Just in case you haven't signed this yet: The crisis in Exeter is not over. It's just in that dangerous phase where people forget about it unless they're affected. We're waiting to find out the results of the 'consultation'. There's still time to change course. Share and sign! c.org/VZDjrbTybJ

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❤️felt thanks to @wsc2026verona.bsky.social, the #ShakespeareBirthplaceTrust, the #InternationalShakespeareAssociation & the local organizers for a splendid week in 'fair Verona'! What a fantastic congress it has been, bringing together global networks of scholars, artists & enthusiasts. A true joy!🎉

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German Shakespeare Society (DSG)@dsg-shakespeare.bsky.social · last mo.

We have written a letter in support of our colleagues at @universityofexeter.bsky.social facing redundancy. #ShakespeareStudies at Exeter is an internationally admired community of collaboration and exchange. Please share and sign the petition (link below) #HigherEd shakespeare-gesellschaft.de/8834

We're hiring! If you're enthusiastic about interdisciplinary #attentionstudies, experienced in #readingstudies, and have a background in #educationscience and/or #psychology, do apply. Please also share this with #postdoctoral scholars who might be interested to join #LitAttention! @erc.europa.eu

LitAttention@litattention.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We're delighted to announce an open position on the LitAttention project! 🎉 The role is for a full-time two-year Postdoctoral Researcher (f/m/d) in Educational Psychology. Further information is available at the link below. We look forward to your applications!

Congratulations to all colleagues at @shakesinstitute.bsky.social and heartfelt thanks for the longstanding collaboration with @dsg-shakespeare.bsky.social. It was a pleasure and privilege to celebrate this important milestone with you. Looking forward to all the exciting projects still to come!

German Shakespeare Society (DSG)@dsg-shakespeare.bsky.social · last mo.

Happy 75th Anniversary to @shakesinstitute.bsky.social! 🎉 It was a joy to celebrate with our friends and colleagues at #ISC2026. Here's to many more collaborations—and to the next 75 years of Shakespeare scholarship, friendship, and discovery! Celebrations continue @wsc2026verona.bsky.social!

Back at the Swan for some Chekhov after three inspiring days at the International Shakespeare Conference. @dsg-shakespeare.bsky.social

Who's not signed this petition yet? Please help us out! The official line is that this is not targeting Arts and Humanities. So why are 85% of cuts in these subjects? #DefendExeterUni c.org/DTcBbvqxn6

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Gedanken zum guten Leben. www.uni-giessen.de/de/fbz/rcsc/...

Gespräch zwischen Kirsten von Hagen und Peter von Möllendorff

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Congratulations to my dear colleague, Geoff Rodoreda, on being awarded the Publication Prize of our faculty for his marvellous book on George Orwell in #Stuttgart! @unistuttgart.bsky.social

Theory is largely invisible ... or is it? Looking forward to receiving submissions for the next issue of the #JournalOfLiteraryTheory (#JLT) on "What’s #Invisibility Got to Do with It: In/Visibility and #LiteraryTheory". Deadline: 15 July! #InvisibilityStudies jltonline.de/cfp/2025/CfP...

Coming up next Thursday! Join us for the final talk in the #LitAttention colloquium. We'll explore #AttentionStudies as a new #interdisciplinary discipline with Prof. Marion Thain (University of Edinburgh). All (disciplines) welcome! @unistuttgart.bsky.social litattention.eu/2026/06/20/c...

LitAttention@litattention.bsky.social · 2mo ago

To wrap up our summer colloquium series, Prof. Dr. Marion Thain will be joining us next week to give a lecture entitled "Attention Studies: Configuring a New 'Interdisiplinary Discipline'" ⏰ 11:30 - 13:00 🗓️ 02.07 📍 17.22 See you there!

All you need is an empty stage... Es hat viel Spaß gemacht, nach unserer Performance über die Relevanz Shakespeares in der heutigen Zeit zu diskutieren. Herzlichen Dank an Marcel Zuber (Steinfuß-Theater), Niels Pfeffer (#HDMK) und Orlando Schenk (Akademie für gesprochenes Wort) & alle Teilnehmenden!

"Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." #Booksky

This is insane. The harm being done to colleagues, individual disciplines, faculties and the university as a whole is immense. Sending support and solidarity from Stuttgart.

Francesca Stavrakopoulou@proffrancesca.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Guess what? I’m at risk of redundancy. My job - and those of my colleagues in my department and across our wider faculty of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences - is one of those currently targeted for cuts. I received a personal letter today. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

…und wir ‚spielen‘ in einem klimatisierten Raum! Looking forward!

German Shakespeare Society (DSG)@dsg-shakespeare.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Am 24. Juni findet um 18:00 an der @unistuttgart.bsky.social im Rahmen des #StudiumGenerale der #SzenischeVortrag "'Speak of me as I am' - #Shakespeare in Zeiten der Spaltung" mit @sibyllebaumbach.bsky.social statt. 🎶 Musik und 🎭 szenische Präsentation: Niels Pfeffer, Orlando Schenk & Marcel Zuber.

