The Women+ in German Studies Book Prize sponsored by #PeterLangOxford is now open for submissions! Please read more here, deadline 14 September: womeningermanstudies.wordpress.com/2026/07/06/w... @wigsblog.bsky.social

The winner receives £150 and the opportunity to publish in @helencfinch.bsky.social and @katherinestone.bsky.social ’s Women, Gender and Sexuality in German Literature and Culture series (peterlang.com/series/wgl)

Join us on 16 July for the launch of a new Holocaust Studies special issue on queer experiences during the Holocaust at which we will hear from a panel of editors and contributors to the special issue including Helen Finch, Rosie Ramsden, Matt Smith, and William Jones. Free tickets:

Special Issue Launch: Queer Experiences in the Holocaust - The Wiener Holocaust Library

Join us for the launch of a new Holocaust Studies special issue on queer experiences during the Holocaust at which we will hear from a panel of editors and contributors to the special issue including…

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Embodied Realities, the latest volume in the Women, Gender and Sexuality in German Literature and Culture book series, edited by @helencfinch.bsky.social and @katherinestone.bsky.social, is the subject of a new blog post by volume editor Flora Roussel: www.peterlang.com/article/titl...

Title Spotlight: 'Embodied Realities: Tracing Multitudes in Germanophone Feminist and Queer Literature, Film, and Art'

In times of conservative politics and discourse, the edited volume 'Embodied Realities' offers an overview of recent queer, feminist, and intersectional debates across literature, film, performing art...

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If you are in Leeds on 6 October, @krheyam.bsky.social and @helencfinch.bsky.social will be discussing with me People Without History Are Dust thebookishtype.co.uk/products/que...

Queer History Club: People Without History Are Dust - Queer Desire and

People Without History Are Dust: Queer Desire and the Holocaust Where are the stories of great queer love in the Shoah? There are almost none. Anna Hájková explains why the history of same-sex desire ...

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'Leeds Calling': thanks to @jackarscott.bsky.social for this lovely writeup of our roundtable 'Elias Canetti, a Jewish Émigré in Britain: Leeds Responses' eliascanettiandthebritish.wordpress.com/2026/05/15/l...

Leeds calling

If proof were needed that Elias Canetti is still a name to conjure with, it arrived on Leeds University campus on Monday 11 May. Under the banner Elias Canetti, a Jewish Émigré in Britain: Leeds Re…

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Very excited to receive Flora Roussel’s fabulous edited volume ‘Embodied Realities. Tracing Multitudes in Germanophone Feminist and Queer Literature, Film and Art’. It’s volume #24 in the legendary #PeterLangOxford Women, Gender and Sexuality series, edited by me and @katherinestone.bsky.social

Such a wonderful panel on Elias Canetti, his networks & possible influences - Mary Douglas, H. G. Adler, Norbert Elias - ending with a feminist discussion of Marie-Louise von Motesiczky. Ranging across art history, sociology & literary studies, here's to more of these interdisciplinary discussions!

Helen Finch@helencfinch.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Come to'Elias Canetti, a Jewish Émigré in Britain: Leeds Responses', a roundtable @lcsleeds.bsky.social on Monday 11.05.26 on exile and displacement, language and identity, memory, and the cultural dynamics of émigré life in mid‑century Britain: baumaninstitute.leeds.ac.uk/events/elias...

Come to'Elias Canetti, a Jewish Émigré in Britain: Leeds Responses', a roundtable @lcsleeds.bsky.social on Monday 11.05.26 on exile and displacement, language and identity, memory, and the cultural dynamics of émigré life in mid‑century Britain: baumaninstitute.leeds.ac.uk/events/elias...

On 25 February I talk with @helencfinch.bsky.social and Matt Cook on the erased queer histories in both Germany and the UK britishgermanassociation.org/event/hidden...

Hidden Histories: Queer Lives in Britain and Germany - British-German Association

Join us on 25 February 2026 at 6.30pm for an online discussion celebrating LGBTQ+ History Month. How have queer lives been recorded, concealed, or deliberately erased...

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Hosting the wonderful @helencfinch.bsky.social talk for #HMD #HMD2026 on “Holocaust memory, queer memory: Holocaust literatures and solidarity in difficult times.”

German at Leeds and International Writers at Leeds are thrilled that acclaimed author Julia Franck will be in Leeds on the 6th of February to give a reading from and talk about her newly translated novel, Worlds Apart. ahc.leeds.ac.uk/languages/ev...

Worlds Apart: German author Julia Franck visits Leeds to discuss her new novel

Author Julia Franck, together with her English publisher, Monique Charlesworth, will be in Leeds on the 6th of February to give a reading from and talk about her new novel, Worlds Apart.

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The Centre for Jewish Studies at @universityofleeds.bsky.social is honoured to welcome Dr. Amy Williams as this year's Holocaust Memorial Day speaker. She will talk about 'Kindertransport: New Discoveries, or Rethinking the Kindertransport 87 years On' ahc.leeds.ac.uk/events/event...

Holocaust Memorial Day Lecture 2026

For this year's Holocaust Memorial Day Lecture, Dr Amy Williams will speak on 'Kindertransport: New Discoveries, or Rethinking the Kindertransport 87 Years On…'.

