Call for Papers, Panels, and Roundtables for the GSA Body Studies Network, October 5-8, 2023
Forty-Seventh Annual Meeting of German Studies Association (GSA)
Montréal, Canada October 5-8, 2023
Recent Discussions
CfA: Postdoc fellowships in Global History and Governance at the Scuola Superiore Meridionale (Naples)
The Scuola Superiore Meridionale, Naples (Italy), invites applications for four 1-year (renewable for up to 3 years) postdoc fellowships in Global History and Governance for the academic year 2022-2023
CfP: Graduate Conference, "Die ewige Wiederkehr des Vampyrs / The Eternal Return of the Vampire"
The Rutgers Ph.D. Program in German Studies Presents:
Die ewige Wiederkehr des Vampyrs / The Eternal Return of the Vampire
March 3-4, 2023
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Keynote Speakers:
Dr. Laurence Rickels (The European Graduate School)
Dr. Elisabeth Bronfen (University of Zurich & NYU)
“Stay here… the Master comes.”
– Renfield, Herzog's Nosferatu
CfA: Graduate Study in Chicago: Fellowships and TA-ships in Germanic Studies at UIC
Graduate Studies (M.A. and Ph.D.) and Teaching Assistantships in Chicago at the University of Illinois at Chicago
Deadline Approaching: USHMM Summer Graduate Student Research Fellowship Competition
The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies is pleased to offer annual Summer Graduate Student Research Fellowships designed for students accepted to or currently enrolled in a master’s degree program or in the first year of a PhD program at a college or university in North America. Students who have completed more than one year of doctoral work will not be considered.
CfP: History and Theory of Compromises
Compromises are ubiquitous – but have only received scant attention in academic research.
TOC (Journal): Medaon, Issue Fall/Winter 2022, vol. 16, no. 31 online
We are pleased to announce the current issue of our online-journal 'Medaon – Magazin für jüdisches Leben in Forschung und Bildung'. You can find the table of contents following and at https://www.medaon.de/en/editions/most-recent-edition/ .
As an online journal Medaon offers open access to all its articles. Since 2007, Medaon has been published semi-annually every spring and autumn. The journal is issued by HATiKVA e.V. (Dresden, www.hatikva.de).
CFP (GSA 2023): Panels on “Austrian and German Film Directors”
CFP (GSA 2023): Panels on “Austrian and German Film Directors”
CALL FOR PAPERS
CFA: Funded MA and PhD Programs in German Studies at UMass Amherst – Accepting Applications
The program in German Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst is accepting applications for admission to the MA and PhD programs for Fall 2023.
Admitted students are eligible for a multi-year funding package in the form of teaching assistantships. In the academic year 2022/23, assistantships provided tuition, health insurance coverage (with vision and dental benefits), and a stipend of approx. $23,000 (students can expect to pay $1500-$2000 out of pocket in annual fees).
Pages
Recent Reviews
Reviewer:
H. Glenn Penny
Penny on Swanson, 'Tangible Belonging: Negotiating Germanness in Twentieth-Century Hungary'
John C. Swanson. Tangible Belonging: Negotiating Germanness in Twentieth-Century Hungary. Pitt Russian East European Series. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017. 464 pp. $34.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8229-6429-2.
Reviewed by H. Glenn Penny (University of Iowa) Published on H-German (January, 2018) Commissioned by David Harrisville
Reviewer:
Ned Richardson-Little
Richardson-Little on Kott, 'Communism Day-to-Day: State Enterprises in East German Society'
Sandrine Kott. Communism Day-to-Day: State Enterprises in East German Society. Trans. Lisa Godin-Roger. Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany Series. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2014. 368 pp. $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-472-11871-7.
Reviewed by Ned Richardson-Little (University of Exeter) Published on H-German (November, 2017) Commissioned by Nathan N. Orgill
Reviewer:
Benjamin C. Pearson
Pearson on Enns, 'Saving Germany: North American Protestants and Christian Mission to West Germany, 1945 -1974'
James C. Enns. Saving Germany: North American Protestants and Christian Mission to West Germany, 1945 -1974. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017. 328 pp. $34.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7735-4913-5.
Reviewed by Benjamin C. Pearson (Excelsior College) Published on H-German (November, 2017) Commissioned by David Harrisville
Reviewer:
Claudia Kemper
Kemper on Hansen, 'Abschied vom Kalten Krieg?: Die Sozialdemokraten und der Nachrüstungsstreit (1977–1987)'
Jan Hansen. Abschied vom Kalten Krieg?: Die Sozialdemokraten und der Nachrüstungsstreit (1977–1987). Berlin: de Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2016. viii + 289 pp. $35.00 (paper), ISBN 978-3-11-044684-5.
Reviewed by Claudia Kemper (Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung) Published on H-German (October, 2017) Commissioned by Jeremy DeWaal
Reviewer:
Alexandria Ruble
Ruble on Creech, 'Mothers, Comrades, and Outcasts in East German Women's Films'
Jennifer L. Creech. Mothers, Comrades, and Outcasts in East German Women's Films. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016. xix + 280 pp. $38.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-253-02301-8.
Reviewed by Alexandria Ruble (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) Published on H-German (October, 2017) Commissioned by David Harrisville
Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=50166
Reviewer:
Timothy Wright
Wright on Luebke, 'Hometown Religion: Regimes of Coexistence in Early Modern Westphalia'
David M. Luebke. Hometown Religion: Regimes of Coexistence in Early Modern Westphalia. Studies in Early Modern German History Series. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016. 328 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8139-3840-0.
Reviewed by Timothy Wright (University of California, Berkeley) Published on H-German (October, 2017) Commissioned by Nathan N. Orgill
Beyond Confessionalism
Reviewer:
Robert Rennie
Rennie on Hamilton-Paterson, 'Marked for Death: The First War in the Air'
James Hamilton-Paterson. Marked for Death: The First War in the Air. New York: Pegasus Books, 2016. 416 pp. $27.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-68177-158-8.
Reviewed by Robert Rennie (University of Tennessee, Knoxville) Published on H-German (September, 2017) Commissioned by David Harrisville
A Fresh Perspective on WWI Aviation
Reviewer:
Michelle Mouton
Mouton on Chalmers, 'Birth, Sex and Abuse: Women's Voices under Nazi Rule'
Beverley Chalmers. Birth, Sex and Abuse: Women's Voices under Nazi Rule. Guildford: Grosvenor House Publishing, 2015. viii + 364 pp. $25.50 (paper), ISBN 978-1-78148-353-4.
Reviewed by Michelle Mouton (University of Wisconsin Oshkosh) Published on H-German (August, 2017) Commissioned by Jeremy DeWaal
Reviewer:
Anna Corsten
Corsten on Berg, 'The Holocaust and the West German Historians: Historical Interpretation and Autobiographical Memory'
Nicolas Berg. The Holocaust and the West German Historians: Historical Interpretation and Autobiographical Memory. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2015. 346 pp. $34.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-299-30084-5.
Reviewed by Anna Corsten (Universität Erfurt) Published on H-German (August, 2017) Commissioned by Jeremy DeWaal
Reviewer:
Emre Sencer
Sencer on Ihrig, 'Atatürk in the Nazi Imagination'
Stefan Ihrig. Atatürk in the Nazi Imagination. Cambridge: Belknap Press, 2014. 320 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-36837-8.
Reviewed by Emre Sencer (Knox College) Published on H-German (June, 2017) Commissioned by Nathan N. Orgill
Turkish Lessons