German Studies at the University of Oxford
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German at Oxford (Open Day Talk 2018)
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Oxford has one of the oldest, largest and most active departments of German in the country, with an excellent record in teaching and research, an intake of about 90 undergraduates a year, and a strong and flourishing graduate presence
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Our second winner is Isabel Parkinson from @oxfordgerman.bsky.social with her proposal “In Two Minds: Consciousness, Gender and Voice in German-to-English Translation.”
Congratulations Isabel, and thank you for joining us online to summarise your proposal! (3/4)
Congratulations Isabel, and thank you for joining us online to summarise your proposal! (3/4)
November 21, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Our second winner is Isabel Parkinson from @oxfordgerman.bsky.social with her proposal “In Two Minds: Consciousness, Gender and Voice in German-to-English Translation.”
Congratulations Isabel, and thank you for joining us online to summarise your proposal! (3/4)
Congratulations Isabel, and thank you for joining us online to summarise your proposal! (3/4)
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Salman Rushdie reveals that his new short story 'Oklahoma' was inspired by visiting our Kafka: Making of an Icon exhibition at the Morgan Library:
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Salman Rushdie on his first fiction book since the attack
Salman Rushdie discusses his new book 'The Eleventh Hour,' his first work of fiction since the attack that nearly killed him.
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November 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Salman Rushdie reveals that his new short story 'Oklahoma' was inspired by visiting our Kafka: Making of an Icon exhibition at the Morgan Library:
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
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After some delicious welsh cakes, it’s time for the panels! Panel 1 begins with Anna-Lena Kaufmann from @oxfordgerman.bsky.social, explaining her research on #exileliterature, comparing Feuchtwanger’s Die Geschwister Oppermann and Aloni’s Der Wartesaal.
November 21, 2025 at 5:02 PM
After some delicious welsh cakes, it’s time for the panels! Panel 1 begins with Anna-Lena Kaufmann from @oxfordgerman.bsky.social, explaining her research on #exileliterature, comparing Feuchtwanger’s Die Geschwister Oppermann and Aloni’s Der Wartesaal.
Applications for scholarships for @ox.ac.uk students to spend a year at graduate / postdoc level at Germany (Hanseatic and Theodor Heuss) now open! www.ox.ac.uk/students/fee...
German Scholarships | University of Oxford
The Hanseatic Scholarships, the Theodor Heuss Research Fellowship and the Michael Foster Memorial Scholarship were all established to promote closer Anglo-German links within a European context.
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November 24, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Applications for scholarships for @ox.ac.uk students to spend a year at graduate / postdoc level at Germany (Hanseatic and Theodor Heuss) now open! www.ox.ac.uk/students/fee...
Today (20 June) at the Taylorian: Freebie book event! Come and grab a book pre-loved by some of the Russian and German lecturers
June 20, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Today (20 June) at the Taylorian: Freebie book event! Come and grab a book pre-loved by some of the Russian and German lecturers
Wadham College Oxford is seeking to appoint to a one-year part-time (three-hour) Stipendiary Lectureship in German, starting 1 September 2025. Apply by 1 July.
Further details: www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/about/jobs/s...
Further details: www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/about/jobs/s...
Stipendiary Lectureship in German Language and Literature 1st September 2025 – 31st August 2026
The College proposes to appoint a part-time Stipendiary Lecturer in German for the 2025-26 academic year to support Professor Duttlinger, the College’s Fellow in German, while she is leading a major r...
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June 18, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Wadham College Oxford is seeking to appoint to a one-year part-time (three-hour) Stipendiary Lectureship in German, starting 1 September 2025. Apply by 1 July.
Further details: www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/about/jobs/s...
Further details: www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/about/jobs/s...
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Only discovered today the full page article in the Cherwell edition of 1st week cherwell.org/2025/05/05/m... 📯 @oxmedstud.bsky.social @stedmundhall.bsky.social @oxfordgerman.bsky.social
Review: Medieval Mystery Play Cycle – 'Comedy, choirs and inflatable hammers' - Cherwell
Against the backdrop of St Edmund Hall’s medieval architecture, these short plays offered a tantalising window into medieval theatre.
