Excitedly preparing for the CEUROS @unioflimerick.bsky.social conference on Cultural Memory – Memory Culture(s). Europe’s Past, Present and Future. I'll be speaking on Poetic Techniques of Queer Memory: Antje Rávik
Strubel, Kim de l’Horizon and Sasha Marianna Salzmann www.ul.ie/ceuros/event...

JOB: Montague Burton fellow in Jewish Studies at the University of Leeds. Come and work with us! The Centre for Jewish Studies is seeking a dynamic postdoctoral fellow with strong research and teaching interests in post-Holocaust visualities/materialities. jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Danke fuers Zuhoeren!

Helen Finch über Sasha Marianna Salzmann und Mirna Funk.

Thank you so much @ceschmidt.bsky.social - the @wienerlibrary.bsky.social is a real intellectual home for me, and it was such a privilege to be able to talk there. You have the most wonderful audience!

Last evening event until September! Thank you to @helencfinch.bsky.social @ankahajkova.bsky.social and to all who attended for a smart, illuminating evening on German-Jewish writers after the Holocaust @wienerlibrary.bsky.social

In conversation with the iconic @ankahajkova.bsky.social about Holocaust testimony, feminist rage and the tricky question of artistic quality in Holocaust literature. Thank you so much to @wienerlibrary.bsky.social for wonderful hosting and such a thoughtful audience!

All prepped for Helen’s talk in one hour! @wienerlibrary.bsky.social @helencfinch.bsky.social

Graduation is always a wonderful and iconic day, particularly wie one of your @lcsleeds.bsky.social graduates drives their Trabi up to campus! Huge congratulations to the German graduating class of 2025, and to Dr. Corey Hartley #ProudDoktormutter

Next Wednesday I will discuss Helen Finch’s new book at @wienerlibrary.bsky.social
It promises to be a great event and you all should come!
NB in person

So proud of my PhD supervisee Eden Hills for this important and very timely article: Trans-Exclusionary, Transnational: Gender-Critical Feminism and the Overstatement of Harm in the UK and Germany doi.org/10.33134/rds...

Unordentlich?

16 July, starring @helencfinch.bsky.social (@lcsleeds.bsky.social) and @ankahajkova.bsky.social (Warwick):

I'd love you to be there, but tbh am also quite burned out by hybrid events!

It was a delight to review Gillian Selikowitz's 'Sebald's Jews' - the Sebald wars may be back... Selikowitz shows how Sebald de-individualizes the Jewish characters he purports to memorialize, & how his troping of Jews reflects antisemitic tropes in German thought muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

I'm excited to discuss my book, 'German-Jewish Life Writing in the Aftermath of the Holocaust', on 30.07.25 in @wienerlibrary.bsky.social, with @ankahajkova.bsky.social. The Library has a close connection with H.G. Adler, who inspired my project. Do come!
wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/book-t...

I've signed this letter stating exactly why feminists oppose this transphobic Supreme Court ruling, and would encourage any academic colleagues who feel it's appropriate to do so too. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

As a lesbian & a researcher in queer studies, I'm horrified at the recent Supreme Court ruling stating that trans women are not to be protected as women under the Equality Act 2010. This places trans, intersex and nonbinary people at huge risk, and is an attack on all of us in the LGBTQI community.

'German-Jewish Life Writing in the Aftermath of the Holocaust is a highly useful and important book for the emergent fields of German Jewish Studies, Holocaust Studies, comparative literature & German Studies. The clear language makes it accessible.' Thanks Agnes Mueller! muse.jhu.edu/article/953176

This year's University Holocaust Memorial Day event, #HMD, on Monday 27 January marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. I'll be sharing the story of my family members who were among the first Jews to be deported to Auschwitz in 1942. ahc.leeds.ac.uk/fine-art/eve...

It was a joy to review Syd Zolf’s No One’s Witness, a deeply felt response to the poetics of trauma. Helen Finch, No One’s Witness: A Monstrous Poetics. Syd Zolf, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Volume 38, Issue 3, Winter 2024, Pages 425–427, doi.org/10.1093/hgs/...

Submit a proposal in Queer Studies - calling all emerging scholars and especially Germanists! The Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Working Group at Peter Lang Publishing is delighted to announce the 2025 Peter Lang Emerging Scholars Competition in Queer Studies. www.peterlang.com/2025-emergin...

For #LGBTHistoryMonth, I’ll be speaking on 28 Feb about my research into queer Holocaust history at this University of Leeds LGBTQ Staff Network event. All welcome (and free refreshments too) www.eventbrite.com/e/lgbt-resea...