s planned cuts to funding for the German Academic Exchange Service
@DAAD_Germany
and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
@AvHStiftung
has raised serious alarm in the international scholarly community." 🧵/1
10 representatives of the leaderships of
@AATGOnline
@womeningerman
@TheGSA
@DDGCtweets
&
@Blackgermans
met this morning to organize about the academic labor crisis. Please continue to share your insights / recommendations, as we continue to forge collective action.
We are conscious that many people could not participate in this year's GSA, had to push off their contributions, or couldn't experience it in a way they need to for their professional and personal well-being. We hear you and miss you, and feel the loss of your presence.
"To me, these younger authors are not interested in proving how German they are; they’re more interested in thinking diasporically on connections to other Black people around the world, & thinking beyond nationalism, thinking beyond their belonging to a nation state.” – P. Layne
#theGSA2020
will take place virtually, with an extended schedule attentive to time differences and a possibility of postponing panels till 2021. If you’re a member, please check your mailbox, otherwise stay tuned for the link.
#theGSAtweets
If you're not following yet:
@Blackgermans
has been doing essential public work here on race in the German context and far beyond. Thank you and please follow!
#theGSAtweets
<-- We've gone ahead & changed our logo to "2021" early, because we simply are not interested in any more of the nonsense that 2020 CE might have in store for us. But we do send our members & friends love, appreciation & best wishes for the last 11 days of this baffling year.
Cheering on the
@womeningerman
conference committee, as they round the last bend toward their virtual conference on Oct 15–18: Liesl Allingham, Regine Schwarzmeier, Faye Stewart, Maria Stehle, & Didem Uca. Thank you!
"Sieh, daß du Mensch bleibst. Mensch sein ist von allem die Hauptsache. Und das heißt fest und klar und heiter sein, ja heiter, trotz alledem." –Rosa Luxemburg (1870 - 1919)
We look forward to seeing many of you GSA members at the annual conference in Portland, OR next week. We'll be actively tweeting and retweeting, so please contribute under
#thegsa2019
!
A true pleasure to introduce the new and dynamic professional initiative on Diversity, Decolonization, and the German Curriculum. Read their blog, which is an essential resource, and meet them at
#thegsa2019
seminar.
It's job market season! We would like to remind all hiring colleagues that native-speakerism & accentism are forms of discrimination. For more, see Adrian Holliday (cited) & scholars working on linguistic ideologies, such as
@nelsonlflores
&
@DrJonathanRosa
#theGSAtweets
Congrats to all the graduates this year, and special congrats to queer and trans graduates who make it through without some of the most basic features of support that others may not even notice they had.🌈🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
"Post-Colonialism, Antisemitism, and the Holocaust: The Achille Mbembe Case in Germany"
This Friday, November 20 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm (North America Eastern)
Organized by the NC German Studies Seminar and Workshop Series
Call for Seminar Proposals
#GSA2023
47th
#GermanStudiesAssociation
Conference in Montréal, Canada
October 5-8, 2023
#GSA2023
will host a series of seminars in addition to regular panel sessions and roundtables
Please see for further information
Madeleine Thien's inspiring conversation with Yoko Tawada on writing as translation and a non-proprietary relationship with languages: "language itself is this living thing and you’re accompanying," rather than acquiring/possessing it.
#theGSAtweets
Thank you to everyone for a fun and exciting
#theGSA2022
It was brilliant getting to know each other and share thoughts from all the panels. We are leaving for home with full hearts and bags full of books & ideas.
The GSA is inspired by all our efforts.
With gratitude bis bald!
One of the most important jobs in German Studies—editing the “German Studies Review“—needs to be filled after the amazing Sabine Hake’s term runs out. Apply or (self)nominate here and spread the word, please!
#theGSAtweets
As requested by our colleagues at West Virginia University, the GSA has sent a statement opposing the termination of World Languages at WVU to the relevant decision-makers.
The full statement along with other relevant links may be read on our website.
Don’t miss this
@seansrussiablog
podcast with Francine Hirsch on her new book about the Soviets’ role in calling for and trying to shape the Nuremberg Trials—as she puts it, on winning the war but losing the peace. Essential!
#theGSAtweets
We've just been informed that the GSA Forum on Diversity, Equity, and Social Justice that just now concluded was [... checks notes...] "actually kick-ass".
Congratulations
Samuel Clowes Huneke
Author of
"States of Liberation: Gay Men between Dictatorship and Democracy in Cold War Germany"
@utpress
Winner of the David Barclay Book Prize at
#theGSA2023
Trump's inhumane police machine isn't at all remote. Please read Dr. Maureen Healy's statement. Sending her much strength and recovery, in solidarity with
#BlackLivesMatter
.