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May 13, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Only discovered today the full page article in the Cherwell edition of 1st week cherwell.org/2025/05/05/m... 📯 @oxmedstud.bsky.social @stedmundhall.bsky.social @oxfordgerman.bsky.social
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Lesenswertes Interview mit Henrike Lähnemann über Frauenklöster im Mittelalter:
Frauen im Kloster: Spottlied auf den Priester (Paywall)
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Frauen im Kloster: Spottlied auf den Priester (Paywall)
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May 16, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Lesenswertes Interview mit Henrike Lähnemann über Frauenklöster im Mittelalter:
Frauen im Kloster: Spottlied auf den Priester (Paywall)
www.spiegel.de/geschichte/f...
#medievalsky
Frauen im Kloster: Spottlied auf den Priester (Paywall)
www.spiegel.de/geschichte/f...
#medievalsky
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Ten versions of Kafka
Taylor Institution, 6pm, 13 June tinyurl.com/4x265bbs
Join Ian Ellison in conversation with prize-winning author Maïa Hruska.
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Taylor Institution, 6pm, 13 June tinyurl.com/4x265bbs
Join Ian Ellison in conversation with prize-winning author Maïa Hruska.
@oxfordcct.bsky.social
@ox.ac.uk
@oxhumanities.bsky.social
@oxfordgerman.bsky.social
@engfac.bsky.social
@mfoxford.bsky.social
@torchoxford.bsky.social
May 20, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Ten versions of Kafka
Taylor Institution, 6pm, 13 June tinyurl.com/4x265bbs
Join Ian Ellison in conversation with prize-winning author Maïa Hruska.
@oxfordcct.bsky.social
@ox.ac.uk
@oxhumanities.bsky.social
@oxfordgerman.bsky.social
@engfac.bsky.social
@mfoxford.bsky.social
@torchoxford.bsky.social
Taylor Institution, 6pm, 13 June tinyurl.com/4x265bbs
Join Ian Ellison in conversation with prize-winning author Maïa Hruska.
@oxfordcct.bsky.social
@ox.ac.uk
@oxhumanities.bsky.social
@oxfordgerman.bsky.social
@engfac.bsky.social
@mfoxford.bsky.social
@torchoxford.bsky.social
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New pub alert:
I wrote about De Keersmaeker's staging of Rilke's The Cornet, including her engagement with its afterlife in World War II. About how her choreography explores its powerful imagery and form, and her evocation of the Nazi salute.
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I wrote about De Keersmaeker's staging of Rilke's The Cornet, including her engagement with its afterlife in World War II. About how her choreography explores its powerful imagery and form, and her evocation of the Nazi salute.
doi.org/10.3366/drs....
May 27, 2025 at 9:57 AM
New pub alert:
I wrote about De Keersmaeker's staging of Rilke's The Cornet, including her engagement with its afterlife in World War II. About how her choreography explores its powerful imagery and form, and her evocation of the Nazi salute.
doi.org/10.3366/drs....
I wrote about De Keersmaeker's staging of Rilke's The Cornet, including her engagement with its afterlife in World War II. About how her choreography explores its powerful imagery and form, and her evocation of the Nazi salute.
doi.org/10.3366/drs....
StPeter's College & Hertford College:one-year lectureship in German, from 1 October 2025, 6 hours teaching per week.
Apply by 21 May: www.spc.ox.ac.uk/about/vacanc... @ox.ac.uk @ags-gbi.bsky.social
Apply by 21 May: www.spc.ox.ac.uk/about/vacanc... @ox.ac.uk @ags-gbi.bsky.social
May 12, 2025 at 9:05 AM
StPeter's College & Hertford College:one-year lectureship in German, from 1 October 2025, 6 hours teaching per week.
Apply by 21 May: www.spc.ox.ac.uk/about/vacanc... @ox.ac.uk @ags-gbi.bsky.social
Apply by 21 May: www.spc.ox.ac.uk/about/vacanc... @ox.ac.uk @ags-gbi.bsky.social
Hannah Arendt: In Conversation with Thomas Meyer and Lyndsey Stonebridge
13 May 16:00
Tuesday 13th of May, 4.00pm, Christ Church Research Centre.
Join us for a discussion with two foremost scholars of Arendt’s life and work
13 May 16:00
Tuesday 13th of May, 4.00pm, Christ Church Research Centre.
Join us for a discussion with two foremost scholars of Arendt’s life and work
May 12, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Hannah Arendt: In Conversation with Thomas Meyer and Lyndsey Stonebridge
13 May 16:00
Tuesday 13th of May, 4.00pm, Christ Church Research Centre.
