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Britta C. Jung

@brittajung.bsky.social
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Lecturer in German Studies in IRL | comparative literature | memory | transculturarlity | migration | multi- and plurilingualism | children & youth lit | popculture enthusiast | loves travelling & exploring new places and worlds

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Britta C. Jung @brittajung.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The 1st week of the semester, which entails the introduction of the biggest module I've ever coordinated: 250 students, split across 2 lectures & 12 tutorial groups. Thankfully, I have a great team of colleagues behind me - and looking at my French counterpart - next to me. Bon chance, mes amis!
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Britta C. Jung @brittajung.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
"I have been told many times that I’m very resilient. Resilience is often held up as a personal virtue, but in ways, it has become a neoliberal demand, encouraging stoic perseverance while discouraging critique." - Vicky Brady 1/
Flyer for the book launch of "Notions - The Lives of Irish Working Class Academics" at Queen's University Belfast later today, at 2.30pm. (location: The Common Room G.208, 6 College Park)Table of Contents of "Notions"Table of Contents of "Notions" continued.
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Britta C. Jung @brittajung.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I had no notion of what to expect when I opted for 'Mickey 17' on a lengthy flight earlier this year. Boy, what a pleasant surprise it was. Entertaining and engaging in all the right ways. Definitely recommended.
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Britta C. Jung @brittajung.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Come work with me at #MIC in Ireland. We are currently hiring two 4 yr full-time Teaching Fellows, one in #GermanStudies and one in #FrenchStudies. Vacancies | Mary Immaculate College share.google/3ksDt8mujRp7...
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Vacancies | Mary Immaculate College
Mary Immaculate College has a wide range of academic and professional services job opportunities on an ongoing basis. Learn more about our vacancies.
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Marie VC, PhD @marievc.eurosky.social · 23/04/2026
Or speaks another language.
A two-image meme: the first image shows a parking space where there appears to remain one free spot, with the text “a gap in the literature”. The second image shows that a red car is actually occupying the spot that seemed free, with the text “non-English paper that no one reads”.
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Deirdre Flynn @deirdreflynn.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Two roles at Masaryk university, Brno * Assistant Prof for the Department of English & American Studies (Britonist) * Assistant Prof for the Department of English & American Studies (Translation) www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/list... www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/list...
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Ana de Medeiros @anademedeiros.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Languages and culture go together so well!: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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GCSE languages sees rise in Wales after new approach
After a long decline, the number of pupils taking language GCSEs in Wales rises for two years.
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Centre for European Studies @ulceuros.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
We are delighted to invite you for the Online Author Event with Ilija Trojanow “EisTau and the Climate Crisis” 📚 🗓️ 16 April 2026 ⏰ 09:00 - 11:00 am (Irish Time) 📍 University of Limerick, LC 0017 or Virtual Please make sure to register on Eventbrite.
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Jens Temmen @jenstemmen.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
🚨Job alert🚨 Lehrkraft für besondere Aufgaben American Studies (100%, entfristet; Ernennung in das Beamtenverhältnis zur Akademischen Rätin / zum Akademischen Rat) @ KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt Weitere Infos zur Bewerbung hier: stellen.ku.de/jobposting/7...
Erster von drei Teilen der Anzeige. Text:

