Alice Goff

Research Position (Postdoc) <div style="text-align: justify;">In 2025, the Chair for Historical Theory at Bielefeld University was selected for funding through th...

I am delighted to share that a 4-year postdoctoral position is now open at Bielefeld University, as part of my project "Towards a Material-Oriented Theory of History", generously funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. I encourage interested candidates to apply uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/432...

Please consider submitting an abstract for the 2025-26 German Studies Seminar at the Newberry Library! Abstracts are due June 6; meetings can take place in person or on Zoom.

It's a great way to get feedback on your current project!
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Save the Chicago Reader - Leor Galil's Fundraiser on Donorbox I published my first Reader story in the summer of 2010. It concerned a Logan Square DIY space called Strangelight, which operated out of a storefront in the Congress Theater. I was 24 at the time. Be...

I wrote a brief appeal about why you should donate to the Chicago Reader to keep my newsroom afloat. Please donate if you can

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The God Behind the Marble: The Fate of Art in the German Aesthetic State. By Alice Goff Alice Goff’s scholarly monograph offers an ambitious and subtle exploration of the role of art and aesthetics in German cultural politics as well as of the

Pleased to have my ambitious subtleties recognized in Brian Vick's generous review of The God Behind the Marble in the Journal of Social History. doi.org/10.1093/jsh/...

Captive Cosmopolitans: Black Mariners and the World of South Atlantic Slavery is officially here!!

Order from @uncpress.bsky.social to receive 30 percent off! uncpress.org/book/9781469...

thanks, ada!

Book cover for Taking Stock: Media Inventories in the German Nineteenth Century with title, editor info, and a stack of books on the cover.

This wonderful project edited by @ilinca.bsky.social, Sean Franzel, and Petra McGillen—i.e., the most amazing 19c-ists—just got published. You might like to put in a library order or request it via ILL.
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A project which owes everything to its contributors: @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social , @catrionamac.bsky.social , @paulbabinski.bsky.social , @alicegoff.bsky.social; @heiditworek.bsky.social, @bryan.is + many other brilliant people who might not be on this site yet

I made a starter pack for art historians, art critics, other people who write about art, and a few friendly historians of other things that include visual culture. Let me know if you want to be added!
go.bsky.app/AcqTDgg

@jeannetteoho.bsky.social and I are hosting the 5th!!! DDGC conference in the spring. On interdependence and solidarity formations in German studies and the arts. Let us know if you have questions about it. The submission form does not require traditional abstracts.

Me too please!

I made a starter pack for German History!!! Please repost, and comment if you'd like to be added! :)

go.bsky.app/QMHzmog