If you don't know https://5calls.org/, visit this site and make some calls in support of the IFLE (International and Foreign Language Education) to restore this and other funding that has been unlawfully stopped and units "abolished" in the Department of Education as of March 12, 2025. Fulbright is also under fire. @ach @kfitz @schopie1 @nehgov
Sonja Fritzsche
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PhD Prof. of German Studies & Associate Dean, Michigan State U., #sciencefiction, #film, #worldSF, #autismlifewriting, #DEIB, #LCTLs, #CPIL, #ProjektJoy, #ValuesEnacted academia, #Arts&HumanitiesExtension, #healthhumanities, #2024DelphiAward
Looking at an old leadership mini-blog post from March 5, 2020, yes right before the world turned upside down yet again, I found this today:
In Disturbing the Peace (1985-86/1990, 181-182), Czech writer, human rights activist, and statesman Václav Havel spoke:
"Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously headed for early success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed. The more unpromising the situation in which we demonstrate hope, the deeper that hope is. Hope is not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out…. It is also this hope, above all, that gives us the strength to live and continually to try new things, even in conditions that seem as hopeless as ours do, here and now."
Still challenged by the shift from X and finding that my primary professional organizations and many of my colleagues are still using X as their primary space for professional communication. I've shut down for a while trying to prioritize writing projects and not having the capacity to amplify new replacements for X in many of my scholarly circles. How are others navigating this? Oh and I love this community!!!
Please consider submitted an abstract -
Seminar:
Neurodiverse German Studies
48th Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, Atlanta, Georgia
September 26-29, 2024
Submission Deadline: February 23, 2024 through OpenWater
More info available at https://www.thegsa.org/blog/cfa-seminar-participant-applications-gsa-2024#15.%20Neurodiverse
Melissa Elliot at Wheaton is the best collaborator! She and I just co-published an article on East German music videos in the recent issue of the #GermanStudies Review - Yes all of your favorites! - Check it out -
"The East German Disco Film: An Intermedial Approach to the GDR’s Imagined (Musical) Futures" http://doi.org/10.1353/gsr.2023.0037 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/897323 #GermanStudiesAssociation #DEFA #ProgressFilm #DEFAFilmLibrary #marianaivanova @guyintheblackhat
"The East German Disco Film: An Intermedial Approach to the GDR’s Imagined (Musical) Futures" http://doi.org/10.1353/gsr.2023.0037 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/897323 #GermanStudiesAssociation #DEFA #ProgressFilm #DEFAFilmLibrary #marianaivanova @guyintheblackhat
I am so lucky to be able to call #DustinDeFelice in the #EnglishLanguageCenter at MSU a colleague and collaborator. We recently published together on the topic of non-tenure track faculty mentoring on the Blog of the @humetricshss Initiative, a group of scholars who are truly transforming higher education. Keep watching what they are up to!! Dustin and I were honored to be HuMetricsHSS Fellows this past year and met some amazing folks! Thanks so much! Our piece is called "Developing Unit Mentoring Programs for Non-Tenure Stream Faculty by Building on the Charting Pathways to Intellectual Leadership Initiative" @cplong @jasonrhody @BatsInLavender
HuMetricsHSS - Developing Unit Mentoring Programs for Non-Tenure Stream Faculty by Building on the Charting Pathways to Intellectual Leadership Initiative
Over the past five years, the College of Arts & Letters at Michigan State University has implemented its value-enacted Charting Pathways to Intellectual Leadership (CPIL) initiative via a multi-phase approach. (For more on the CPIL initiative and its goals, see Fritzsche et al., 2022.) This model provides for inclusive evaluative definitions of academic labor that…
Looking forward to facilitating the session on "Difficult Colleagues, Difficult Conversations" at the upcoming MLA MAPS virtual summer seminar this Friday afternoon, June 23! See you there! @mlanews @jasonrhody @paulakrebs @lydiatang
Along with my colleagues @cplong @BillHartDavidson, I'm happy to announce a new article on the Charting Pathways to Intellectual Leadership Initiative #CPIL that is out now in #InsightToDiversity in the recent article by @NikkiBrahm entitled "Expanding Boyer's Model to Better Recognize Diverse Faculty Roles." https://www.insightintodiversity.com/expanding-boyers-model/
Congratulations to former German Chancellor Angela Merkel, one of the foremost leaders of the 21st Century, on her award of the Germany's Grand Cross of the Order of Merit! Go get em Angela!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nba4qlbuWTw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nba4qlbuWTw
Angela Merkel receives Germany's highest Order of Merit | DW News
In Honor of International Women's Day - I wanted to call attention to the new book - Routledge Companion to Gender and Science Fiction edited by Lisa Yaszek, Keren Omry, Wendy Gay Pearson, and yours truly (out Feb 2023). It contains 52 chapters on all types of SF and gender from the 15th century to now and written by graduate students, independent scholars, early career faculty, emerita, and authors from countries all over the world writing on works that are integrated into the collection and not separated into a world SF section. https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Gender-and-Science-Fiction/Yaszek-Fritzsche-Omry-Pearson/p/book/9780367537012