#TheGSAtweets
Two years ago this week we were thrilled to host the conference “Defining Black European History” convened by
@kira_thurman
,
@tlflorvil
, and
@jeffbsox
. You can find the conference report here () & look back on the conversation with the hashtag
#DBEH2018
For anyone (modernist or otherwise) putting together a syllabus, a comps list, or an opinion, please do not neglect to spend some serious time on these awesome pages.
OUP is temporarily offering some free online articles and chapters from Oxford Scholarship, Oxford Handbooks, Very Short Introductions, and _German History_. Freely available thru October 10th!
The AV projectors have been tested, boxed, and are ready to be shipped to Indianapolis! Just make sure you bring your own laptop and adapters, please.
#thegsa2021
Challenge: how about we all, before 2021, wrote short pieces for our LOCAL paper about the value of languages/cultures/histories education in these times? Not for the NY Times, but for the local paper? Pls share any successes. (Thanks
@ervinmalakaj
/
@DDGCtweets
for suggesting!)
Truly overdue. Kudos to all those who’ve pressured for this, incl. the team behind Kolonialismus im Kasten (Manuela Bauche, Dörte Lerp, Susann Lewerenz,
@MMuschalek
Kristin Weber), who designed an indie self-guided tour to do what the exhibit wasn’t doing.
This year's Emerging Scholars Network seminar at
#VirtualGSA2020
, led by B. Venkat Mani w/ Priscilla Layne & Astrid Eckert, is a crucial site for regenerating the next decades of research in our fields. Check out some of the early-career folx taking part:
Katharina Gerstenberger is the new incoming editor of the German Studies Review, announces
@jvmoltke
. Congratulations and thank you, Dr. Gerstenberger! Thank you to outgoing editor Sabine Hake for ten years of service.
As long as I run the
@TheGSA
twitter, there will be no poverty wage, just-in-time, move-across-the-world, teach-everything-for-us-really-quick, we'll-give-you-a-nice-reference jobs posted there. I check local living wage data.
The GSA's Asian German Network is getting more and more extensive each year! Congratulations to this year's cohort and props to directors Douglas McGetchin Joanne Miyang Cho!
#theGSA2019
You are cordially invited to celebrate the life of Ruth Kluger on November 22nd at 5:00pm (European time), organized by her son Dan Angress. Register in advance for this meeting:
More than 120 original research talks were shared today during the first full day of
#VirtualGSA2020
. Not our ideal conditions—but a real, meaningful gathering nonetheless. Thanks to everyone for getting us started. See you in the morning!
#theGSA2022
We are pleased to share a *preliminary schedule*
Please let us know if there are any corrections by submitting the *change form* by June 30
🧵/1
#theGSA2023
This first GSA outside the US! Join us
@Montreal
for world class dining, Montréal style smoked meat & bagels, some of the best vegan lox & finest coffee ever!
C'est la vraie joie de vivre that embodies Montréal in the autumn...
Montréal, c'est vous, notre ville!
We join those celebrating the life and work of Dr. Sharon Gillerman, z”l. יהי זכרה ברוך. A remembrance for our colleague can be viewed (and shared) here:
Thanks to all for all your help + support for our conference. We’ll be working with OpenWater to answer all your ❓s about recordings etc - this system is new to us too. Pls be patient while we catch up on 💤 and get back to our other full-time jobs 📝📚💻😜😆
Crowdsourcing: not all online teaching suggestions work for language courses. How do we teach intro language classes online in a way that does’t devolve into an expensive version of Duolingo? Can we share the best tools and strategies here to be prepared, tagging
#digitallangs
?
One of these people leads a country where advanced higher ed is thought to be a pretty good thing meriting recognition, titular & otherwise. The other "leads" a country where advanced higher ed is routinely portrayed as a menace, a waste, or luxury grift. Who's right,
#DrBiden
?
We hope everyone is getting ready to tweet out news, moments, observations, interventions, pearls of wisdom, and new ideas for research and teaching from
#VirtualGSA2020
, starting next Tuesday afternoon. We can't all be at every gathering—so polish up those hashtags!
Calling all graduate students and early-career German Studies colleagues! Please apply for our two inaugural GSA Emerging Scholars Workshops, one with Venkat Mani, another with Edith Sheffer. Dec 20th deadline!
#theGSAtweets
The
@Moma
released this haunting 1902 film of the Wuppertal Suspended Railway in Germany - but now it’s been colourised and upscaled to 4K and it is incredibly beautiful
Our Feb. 15 deadline for
#GSA2021
conference submissions is now magically extended to March 1. (To quote Dar Williams, "February was so long, that it lasted into March.")
Please follow the treasured voice in critical feminist scholarship,
@womeningerman
, for their research and super-smart commentary about gender and race in the Germanophone world. Btw, the next deadline to submit to their journal is October 31.
This outfit is well-funded, glossy. German programs need to take a clear stand that they reject association w/ "student-led" astroturf white supremacy, dressed as western civ. These groups want to find sympathetic harbour in our classes. No thanks.