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Katya Krylova
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Senior Lecturer in German, Film & Visual Culture @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social. Linguist. Austrianist. Literature, film & visual culture scholar. Views my own.
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From French and Spanish to Albanian and Farsi, languages have opened doors for me, grown understanding and taught me to see the world in full colour. Cutting them from schools and universities doesn’t just shrink the curriculum, it shrinks the life choices that all students should enjoy.
Languages: The Educational Superpower We Can’t Afford to Lose
Across schools and universities, language departments are under threat. Courses are being cut, departments downsized, and opportunities to learn languages are diminishing. The justification? Langua…
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November 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Letter from International Researchers of Modern Languages Regarding the Proposed Closure of All Modern Languages Programs at the University of Nottingham
Dear University Council, President Norman and Deputy Vice-Chancellor Kingman, We, the undersigned, write with grave concern at the announcement of the proposed closure of all Modern Languages program...
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November 24, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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22 November 1959: the Sandmännchen appears for the first time on East German television www.deutschlandfunk.de/vor-55-jahre...
November 22, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Katya’s presentation concerned 5 recent films on Austria’s NS past, showing that progressive depictions of NS past was neither a lineal or even procress.
November 22, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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22 November 1948: the manufacture of garden gnomes is banned in the Soviet Occupation Zone for being 'too bourgeois' www.br.de/radio/bayern...
22. November 1948: Aus für Gartenzwerge in der DDR | BR.de
Gartenzwerge tragen rote Mützen. Trotzdem sind sie im Sozialismus unerwünscht, lernen die Porzelliner in Thüringen. Die Zwergen-Produktion wird offiziell verboten. Zu bürgerlich, der Bursche.
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November 22, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Kendra’s paper considers the narratology of silences in the two novels, exploring the queer dimensions of silence, and the importance of silence in discussions of heritage, culture, and family
November 22, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Our second paper moves over to #AustrianStudies, with Katya Krylova’s paper titled “Contemporary Austrian Memory Culture on Screen”
November 22, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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Next up is Katy Heady, with a paper on Jewish male reactions to female suffrage in the mid-1920s. Katy’s paper has considered perspectives from liberal and orthodox authors on women’s political participation in Jewish communities
November 22, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Our next paper is from Lorna MacCarron, who emphasises that going through menopause does not mean getting old in her paper “Embodied and Empowered: Aging Bodies in Ulkrike Draesner’s “Eine Frau wird älter””
November 22, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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#Day2 of the annual W+IGS conference begins! Out first paper is by Gwendolin Choi on “Staging Otherness, Staging the Self: Human Zoos, Exhibitions and the Colonial Imaginary”
November 22, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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hetanshah.bsky.social
Such a key point about cutting back on language provision - it’s not good for science and it’s not good for growth
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Max Hegarty, who is studying aerospace engineering, said the proposals also affect students on other courses. He has taken modules in German, and said this enabled him to do an internship in Germany. "So much of our European engineering is based in Germany," he said. "While a lot of people are willing to learn English, not returning that effort to them is not great for that collaboration, for that international co-operation that we need. "Cutting funding for modern languages courses serves only to paralyse our growth as a country."
November 8, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Save Modern Languages courses at the University of Leicester
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November 12, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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W+IGS are saddened to hear today's announcement of the University of Nottingham's plans to close all modern language degrees.

Read our joint statement, written together with our colleagues at #AGS and the #GLA on the AGS website:
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November 9, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Stop the removal of Modern Languages courses at the University of Nottingham!
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November 7, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Me going into the new academic year: youtu.be/nA-UBVKQFM0?...
Werner Herzog - Read
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September 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Good to see Ingeborg Bachmann in The Nation:
The Ghosts of Ingeborg Bachmann
Haunted by a dark past, the poet and novelist tried to explore the limits of language itself.
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September 11, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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This week from the archive: Bohemia Lies by the Sea by Ingeborg Bachmann, translated by Frank Beck and published in PN Review 228, March - April 2016.

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Bohemia Lies by the Sea by Ingeborg Bachmann, translated by Frank Beck
PN Review 228, March - April 2016
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September 11, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Bertolt Brecht and Helene Weigel return to the Eastern Sector of #Berlin after wartime exile in 1948.
September 11, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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📢📢📢 Upcoming Conference: 'Rethinking Weimar Cinema' (University of Oxford, 17 - 19 June 2026)

Full Call for Papers: drive.google.com/file/d/1pxBI...

Deadline: 31 October 2025

Please share widely with anyone who may be interested in joining us in Oxford next year!
Call for Papers: Rethinking Weimar Cinema (University of Oxford, 17 - 19 June 2026) Keynote Speakers: Dr Paul Dobryden (University of Virginia) Dr Sara F. Hall (University of Illinois Chicago) Dr Qinna Shen (Bryn Mawr College) Film Screenings: TBC, in collaboration with the Ultimate Picture Palace and Weimar 100 Organizers: Dr Lawrence Alexander (Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford) and Dr Molly Harrabin (University of St. Andrews/University of Warwick). Deadline for submitting proposals: 31 October 2025 The centennial years of the Weimar Republic (1918-1933) have seen a rise in academic engagement with and public interest in this period of German film history. As one of the most dynamic and experimental periods in global cinema, Weimar film has long been recognized for its aesthetic innovations, sociopolitical commentary, and influence on subsequent film movements. Yet these anniversary commemorations have not only reaffirmed the significance of this era, they have also opened the door for new questions, perspectives, and critical paradigms. This conference seeks to build on this momentum by revisiting Weimar cinema through fresh critical lenses and innovative methodologies, inviting participants to reconsider its cultural, political, and aesthetic significance in light of new archival discoveries, theoretical frameworks, and interdisciplinary approaches. The conference will take stock of our current understanding of Weimar film to map where this field may be heading as well as offering new genealogies of those images, figures, and texts that have defined it thus far. In addition to traditional conference papers, we welcome contributions from archivists, practice-based researchers, and works of videographic criticism. Please submit proposals of up to 300 words to lawrence.alexander@rsa.ox.ac.uk and mlh21@st-andrews.ac.uk by 31st October 2025. Notices of acceptance will be sent out in December. A limited number of bursaries are available to contribute to travel and accommodation costs for postgraduate and early-career speakers. This event is hosted by the Weimar Film Network and funded by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) as part of a three-year Promoting German Studies networking grant awarded to the German Screen Studies Network, co-directed by Dr Paul Flaig and Dr Dora Osborne.
September 5, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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The MLitt in 'European and Latin American Literatures and Cultures' @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social allows students to undertake in-depth study of aspects of literature, film, history, politics, thought, and culture in....Read more: www.abdn.ac.uk/study/postgr...
September 3, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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uk.diplo.de
Your morning coffee/cuppa really does make you happier ☕️😃

That's according to a 🇬🇧🇩🇪 collaboration between researchers at Warwick & Bielefeld University, which found that caffeine consumption in the morning left people feeling significantly happier and more enthusiastic. #ResearchInGermany
a man in a suit and tie drinking from a white cup
ALT: a man in a suit and tie drinking from a white cup
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September 2, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Don't worry academics, it's still only August 32nd. Still plenty of time!
September 1, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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Starting school for the first time can be daunting, so children in Germany are given a 'school cone' (Schultüte) filled with goodies (usually sweets and stationary) to help them ease in to their new routine. 🥹
September 1, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Just enjoying the dynamism of English modernist Cyril Power’s linocut ‘The Tube Station’ (1932)
August 31, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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Morning kitten

Cock-a-doodle-meow!
August 29, 2025 at 12:57 PM