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Ben Schaper
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Academic on hold ⏳Book and film lover at ♥️ Formerly Lecturer in 🇩🇪 at Oxford and Durham
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chewschaper.bsky.social
Just signed ✍️

What a shame that we now have to sign these kind of petitions on a regular basis to save our subject(s).

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Stop the removal of Modern Languages courses at the University of Nottingham!
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November 7, 2025 at 9:47 PM
chewschaper.bsky.social
First review of Agency and Author in GSR 📖

Die Beiträger*innen lenken den "Blick auf ein Forschungsgebiet, das immer noch zu wenig beachtet wird—gerade in Zeiten, in denen der Gegenstand dieser Forschung, der Literaturbetrieb, einem radikalen Wandel unterworfen ist."

👇
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Project MUSE - <i>Agency and Author: German Literature Beyond the Bestseller List</i> ed. by Rachel J. Halverson and Benjamin D. Schaper (review)
muse.jhu.edu
October 31, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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berghahnbooks.bsky.social
NEUBAU ATMOSPHERES: East German Cultural Remediations of Modernist Architecture by Stephan Ehrig @herrehrig.bsky.social has now been published!

Find out more here: bit.ly/3JZJa4a

#FilmStudies #LiteraryStudies #History
October 24, 2025 at 2:07 PM
chewschaper.bsky.social
Finally managed to read this gem and once again I am regretting that I did not become a Neue Sachlichkeit scholar 📚👨🏻‍🏫
October 24, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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meindertpeters.bsky.social
*please share widely*

Dear Network,
I am looking for temp work: translation/copy-editing German to Dutch and English and English↔️Dutch, as well as fundraising.

All leads very welcome! DM or email at meindertpeters @ gmail
☺️🙏
October 13, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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berghahnbooks.bsky.social
#SALE ends Thurs! Use code GSA25 for 35%off ALL #GermanStudies #GermanHistory books:bit.ly/46iWObl

@nikolasfunke.bsky.social
@klingstedt.bsky.social
@chewschaper.bsky.social
@duerrbortolotti.bsky.social
@philiphahn.bsky.social
@herrehrig.bsky.social
@elizabethward.bsky.social
@kyfrack.bsky.social
October 13, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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berghahnbooks.bsky.social
It's the #GermanHistSoc2025 @germanhistsoc.bsky.social! Check out our #OpenAccess #GermanHistory titles: bit.ly/3VxOMos

incl.
@claudiakreklau.bsky.social
@duerrbortolotti.bsky.social
@philiphahn.bsky.social
@herrehrig.bsky.social
@chewschaper.bsky.social
@elizabethward.bsky.social
@timondegroot.com
September 4, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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berghahnbooks.bsky.social
The AGS Conference @ags-gbi.bsky.social starts today! Browse our German Studies titles: bit.ly/4lUraW8

authors incl.
@claudiakreklau.bsky.social
@herrehrig.bsky.social
@duerrbortolotti.bsky.social
@philiphahn.bsky.social
@chewschaper.bsky.social
@nasimaselim.bsky.social
@elizabethward.bsky.social
September 1, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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elizabethward.bsky.social
I left with a notebook full of ideas and incredibly helpful feedback.

Thank you to all the contributors, to Ben Schaper @chewschaper.bsky.social for his invaluable feedback as our workshop respondent, and to colleagues at @unileipzig.bsky.social for all the behind the scenes support.
A group of people walking through a former textile factory The former headquarters of Leipzig's Konsumzentrale
July 20, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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elizabethward.bsky.social
That's a wrap!

A fascinating workshop at @unileipzig.bsky.social to kick off our forthcoming @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social book "East German Film and Cultural Diplomacy".

In person and online, we came together to share and discuss thematic and methodological approaches.
The conference room with the conference poster A villa A group of people looking at a painting A group of people looking at an exhibition
July 20, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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berghahnbooks.bsky.social
For the #SHS2025 (‪@socialhistsoc.bsky.social‬) conference, check out some #History, #CulturalStudies & #Sociology titles. Browse more: bit.ly/4n9XK8l

