We’re kicking off our programme this afternoon with a workshop for #pgrs and #ecas in #GermanStudies hosted by the wonderful Professor Sara Jones. Thank you so much for joining us Sara, and for helping us with our #researchimpact and #engagement.

Now onto our Keynote:

The wonderful Susannah Eckersley is presenting her research on “Memory, Belonging, and Democracy in Germany: Museums and the Politics of Difference”

We’re very excited to learn more about the relationship between museums and German identity!

And last but not least… our final paper by Elizabeth Ramsey examines the question of nudity, nakedness, and male desire in her paper “The madwoman on the stage: Goethe’s Aurelie and Schnitzler’s Fräulein Else as representations of the modern woman’s fractured self”

Next up is Katy Heady, with a paper on Jewish male reactions to female suffrage in the mid-1920s. Katy’s paper has considered perspectives from liberal and orthodox authors on women’s political participation in Jewish communities

The winning entries were titled:

Isabel Parkinson: “In Two Minds: Consciousness, Gender, and Voice in German-to-English Translation”

Miriam Schwarz: “The Forms of Friendship. How Women’s Friednships Shape and Challenge Narrativity in Contemporary German and Anglophone Literature”

Congratulations👏

Beautiful readings and fascinating discussion from Natasha Kelly - what a treat! Fortunately, for those who aren’t able to be here, the event was filmed so keep an eye out for the recordings. Now drinks and dinner! 🥂🍽️