AGS 2026 Conference Registration NOW OPEN! The Glasgow organising committee is pleased to announce that the conference registration is now possible through the AGS website. More details here ags.ac.uk/2026-confere... DEADLINE TO REGISTER: 1 August 2026

📯 Announcing inaugural AGS Bluesky social media feed "takeover" 📯 Selected guest contributors will prepare posts relating to their research, teaching or other German Studies work to be shared on the AGS Bluesky feed. Deadline for expressions of interest 29th June 2026. Open to all AGS members!

Final reminder for registration for the Rethinking Weimar Cinema Conference happening at Worcester College, Oxford 17 - 19 June! @weimarfilmnetwork.bsky.social @mharrabin.bsky.social @ags-gbi.bsky.social @baftss.bsky.social @iaswarwick.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk @oxfordgerman.bsky.social

🚨📽️ UK screening tour of acclaimed new German documentary Das deutsche Volk - NEXT WEEK!📽️🚨 There will be a Q&A with the director Marcin Wierzchowski after each screening. In cinemas in NEWCASTLE (Mon), LEEDS (Tues), GLASGOW (Wed), EDINBURGH (Thursday) & LONDON (Fri). Details & tickets below 🧵

Das Deutsche Volk / AFF 2025 Trailer

YouTube video by Astra Film Festival

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Registration for the "Queer Lives and Trans* Formations: Reimagining Weimar Germany's LGBTQ+ Histories and Cultures" online conference is now live! Sign up to join us 30 - 31 March (Australia: 31 March - 1 April). With speakers from 6 (!) time zones & keynotes from Jonah Garde & Camilla Smith!

Queer Lives and Trans* Formations Conference Registration

We are looking forward to welcoming you to the Queer Lives and Trans* Formations Conference on 30-31 March, 2026! As the conference will be taking place online, we ask that you register to attend by c...

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The German History Society is proud to release the call for papers for our 2026 Annual Conference, held this year at the University of Stirling! The deadline for papers is the 14 April 2026. For more information check our website here: www.germanhistorysociety.org/conference/

Colleagues at Newcastle University congregated this week to toast the opening of the “Elias Canetti. A Jewish Émigré in Britain: People, Places, Impressions 1939-1988” exhibition. The exhibition will remain on show in the Old Library Building throughout March.

⌛ Only a few hours left to get those abstracts in...

Association of German Studies in Great Britain and Ireland@ags-gbi.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🚨 The deadline for submitting papers for the AGS conference is fast approaching 🚨 If you are intending on submitting an abstract, do so by Friday!

Jointly with the Chair of W+IGS and the President of the GLA, the President of the AGS, @pdavies.bsky.social, has sent a letter to the Principal of Heriot-Watt University opposing proposed staff cuts to the Department of Languages and Intercultural Studies and threats to close German and Chinese.

🚨 The deadline for submitting papers for the AGS conference is fast approaching 🚨 If you are intending on submitting an abstract, do so by Friday!

Association of German Studies in Great Britain and Ireland@ags-gbi.bsky.social · 6mo ago

94th AGS Conference will take place at University of Glasgow, 26-28 August 2026. **Call for Papers has now been published ** Details and full CfP here: ags.ac.uk/conferences/... Deadline for abstracts: 20 February 2026 Big thank you to the organising committee & esp @herrehrig.bsky.social 🙏🙏🙏🙏

94th AGS Conference will take place at University of Glasgow, 26-28 August 2026. **Call for Papers has now been published ** Details and full CfP here: ags.ac.uk/conferences/... Deadline for abstracts: 20 February 2026 Big thank you to the organising committee & esp @herrehrig.bsky.social 🙏🙏🙏🙏

Happy #ShoutOutForGerman week! Learning #German has lots of benefits, it’s fun and not as hard as some may think: theconversation.com/learning-ger... @uk.theconversation.com @goethe-institut-uk.bsky.social @daad-uk-ireland.bsky.social @uk.diplo.de @ags-gbi.bsky.social @britgerassoc.bsky.social

Learning German has many benefits for young people – and it’s not as hard as its reputation suggests

Learning a language gives you unique insights into different cultures, societies and perspectives.

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On the first Monday morning of 2026, we wish all members a productive and rewarding year ahead! We look forward to facing ongoing and new challenges together, to the highs and lows of teaching and research, and to the conversations and collaborations with colleagues that sustain us and our field…

Exciting news - details of next year's AGS conference, which will be held in Glasgow, will be published this week! More to follow here soon too but in the meantime keep your eyes on your inboxes!

Insightful article by fellow ML scholars Wendy Ayres-Bennett, Charles Burdett, Emma Cayley and Marcela Cazzoli regards the proposed cuts at Nottingham and Leicester www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/late...

The latest threat to UK modern languages is yet another faux pas

Nottingham and Leicester are taking a swing at language departments. But those proposing closures have taken their eye off the ball, say four linguists

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In response to recent news of the University of Nottingham's devastating plan to cut modern languages degrees, the AGS President (@pdavies.bsky.social) has sent a joint letter of protest to the UoN VC and the Chair of University Council on behalf of the AGS, W+IGS and the GLA. Link to the letter 👇

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