AGS Online Conference 2021
The Eighty-Fourth Meeting will be hosted online by Swansea University from:
Wednesday 1st to Friday 3rd September, 2021
The lead panel of the Swansea conference will be on the theme German Futures, Future German/ies.
The online conference will be free of charge but you must be a member of the Association for German Studies in Great Britain and Ireland. Find out how to become a member.
Programme for AGS Sept 1-3. 2021 (no links)
All delegates who have registered for the conference via the online form should now have received the Full Conference Programme with Links and Abstracts by email.
If you registered but have not received the Conference Programme with the access links, please contact Paul Leworthy (Paul[dot]Leworthy[at]ed[dot]ac[dot]uk).
Likewise, if you have not yet registered for the conference but would like to attend, please contact Paul Leworthy (Paul[dot]Leworthy[at]ed[dot]ac[dot]uk).
AGS Conference Reports
The AGS President’s Report, a document containing reports from the Women in German Studies (WIGS), University Council of Modern Languages (UCML), German Screen Studies Network (GSSN) and the Forum for Germanic Language Studies (FGLS) and the Institute of Modern Languages Research (IMLR) organisations and networks, and the DAAD’s report can all be found below.
Members are invited to read these reports ahead of the conference and will have the opportunity to comment or ask any questions about any point raised at the Business Meeting on Friday morning.
Swansea Exhibition Preview
The exhibition section “Poets by the Sea” – originally planned for September 2020 – will open at the National Waterfront Museum later this year. Four panels as well as the wall of video messages below will reflect back on the celebrated Writers in Residence programme at Swansea. As a bilingual preview, here are two short recollections: one in English, the other in German. Professor Colin Riordan (Cardiff) gives insight into the origins of the Centre for Contemporary German Literature (CCGL). Berlin-based author Kerstin Hensel shares both memories and her own poems inspired by her time in Swansea two decades ago.
Further information and samples of the exhibition, curated by Dr Anja Gerigk, initiated by Professor Julian Preece, and assisted by Rhoslyn Beckwith, are available here. You will likely be able to visit the displays in person in October.