An unserer Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät an der Professur für Amerikanistik ist zum 1. Oktober 2026
eine Vollzeitstelle (100%) als
Lehrkraft für besondere Aufgaben (m/w/d) im Fach Amerikanistik
unbefristet zu besetzen. Dienstort ist Eichstatt. Bei Vorliegen der beamtenrechtlichen Voraus-setzungen kann die Ernennung in das Beamtenverhältnis zur Akademischen Rätin / zum Aka-demischen Rat in der Besoldungsgruppe A 13 erfol-gen. Andernfalls ist die Einstellung in einem privatrechtlichen Arbeitsverhältnis bei gegebenen tariflichen Voraussetzungen in der Entgeltgruppe 13 TV-L vorgesehen. Eine Teilung der Stelle in zwei Teilzeitstellen (50%) ist unter bestimmten Voraussetzungen möglich.
Ihre Aufgaben
Eine engagierte Mitarbeit in allen Belangen der Professur wird erwartet. Dazu zählen insbesondere:
• Lehre in Bachelor-, Master- und Lehramtsstudiengängen im Umfang von 18 LVS, welche befristet für die Dauer von fünf Jahren um 5 LVS auf 13 LVS reduziert werden. Nach Ablauf dieser Fünfjahresfrist besteht ggf. weiterhin die Möglichkeit einer Reduzierung der Lehrverpflichtung
• Mitwirkung bei der Betreuung der Studierenden, Betreuung von Abschlussarbeiten und Abnahme von Prüfungen (u.a.
Staatsexamen)
• Mitarbeit an Forschungsprojekten und den verschiedenen Dienstaufgaben der Professur (z.B. Lehrplanung, Akkredi-tierung usw.)
• Aufbau eines amerikanistischen Lehrangebots in der gesamten Tiefe und Breite des Fachs
• Mitarbeit in der akademischen SelbstverwaltungZweiter von drei Teilen der Ausschreibung. Text: • Mitarbeit an Forschungsprojekten und den verschiedenen Dienstaufgaben der Professur (z.B. Lehrplanung, Akkredi-tierung usw.)
• Aufbau eines amerikanistischen Lehrangebots in der gesamten Tiefe und Breite des Fachs
• Mitarbeit in der akademischen Selbstverwaltung
• Forschung, auch im Drittmittelbereich, im Bereich der Amerikanistik
• Bereitschaft zur Mitarbeit in interdisziplinären Verbundfor-schungsprojekten (z.B. Graduiertenkolleg „Practicing Place")
Ihr Profil
Erwartet wird ein literatur- und kulturwissenschaftliches Profil in der Amerikanistik mit erkennbarem Interesse an interdisziplinärer Zusammenarbeit. Die Einstellungsvoraussetzungen sind neben einem einschlägigen erfolgreich abgeschlossenen Hochschulstudium eine überdurchschnittlich abgeschlossene Promotion im Fach Amerikanistik/American Studies sowie im Anschluss eine hauptberufliche Ausübung einer mindestens zweijährigen wissenschaftlichen Tätigkeit im einschlägigen Fach.
Erwünscht sind Forschungsschwerpunkte die anschlussfähig sind an die Schwerpunkte der Professur. Eine überdurchschnittliche Fähigkeit zu wissenschaftlichem Arbeiten auf Post-Doc-Niveau wird ebenso erwartet wie pädagogische Eignung und Interesse an der Weiterentwicklung von Lehrangebot und Studiengängen.Dritter Teil von drei Teilen der Ausschreibung. Text: Unser Angebot
• attraktiver und teamorientierter Arbeitsplatz in einem modernen universitaren Umfeld
• interessantes, verantwortungsvolles und vielseitiges Aufga-benspektrum
• breit gefächertes internes und externes Weiterbildungsprogramm
• Fürsorge- und Sozialleistungen des öffentlichen Dienstes
Sind Sie interessiert? Dann freuen wir uns auf Ihre Online-Bewerbung!
Bitte richten Sie Ihre aussagekräftige Bewerbung mit den üblichen Unterlagen bis 03.05.2026 über unser Online-Bewerber-portal an den Professurinhaber, Herrn Prof. Dr. Jens Temmen.
Eingereichte Bewerbungsunterlagen werden nach Abschluss des Einstellungsverfahrens unter Beachtung der datenschutz-rechtlichen Bestimmungen vernichtet.
Alle Beschäftigten sind verpflichtet, Wesen und Auftrag der KU anzuerkennen, wie sie im Leitbild und in der Stiftungsver-fassung festgelegt sind. Wir bitten um auch in dieser Hinsicht aussagekräftige Bewerbungen. Darüber hinaus gibt es keine konfessionellen Voraussetzungen für eine Beschäftigung an der KU.
Die KU fördert die Gleichstellung (m/w/d) und setzt sich für die Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf ein. Schwerbehinderte Personen (m/w/d) werden bei im Wesentlichen gleicher Eignung vorrangig berücksichtigt.
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Sebastian Kubon @kubon.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
#IchBinHanna ist Teil der Dauerausstellung im Forum Wissen Göttingen. Die Eröffnung des Raumes „Wege“ war heute und es war ein toller Abend mit vielen guten Gesprächen und interessanten Menschen. @amreibahr.bsky.social @drkeichhorn.bsky.social
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Jürgen Zimmerer @juergenzimmerer.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Jetzt wollen manche den Preis von Weimer nicht mehr. Die einzige anständige Antwort, imho. So geht Freiheit des Wortes, so Solidarität 👉Dennis Hasemann, Inhaber von Schmitz. die Buchhandlung in Essen, nimmt den Deutschen Buchhandlungspreis nicht an. www.boersenblatt.net/news/buchhan...
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Offener Brief an Wolfram Weimer
Dennis Hasemann, Inhaber von Schmitz. die Buchhandlung in Essen, nimmt den Deutschen Buchhandlungspreis nicht an. In einem offenen Brief kritisiert er den nachträglichen Eingriff des Staatsministerium...
