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Helen Finch @helencfinch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I was honoured to be invited onto my brilliant colleague Paul Leworthy's 'Connecting Memories Podcast', to talk about queer memories, politics and germs of ideas that I am still working through. Thank you for the opportunity to share them, Paul. open.spotify.com/episode/1JPc...

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On memory and queer poetics with guest speaker Prof Helen Finch (University of Leeds)

The Connecting Memories Podcast · Episode

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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 · 15/05/2026

Sind wir doch nicht mainstream, Jan? 😱

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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

Our panel, including @jackarscott.bsky.social , Jack Palmer of the Bauman Institute, Emeritus Professor Griselda Pollock, and me, will be responding to the @dfg.de - @ukri.org funded exhibition 'Elias Canetti, a Jewish Émigré in Britain: People, Places, Impressions (1939–1988)', now here in Leeds

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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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Helen Finch @helencfinch.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Hi Kristian, it's viewable online within Germany and Austria via the Sat3 Mediathek - without subtitles. There are 4 other UK screenings: 27.04 Tyneside Cinema Newcastle 29.04 Grosvenor Picture Theatre Glasgow 30.04 The Filmhouse Edinburgh 1.05 Goethe Institute London www.3sat.de/film/dokumen...

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Das Deutsche Volk

Der Dokumentarfilm erzählt die Geschichte des rassistischen Anschlags in Hanau im Jahr 2020 aus der Perspektive der Hinterbliebenen und Überlebenden.

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Helen Finch @helencfinch.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

It is therefore interested in such concepts as queer disidentifications and disbelongings; queer formations of language, multilingualism and translation; queer formations of kinship, relation and sociability (such as those circulating around Stefan George, Charlotte von Mahlsdorf or Audre Lorde)...

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Helen Finch @helencfinch.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

This MLA session series examines how these cultures have also produced various queer formations that resist or exceed those twentieth-century discourses that sought to define and regulate homosexual, gay or queer identity. It seeks out formations that destabilize homonationalism (Puar, 2007)...

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Helen Finch @helencfinch.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

It was such an honour to be there, particularly with your wonderful students.

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Helen Finch @helencfinch.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Thank you so much my dear! would love to talk more about that and other projects soon.

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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

Through equitable, collaborative work, the Centre seeks to support the visibility of global queer activists, artists, writers, and all those involved in thinking critically and creatively about queer cultures and politics. 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 · 27/11/2025

Engaging queer topics and methodologies, & a queer ethics of care, the Centre supports researchers, scholars and educators, including postgraduate researchers.

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

The Centre advances interdisciplinary research in global queer cultures and politics, paying special attention to local histories and intercultural, polycentric, multilingual exchanges, in both contemporary and historical settings.

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

Many thanks to all @universityofleeds.bsky.social colleagues and students who have helped to make our new Centre possible. The programme includes a keynote: 'Queer Anti-Nationalism in Right-Wing Times', by Dr. Alyosxa Tudor, and introductions to the aims of the Centre from the Directors.

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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

(It's been brilliant to work on #WGSPathbreakers with @katherinestone.bsky.social and @laurelplapp.bsky.social. We can't wait to discover pathbreaking German texts that merit intensified scholarly attention, but have been overlooked by conventional publishers, censored or fallen out of print.)

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

b. Translations from German into English, which may include single works, selections from an individual author, or extracts from the output of multiple authors that will serve to illuminate significant issues in the representation of gender and/or sexuality in German-language culture. (3/3)

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

We welcome new proposals for: a. Critical editions, which may include single works, selections from the corpus of an individual author, or multi-author anthologies by, or that offer fresh perspectives on, pathbreaking German language female, queer and trans culture. (2/3)

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

Thank you so much @ceschmidt.bsky.social - the @wienerlibrary.bsky.social is a real intellectual home for me, and it was such a privilege to be able to talk there. You have the most wonderful audience!

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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

The German at Leeds class of 2025 pose around a Trabant parked outside the Parkinson building

A white woman in red and gold academic robes poses in front of a Trabant car

Two white women are smiling; one dressed in green academic robes, one in red and gold academic robes

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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

I'd love you to be there, but tbh am also quite burned out by hybrid events!

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