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Laurel Plapp @laurelplapp.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The W+IGS Book Prize deadline has been extended until 15 October! Don’t miss out! More information below @wigsblog.bsky.social @helencfinch.bsky.social @katherinestone.bsky.social #GermanStudies

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Laurel Plapp @laurelplapp.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

The Women+ in German Studies Book Prize sponsored by #PeterLangOxford is now open for submissions! Please read more here, deadline 14 September: womeningermanstudies.wordpress.com/2026/07/06/w... @wigsblog.bsky.social

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Laurel Plapp @laurelplapp.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

The winner receives £150 and the opportunity to publish in @helencfinch.bsky.social and @katherinestone.bsky.social ’s Women, Gender and Sexuality in German Literature and Culture series (peterlang.com/series/wgl)

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The Wiener Holocaust Library @wienerlibrary.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Join us on 16 July for the launch of a new Holocaust Studies special issue on queer experiences during the Holocaust at which we will hear from a panel of editors and contributors to the special issue including Helen Finch, Rosie Ramsden, Matt Smith, and William Jones. Free tickets:

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Special Issue Launch: Queer Experiences in the Holocaust - The Wiener Holocaust Library

Join us for the launch of a new Holocaust Studies special issue on queer experiences during the Holocaust at which we will hear from a panel of editors and contributors to the special issue including…

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Helen Finch @helencfinch.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Very excited to receive Flora Roussel’s fabulous edited volume ‘Embodied Realities. Tracing Multitudes in Germanophone Feminist and Queer Literature, Film and Art’. It’s volume #24 in the legendary #PeterLangOxford Women, Gender and Sexuality series, edited by me and @katherinestone.bsky.social

Me in à floral dress in front of a bookcase, holding up à print copy of Flora Roussel’s ‘Embodied Realities’

The series title page of ‘Embodied Realities’, which reads ‘ Women, Gender and Sexuality in German Literature and Culture
Series Editors: Helen Finch and Katherine Stone. Vol. 24’

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Helen Finch @helencfinch.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Such a wonderful panel on Elias Canetti, his networks & possible influences - Mary Douglas, H. G. Adler, Norbert Elias - ending with a feminist discussion of Marie-Louise von Motesiczky. Ranging across art history, sociology & literary studies, here's to more of these interdisciplinary discussions!

Four researchers stand smiling in front of two panels of the 'Elias Canetti, a Jewish Émigré in Britain' exhibition: Helen Finch, Griselda Pollock, Jack Palmer and Jack Arscott

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Helen Finch @helencfinch.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Come to'Elias Canetti, a Jewish Émigré in Britain: Leeds Responses', a roundtable @lcsleeds.bsky.social on Monday 11.05.26 on exile and displacement, language and identity, memory, and the cultural dynamics of émigré life in mid‑century Britain: baumaninstitute.leeds.ac.uk/events/elias...

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Elias Canetti, a Jewish Émigré in Britain: Leeds Responses | The Bauman Institute

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Dr Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Hosting the wonderful @helencfinch.bsky.social talk for #HMD #HMD2026 on “Holocaust memory, queer memory: Holocaust literatures and solidarity in difficult times.”

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Helen Finch @helencfinch.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

German at Leeds and International Writers at Leeds are thrilled that acclaimed author Julia Franck will be in Leeds on the 6th of February to give a reading from and talk about her newly translated novel, Worlds Apart. ahc.leeds.ac.uk/languages/ev...

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Worlds Apart: German author Julia Franck visits Leeds to discuss her new novel

Author Julia Franck, together with her English publisher, Monique Charlesworth, will be in Leeds on the 6th of February to give a reading from and talk about her new novel, Worlds Apart.

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Helen Finch @helencfinch.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

The Centre for Jewish Studies at @universityofleeds.bsky.social is honoured to welcome Dr. Amy Williams as this year's Holocaust Memorial Day speaker. She will talk about 'Kindertransport: New Discoveries, or Rethinking the Kindertransport 87 years On' ahc.leeds.ac.uk/events/event...