includes
@chewschaper.bsky.social
@chbrauner.bsky.social
@duerrbortolotti.bsky.social
@philiphahn.bsky.social
@eirinikaramouzi.bsky.social
July 7, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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elizabethward.bsky.social
For a shameless plug… “Deterritorializing the Stasi in Deutschland 83/86/89” is free to download in Ben Schaper @chewschaper.bsky.social, Stephan Ehrig @herrehrig.bsky.social and my @berghahnbooks.bsky.social edited volume “Entertaining German Culture: Contemporary Transnational Television and Film”
g-s-s-n.bsky.social German Screen Studies Network @g-s-s-n.bsky.social · Jun 17
On this day in 2015, Deutschland 83, which stars Jonas Nay as a 24-year-old East German native sent to the West as an undercover Stasi spy, premiered on US channel SundanceTV, becoming the first German-language series to air on a US network!
June 18, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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herrehrig.bsky.social
Check out the programme of the public film festival in Amherst and Northampton, MA, curated by Maria Stehle and myself as part of the SFI, starting Sunday next! #DEFA #GDR #DDR
umass.edu/defa/sites/d...
June 10, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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herrehrig.bsky.social
I'm super pleased to share that my upcoming book, Neubau Atmospheres, is now featured on Berghahn's website 📷
It will come out in October but anyone working for a university is already kindly invited to suggest it to their library! berghahnbooks.com/title/EhrigN... #gdr #defa #ddr
Neubau Atmospheres: East German Cultural Remediations of Modernist Architecture | Berghahn Books
Independent Publishing since 1994
berghahnbooks.com
April 28, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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elizabethward.bsky.social
Interested in the strategies series runners use that underpinned the global success of German series such as Dark, Charité & Deutschland 83?

“Entertaining German Culture” is free to download in full at
www.berghahnbooks.com/title/EhrigE...

#SCMS25

@chewschaper.bsky.social @herrehrig.bsky.social
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April 3, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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g-s-s-n.bsky.social
Welcome to the German Screen Studies Network official Bluesky page! Here we will share information about interesting events, conference CfPs & news, job advertisements, as well as keep you up to date on our @daad-uk-ireland.bsky.social 'Promoting German Studies Networking Grant' activities!
April 2, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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berghahnbooks.bsky.social
It's important to advance research & scholarship. In addition to our #OpenAccess titles, we're now offering another FREE #ChapterSampler, bringing key title extracts together in a curated #GermanCinema collection.

Download today & enjoy: https://buff.ly/3EQL6ZW

#academicsky #FilmStudies
February 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
chewschaper.bsky.social
🚨 Please sign the petition to save MLANG at @cardiffuni 🖊️

Solidarity with colleagues affected ✊🌹

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Save MLANG at Cardiff University!
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January 31, 2025 at 1:42 PM
chewschaper.bsky.social
🔥off the press 🖨️

Agency and Author: German Literature Beyond the Bestseller List out now in @berghahnbooks and @TheGSA Spektrum Series 🎉🍾

DM for 50% discount code valid until 28th February 💸

www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Halver...
January 6, 2025 at 11:57 AM
chewschaper.bsky.social
My intermezzo (📖 reference intended) in 🇮🇪 is coming to an end with more than one💧in my 👁️

Particularly ♥️-warming interactions with students have given me so much joy and vigour 🍀

Go raibh maith agat 🙏

#ireland #tcd #germanindublin #germanstudies
December 1, 2024 at 4:59 PM
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herrehrig.bsky.social
APPLY BY FEBRUARY 10, 2025! The weeklong institute traces cinematic depictions of urban, rural and industrial spaces to examine how East German films address questions of social and environmental justice at moments of crisis or impasse. More info: umass.edu/defa
November 20, 2024 at 3:59 PM
chewschaper.bsky.social
This article excellently catches one of the reasons why I quit as Stipendiary Lecturer at Oxford last year 🚫

Whilst it describes the wage-related shortfalls very well 📉, there are other factors involved that leave ECRs in a very precarious situation 🚨

🧵 below 👇

www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Oxford relying on ‘Deliveroo-style’ contracts with most tutorials not taught by full-time staff
Leading university accused of relying on young academics employed on gig-economy terms
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2024 at 5:31 PM
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drjoeford.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Oxford relying on ‘Deliveroo-style’ contracts with most tutorials not taught by full-time staff
Leading university accused of relying on young academics employed on gig-economy terms
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2024 at 10:25 AM
chewschaper.bsky.social
After turbulent few months, in which I

• moved countries(🇬🇧▶️🇮🇪)
• submitted an application for MSCA 🇮🇹🤞
• wrote two book chapters and one article💻
• submitted proofs for an upcoming edited
volume📕

I treated myself with a well-deserved afternoon at the Irish Sea 🌊⛵️
November 20, 2024 at 5:31 PM
chewschaper.bsky.social
🥁📣 Delighted to unveil the cover for the book you have all been waiting for ⌛📘

Agency and Author: German Literature Beyond the Bestseller List will be available 🔜🎄🎆

Check out details below. Don't forget to recommend the book to libraries 👇🤓✉️

www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Halver...
Agency and Author: German Literature Beyond the Bestseller List | Berghahn Books
Independent Publishing since 1994
www.berghahnbooks.com
November 20, 2024 at 5:31 PM