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Schnitzler Edition Project ran transcription sprint

Arthur Schnitzler’s literary archive went online! Anybody who is interested in deciphering difficult handwriting of Schnitzler’s literary texts could join the conversation. The transcription initiative ran from 19th October-16th November 2015.

Killing Hitler - German Resistance Before and After the July Plot

The 2015 Schröder Lecture was held by Professor Randall Hansen from Toronto on 21 October and attracted a huge audience.

Schnitzler Edition Project - Crowdsourcing Project launched

Completed. The Transcribing Schnitzler ‘sprint' aimed to 'source' a public crowd, across different generations, which could transcribe a set of Arthur Schnitzler’s papers in four weeks. Details of the results will soon be published here.

Podcast on '"Dying Well": Enacting Medical Ethics' now online

A podcast and digital archive of last month’s symposium on ‘“Dying Well”: Enacting Medical Ethics’ is available now online. The event brought together scholars and professionals from eight different disciplines including Science Journalism, Health Care Law, Literary Studies and Medicine.

Embodied Cognition Conference

A two-day international conference on intellectual activity in the German-speaking world between 1750 and 1830 and the findings of modern cognitive science took place at Murray Edwards College on 14 & 15 September, 2015.

German Department History - Schröder Cup discovered

Following a chance discovery of old documents in the Modern Languages Faculty it has been possible to trace the Schröder Cup.

Prof Jo Whaley has been elected Fellow of the British Academy

Professor Jo Whaley from the Department of German & Dutch has been elected to the fellowship of the British Academy.

Schnitzler Project - Archival Discovery

Schnitzler Project in the Guardian

Screening Work Symposium

The third symposium of the German Screen Studies Network - entitled Screening Work - was hosted by the Department of German and Dutch from 9 - 11 July 2015.

German Screen Studies Network awarded DAAD Funding

The German Studies Screen Network, run in cooperation with KCL and the universities of Leeds, Southampton and Duisburg-Essen was awarded 64,000 Euro from the DAAD.

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Schnitzler Edition Project ran transcription sprint

Killing Hitler - German Resistance Before and After the July Plot

Schnitzler Edition Project - Crowdsourcing Project launched