CfP: GSA 48th Annual Conference

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: GERMAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONFERENCE

The German Studies Association (GSA) will hold its 48^th Annual Conference from 26–29 September 2024 at the Courtland Grand Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia.

The Program Committee cordially invites proposals on any aspect of DACHL (German, Austrian, Swiss, Liechtenstein) studies, including (but not limited to) history, Germanistik, film, art history, political science, anthropology, musicology, religious studies, sociology, and cultural studies. The committee is especially eager to welcome proposals from scholars in subfields that have been underrepresented at recent conferences, including contemporary politics, economics, and society, as well as papers from all fields dealing with the nineteenth century or earlier.

Proposals for complete panels, for interdisciplinary presentations, and for panel series are strongly encouraged (a series is limited to no more than four panels). Individual paper proposals are also welcome – though experienced scholars are encouraged to develop full session submissions that can help build scholarly networks. The call for seminar proposals has been distributed separately; a call for applications for the Emerging Scholars Workshop will go out in mid-December.

Please see the GSA website for information about the submission process for papers, panels, and roundtables; the OpenWater conference... Read more

CfA: GSR book review editor

Call for applications: GSR book review editor

German Studies Review is looking for a book review editor in charge of publications in Literature/Film/ Culture. Ideally, the candidate should be at the level of associate professor or higher, but we will consider applications from colleagues of all ranks. Tasks involve

• monitoring the field for new publications,
• communicating with publishers,
• identifying qualified reviewers,
• sending out books and keeping track of reviews in process, and
• editing reviews.

The book review editors are supported by a graduate student assistant. German Studies Review comes out three times a year and publishes 15–20 reviews per volume. The three-year, renewable appointment begins in May 2024.

Questions can be addressed to Britta Kallin (bkallin@gatech.edu), the outgoing book review editor, or Katharina Gerstenberger, editor of GSR.

Please send letter of interest and a CV to Katharina Gerstenberger (katharina.gerstenberger@utah.edu) by November 15, 2023.

   

Preserve World Languages at WVU

In full agreement with expressions of deep concern on the part of members of the GSA, the Executive Council has sent the following statement opposing the termination of World Languages at West Virginia University to the contacts recommended by our impacted colleagues. We would like to thank you for your vocal advocacy and for providing expert insights and perspectives in support of the preservation of subjects core to our disciplines, especially German language and German-speaking cultures. Individual EC members have also signed the open letters and petitions circulated by faculty and students at WVU, the Joint National Council of Languages and the Diversity, Decolonization and the German Curriculum collective and encourage you to consider doing the same.

We as officers of the German Studies Association write this letter in the name of our members to urge you emphatically to preserve the teaching of World Languages by disciplinary experts at West Virginia University by reversing the recommendation to close the World Languages program and terminate the work of its world-class faculty.

Language learning provides pathways to educational opportunities, jobs, and professions that rely on clear communication and cultural literacy. Language departments and the professional organizations... Read more

GSA 2023 Conference Registration Open

Dear Members and Friends of the GSA,

We are happy to announce that the registration portal is now open for our conference in Montréal, Québec, Canada, taking place from 5 to 8 October 2023. Your emailed receipt from Johns Hopkins will include a link to reserve your room at the discounted GSA conference rate at the Le Centre Sheraton hotel in Montréal, so make sure to check your spam folders if you don’t see it in your inbox. After you select the dates and room on the conference hotel registration page, you may, on the next page, request an accessible room and include other notes for the hotel.

Please note that we have updated our conference webpage to include the preliminary schedule as well as other useful information for presenters, including registration rates and a list of frequently asked questions. There will be more conference information coming throughout the summer.

Please check the preliminary schedule carefully (note that the full listings for the seminars are on a second tab, you may click on that at the bottom of the spreadsheet). We have worked hard to accommodate all accumulated... Read more