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👏

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

Our next paper is from Lorna MacCarron, who emphasises that going through menopause does not mean getting old in her paper “Embodied and Empowered: Aging Bodies in Ulkrike Draesner’s “Eine Frau wird älter””

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

#Panel3 begins with Kendra Löwer, who will be discussing “How gaps in memories influence the perception of oneself- an analysis of Schwarz Rund’s Biskaya and Fatma Aydemir’s Dschinns”

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.

Our second paper moves over to #AustrianStudies, with Katya Krylova’s paper titled “Contemporary Austrian Memory Culture on Screen”

Gwendolin’s paper looked at the presentation of “human zoos” during the 1884 Berlin Conference, giving an excellent insight into Germany’s #colonial past.

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!

Thank you to @laurelplapp.bsky.social and Peter Lang for sponsoring the prize. Laurel informed us during the ceremony that this is the 10th year of the W+IGS Book Prize, and we are delighted to recognise two very worthy winners. (4/4)

Our second winner is Isabel Parkinson from @oxfordgerman.bsky.social with her proposal “In Two Minds: Consciousness, Gender and Voice in German-to-English Translation.”

Congratulations Isabel, and thank you for joining us online to summarise your proposal! (3/4)

Our first winner is Miriam Schwarz from @germancambridge.bsky.social. Miriam’s book proposal was titled “The Forms of Friendship: How Women’s Friendships Shape and Challenge Narrativity in Contemporary German and Anglophone.”

Congratulations Miriam! (2/4)

Onto the evening’s festivities:

W+IGS are pleased to announce the winners of this year’s #bookprize. The submissions this year were of such high quality and showed a very promising contribution to the discipline that we have decided to award two winners! (1/4)

Now for @aberuni.bsky.social ‘s own Rose Simpson discussing her work on Mala Laaser and the problems of #memory. Is it an act of escape or an act of resistance?

After some delicious welsh cakes, it’s time for the panels! Panel 1 begins with Anna-Lena Kaufmann from @oxfordgerman.bsky.social, explaining her research on #exileliterature, comparing Feuchtwanger’s Die Geschwister Oppermann and Aloni’s Der Wartesaal.

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.

And an exciting announcement for our #PGR members!

We're delighted to share that @profsarajones.bsky.social will be leading our #postgraduateworkshop.

Join us at 2pm on Friday for a workshop on turning ideas into #impact- with hands-on project planning and impact mapping. 🧠 #ResearchCulture #REF