Call for Proposals: WiG Out Week 2020
Deadline: January 15, 2020 WiG Out Week is an array of WiG-endorsed events happening anywhere and everywhere the week of March 23-28, 2020. Potential ideas include regional symposia, (virtual) lectures, film screenings, book discussions, feminist pedagogy workshops,...
Rethinking Black German Studies: Approaches, Interventions and Histories Volume Features Many WiGgies
Drs. Tiffany N. Florvil (University of New Mexico) and Vanessa D. Plumly (SUNY New Paltz) recently published the co-edited volume Rethinking Black German Studies: Approaches, Interventions and Histories (Peter Lang International Academic Publishers: Oxford, 2018)....
New Issue of Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies on Precarity/Heimatlosigkeit
Hot off the presses! Check out the latest issue of Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies on Precarity/Heimatlosigkeit (Vol. 54: 4). Co-edited by WiGgies Dr. Gabi Kathöfer and Dr. Beverly Weber, the special issue features work by WiGgies throughout. Find the complete...
Publication by Jennifer Askey in Feminists Among Us: Resistance and Advocacy in Library Leadership
Dr. Jennifer Askey co-authored an essay in the award-winning volume Feminists Among Us: Resistance and Advocacy in Library Leadership (Eds. Shirley Lew and Baharak Yousefi, 2017). The essay, titled "One Library, Two Cultures," is available here. Even though the...
WiG Webinar, 2018: Teaching and Working for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in our Classrooms and at our Institutions.
Monday, November 26, 8pm-10pm EST (Note Date Change!) Presenters: Nicole Coleman, Lisabeth Hock, Amy Young Women in German members know from our work as scholars, teachers, providers of countless hours of service work, and activists, that forms of structural...
#FeminismToMe Initiative at the Goethe-Institut Washington
The Goethe-Institut Washington is initiating a social media campaign using the hashtag #FeminismToMe as part of an event series on the topic of feminism in the digital age. Beginning in late October, posts made to Instagram using this hashtag will be displayed in...
Gegenwartsliteratur Theme Issue: Emine Sevgi Özdamar
The latest issue of Gegenwartsliteratur, edited by Paul Michael Lützeler and Thomas W. Kniesche, focuses on the work of Emine Sevgi Özdamar and features contributions by several WiGgies, including Leslie A. Adelson of Cornell University, Beverly M. Weber of University...
Women Writing War: From German Colonialism through World War I, Available 9/20
Drs. Barbara Kosta, Katharina von Hammerstein, and Julie Shoults' Women Writing War: From German Colonialism through World War I will be published by De Gruyter on September 20. The edited volume, which grew out of a panel at WiG 2014, features essays by many WiGgies...
Ongoing WiGgie Projects
Here are some ongoing projects we know about: check them regularly for updates!
Feminist German Studies
An online database and archive of links, articles, course and pedagogical tools, and other resources on intersectional feminism and gender studies in the German-speaking countries
Feminist Scholar Activism at the Digital Feminist Collective
The Feminist Scholar Activism project began as a series of interventions created by participants in the WiG-sponsored seminar at GSA 2017.
Grenzenlos Deutsch
an open-access curriculum for beginning German
The WiG HerStory Project
An archive and exhibit of WiG history