German at Leeds Prof Ingrid Sharp Ingrid was amazing as my Master's supervisor. Well done 👍

Amazing news for our Professor Prof Ingrid Sharp , who has been nominated as one of 400 feminist women from Leeds to be celebrated in a new public sculpture! What a wonderful honour and a crowning recognition of her decades championing feminist research. leeds-art.ac.uk/whats-happenin…

Prof. Ingo Cornils is delighted to announce that the new issue of literatur für leser:innen is out:

Kunst in E.T.A. Hoffmann – E.T.A. Hoffmann in der Kunst. Intermediale Aspekte seines Werkes und Wirkens
Herausgegeben von Ricarda Schmidt und Sheila Dickson blog.studiumdigitale.uni-frankfurt.de/literatur-fuer…

Would you like to spend some time researching with our German at Leeds colleagues, or with other colleagues across our incredibly diverse and interdisciplinary School? You can apply to our Visiting Research Fellows scheme! We'd love to host you.

Our own Prof Thea Pitman will contribute to this year’s University of Leeds Be Curious event with a session titled ‘Can You Spot an Image That’s Been Made by AI?’
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The UK is poorer without Erasmus: it’s time to rejoin the European exchange programme

Check out this piece in The Conversation by Sascha Stollhans on why we need to shift our mindset towards valuing languages & internationalisation
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theconversation.com/the-uk-is-poor… via The Conversation

It’s a beautiful day in Leeds for our post-application open day! Director of German Helen and German society president Stan are enjoying chatting about studying here to German enthusiasts.

How brilliant to welcome A level students to a German masterclass in our iconic Parkinson Building today! We had workshops on everything from speaking skills to poetry, feminist rap and film. We're looking forward to welcoming more Germanists at our offer-holder day tomorrow.

Congratulations to Hilary and Corinne on this great summary of work in #GermanStudies published in 2022 - delighted to see New Perspectives on Contemporary German Science Fiction, ed. by Lars Schmeink and Ingo Cornils (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) featured!

Congratulations to graduate Natalie Gee pm the LCS Leeds Prize for Outstanding Performance in German, for the best performance in a German Final Year Project.
Her FYP combined research on translation in the art world & her own translations of German visual art texts into English.

At #FGLS2024 Cambridge University with Anna Havinga to present our Linguistics in MFL Project co-creation project: doi.org/10.1002/berj.4… Great to have an entire panel dedicated to #linguistics in language teaching and learning! fgls.ac.uk/events/program…

📣The DAAD/ILCS German Language Competition 2024 is live!
Become a reporter and write the front page of your own newspaper in the German-speaking world. The catch: This is the final edition of 2024!
All levels of German learners can win exciting prizes. daad.org.uk/en/about-us/wh…

Good luck to Leeds PGR Louise Earnshaw, who is presenting her research on Austrian PoWs at this conference in Graz!
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Come along to our next event which is focused on funding and fellowships - April 23rd, 10.30-11.30 - please share widely! All are welcome! UCFL @ucflangs.bsky.social

The International Socialist Women’s Movement (1907-1917)
People’s History Museum, Manchester
October 17-18 2024
Organised with the generous support of the The Leverhulme Trust German at Leeds drbenlewis.com

Good luck to Prof. Finch for her multidisciplinary workshop on 'Queer Experiences in the Holocaust' next Tuesday.

Our own Louise Earnshaw has been shortlisted for a Partnership Award as a Postgraduate Researcher of the Year! We're so proud of your amazing contributions to research culture, Louise - toi, toi, toi for the awards.

School language teachers are invited to attend an MFL teacher conference held on the University of Leeds campus on the 19th June 2024.

A FREE event which will offer great CPD & networking opportunities!

#languagelearning #mfltwitterati #mflchat

Sign up:
artsoutreach.leeds.ac.uk/our-activities…

And another huge congratulations to our own Dr Corinne Painter on her new #OpenAccess publication, Painter, C. (2024). Women in Politics and the Public Sphere: Munich 1918/1919. European History Quarterly, 54(2), 319-336. doi.org/10.1177/026569…

'The learning of languages is a far-sighted and wise investment', Ambassador Miguel Berger writes in the latest edition of the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office Inside Out magazine.