Andrea Hammel

Last session at the #AGS on the Elias Canetti project

The inaugural panel continues: we’ve heard Sophia Buck on her fascinating project on “Enemy Studies”, charting claims about “Two Germanies” esp in UK German Studies. Now Bill Niven talking about meta-memory, meta-memorials and the Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas

The AGS Conference @ags-gbi.bsky.social starts today! Browse our German Studies titles: bit.ly/4lUraW8

authors incl.
@claudiakreklau.bsky.social
@herrehrig.bsky.social
@duerrbortolotti.bsky.social
@philiphahn.bsky.social
@chewschaper.bsky.social
@nasimaselim.bsky.social
@elizabethward.bsky.social

Looking forward to seeing everyone at AGS 2025! Please stop by the #PeterLangOxford stand to say hello! @ags-gbi.bsky.social

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The first panel and the first break is behind us (and the coffee is drinkable ☕️👍). Now for Panel 2: convened by Gillian Pye and Anne Fuchs, this parallel panel is on “the good enough life” in Germanaphone literature and film. First speaker is Maria Roca-Lizarazu on Shida Bazyar’s Drei Kameradinnen

Hello #AGS2025! Call by our stand to check out these and more brand new titles in #GermanStudies. buff.ly/S0B7Ihh @ags-gbi.bsky.social

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Beautiful readings and fascinating discussion from Natasha Kelly - what a treat! Fortunately, for those who aren’t able to be here, the event was filmed so keep an eye out for the recordings. Now drinks and dinner! 🥂🍽️

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After the first few panels and before the Conference Dinner, a plenary many of us having been really looking forward to: the President's Guest Natasha A. Kelly in conversation with Kirstin Gwyer 🎤👌

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After an aperitif in the charming courtyard, dinner in the elegant dining hall of St John’s College

Entrance to an old stone college building in Oxford with an open door leading to a grassed quad

Back in St John’s College for Day 2 of #AGS2025 🙂

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A classroom photographed from outside through the window with the words “Prestwich Room” written on the window pane

Full classrooms at 9am - delegates at #AGS2025 are making the most of a great choice of parallel panels in the first session of day 2

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Last session of talks on Day 2 at #AGS2025 is (for me and all the other delegates packing the Prestwich Room) the first of two panels on Black Literature and Culture in German…

@ags-gbi.bsky.social snippets

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An audience equipped with Austrian wine listens as Henrike Lähnemann begins the festivities around the opening of the exhibition “German in the World” at the Taylor Institution #AGS2025

Hermynia zur Mühlen is absolutely overdue for rediscovery. Great thread. She is included in @andreahammel.bsky.social's chapter 'Refugees from National Socialism in Britain' in The 1940s volume of Bloomsbury's Decades Series (available in paperback). Also, Andrea's 2008 book on women refugee writers

Parting by Sebastian Haffner: the forgotten German novel of the early 1930s that’s become a bestseller Abschied was written just before the Nazi takeover. It reads in the breathless, immediate manner it was conceived.

Writing in @uk.theconversation.com, @andreahammel.bsky.social explains that Abschied (Parting) by Sebastian Haffner is dominating Germany’s bestseller charts over 25 years after the author's death, after the manuscript was discovered in a drawer.

More: tinyurl.com/3788hzvp

Parting by Sebastian Haffner: the forgotten German novel of the early 1930s that’s become a bestseller Abschied was written just before the Nazi takeover. It reads in the breathless, immediate manner it was conceived.

Mewn erthygl yn @uk.theconversation.com, mae @andreahammel.bsky.social yn egluro bod Abschied (Parting) gan Sebastian Haffner ar frig siartiau gwerthu llyfrau'r Almaen dros 25 mlynedd wedi marwolaeth yr awdur, wedi i'r llawysgrif gael ei darganfod mewn drôr.

