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Webinar Series “Richtung Osten: Old Matters, New Chances, Different Perspectives”

Mar 01, 2021 Katrin Bahr

December 2020 – May 2021 Sparked by debates around the 30th anniversary of German unification last year, the webinar series…

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CFP – East German Studies Between Biography and Research Objectivity

Jan 25, 2021 Katrin Bahr

45th Annual German Studies Association Conference, Indianapolis, IN September 30-October 3, 2021 (Roundtable Discussion) At the time of German unification,…

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Statement on the Continuous Murdering of Black People

Jun 05, 2020 Katrin Bahr

We, members of the Third Generation Ost, are condemning the recent murders of Georg Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and…

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CFP – Minoritized Voices: Decolonizing the East German Experience

Jan 11, 2021 Katrin Bahr

45th Annual German Studies Association Conference Indianapolis, IN, September 30-October 3, 2021   Since the publication of Jana Hensel’s Zonenkinder…

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East German Authors – Our book recommendations for 2020

Dec 26, 2020 Katrin Bahr

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Christian Petzold’s Cinema of Haunted Figures

Mar 02, 2020 Claudia Sandberg

The first contribution to “Vereinigung” (unification), a subject that will be the main focus in our network during this year,…

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An Online Symposium 30 Years After the Fall of the Wall

Nov 07, 2019 Katrin Bahr, Victoria Rizo-Lenshyn, Claudia Sandberg, Juliane Schicker

This project examines political, social, and cultural movements and tendencies that existed in the German Democratic Republic, teasing out potentials,…

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Poetic Visibility: East German Poetry and Blackness in Farbe Bekennen (1986)

Aug 26, 2019 Kristina Pilz

In 1986 a group of Black German feminist poets stirred up the West German literary scene. As a result of…

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Memory Making and the Marketization of Socialism in East Germany

Jul 11, 2019 Katja H. Brunk

From NVA-inspired fashion, GDR-themed hotels and restaurants, GDR-product fairs and mail-order companies, to relaunched and newly created GDR brands like…

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Why studying the GDR still matters today – The GDR as Lived Experience

Jun 18, 2019 Katrin Bahr

In their introduction to the volume The GDR Today: New Interdisciplinary Approaches to East German History, Memory and Culture (2018),…

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  • Webinar Series “Richtung Osten: Old Matters, New Chances, Different Perspectives”
  • CFP – East German Studies Between Biography and Research Objectivity
  • CFP – Minoritized Voices: Decolonizing the East German Experience
  • East German Authors – Our book recommendations for 2020
  • Statement on the Continuous Murdering of Black People

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