Join us for a discussion with two foremost scholars of Arendt’s life and work
13 May 16:00
Tuesday 13th of May, 4.00pm, Christ Church Research Centre.
Join us for a discussion with two foremost scholars of Arendt’s life and work
Departmental Lecturer in German @ Exeter, Merton &Pembroke Colleges, £38,674 to £46,913. Fixed term, 01 September 2025-31 August 2026. Closing Date: 30 May
Further particulars:
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May 9, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Departmental Lecturer in German @ Exeter, Merton &Pembroke Colleges, £38,674 to £46,913. Fixed term, 01 September 2025-31 August 2026. Closing Date: 30 May
Further particulars:
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMZ880/d...
Further particulars:
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www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMZ880/d...
Sabbatical cover for Joanna Neilly: one-year lectureship St Peter’s College, @ox.ac.uk, in association with Hertford College.
Apply by Wednesday 21 May www.spc.ox.ac.uk/about/vacanc...
Apply by Wednesday 21 May www.spc.ox.ac.uk/about/vacanc...
April 25, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Sabbatical cover for Joanna Neilly: one-year lectureship St Peter’s College, @ox.ac.uk, in association with Hertford College.
Apply by Wednesday 21 May www.spc.ox.ac.uk/about/vacanc...
Apply by Wednesday 21 May www.spc.ox.ac.uk/about/vacanc...
A post for up to two years as 'Lektor*in' (stipendiary lecturer in German language) @stjohnsox.bsky.social @queenscollegeox.bsky.social - contact Barry Murnane for more info; for the attention of @ags-gbi.bsky.social www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/vac...
April 4, 2025 at 11:07 AM
A post for up to two years as 'Lektor*in' (stipendiary lecturer in German language) @stjohnsox.bsky.social @queenscollegeox.bsky.social - contact Barry Murnane for more info; for the attention of @ags-gbi.bsky.social www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/vac...
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Her work centres on social & cultural histories of sixteenth & seventeenth century Germany; gender history; witchcraft; and the German Reformation.
Her most recent work 'Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants' War' was published in 2025.
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Her most recent work 'Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants' War' was published in 2025.
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February 18, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Her work centres on social & cultural histories of sixteenth & seventeenth century Germany; gender history; witchcraft; and the German Reformation.
Her most recent work 'Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants' War' was published in 2025.
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Her most recent work 'Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants' War' was published in 2025.
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🚨GHS CONFERNECE KEYNOTE REVEAL 🚨
The GHS Annual conference is fast approaching and we're happy to announce that Prof. Lyndal Roper FBA (@orieloxford.bsky.social) is our first keynote speaker!
Prof. Roper is Regius Chair in History, the first woman and first Australian to hold the position.
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The GHS Annual conference is fast approaching and we're happy to announce that Prof. Lyndal Roper FBA (@orieloxford.bsky.social) is our first keynote speaker!
Prof. Roper is Regius Chair in History, the first woman and first Australian to hold the position.
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February 18, 2025 at 4:04 PM
🚨GHS CONFERNECE KEYNOTE REVEAL 🚨
The GHS Annual conference is fast approaching and we're happy to announce that Prof. Lyndal Roper FBA (@orieloxford.bsky.social) is our first keynote speaker!
Prof. Roper is Regius Chair in History, the first woman and first Australian to hold the position.
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The GHS Annual conference is fast approaching and we're happy to announce that Prof. Lyndal Roper FBA (@orieloxford.bsky.social) is our first keynote speaker!
Prof. Roper is Regius Chair in History, the first woman and first Australian to hold the position.
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🚨CFP: GHS Annual Conference🚨
The GHS are proud to share the call for papers for our upcoming conference at the University of Loughborough on the 4-6 September 2025
The deadline for applications is 19 April 2025.
For more info see: www.germanhistorysoc...
#GermanHistSoc2025
The GHS are proud to share the call for papers for our upcoming conference at the University of Loughborough on the 4-6 September 2025
The deadline for applications is 19 April 2025.
For more info see: www.germanhistorysoc...
#GermanHistSoc2025
February 26, 2025 at 10:12 AM
🚨CFP: GHS Annual Conference🚨
The GHS are proud to share the call for papers for our upcoming conference at the University of Loughborough on the 4-6 September 2025
The deadline for applications is 19 April 2025.
For more info see: www.germanhistorysoc...
#GermanHistSoc2025
The GHS are proud to share the call for papers for our upcoming conference at the University of Loughborough on the 4-6 September 2025
The deadline for applications is 19 April 2025.