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Britta C. Jung @brittajung.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Some busy and very inspiring days here in Pittsburgh talking all things Modern Languages. Tomorrow, I'll be sharing my ideas on European publication strategies & and the paratextual framing of A. Gorman; and the changing role of the translator. #TranslationStudies #MICabroad #NeMLA
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Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies @ilcs.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
📢 Calling all PhD students in German Studies! It’s still time to submit your proposal for the annual Sylvia Naish Postgraduate Student Lecture. Application deadline: 31 January 2026. The Lecture, to be held at ILCS on 14 May, comes with a prize of £400. Further details 👇 #ShoutOutForGerman
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Awards and Prizes
Awards and prizes
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Britta C. Jung @brittajung.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
This week, I have the absolute pleasure to give - once again - a number of guest lectures at the Université polytechnique Hauts-de-France (#UPHF). Among other things, I talked about German reunification and Berlin in the 1990s. 1/
The entrance and front of the Matisse building of the Université polytechnique Hauts-de-France. It is early in the morning and still dark.
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Britta C. Jung @brittajung.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Thrilled to see that my most recent article has been published. Using Gorman's inaugural poem as a case study, this article explores to what extent the concentration of culture- & subculture specific elements within a text, along with their aesthetic realisation, poses a challenge for translators.
Screenshot displaying the article's title "Über translatorische Herausforderungen, die Verflechtung kultureller und subkultureller Referenzrahmen und interkulturelle Missverständnisse: Amanda Gormans virales Inaugurationsgedicht The Hill We Climb"  on the De Gruyter Brill homepage.
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Britta C. Jung @brittajung.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Delighted to receive my copy of #Metzler's compendium of the #German #CampusNovel by Helmut Grugger & Stefan Neuhaus. It includes not only three chapters by yours truly but also by my cherished #MICcolleagues @deirdreflynn.bsky.social, Sabine Egger, Hanna Rompf & -of course- Helmut himself.
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Britta C. Jung @brittajung.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Just back from a very cool lunchbreak listening to #NASAAstronaut Dan Tani talking about how he became an astronaut, what's living in space like, and what's happening next in space exploration. #SpaceWeek #MIC
Astronaut Dan Tani is standing in front of an audience of all ages in one of the lecture halls in Mary Immaculate College. His jacket displays his three mission badges.
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Britta C. Jung @brittajung.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Ich habe unterschrieben, unterschreibe auch du! Für die Wertschätzung und gerechte Entlohnung wissenschaftlicher Expertise. chng.it/LdfvN5mLmR
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Petition unterschreiben
An die Bildungsministerkonferenz: Schluss mit dem Prekariat der Privatdozent:innen!
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Deirdre Flynn @deirdreflynn.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
My first publication in German! Der Campusroman in Irland link.springer.com/chapter/10.1... Delighted to be part of this extensive publication on Campus Novels Der Campusroman: Texte, Theorien, Traditionen (97 chapters!) edited by Helmut Grugger&Stefan Neuhaus Helmut also translated the chapter
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Der Campusroman in Irland
Der Campusroman hat sich erst in jüngerer Zeit zu einem festen Bestandteil der irischen Belletristik entwickelt. Im 20. Jahrhundert rückten nur wenige Romane den Universitätscampus ins Zentrum, doch seit Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts spielt das...
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Britta C. Jung @brittajung.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Und die nächste Sommerlektüre. Diesmal von einer lieben Kollegin aus meiner Groninger Zeit. Ik ben benieuwd en verheug me al iets nieuws over de literatuurbedrijf in het algemeen én de nederlandse literatuurbedrijf in het bijzonder te leren.
Das Foto zeigt das Buchcover von Erica van Bovens jüngst erschienenen"De bestsellermachine - Bestsellers in Nederland von 1900 tot nu".
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Armin Schaefer @arminschaefer.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
I am looking for a PhD student in Comparative Politics @powimz.bsky.social. My research focuses on political (in-)equality, representation, and responsiveness. I would be grateful if you could help to spread the word. stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de#/jgu/job/49637
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Megan Cassidy-Welch @megancw.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
“Australian universities should not be rewarded financially for narrowing the scope of HASS in a manner that undermines the national interest”.