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Holocaust Memorial Day Lecture 2026

For this year's Holocaust Memorial Day Lecture, Dr Amy Williams will speak on 'Kindertransport: New Discoveries, or Rethinking the Kindertransport 87 Years On…'.

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

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

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Laurel Plapp @laurelplapp.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Many congratulations to both winners! Excited to be speaking with them both about publishing in our Women, Gender and Sexuality in German Literature and Culture book series, edited by @helencfinch.bsky.social and @katherinestone.bsky.social www.peterlang.com/series/wgl

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Peter Lang Verlag | Women, Gender and Sexuality in German Literature and Culture

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Helen Finch @helencfinch.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

I'm very excited for the launch of the new School of Languages, Cultures and Societies Centre for Global Queer Cultures and Politics, next Thursday 4 December 2025. At a darkening time for queer lives, launching this centre feels like kindling a small light. ahc.leeds.ac.uk/events/event...

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Launch event for new Centre for Global Queer Cultures and Politics

Location: Chemistry SR (1.53g)

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Helen Finch @helencfinch.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Thrilled to announce WGS Pathbreakers, a subseries of Peter Lang's Women, Gender and Sexuality in German Literature and Culture series, that seeks to showcase the cultural contribution of women, queer, non-binary, trans and gender non-conforming writers and artists to German studies. (1/3)

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Dr Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

So pleased that I will get to discuss my new book with my brilliant colleagues @helencfinch.bsky.social and @williamrossjones.bsky.social in an event organized by @rhulholocaustri.bsky.social

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Helen Finch @helencfinch.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Excitedly preparing for the CEUROS @unioflimerick.bsky.social conference on Cultural Memory – Memory Culture(s). Europe’s Past, Present and Future. I'll be speaking on Poetic Techniques of Queer Memory: Antje Rávik Strubel, Kim de l’Horizon and Sasha Marianna Salzmann www.ul.ie/ceuros/event...

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CEUROS Conference: Cultural Memory – Memory Culture(s). Europe’s Past, Present and Future

Join us as we explore how memories cross national and generational boundaries, shaping and problematizing collective European remembrance.

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Helen Finch @helencfinch.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

JOB: Montague Burton fellow in Jewish Studies at the University of Leeds. Come and work with us! The Centre for Jewish Studies is seeking a dynamic postdoctoral fellow with strong research and teaching interests in post-Holocaust visualities/materialities. jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

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Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Montague Burton Fellow in Jewish Studies

Are you a dynamic person holding a recent doctoral degree with strong research and teaching interests in post-Holocaust visualities/materialities? Does your research and teaching demonstrate a sustain...

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Jan Süselbeck @jansueselbeck.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Helen Finch über Sasha Marianna Salzmann und Mirna Funk.

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Christine Schmidt @ceschmidt.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Last evening event until September! Thank you to @helencfinch.bsky.social @ankahajkova.bsky.social and to all who attended for a smart, illuminating evening on German-Jewish writers after the Holocaust @wienerlibrary.bsky.social

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Helen Finch @helencfinch.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

In conversation with the iconic @ankahajkova.bsky.social about Holocaust testimony, feminist rage and the tricky question of artistic quality in Holocaust literature. Thank you so much to @wienerlibrary.bsky.social for wonderful hosting and such a thoughtful audience!

Two white women sitting down in discussion in front of a window, with a listener in the front of the frame. Anna wears a bright red jumpsuit and holds a mic; Helen wears a black flowered blouse and is listening.

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Helen Finch @helencfinch.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Graduation is always a wonderful and iconic day, particularly wie one of your @lcsleeds.bsky.social graduates drives their Trabi up to campus! Huge congratulations to the German graduating class of 2025, and to Dr. Corey Hartley #ProudDoktormutter

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Dr Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Next Wednesday I will discuss Helen Finch’s new book at @wienerlibrary.bsky.social It promises to be a great event and you all should come! NB in person

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Helen Finch @helencfinch.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

So proud of my PhD supervisee Eden Hills for this important and very timely article: Trans-Exclusionary, Transnational: Gender-Critical Feminism and the Overstatement of Harm in the UK and Germany doi.org/10.33134/rds...

