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Postgraduate Forum

Postgraduate Forum 2023

Date: 23 November 2023
Place: Kiel University
Deadline: 15 June 2023

To prepare your paper for the postgraduate forum, please refer to the general guidelines for presentations (last updated 2017).

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BritCult Award

BritCult Award 2023

To encourage and acknowledge young researchers’ work in the field of British Cultural Studies, the German Association for the Study of British Cultures endows a prize worth up to EUR 1000 for the best new monograph (PhD theses, Habilitationsschriften, second book).

Please send your submissions (two copies of the thesis typescript/book, plus (examiners’) reviews) to the address below. The studies must have been evaluated (in case of the ‘second book’: published) within the 24 months prior to the deadline of 30 April 2023.

Prof Dr Susanne Gruß
Englisches Seminar 1
Universität Köln
Albertus-Magnus-Platz
50923 Köln
Germany

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Conferences

BritCult 2023: In-Between Islands: Intra-Relations between Britain and Ireland

2023 conference of the German Association for the Study of British Cultures (BritCult), including its members’ assembly. Programme and registration details are announced via the conference website.

BritCult members can apply for bursaries to cover travel and accommodation.

Date: 23–25 November 2023
Place: Kiel University
Deadline: 15 March 2023

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Graduate and Postgraduate Workshops

Workshop 2023: The Place of the Digital in Cultural Studies

Date: 12–13 May 2023
Place: University of Innsbruck

All talks will also be streamed via Zoom for those who are not able to attend in person, but the organisers would like to encourage attendance in Innsbruck to facilitate discussions and networking as central workshop elements.

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Postgraduate Forum

Postgraduate Forum 2022

Date: 17 November 2022
Place: University of Salzburg
Deadline: 15 June 2022

To prepare your paper for the postgraduate forum, please refer to the general guidelines for presentations (last updated 2017).

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Conferences

BritCult 2022: British Identities Medialised

2022 conference of the German Association for the Study of British Cultures (BritCult), including its members’ assembly. Programme and registration details are announced via the conference website.

Date: 17–19 November 2022
Place: University of Salzburg
Deadline: 1 April 2022

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Graduate and Postgraduate Workshops

Workshop 2022: Economic Criticism

Date: 6–7 May 2022
Place: Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg

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BritCult Award

BritCult Award 2021

Victoria Allen. Industrial Memory in North(east)ernness: A PopCultural Portfolio. PhD thesis.

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Announcements

Joint Statement on Fixed-Term Contracts in German Academia

The German Association for the Study of British Cultures has signed the open letter “Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz abschaffen – Grundfinanzierung der Universitäten stärken.” The joint statement on the precarity of academic careers in Germany calls for an open discussion and reform of the German law on fixed-term contracts in academia, not only in the wake of the #IchBinHanna movement.

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BritCult History

How Cultural Studies Came to Germany: Historical Documents

The texts, tables and images presented here accompany the publication of the 2021/1 issue of the Journal for the Study of British Cultures: “Histories and Trajectories: British Cultural Studies in Germany”. The documents were selected by the author of the essay “How Cultural Studies Came to Germany” either because they are difficult to find, or simply for their visual poignancy.

If you have any issues with (or questions about) the documents, please contact the web admin by email. All images can be enlarged by clicking on them, and longer documents are provided as PDFs.


1971: Representatives of mid-level faculty demand the renewal of Landeskunde


1976: the CCCS presents itself on the pages of Ästhetik & Kommunikation


1976/1977: Gulliver 1 & 2 introduce Williams, Hall and the CCCS to Anglistik


1977: Informationen zur zweiten Kultur in Großbritannien


1978: Hard Times publishes Stuart Hall’s talk he gave in West-Berlin


1979: Englisch Amerikanische Studien publishes Stuart Hall’s talk he gave in Osnabrück


1979/1982/1983: German translations of classic CCCS publications appeal to readers beyond Anglistik


1980: The Bielefelder Oberstufenkolleg publishes Jürgen Kramer’s A Materialist Introduction to the Social History of Britain


1980/1983: The German New Left discusses the British New Left


1980/1984: Buttjes, Lehberger, Lange, Husemann and others try to introduce a reformed Landeskunde and/or Cultural Studies into schools


1982: Davids and Stinshoff publish Rise Like Lions


1983/1984: Gulliver issues 13 & 15


1988: Critical Theory Seminar with a focus on Cultural Studies


1989: AnGeRo: philologies fight for their right to exist


1989: Cultural Studies goes Anglistentag


1990: Invitation and reader for CULTURAL STUDIES in den Englischunterricht


1990/2001: Annual British and Cultural Studies Conferences, 1990-2001


1991/1992: Cultural Studies Newsletter 1 & 2


1992: First issue of British Studies Now, explaining the British Council’s take on Cultural Studies


1992: The Role of English in Germany and Europe post 1992


1993: The British Council advocates for British Studies in place of Cultural Studies


1993: Big news from Germany!


1994: British Studies Now shows Jürgen Kramer and Christopher Harvie visit the Third Warwick British Cultural Studies Seminar, August 1993


1994: Advertisement for the Journal for the Study of British Cultures in British Studies Now


1995: SPEX, a German popular music magazine, introduces Cultural Studies as an alternative to the Kulturindustriethese


1995: Richard Stinshoff interviewed in British Studies Now


1995: Advertisement for the Journal for the Study of British Cultures in The British Council’s British Studies Now Anthology


1995/1996: Cultural Studies conferences advertised in British Studies Now


1997: SPEX gives an update on Cultural Studies 


1997: Cultural Studies in the Neue Länder: the case of Dresden


1997/1999: Cultural Studies arrives in German academia


2001: Why we need a German Association for the Study of British Cultures


2001: Draft of the statutes of the German Association for the Study of British Cultures


2001: Minutes for the inaugural meeting of members of the German Association for the Study of British Cultures


2021: List of Cultural Studies Introductory Courses at English Departments of German Universities