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Martina Winkler @martinawinkle14.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Eine schallende Ohrfeige. Fast 300 Rechtswissenschaftler*innen stellen fest, dass die Angriffe auf Brosius-Gersdorf von Unkenntnis sowie "fehlendem politischem Rückgrat und mangelnder Vorbereitung" zeugen und einen Angriff auf die Wissenschaftsfreiheit darstellen. Danke für die klaren Worte!
oer.ruhr-uni-bochum.de
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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Love it when what is presented as "academic publishing" is really just "publishing in STEM fields" :/ basically none of this is true for humanities publishing, and especially for humanities books www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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Quality of scientific papers questioned as academics ‘overwhelmed’ by the millions published
Widespread mockery of AI-generated rat with giant penis in one paper brings problem to public attention
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Britta C. Jung @brittajung.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Na, das ist ja mal erfreulich!
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Christopher Hughes MBE @chrislinguist.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Don’t wait for a perfect reason to learn a language. Follow the spark. A word, a song, a story, a person. Let it take you somewhere you never expected. Because every language you learn opens a door - not just to a new world, but to a new version of you. albarolanguages.com/2025/07/12/n...
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No Best Language – Just a World Waiting to Meet You
What’s the best language to learn? It’s a question people often ask me when they’re thinking about starting their language journey. They’re usually looking for something practical, something “usefu…
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D. Anca Cretu @dacretu.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
My friend Raul Carstocea is advertising 2 PhD positions within his fabulous ERC project. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNU289/p...
jobs.ac.uk
PhD Studentship: Insurgent Temporalities: Fascism as a Global Anti-Universalist Project at Maynooth University, National University of Ireland Maynooth
Discover a PhD Studentship: PhD Studentship: Insurgent Temporalities: Fascism as a Global Anti-Universalist Project Explore more PhD opportunities and apply today!
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Britta C. Jung @brittajung.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Ernüchternde Lektüre, auch wenn man's schon geahnt hat. Und dennoch bin ich hier v.a. von den irischen Behörden enttäuscht. Das mit den Schultern zucken und Arme in die Luft werfen seitens Dublins ist schlicht eine Ablehnung der Verantwortung und behördlichen Zuständigkeit.
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Britta C. Jung @brittajung.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Wonderful and very welcome news coming out of Leeds! Gegen den Strom into the future!
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Eva Michaels @evamichaels.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
"Haffner was 24 when he wrote Parting in just a few weeks in October and November 1932, just months before the Nazis came to power." And here it is, published first in German and soon in English more than nine decades later.. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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Unknown novel by writer who charted Hitler’s rise becomes German bestseller
Sebastian Haffner’s love story set in final days of Weimar Republic published more than nine decades after it was written
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Britta C. Jung @brittajung.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Thrilled to share that my article on the challenges of translating #AmandaGorman’s inaugural poem #TheHillWeClimb has just been published! This first piece in a planned series of articles takes a decidedly linguistic lens, examining semantic-stylistic shifts in translation.
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German Embassy London @uk.diplo.de · 17/06/2025
On this day in 1953, around 1 million people in East Germany took to the streets to protest against the regime. The largely peaceful uprising was violently suppressed. West Germany celebrated the 1953 uprising as a public holiday until German Unity in 1990.
17 June 1953: Soviet tanks are gathering in East Berlin, by-standers are gathering in West Berlin and watch what is happening.Demonstration in Leipzig on 17 June 1953.
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Ervin Malakaj @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
@linguacene.bsky.social & I have a new research initiative starting this month. One of a number of projects is an edited volume provisionally titled, “Linguaphobia, Linguistic Indifference, and the Monolingual University.” The CfP is below. More info on our website. Join us! monolingual.arts.ubc.ca
CfP: Volume on “Linguaphobia, Linguistic Indifference, and the Monolingual University”
By Ervin Malakaj on June 12, 2025

