I’m excited to announce that the 2026 conference of the Austrian Studies Association will take place May 28-31 in Salzburg! Please see the link below for the call for papers and share widely with your friends and colleagues! www.austrian-studies.org/conference/c...

The international conference “Jazz – Word – Play” (Vienna, May 21–23, 2026) is calling for proposals exploring intersections of jazz, literature, and wordplay through cultural and historical developments from its start to the present.

Presentations should be in English or German. Details below:

Delighted to circulate this call for grant applications in my capacity as the Senior Research Advisor of the National Recording Preservation Foundation, a charter of the 106th US Congress and a partner affiliate of the Library of Congress.

Please RT! Radio/sound scholars: June 15 is LAST CALL to sign up for the
@rptf.bsky.social
/BEA/RAMP SIG mentorship program.

Senior scholars looking to mentor grad students/ECRs for a 1 year term are especially encouraged to join.

Sign up at the BEA website:
bea.memberclicks.net/login#/login

Congratulations to Dr. Ambika Natarajan for winning the Max Kade Prize for her article, “Evolution of Servant Laws in the Habsburg Empire,” in the Journal of Austrian Studies!

www.austrian-studies.org/max-kade-pri...

We convene a mutual aid network for our comrades in German studies. To find out more about how to request resources, share resources, or help get involved with convening the network, check out our website: www.ddgccollective.org/ddgc-mutual-....

As the President, FCC and Congressional Republicans consider ending public funding for NPR and PBS, a media historian revisits why public media was founded in the first place and how it contributes to equal access to information today: buff.ly/CW6Jsbr
@joshshepperd.bsky.social @colorado.edu

Friends and fellow translators, check out the first issue of Tern: A Journal of Translation and Conversation created and edited by graduate students in the PhD in Comparative Literature International Writer’s Track
ternjournal.org/current-issue/

Congratulations to Franzi Finkenstein on successfully defending her dissertation, “Sitting with Wounds: The Visual Poetics of Grief in Charlotte Salomon’s Life? Or Theater?” It was such a pleasure to see this project develop! #washugerman

Word, Sound, and Music in Radio Drama is coming soon from
@BrillPublishing
- brill.com/display/titl... - thrilled to be a part of this volume!

CfP #AustrianStudies 2024 panel “In memoriam Robert von Dassanowsky” seeks papers that build on Robert’s groundbreaking work and are inspired by his scholarship. Send 250 to 300 wd abstract & bio to Imke Meyer (ixmeyer@uic.edu) & Oliver C Speck (ocspeck@vcu.edu) by Dec 8

100 years ago today - the first German Hörspiel broadcast - Hans Flesch's Zauberei aux dem Sender
www.hr2.de/programm/sen...

Excited to present my research on #radiodrama at Wash U's Performing Arts Department in just a few weeks!
pad.wustl.edu/events/sound... #radiostudies #hoerspiel