After a rather drawn-out process, I am so delighted that the festschrift for the wonderful @lisahopkins.bsky.social that @matthewsteggle.bsky.social and I have edited is only a few months out from publication with @dgb-mem.bsky.social! www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...

Very much looking forward to this. Feel free to join us at 11:30: litattention.eu/2026/05/26/c...

Sibylle Baumbach@sibyllebaumbach.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Thrilled to welcome Yves Citton for an online talk on narrative #attention, anthropological #curiosity, and Jan Potocki's "Manuscript Found in Saragossa" (1815). Join us via Webex on Thursday at 11:30! #LitAttention @unistuttgart.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu litattention.eu

Teaching Fellow in English Literature. Department of English. Royal Holloway, University of London Salary: £41,374 per annum - including London Allowance #HigherEd #EduSky www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRX684/t...

'Hamnet' for all! Join the first online event of the #GermanShakespeareSociety and discuss what you always wanted to know about '#Hamnet' with two esteemed Shakespeare scholars, @susannegruss.bsky.social @uni-bamberg.de and Lena Steveker @uni.lu @dsg-shakespeare.bsky.social. All Welcome!

German Shakespeare Society (DSG)@dsg-shakespeare.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Join us on 19 June, 16:00-16:45 CET for an online discussion of Hamnet! All details, including the registration link, can be found on our website: shakespeare-gesellschaft.de

Thrilled to welcome Yves Citton for an online talk on narrative #attention, anthropological #curiosity, and Jan Potocki's "Manuscript Found in Saragossa" (1815). Join us via Webex on Thursday at 11:30! #LitAttention @unistuttgart.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu litattention.eu

Rehearsals are in full swing as we get ready to bring this event to @unistuttgart.bsky.social ! What can #Shakespeare’s drama tell us about key challenges of our own time? This blend of performance/talk/discussion explores what it means to 'speak of me as I am'.Everyone welcome! tinyurl.com/y85xbh69

Mark your calendars for a talk by B. Venkat Mani (University of Madison) on "Collecting and Dispersing Wor(l)ds: Literatures of #Migration" and join us on 16 June at 9:45! @unistuttgart.bsky.social

Very much looking forward to Kathy Conklin's talk on 'Seeing #Literariness' tomorrow. Join us im Room 17.22 at 11:30. All welcome! #psycholinguistics #LitAttention #ReadingComprehension #eyetracking @unistuttgart.bsky.social

LitAttention@litattention.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Join us tomorrow for our first Summer Colloquium guest lecture! See you there, 11:30 in Room 17.22 ,to discuss eye-tracking and "seeing literariness" 👀

Coming up: Join us for our summer #LitAttention colloquium! Very much looking forward to Kathy Conklin‘s talk on „Seeing Literariness: #eyetracking as a window into the reading of literary texts“. ALL WELCOME! #attention #psycholinguistics #reading

LitAttention@litattention.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We're kicking off our Summer LitAttention Colloquium on the 21st of May with Prof. Dr. Kathy Conklin, from the University of Nottingham. Join us to learn more about 'Seeing literariness: Eye-tracking as a window into the reading of literary texts'. 📍 K2 Keplerstraße 17, Room 17.22 ⏰ 11:30am

Coming up tomorrow: #BornDigital Workshop on #ImaginariesOfTheFuture! Very much looking forward to welcoming our guests from @cdn-bergen.bsky.social as well as @astridensslin.bsky.social who will deliver the keynote tomorrow morning. Do join us in K2, 17.23, Keplerstr. 17! lnkd.in/dqvcKF6F

How can #academics make a difference in times of rising authoritarianism? Our #JLT issue on #LiteraryStudies and/as #PoliticalActivism is out now-with statements by Derek Attridge, Marco Carracciolo, N. Katherine Hayles, Caroline Levine, Peter Strohschneider and many more jltonline.de/articles/20.1/

We're kicking off our Summer LitAttention Colloquium on the 21st of May with Prof. Dr. Kathy Conklin, from the University of Nottingham. Join us to learn more about 'Seeing literariness: Eye-tracking as a window into the reading of literary texts'. 📍 K2 Keplerstraße 17, Room 17.22 ⏰ 11:30am

A thousand thanks to all speakers and participants who made our conference on #Shakespeare and #truth a success. We're especially grateful to our plenary speakers, to #Schauspielhaus Bochum for their hospitality, and to @ruhr-uni-bochum.de, and the city of #Bochum for their generous support!

'Is not the truth the truth?' Falstaff's (false stuff?) question invites a closer look at practices & performances of 'truth' in Shakespeare's plays. We welcome submissions to the #Shakespeare Yearbook on the topic of #truth. 🗓 Submission deadline: 31 May. shakespeare-gesellschaft.de/publications...

Very much looking forward to discussing latest research on #LiteraryAttention in our Summer LitAttention Colloquium! 👇

LitAttention@litattention.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Mark your calendars, we have an attentive summer semester ahead! 🔆 We're delighted to be hosting three guest speakers - Kathy Conklin, Yves Citton and Marion Thain - for our LitAttention Summer Colloquium!