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After Abstraction with Dr Annja Neumann

Exploring Anglo-German histories, movement and migration, medial shifts and social change through the public research performance After Abstraction, CDH Research Fellow Dr Annja Neumann writes about her recent work in an art gallery as part of the Cross-Connections exhibition and her Re-Staging Public Spaces research programme.

Professor Sarah Colvin to give inaugural lecture of Munich arts series of talks

We are delighted to announce that Professor Sarah Colvin be giving the inaugural lecture in new series of talks at the Literaturhaus München.

Leila Mukhida featured in 50th-anniversary issue of flagship German Studies journal

Choose Your Own Adventure explores new avenues for critical practice in film viewing

Professor Weiss-Sussex rescues 80-year-old masterpiece written by German Jewish novelist

Professor Godela Weiss-Sussex, Fellow in German at King’s College, has just published Die daheim blieben (Those Who Stayed at Home) by the German-Jewish author, Georg Hermann. The novel , which was left unfinished at the time of Hermann’s death in Auschwitz and brought to light in remarkable circumstances, concerns the...

Annual Schröder Lecture 2023

The Schröder Lecture 2023 was entitled, 'What is the Place of Prison in Democracies? A Conversation with Annelie Rambsbrock and Sarah Colvin'.

German student Alrik Daldrup wins award

Incoming PhD student Alrik Daldrup has won the German Quarterly Graduate Student Paper Award.

German Graduate Research Seminar - Michaelmas 2023

The Section is pleased to announce the schedule for the German Graduate Research Seminar, Michaelmas 2023. This year, we are delighted to host the following speakers: Alex Mentzel (Cambridge), Triangulating Virtual Scenographies in Franz Kafka’s Der Verschollene and Walter Benjamin’s Schauplatz Thursday, 26th of October, 5...

Cartography of the Political Novel in Europe (CAPONEU)

We are pleased to share that a research team from the Cambridge MMLL Faculty, together with academic colleagues and NGOs from Zagreb, Nicosia, Brighton, London, Poznan and Berlin, has begun work on the Horizon Europe/UKRI Innovate Horizon Europe Guarantee – funded project Cartography of the Political Novel in Europe (CAPONEU).

Dr. Doriane Zerka publishes 'Imagining Iberia in Medieval German Literature'

Warmest congratulations to Dr Doriane Zerka on the publication of her book, Imagining Iberia in Medieval German Literature .

PhD student Frederick Hauke publishes article

We are happy to share that while working on his PhD project on human dignity in German intellectual history, Frederick Hauke has written an article published in 'The Conversation.'

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Cambridge Undergraduate Conference in German Studies

3 March 2025

2025 marks the 10th anniversary of the Cambridge Undergraduate Conference in German Studies. On Saturday 1 March, we were delighted to welcome undergraduate speakers, school pupils and teachers to Cambridge from across the UK.

Dr Charlotte Lee appears on Radio 4

26 February 2025

Dr Charlotte Lee, Associate Professor of German Studies and Director of the German Section, recently appeared on BBC Radio 4 for a piece on Goethe for 'Great Lives'.

Young Goethe Ambassadors help launch 'Wuschel auf der Erde: A New Adventure in Learning German'

28 November 2024

On Friday 8 November, Max Holden (Cambridge) and Zoe Christie (Exeter) joined an event organised by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service), the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, and the Goethe Institut in London for the launch of ' Wuschel auf der Erde: A New Adventure in Learning German '. Both students are...

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