Mwy: tinyurl.com/3788hzvp

Parting by Sebastian Haffner: the forgotten German novel of the early 1930s that’s become a bestseller Abschied was written just before the Nazi takeover. It reads in the breathless, immediate manner it was conceived.

I wrote a short article on Sebastian Haffner's Abschied
theconversation.com/parting-by-s...

Busy launch of our exhibition Unsettled Lives: War and Displacement in Wales

We are ready for the launch of our exhibition Unsettled Lives: War and Displacement in Wales. After Word War II over 60 Mio people were displaced in Europe, including Wales. The exhibition also shows work by more recent arrivals from Syria and Ukraine.

Our new exhibition

Historical research informing current political debate: my research on the Kindertransport quoted in the Lords

New Holocaust learning tool for schools in Wales Secondary school pupils will hear the stories of Holocaust survivors and refugees who made Wales their home, thanks to a new educational resource created by Aberystwyth University and the Jewish Histo...

Some news coverage for our new resources and podcast!

www.cambrian-news.co.uk/news/new-hol...

#holocaust #education #wales

Shaping Nations: Migration, Community & Belonging in Wales Join us for an interactive online workshop delivered in partnership with the Centre for Movement of People at Aberystwyth University.

We're very pleased to be running this new workshop series alongside @welshrefcouncil.bsky.social on the history of migration in Wales as part of the #ShapingNations project. Our first is on 2 April 9.30-11am. You can book a place at:

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shaping-na...

@andreahammel.bsky.social

Road from Glasgow 2024 to PictCon 1: Naomi Mitchison, When the Bough Breaks(1924) and Travel Light (1952) as SFF Texts Part of my series of posts on Scottish SFF, which began in the run-up to the Glasgow WorldCon and is now continuing on to PictCon 1 in November 2025. This is also part of my series of posts conside…

My #ScottishSFF blogpost series continues with a post on two novellas by Naomi Mitchison: When the Bough Breaks (1924) and Travel Light (1952). Travel Light (1952) is one of Mitchison’s better-known works. It’s a fun feminist fairytale reworking of the Oedipus myth w/ talking bears and dragons (1/).

Sunday Supplement - Ukraine, higher education, deliberate deception, German elections and the life of Margaret Lloyd George - BBC Sounds Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a review of the Sunday papers.

This morning I was interviewed about the upcoming German election.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Cover of the Routledge Companion to Working-Class Literature, edited by Ben Clarke. (Brown border surrounding abstract urban/industrial landscape).

Contents of Part IV: Neoliberalism and the Future of Working-Class Literature. 27th and last chapter is: 'Proletarian Futures: Some Representations of the Working Class in Science Fiction' by Nick Hubble.

Beginning of my chapter (27), 'Proletarian Futures: Some Representations of the Working Class in Science Fiction'. I start by talking about the Salvage Collective's 'The Tragedy of the Worker: Towards the Proletarocene' (2021).

Ooooh. Contributor copy!! Fresh through the letterbox: The Routledge Companion to Working-Class Literature, edited by Ben Clarke. The last chapter is by me: 'Proletarian Futures: Some Representations of the Working Class in Science Fiction'. Available in a library near you, hopefully!

The Holocaust and Wales Podcast · Holocaust Resources Wales · The Holocaust and Wales explores how the Holocaust impacted Wales. We look at the stories of those who fled from Nazi tyranny to build better lives for themselves...

We have produced four podcasts open.spotify.com/show/4QdFJmS...

Having received two very enthuiastic reviews from readers today, I thought I would put it out there that you can buy my book for 10 pounds for the paperback online.

Picture of map of Wales on the ground in the centre of Pembroke Castle. Castles are marked on the map. Pembroke is marked in the foreground. Mid-picture a German woman is standing on Aberystwyth.

At Pembroke Castle in the drizzle today. Birth place of Henry Tudor (Henry VII) and one of the key historical sites of the Anglo-Norman conquest of the Isles (incl. the 1169-72 invasion of Ireland). @andreahammel.bsky.social is standing on Aberystwyth. (1/)