Call for Contributions for an Edited Scholarly Book

“Linguaphobia, Linguistic Indifference, and the Monolingual University”

Edited by David Gramling and Ervin Malakaj, University of British Columbia 

Timeline

Abstracts of 300 words + bio of 100 words, due November 1, 2025 to llimuproject@gmail.com

Full essays / articles due August 1, 2026
Project Overview

When West Virginia University announced plans in Fall 2023 to shut down all of its instruction in additional languages, this linguistic austerity measure expressed a suspicion that had been brewing since the beginning of the 21st century: that North American universities just do not wish to instruct languages anymore to more than a handful of curious, self-selecting students. Already in 2012, US Secretary of the Treasury and former Harvard President Lawrence Summers had sparked stunned consternation among language teaching professionals when, in a New York Times editorial dismissively titled “What you (really) need to know,” he assured the public that: “English’s emergence as the global language, along with the rapid progress in machine translation and the fragmentation of languages spoken around the world, make it less clear that the substantial investment necessary to speak a foreign tongue is universally worthwhile.” 

This book proposes that these tendencies and positions are component parts of a broader, powerful set of strategies that guide North American higher education executives and consultants in restricting the university’s understanding of “the global” to a certain, linguistically indifferent monolingual sense. Their discourses and practices signal a profound retreat from long-standing traditions acknowledging the centrality of language(s) and language-based multilingual communication in service of planetary knowledge-transfer, thus fueling institutional linguaphobia and linguistic indifference in university curricula and research design. For context, two of the forums that have influenced the editors’ understanding of these concepts are here below, though we by no means assume they are definitive:

Pipestone Group (2023). “On Linguistic Indifference”. The German Quarterly 96, 3.

Gramling, David (2022). “Six types of linguaphobia and why you don’t need them.” UBC Faculty of Arts Web site.We invite scholarly articles and essays in a wide range of genres, disciplines, languages, and formats that propose to answer or complicate any of the following questions:

What is linguaphobia and how does it function differently today than in other ages—or differently in a certain location or space of practice than in others?
How does “linguistic indifference” affect your discipline and its work in a particular area (teaching, research, conceptualization, funding, activism, recruitment, etc.)?
Is “the university” more monolingual or multilingual than it was 20 years ago, 100 years ago? What kind of evidence are we looking at (or ignoring) when we make that determination?
Whose interests do linguaphobia and or linguistic indifference serve? At whose expense are they perpetuated and fortified? 
What scholarly methodologies, traditions, or habits quietly abet linguaphobia and / or linguistic indifference, and what are the manifest costs of such collusion over time?
How are linguaphobia and / or linguistic indifference involved in, or crucial to, the rise of authoritarianism and end-times fascism (Klein 2025)? How are these movements, in part, driven by linguaphobia and linguistic indifference?
Is linguaphobia always bad? Is linguistic indifference always bad? How do we develop means to assess and identify them, rather than merely condemning them?This book will be at its most successful if it represents a broad set of disciplines and presumptions, far beyond the humanities and social sciences. Natural scientists, applied scientists, economists, mathematicians, engineers, food sciences experts, health care practitioners, educators, business and entrepreneurship experts, astronomers, hydrologists, botanists, psychologists, psychiatrists, and everyone in between are most welcome to contribute. Contributions will be considered in any language or mix of languages.

The editors will determine the most suitable venue / publisher for the collection once we have a clearer sense of who is contributing, and on what questions. Feel free to reach out to the editors to brainstorm your contribution, and or to suggest great publishers for the collection. If there is another scholar you think should see this CFP in any field, context, or language, please do share it with them!

