Dear All,
I am still struggling to come to terms with the fact that  an  unsavoury pack of demagogues, outright liars and poisonous bigots have won the referendum with their xenophobic campaign: the word 'foreigner' became a term of abuse only  to be topped by 'immigrant' or  even worse 'refugee'.  Michael  Gove, Boris Johnson, and Gisela Stuart ended up as  Nigel Farage's  puppets as they  too  adopted a register that reduced  the standards of public debate to  hitherto unknown  inflammatory  levels.    In a context where the next British Prime Minister might be a man who compared the EU with Hitler's  Europe,  the comments about the SZ coverage strike me as a form of displacement. 

Anne

Professor of German,  

Director of Research

School of Modern Languages and Cultures

University of Warwick

Coventry CV4 7AL

Great Britain




On 26 June 2016 at 12:15, Charlotte Galpin <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
The exclusion of women from the referendum debate is an ongoing problem. 

Best wishes,
Charlotte Galpin

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Dr Charlotte Galpin

Postdoc, EuroChallenge
Department of Media, Cognition and Communication
University of Copenhagen

http://mcc.ku.dk/staff/?pure=en/persons/526312

Recent publications: 

Galpin, Charlotte (2015) ‘Has Germany “Fallen Out of Love” with Europe? The Eurozone Crisis and the “Normalization” of Germany's European Identity’, German Politics and Society, Vol. 33, No. 1-2, pp. 25-41, available at: http://berghahn.publisher.ingentaconnect.com/content/berghahn/gerpol/2015/00000033/F0020001/art00003

Galpin, Charlotte (2015) ‘Chronology: The European Union in 2014’, Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol. 53, Issue Supplement S1, pp. 230-236 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jcms.12258/abstract


From: JISCmail German Studies List <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of "Adler, Jeremy" <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: Sunday, 26 June 2016 11:19
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Subject: Re: Folgen des Brexit - statements

Dear all,


further to Helen's point: I have passed this on to the SZ and gather from the editorial board that they wrote to several women but received no replies. They are fully aware of the omission.


Best,

Jeremy

From: JISCmail German Studies List <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Michael Gratzke <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 25 June 2016 14:50:13
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Subject: Re: Folgen des Brexit - statements
 
Dear colleagues,

I was about to make the same point as Ben. Our response should be confident, as the relevance of Modern Languages research & teaching is stronger now than it has ever been. There will be some more financial and logistical challenges to conducting ML research but nothing we cannot overcome. 

German Studies in the UK and Ireland is not dependent on any one specific political set up of German speaking lands or indeed the existence of a United Kingdom as we know it. 

The most important task to me is to lobby for continuing participation in Erasmus+ and similar programmes to ensure future students of German receive some financial support.


Best wishes,

Michael 


On 25 Jun 2016, at 07:36, Ben Hutchinson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Dear Henrike,

The most important line for the Modern Languages to take is surely the simple insistence that our discipline - what we do, what we teach, and what we are - matters now more than ever. Too much defensiveness, while entirely natural, will not, I fear, get us very far. This terrible decision places our discipline - albeit ex negativo - at the very centre of the debate regarding 'European' identity. We must all speak up as loudly as possible to this effect. 

From the UK's 'European university',

Ben

On 25 Jun 2016, at 14:05, Carter, Erica <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Dear Henrike,

 

Thank you for taking this on.

 

Although I am delighted to live in the borough that had the third highest Remain vote (Hackney), I also know from 40 years living in the West Midlands and on the South coast that this vote represents deep divisions in the electorate beyond the metropolis – divisions between wealth and poverty, between political rhetoric and lived social reality that have not been addressed by successive generations of political and social elites (in which group I consider myself both included, and ‘mitschuldig’).

 

The sleight of hand that recasts these economic and social divisions around questions of ‘race’ and ethnicity is familiar – and repulsive. And (to address your issue of the mood on campus) it is this that has in my experience so far most unsettled students and colleagues. I know of several academics – EU nationals - who feel suddenly unwelcome. I know of at least two cases where this has already triggered plans to leave. I also spent an hour yesterday with PhD students sharing, and trying to calm fears raised by what they felt was a palpable public hostility to foreigners and outsiders.

 

These are hopefully passing impressions, the result of a pervasively ugly public mood. But they also sit deep in the imaginations of those affected. So we do indeed need to broadcast to the world our commitment to continued openness: to a cosmopolitan spirit that animates the research and teaching we all do, and that will not wither in the testing months (indeed, sadly, years) to come.

 

On a more pragmatic note: the German Screen Studies Network, which runs out of King’s, has sought over the past four years to build bridges not only amongst film-interested academics in the German-speaking and Anglophone world, but also between creative practitioners and the academic community. This area of our work, reductively known in REF parlance as ‘impact activity’, will be increasingly threatened in an environment that – through visas, tariffs, trade barriers – blocks travel, financial and creative collaboration, and export/import across and between the EU and what remains of Britain.

 

I spoke this morning to a colleague with whom I am collaborating on our September symposium program. We discussed ways of using the event to publicize our continued commitment to collaboration, and indeed to strategize about ways of strengthening links. I assume we will all do this at the events we run in different contexts. The GSSN will also launch a new website at the symposium, which will function as one forum for cross-cultural engagement across the new EU-UK border. The internet, indeed, is on our side in our efforts to sustain a deep engagement with the German-speaking countries; so the Think German networks surely need mentioning in the FAZ piece, and I’ll gladly provide details of the GSSN website if that’s helpful.

 

Enough for now – and thank you, Henrike, for doing this. Do send the link round when the piece appears.

 

Warm wishes,

 

Erica

 

 

Department of German

King’s College London

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London WC2B 6LE

Tel: 020 7848 2128

 

 

From: JISCmail German Studies List <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of "Ó Dochartaigh, Pól" <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: Saturday, 25 June 2016 11:11
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Subject: Re: Folgen des Brexit - statements

 

Dear Henrike,

 

From outside the UK: Ritchie's point about fees is well made. The Irish universities are already moving to reassure UK students studying here that there will be no hike in their fees mid-course, but there can, of course, be no guarantees for new students once Brexit is triggered.

 

There are also some specifically Irish fears around the only land border between the EU and the UK running through the middle of Ireland and the negative consequences of that for us, given our recent history. But specifically on the Universities, since Northerners are also entitled to Irish citizenship, they probably can't be treated as non-EU for fees anyway going forward. But grants, collaboration etc are a big issue.

 

One scenario is that NI is treated in some way akin to the GDR when it was referred to as "das 13. Mitglied der EG", because of the blind eye turned to "den innerdeutschen Handel". But if the UK breaks up anyway, then who knows.

 

People in the Republic of Ireland are just stunned by this result. It beggars belief. There is, by the way, an outstanding piece by Fintan O'Toole on the front page of today's Irish Times, also available online.

 

Good luck.

 

Pól 

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