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Trans-Exclusionary, Transnational: Gender-Critical Feminism and the Overstatement of Harm in the UK and Germany | Redescriptions: Political Thought, Conceptual History and Feminist Theory

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Helen Finch @helencfinch.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

It was a delight to review Gillian Selikowitz's 'Sebald's Jews' - the Sebald wars may be back... Selikowitz shows how Sebald de-individualizes the Jewish characters he purports to memorialize, & how his troping of Jews reflects antisemitic tropes in German thought muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

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Project MUSE - <i>Sebald's Jews: The Jew as Trope in the Narrative Fiction of W. G. Sebald</i> by Gillian Selikowitz (review)

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Helen Finch @helencfinch.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

As a lesbian & a researcher in queer studies, I'm horrified at the recent Supreme Court ruling stating that trans women are not to be protected as women under the Equality Act 2010. This places trans, intersex and nonbinary people at huge risk, and is an attack on all of us in the LGBTQI community.

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Helen Finch @helencfinch.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

'German-Jewish Life Writing in the Aftermath of the Holocaust is a highly useful and important book for the emergent fields of German Jewish Studies, Holocaust Studies, comparative literature & German Studies. The clear language makes it accessible.' Thanks Agnes Mueller! muse.jhu.edu/article/953176

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Project MUSE - <i>German-Jewish Life Writing in the Aftermath of the Holocaust: Beyond Testimony</i> by Helen Finch (review)

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Helen Finch @helencfinch.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

This year's University Holocaust Memorial Day event, #HMD, on Monday 27 January marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. I'll be sharing the story of my family members who were among the first Jews to be deported to Auschwitz in 1942. ahc.leeds.ac.uk/fine-art/eve...

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Holocaust Memorial Day event

80 years since the Liberation of Auschwitz. A symbolic date. An encounter with private pictures and personal stories.

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Helen Finch @helencfinch.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

It was a joy to review Syd Zolf’s No One’s Witness, a deeply felt response to the poetics of trauma. Helen Finch, No One’s Witness: A Monstrous Poetics. Syd Zolf, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Volume 38, Issue 3, Winter 2024, Pages 425–427, doi.org/10.1093/hgs/...

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No One’s Witness: A Monstrous Poetics. Syd Zolf

In the past few months, it has become particularly difficult to debate the responsibility of witnesses to atrocity and to compare the legacy of the genocid

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Helen Finch @helencfinch.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Submit a proposal in Queer Studies - calling all emerging scholars and especially Germanists! The Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Working Group at Peter Lang Publishing is delighted to announce the 2025 Peter Lang Emerging Scholars Competition in Queer Studies. www.peterlang.com/2025-emergin...

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2025 Emerging Scholars Competition - Peter Lang

Enter the 2025 Emerging Scholars Competition in Queer Studies for the chance to win a publishing contract with Gold Open Access.

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Helen Finch @helencfinch.bsky.social · 09/02/2024

For #LGBTHistoryMonth, I’ll be speaking on 28 Feb about my research into queer Holocaust history at this University of Leeds LGBTQ Staff Network event. All welcome (and free refreshments too) www.eventbrite.com/e/lgbt-resea...

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LGBT+ Research Reveal with Dr Rob Eagle & Professor Helen Finch

Join us for an in-person event on Feb 28 2024, where Dr. Rob Eagle & Prof. Helen Finch reveal their thought-provoking LGBT+ research!

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Helen Finch @helencfinch.bsky.social · 25/01/2024

Call for Workshop Contributions ‘Queer Experiences in the Holocaust’. Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Leeds Keynote Speaker: @ankahankova.bsky.social. 16.04.24. This workshop seeks to explore the ways in which victims of Nazi persecution have testified to & left traces of queer experience.

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