🚨WIGS are looking for a new Treasurer! 🚨 This is an exciting role which gives you the opportunity to become a core committee member of WIGS. Interested? Contact chair [email protected] or outgoing Treasurer Ina Linge [email protected] to find out more. #germanstudies

We are delighted to announce that registration is now open for our Women in German Studies Annual Conference 2024 in Cork 4-6 July. The conference on Boundaries & Barriers is co-organised by Dr Rachel MagShamhráin of UCC. All welcome! uccshop.ie/shop/women-in-…

The international conference of Women in German at @ucc this week has run into a bit of a pilots’ strike. So, we’ve gone hybrid. If you would like to register to attend the WIGS conference remotely, you can now do so via the UCC shop. uccshop.ie/product-catego…

The WIGS committee has arrived!

Panel 3 is all about narratives. Clara Busch and Marieke Wienecke are talking about emotionality and gender fluidity in their papers on Shida Bazyar’s Drei Kameradinnen and Kim de Horizon’s Blutbuch #wigsucc2024

Kicking off R McGovern's conference on 'Boundaries & Barriers' UCC Ireland is a paper from WIGS representatives (Prof Ingrid Sharp, Dr Corinne Painter, & Louise Earnshaw) on the cocoon of academia & how to break out of it with cross-disciplinary, cross-hierarchical, & CREATIVE projects.

Charlotte Anne Oakes giving a fascinating paper on The Flying Lesbians and their transnational reach

⁦R McGovern⁩ asks the pertinent questions: who belongs to German Studies, and who does German studies belong to?

Fátima Borrmann talks eugenics, generations and Weimar women writers

Final day of the WIGS conference in Cork. Three great papers followed by the AGM. Thanks so much for hosting R McGovern

Our final conference panel kicks off with Doris McGonagill talking about Sonderzeichen and boundary making in language and gender #uccwigs2024

Doris McGonnagill on the reintroduction of barriers and borders in language use- inclusive language as resistance to the far right

Our next paper is on the equally crucial topic of 'easy read' (or LS Leichte Sprache in German), including its use by German history museums. As Chloe Paver points out, the generation of these texts is often problematic. WIGS UCC Ireland Women in German conference Day 3!

And now!!!! for the grand finale, my wonderful PhD student and collaborator, Marnina Winkler, on archives and access. Researching the archived papers of Gerald Goldberg, she asks what is an artefact. WIGS

Marnina Winkler has constructed her own cocoon for her research on artefacts and guardianship

Thanks to our conference organisers R McGovern and Marnina Winkler from our WIGS committee members! Thanks to all our presenters for their excellent papers and contributions to discussion.

A great opportunity for one of our members to join the friendly team in Leeds

Thanks again for your amazing contribution to the WIGS committee

Great to see our members well represented at AGS conference in Leeds. Looking forward to the next two days of discussion and exchange of ideas