For more info see: www.germanhistorysoc...
#GermanHistSoc2025
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A welcome statement! Professor of German @tcddublin.bsky.social "reaffirming its commitment to the role of languages in the humanities and to the central role of the humanities in realizing the academic and societal goals of a 21st century university." my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui...
March 5, 2025 at 10:41 PM
A welcome statement! Professor of German @tcddublin.bsky.social "reaffirming its commitment to the role of languages in the humanities and to the central role of the humanities in realizing the academic and societal goals of a 21st century university." my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui...
Aus gegebenem Anlass: Lecture on Anatomy of Populism: A Critical Analysis of the AfD and Its Rhetoric by Henk de Berg
@sheffielduni.bsky.social for Historical Linguistics topic 'Language of Totalitarianism' @tayoxford.bsky.social, Room2, Fr 28 Feb, 2pm
@sheffielduni.bsky.social for Historical Linguistics topic 'Language of Totalitarianism' @tayoxford.bsky.social, Room2, Fr 28 Feb, 2pm
February 22, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Aus gegebenem Anlass: Lecture on Anatomy of Populism: A Critical Analysis of the AfD and Its Rhetoric by Henk de Berg
@sheffielduni.bsky.social for Historical Linguistics topic 'Language of Totalitarianism' @tayoxford.bsky.social, Room2, Fr 28 Feb, 2pm
@sheffielduni.bsky.social for Historical Linguistics topic 'Language of Totalitarianism' @tayoxford.bsky.social, Room2, Fr 28 Feb, 2pm
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It's a new day at the Taylorian, and a new social media platform 🦋
What to expect?
The same content from our previous posts on other sites: Modern Languages events in Oxford, library updates, and top tips for using the Taylorian!
Let's chat! Let us know what you'd like to see on our feed 🌞
What to expect?
The same content from our previous posts on other sites: Modern Languages events in Oxford, library updates, and top tips for using the Taylorian!
Let's chat! Let us know what you'd like to see on our feed 🌞
February 18, 2025 at 10:27 AM
It's a new day at the Taylorian, and a new social media platform 🦋
What to expect?
The same content from our previous posts on other sites: Modern Languages events in Oxford, library updates, and top tips for using the Taylorian!
Let's chat! Let us know what you'd like to see on our feed 🌞
What to expect?
The same content from our previous posts on other sites: Modern Languages events in Oxford, library updates, and top tips for using the Taylorian!
Let's chat! Let us know what you'd like to see on our feed 🌞
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Printed Heritage Collections @britishlibrary.bsky.social & Digital Research team are co-supervising a placement on Computational analysis of early printed book descriptions. For humanities people who want to learn about digital research tools. Deadline this Friday! www.bl.uk/more/researc...
Research collaboration - The British Library
The British Library offers opportunities for researchers to collaborate to create new knowledge, with a particular focus on the British Library’s collection, services and infrastructure.
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February 19, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Printed Heritage Collections @britishlibrary.bsky.social & Digital Research team are co-supervising a placement on Computational analysis of early printed book descriptions. For humanities people who want to learn about digital research tools. Deadline this Friday! www.bl.uk/more/researc...
This will be of interest for the newly created account of the Association of German Studies (AGS) @ags-gbi.bsky.social
Career Development Fellowship in German at St Hilda's College, @ox.ac.uk. Apply by 25 February 2025 www.st-hildas.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/ca...
February 8, 2025 at 2:30 PM
This will be of interest for the newly created account of the Association of German Studies (AGS) @ags-gbi.bsky.social
Career Development Fellowship in German at St Hilda's College, @ox.ac.uk. Apply by 25 February 2025 www.st-hildas.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/ca...
February 3, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Career Development Fellowship in German at St Hilda's College, @ox.ac.uk. Apply by 25 February 2025 www.st-hildas.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/ca...
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Our edition of 'Von der Freiheit eines Christenmenschen' is now #openaccess available on google books thx to @emmahuber.bsky.social: books.google.co.uk/books?id=oIx... @oxfordgerman.bsky.social #Reformation #pamphlets #Christian #freedom
January 31, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Our edition of 'Von der Freiheit eines Christenmenschen' is now #openaccess available on google books thx to @emmahuber.bsky.social: books.google.co.uk/books?id=oIx... @oxfordgerman.bsky.social #Reformation #pamphlets #Christian #freedom