Monochrome photograph of the upper half of a white woman in glamourous top and with stats on wires surrounding her head
Hedy Lamarr, Austrian born Hollywood actress, was also a designer/inventor who created aviation designs for Howard Hughes and co-patented a “secret communication system” - the basis for modern WiFi #WomensArt #WomensHistoryMonth
This year marks the 115th anniversary of Germany’s first International Women's Day, held on 19 March 1911.
Here’s a look at some of the women behind the women's rights movement in Germany.
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.
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The MLitt is taught by world-leading experts in their respective fields, and boasts excellent student feedback! If you want to find out more, please see www.abdn.ac.uk/study/postgr... and get in touch with me at katya.krylova[ ] abdn.ac.uk
It was wonderful to meet prospective postgraduate students, together with my School of LLMVC colleagues, at yesterday’s @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social Postgraduate Fair. If you missed my talk on the MLitt European and Latin American Literatures and Cultures, I’ve included the most salient slides here.
😂😂😂 Why does he say 'soul' like that?!
Volume 33 of 'Austrian Studies' is now out!
'Austria and Film in the Twenty-First Century'
Edited by Katya Krylova (@katyakrylova.bsky.social) and Dora Osborne.
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Access via @projectmuse.bsky.social 👉 muse.jhu.edu/issue/55395
15 years ago today I arrived on Downing Street in a cage.
I've seen off Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss and Sunak and I'm still going strong.
Only two Prime Ministers have ever done longer stints here: William Pitt the Younger and Sir Robert Walpole.
Bill and Bob - I'm coming for you...
(Photos AP)
Am 4. März hält Fatima Naqvi (Yale), Mitglied unseres Expert:innenrats, im ORF RadioKulturhaus die diesjährige Wendelin Schmidt-Dengler-Lecture. Der Titel ihres Vortrags lautet: „Die Stimmenimitatoren. Thomas Bernhard und die KI“. Herzliche Einladung!
#WhyLearnGerman? To appreciate the unique ways the language and culture expresses luck! In German, a lucky person might be called a ‘Glückspilz’, or lucky mushroom. It reflects how luck has found them as quickly as mushrooms appear from the ground. It’s even inspired this sweet garden decoration!
YOU SIGNATURE MATTERS! Help us save Modern Languages at Leicester.
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Language Explorers Scotland encourages language uptake in the senior phase with a short series of mentoring sessions led by university students with lived experiences of language learning and multiculturalism. Find out more: https://loom.ly/hHqAMlY
Not the first woman to "write herself out of a fragile state" but certainly one of the most interesting. Ingeborg Bachmann, on the occasion of what would have been her 100th year.
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Andre Bazin cradiling a cat and gazing into its eyes while laughing!
A propos of a lecture I'm writing, here's film critic André Bazin taking the best possible break from thinking about realism and long takes. I think this might be the start of an occasional series (theme: cool people with cats).
Man, I forgot what it feels like to see actual good news on my feed.
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What a week! A huge Dankeschön to everyone who took part in Shout Out For German – especially the incredible German language teachers and pupils across the UK!
Collage of social media posts for #ShoutOutForGerman
DANKE to everyone who took part in #ShoutOutForGerman week! 🖤❤️💛
We loved seeing so much joy, enthusiasm and love for the German language!
Looking forward to Austrian author Kaśka Bryla’s residency at the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre (ILCS) in June and to discussing her latest novel “mein vater, der gulag, die krähe und ich” with her and translator Sheridan Marshall at the Austrian Cultural Forum
#ShoutOutForGerman
The 78th National Postgraduate Colloquium in German Studies is coming up on 14 and 15 May, at ILCS. Do join us and tell us about your research!
See the call for papers here – the closing date is 14 February! 👇
#ShoutOutForGerman
We asked guests to tell us their favourite German word at a reception for German-speaking civil servants, as part of #ShoutOutForGerman week.
Alongside some top-notch animal names, we got some fantastic compound words and a few untranslatables too!
What's yours? 🤔
The world's first Sesame Street traffic lights were turned on in Hamburg this week.
German public broadcaster NDR (which is based in Hamburg) has co-produced the German version of the show for 50 years.
Naturally, Bert is 🔴 and Ernie is 🟢!
Documents of the Nuremberg Trials can now be accessed online via:
nuremberg.law.harvard.edu
From French and Spanish to Albanian and Farsi, languages have opened doors for me, grown understanding and taught me to see the world in full colour. Cutting them from schools and universities doesn’t just shrink the curriculum, it shrinks the life choices that all students should enjoy.
22 November 1959: the Sandmännchen appears for the first time on East German television www.deutschlandfunk.de/vor-55-jahre...
Katya’s presentation concerned 5 recent films on Austria’s NS past, showing that progressive depictions of NS past was neither a lineal or even procress.
22 November 1948: the manufacture of garden gnomes is banned in the Soviet Occupation Zone for being 'too bourgeois' www.br.de/radio/bayern...
Kendra’s paper considers the narratology of silences in the two novels, exploring the queer dimensions of silence, and the importance of silence in discussions of heritage, culture, and family
Our second paper moves over to #AustrianStudies, with Katya Krylova’s paper titled “Contemporary Austrian Memory Culture on Screen”