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Announcing the TWO winners of #W+IGS annual #ECA #BookPrize 🎉 Isabel Parkinson & Miriam Schwarz Congratulations to them both! 🎉

Many congratulations to both winners! Excited to be speaking with them both about publishing in our Women, Gender and Sexuality in German Literature and Culture book series, edited by @helencfinch.bsky.social and @katherinestone.bsky.social www.peterlang.com/series/wgl

I'm very excited for the launch of the new School of Languages, Cultures and Societies Centre for Global Queer Cultures and Politics, next Thursday 4 December 2025. At a darkening time for queer lives, launching this centre feels like kindling a small light. ahc.leeds.ac.uk/events/event...

Launch event for new Centre for Global Queer Cultures and Politics

Location: Chemistry SR (1.53g)

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Thrilled to announce WGS Pathbreakers, a subseries of Peter Lang's Women, Gender and Sexuality in German Literature and Culture series, that seeks to showcase the cultural contribution of women, queer, non-binary, trans and gender non-conforming writers and artists to German studies. (1/3)

So pleased that I will get to discuss my new book with my brilliant colleagues @helencfinch.bsky.social and @williamrossjones.bsky.social in an event organized by @rhulholocaustri.bsky.social

Holocaust Research Institute@rhulholocaustri.bsky.social · 10mo ago

On 10 December 2025, the Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership (HGRP) @hgrporg.bsky.social will be hosting two events with Dr Anna Hájková on her latest book, 'People Without History Are Dust: Queer Desire in the Holocaust'.

Excitedly preparing for the CEUROS @unioflimerick.bsky.social conference on Cultural Memory – Memory Culture(s). Europe’s Past, Present and Future. I'll be speaking on Poetic Techniques of Queer Memory: Antje Rávik Strubel, Kim de l’Horizon and Sasha Marianna Salzmann www.ul.ie/ceuros/event...

CEUROS Conference: Cultural Memory – Memory Culture(s). Europe’s Past, Present and Future

Join us as we explore how memories cross national and generational boundaries, shaping and problematizing collective European remembrance.

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JOB: Montague Burton fellow in Jewish Studies at the University of Leeds. Come and work with us! The Centre for Jewish Studies is seeking a dynamic postdoctoral fellow with strong research and teaching interests in post-Holocaust visualities/materialities. jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Montague Burton Fellow in Jewish Studies

Are you a dynamic person holding a recent doctoral degree with strong research and teaching interests in post-Holocaust visualities/materialities? Does your research and teaching demonstrate a sustain...

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Helen Finch über Sasha Marianna Salzmann und Mirna Funk.

Last evening event until September! Thank you to @helencfinch.bsky.social @ankahajkova.bsky.social and to all who attended for a smart, illuminating evening on German-Jewish writers after the Holocaust @wienerlibrary.bsky.social

Dr Anna Hájková@ankahajkova.bsky.social · last yr.

All prepped for Helen’s talk in one hour! @wienerlibrary.bsky.social @helencfinch.bsky.social

In conversation with the iconic @ankahajkova.bsky.social about Holocaust testimony, feminist rage and the tricky question of artistic quality in Holocaust literature. Thank you so much to @wienerlibrary.bsky.social for wonderful hosting and such a thoughtful audience!

All prepped for Helen’s talk in one hour! @wienerlibrary.bsky.social @helencfinch.bsky.social

Graduation is always a wonderful and iconic day, particularly wie one of your @lcsleeds.bsky.social graduates drives their Trabi up to campus! Huge congratulations to the German graduating class of 2025, and to Dr. Corey Hartley #ProudDoktormutter

Next Wednesday I will discuss Helen Finch’s new book at @wienerlibrary.bsky.social It promises to be a great event and you all should come! NB in person

The Wiener Holocaust Library@wienerlibrary.bsky.social · last yr.

📣 New Academic Book Talk next week! Join us for a discussion of a new monograph by Helen Finch, in conversation with Anna Hájková. The book focuses on four authors who bore literary witness to the Shoah – H. G. Adler, Fred Wander, Edgar Hilsenrath, and Ruth Klüger. Tickets: buff.ly/5orO5Ug

So proud of my PhD supervisee Eden Hills for this important and very timely article: Trans-Exclusionary, Transnational: Gender-Critical Feminism and the Overstatement of Harm in the UK and Germany doi.org/10.33134/rds...

Trans-Exclusionary, Transnational: Gender-Critical Feminism and the Overstatement of Harm in the UK and Germany | Redescriptions: Political Thought, Conceptual History and Feminist Theory

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16 July, starring @helencfinch.bsky.social (@lcsleeds.bsky.social) and @ankahajkova.bsky.social (Warwick):

The Wiener Holocaust Library@wienerlibrary.bsky.social · last yr.

📣 New Academic Book Talk just listed! Join us for a discussion of a new monograph by Helen Finch, in conversation with Anna Hájková. The book focuses on four authors who bore literary witness to the Shoah – H. G. Adler, Fred Wander, Edgar Hilsenrath, and Ruth Klüger. Tickets: buff.ly/wr16F1B

It was a delight to review Gillian Selikowitz's 'Sebald's Jews' - the Sebald wars may be back... Selikowitz shows how Sebald de-individualizes the Jewish characters he purports to memorialize, & how his troping of Jews reflects antisemitic tropes in German thought muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...