The Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) invites papers for the panel After the Fall, Behind the Wall - East European Representations of the German-speaking West organized in the framework of the 2012 convention on March 15-18, 2012 in Rochester, New York. Deadline for submissions: September 30, 2011.

The Swansea Unievrsity and the Sheffield University will organize a conference on German Women's Writing in its European Context, 1700-1900 (Women Writers of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Conference Series) on November 25-26, 2010. Venue: Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London. Keynote speakers: Norbert Bachleitner (Vienna), Magdalene Heuser (Osnabrück/Berlin), Susanne Kord (London). Deadline for submissions: September 30, 2009.

The Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung (ZZF) in Potsdam, Germany, is pleased to invite applications for two Leibniz Summer Fellowships in 2009 to study German and European History in the 20th century. These two-month fellowships provide an opportunity to pursue individual research in Germany while participating in the academic life of one of Germany’s major research centres on History. Deadline for application: January 31, 2009.