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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How Cultural Studies Came to Germany: Historical Documents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.

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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

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Postgraduate Forum

Postgraduate Forum 2021

Date: 15–21 November 2021
Place: online
Deadline: 15 July 2021

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Conferences

BritCult 2021: Investigating the Super-Rich: Representations of Great Wealth in British Cultures

2021 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: 18–19 November 2021
Place: online
Organisers: Leipzig University
Deadline: 31 March 2021

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Graduate and Postgraduate Workshops

Workshop 2021: The Place of History in Cultural Studies

Date: 7–8 May 2021
Place: online
Organisers: University of Salzburg

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Postgraduate Forum

Postgraduate Forum 2020

Date: 16-20 November 2020
Place: online
Deadline: 31 July 2020

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Conferences

BritCult 2020: British Borders

2020 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: 19–21 November 2020
Place: online
Organisers: Saarland University (Saarbrücken)
Deadline: 8 March 2020

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BritCult Award

BritCult Award 2019

Lisa Ahrens. (Interactive) Heterotopic Spaces and the Politics of Destabilisation: The Transformative Potential of Black British and British Muslim Literature. PhD thesis.

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Graduate and Postgraduate Workshops

Workshop 2020 (Cancelled)

Date: 15–16 May 2020 (cancelled due to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic)
Place: University of Salzburg

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Graduate and Postgraduate Workshops

Workshop 2019

Date: 17–18 May 2019
Place: University of Hildesheim