This project is supported by a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
The harm of AI is hitting me profoundly tonight, as OUP announces it will be using AI to summarize/check academic articles. It's b/c I've just taught a class where we looked at how ideas, language & culture around an issue changed over time through the gradual & uneven exchange of human ideas. 1/3
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Bill Niven @bniven.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Dear colleagues, just to say the deadline for submissions to this year’s Germanistik in Ireland has been extended to June 30. Below is the original call for contributions.
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Felix Lempp @lempp.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
(TW Depression, psychische Erkrankung, Schicksalsschläge) Da es in meinen Lehrveranstaltungen gerade mehrere Fälle gibt und mir hier vielleicht auch ein paar Studierende folgen, möchte ich etwas zu psychischen Belastungen von Studierenden im Studium schreiben - aus Dozierendenperspektive. 1/8
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Bodie A. Ashton @manwithoutatan.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Pals, do you know a graduate student who has written a fantastic, 6,000-9,000-word (unpublished) essay in German Studies? Maybe you've written it yourself? The GSA is looking to award the best grad student essay, as judged by @claudiakreklau.bsky.social, @dominiquereill.bsky.social, and me!
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Nicholas Bromfield @nicholasbromfi1.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Once again, word counts that include reference lists are unnecessarily limiting and tend to reinforce patterns of citation that exclude ECRs, scholars from the global south and marginalised groups etc
Wikihow: man contemplates a computer screen with an image saying waste management department
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Ann-Katrin Müller @akm0803.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Die AfD behauptet jetzt, das BfV würde die Hochstufung zurücknehmen. Doch die „Stillhaltezusage“ bei Gericht dient dazu, das Eilverfahren zu beschleunigen. Solange nennt das BfV die AfD nicht „gesichert rechtsetxrem“ und behandelt sie bei den ND-Mitteln wieder wie einen Verdachtsfall. Mehr nicht.
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Britta C. Jung @brittajung.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Back from an exciting and inspiring week in Tbilisi & at #TbilisiStateUniversity, where I met wonderful colleagues. Special thanks to Dr Iwa Mindadze, who took me to the former German settlements #Bolnisi (Katharinenfeld) & #Asureti (Elisabethtal). I learned a ton about the German-Georgian ties.
Me standing in front of the main building of the Tbilisi State University.Dr Iwa Mindadze and myself discuss the layout and architecture of Bolnisi, the former Katherinenfeld.  We are standing on a wide street, looking at something out of sight on the lefthand side. In the background are family houses that mix German and Georgian architectural featuresA picture of an historic photograph from the 19th, early 20th century showing German settlers in front of big wine barrels. Picture of a family house in Bolnisi, showing the the half-timbered structure in the upper part, which the German settlers introduced.
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Britta C. Jung @brittajung.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
While I'm currently in #Tbilisi for an #ErasmusPlus Mobility at the Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University #TSU, I'm thrilled (and slightly relieved) that I finally submitted the revisions of the last outstanding article, brining the count up to four (so far) this year.
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Britta C. Jung @brittajung.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
"[E]nrolment in arts subjects is falling, in favour of [STEM]. Students flocking to these subjects may hope to gain the kind of 'hard skills' valued by employers. But by ditching the arts, they are missing out on developing traits that may be more vital." www.ft.com/content/c9dc...
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The problem with workers who can’t think for themselves
Education that prioritises Stem over the arts may struggle to teach initiative, innovation and curiosity
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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Dept of Humanities, Social & Political Sciences (D-GESS; www.gess.ethz.ch) at ETH Zurich invites applications for two profs, one History of Technology, other in Philosophy of Science. Language English or German. Apply by 15 June 2025: www.bi.id.ethz.ch/recruiting_a... #HPS #PhilJobs 🗃️ #STS #histech
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Departement Geistes-, Sozial- und Staatswissenschaften
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 18/03/2025
Don’t mock Trump’s attempt to purge the language: it hides a more disturbing agenda | Josephine Ingram @yorkshirebylines.co.uk
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Language and power: Trump’s war on ‘woke’ words
Don’t mock Trump’s attempt to purge the language: it hides a more disturbing agenda
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Sir Mark Hendrick MP @markhendrickmp.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
This week (17-21 March), the German Embassy in London are championing German language learning in the UK. Whether you’re a student, teacher, or just a fan of the German language, now is your chance to share your enthusiasm: uk.diplo.de/uk-en/german... #ShoutOutForGerman
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Britta C. Jung @brittajung.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Always worth to remember.
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