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Applications are invited from well-qualified candidates with a good honours degree in German (Upper Second or First) for up to two Research Studentships made available by the Friends of Germanic Studies at the IGRS. The Studentships are designed to support research in any field of German studies.... read more

The Institute is delighted to announce that the 2013 William Robson-Scott Travelling Scholarship has been awarded to Michael Wood (Edinburgh). Established in memory of Professor W.D. Robson-Scott, Honorary Director of the Institute of Germanic Studies from 1968 to 1973, the scholarship is awarded... read more

Steffen Stadthaus has been awarded this year’s prize for the promotion of regional culture in Westphalia-Lippe. The award is in recognition of his research into the unpublished work of the writer Gustav Sack (1885-1916), and the exhibition he initiated in the Museum for Westphalian Literature... read more

The Institute is delighted to announce that the 2012 Jethro Bithell Prize has been awarded to Steven Jefferson.  The Alice Emily Bithell Prize has been awarded to Ghoncheh Dolatshahi, also of King’s College London. Established in memory of Dr Jethro Bithell, who had been Reader and Head... read more

The lives of refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe now seem to us extraordinary: leaving behind family and friends, taking with them from their homeland little more than the will to resist, they rebuilt their lives in an alien and sometimes unwelcoming society. Yet many, like Jewish actors Martin... read more