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Andrea Hammel @andreahammel.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

I am very excited to announce the publication of this blog

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Andrea Hammel @andreahammel.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

@wigsblog.bsky.social It was a pleasure hosting the Women+ in German Studies Conference at Aberystwyth University last week. Great community and great papers!

Women+ in German Studies (W+IGS) @wigsblog.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

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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.

Women+ in German Studies (W+IGS) @wigsblog.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

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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!

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Women+ in German Studies (W+IGS) @wigsblog.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

The #W+IGS committee have landed in @aberuni.bsky.social for our annual conference #W+IGS #GermanStudies

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Women+ in German Studies (W+IGS) @wigsblog.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

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”

Women+ in German Studies (W+IGS) @wigsblog.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

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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

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Women+ in German Studies (W+IGS) @wigsblog.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

#Day2 of the annual W+IGS conference begins! Out first paper is by Gwendolin Choi on “Staging Otherness, Staging the Self: Human Zoos, Exhibitions and the Colonial Imaginary”

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Women+ in German Studies (W+IGS) @wigsblog.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

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👏

Women+ in German Studies (W+IGS) @wigsblog.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

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Announcing the TWO winners of #W+IGS annual #ECA #BookPrize 🎉 Isabel Parkinson & Miriam Schwarz Congratulations to them both! 🎉

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German Historical Institute London @ghilondon.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Now on the GHIL #Blog: A three-part series on the migration history of Wales by Andrea Hammel (@andreahammel.bsky.social)! 1/3

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Centre for the Movement of People (CMOP/CASP) @centrecmop.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Thanks to everyone who attended our launch event at the Senedd on Tuesday! It was a successful evening with speeches from Elin Jones MS, @andreahammel.bsky.social, @jacksargeantms.bsky.social, Victoria Kazymova, Iryna Kolpakova, Mohamad Karkoubi and Morris Brodie. Exhibition on until 22 Jan 2026

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Aberystwyth University @aberuni.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

A Senedd exhibition about the impact of war and displacement in Wales which commemorates refugees has been opened by Culture Minister Jack Sargeant MS and the Llywydd Elin Jones MS. 🖱️ tinyurl.com/4cdatrzp @andreahammel.bsky.social #senedd #wales #refugees #exhibition

Centre for the Movement of People (CMOP/CASP) @centrecmop.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

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Our exhibition setup at the Senedd is now complete! You can join us at the launch event for 'Unsettled Lives: War and Displacement in Wales' on 11 Nov at 18.00 @aberuni.bsky.social @prifaber.bsky.social @andreahammel.bsky.social

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Andrea Hammel @andreahammel.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Last session at the #AGS on the Elias Canetti project

Association of German Studies in Great Britain and Ireland @ags-gbi.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

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The inaugural panel continues: we’ve heard Sophia Buck on her fascinating project on “Enemy Studies”, charting claims about “Two Germanies” esp in UK German Studies. Now Bill Niven talking about meta-memory, meta-memorials and the Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas

Laurel Plapp @laurelplapp.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

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Looking forward to seeing everyone at AGS 2025! Please stop by the #PeterLangOxford stand to say hello! @ags-gbi.bsky.social

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Association of German Studies in Great Britain and Ireland @ags-gbi.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

The first panel and the first break is behind us (and the coffee is drinkable ☕️👍). Now for Panel 2: convened by Gillian Pye and Anne Fuchs, this parallel panel is on “the good enough life” in Germanaphone literature and film. First speaker is Maria Roca-Lizarazu on Shida Bazyar’s Drei Kameradinnen

Classroom seen from the rear with the backs of the audience’s heads visible and a speaker at the front of the room facing the camera

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Boydell & Brewer @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Hello #AGS2025! Call by our stand to check out these and more brand new titles in #GermanStudies. buff.ly/S0B7Ihh @ags-gbi.bsky.social

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Association of German Studies in Great Britain and Ireland @ags-gbi.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

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! 🥂🍽️

Association of German Studies in Great Britain and Ireland @ags-gbi.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

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After the first few panels and before the Conference Dinner, a plenary many of us having been really looking forward to: the President's Guest Natasha A. Kelly in conversation with Kirstin Gwyer 🎤👌

Two seated speakers on a stage at the front of a fairly full semicircular auditorium

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Association of German Studies in Great Britain and Ireland @ags-gbi.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

After an aperitif in the charming courtyard, dinner in the elegant dining hall of St John’s College

A wide angle view of a dining hall full of long tables with seated guests

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Association of German Studies in Great Britain and Ireland @ags-gbi.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Back in St John’s College for Day 2 of #AGS2025 🙂

Entrance to an old stone college building in Oxford with an open door leading to a grassed quad

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Association of German Studies in Great Britain and Ireland @ags-gbi.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Full classrooms at 9am - delegates at #AGS2025 are making the most of a great choice of parallel panels in the first session of day 2

A classroom photographed from outside through the window with the words “Larkin Room” written on the window pane

A classroom photographed from outside through the window with the words “Prestwich Room” written on the window pane

Association of German Studies in Great Britain and Ireland @ags-gbi.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

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Last session of talks on Day 2 at #AGS2025 is (for me and all the other delegates packing the Prestwich Room) the first of two panels on Black Literature and Culture in German…

The front of a classroom with the panel’s two co-chairs standing next to a television screen

Association of German Studies in Great Britain and Ireland @ags-gbi.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

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An audience equipped with Austrian wine listens as Henrike Lähnemann begins the festivities around the opening of the exhibition “German in the World” at the Taylor Institution #AGS2025

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Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Hermynia zur Mühlen is absolutely overdue for rediscovery. Great thread. She is included in @andreahammel.bsky.social's chapter 'Refugees from National Socialism in Britain' in The 1940s volume of Bloomsbury's Decades Series (available in paperback). Also, Andrea's 2008 book on women refugee writers

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Aberystwyth University @aberuni.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Writing in @uk.theconversation.com, @andreahammel.bsky.social explains that Abschied (Parting) by Sebastian Haffner is dominating Germany’s bestseller charts over 25 years after the author's death, after the manuscript was discovered in a drawer. More: tinyurl.com/3788hzvp

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Parting by Sebastian Haffner: the forgotten German novel of the early 1930s that’s become a bestseller

Abschied was written just before the Nazi takeover. It reads in the breathless, immediate manner it was conceived.

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Prifysgol Aberystwyth @prifaber.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Mewn erthygl yn @uk.theconversation.com, mae @andreahammel.bsky.social yn egluro bod Abschied (Parting) gan Sebastian Haffner ar frig siartiau gwerthu llyfrau'r Almaen dros 25 mlynedd wedi marwolaeth yr awdur, wedi i'r llawysgrif gael ei darganfod mewn drôr. Mwy: tinyurl.com/3788hzvp

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Parting by Sebastian Haffner: the forgotten German novel of the early 1930s that’s become a bestseller

Abschied was written just before the Nazi takeover. It reads in the breathless, immediate manner it was conceived.

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Andrea Hammel @andreahammel.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Busy launch of our exhibition Unsettled Lives: War and Displacement in Wales

Andrea Hammel @andreahammel.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

We are ready for the launch of our exhibition Unsettled Lives: War and Displacement in Wales. After Word War II over 60 Mio people were displaced in Europe, including Wales. The exhibition also shows work by more recent arrivals from Syria and Ukraine.

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Andrea Hammel @andreahammel.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Historical research informing current political debate: my research on the Kindertransport quoted in the Lords

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Centre for the Movement of People (CMOP/CASP) @centrecmop.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

We're very pleased to be running this new workshop series alongside @welshrefcouncil.bsky.social on the history of migration in Wales as part of the #ShapingNations project. Our first is on 2 April 9.30-11am. You can book a place at: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shaping-na... @andreahammel.bsky.social

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Shaping Nations: Migration, Community & Belonging in Wales

Join us for an interactive online workshop delivered in partnership with the Centre for Movement of People at Aberystwyth University.

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Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

My #ScottishSFF blogpost series continues with a post on two novellas by Naomi Mitchison: When the Bough Breaks (1924) and Travel Light (1952). Travel Light (1952) is one of Mitchison’s better-known works. It’s a fun feminist fairytale reworking of the Oedipus myth w/ talking bears and dragons (1/).

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Road from Glasgow 2024 to PictCon 1: Naomi Mitchison, When the Bough Breaks(1924) and Travel Light (1952) as SFF Texts

Part of my series of posts on Scottish SFF, which began in the run-up to the Glasgow WorldCon and is now continuing on to PictCon 1 in November 2025. This is also part of my series of posts conside…

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Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Ooooh. Contributor copy!! Fresh through the letterbox: The Routledge Companion to Working-Class Literature, edited by Ben Clarke. The last chapter is by me: 'Proletarian Futures: Some Representations of the Working Class in Science Fiction'. Available in a library near you, hopefully!

Cover of the Routledge Companion to Working-Class Literature, edited by Ben Clarke. (Brown border surrounding abstract urban/industrial landscape).

Contents of Part IV: Neoliberalism and the Future of Working-Class Literature. 27th and last chapter is: 'Proletarian Futures: Some Representations of the Working Class in Science Fiction' by Nick Hubble.

Beginning of my chapter (27), 'Proletarian Futures: Some Representations of the Working Class in Science Fiction'. I start by talking about the Salvage Collective's 'The Tragedy of the Worker: Towards the Proletarocene' (2021).

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Andrea Hammel @andreahammel.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Having received two very enthuiastic reviews from readers today, I thought I would put it out there that you can buy my book for 10 pounds for the paperback online.