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The Center for German & European Studies (CGES) helps disseminate new research on Germany and Europe through two publications, the peer-reviewed quarterly journal German Politics and Society and the book series "Studies in European Culture and History," edited by Eric D. Weitz and Jack Zipes. Presentations by speakers in the CGES Salon Series that are of particular interest to the public at large appear in the occasional CGES brief. Other new publications by CGES faculty are announced on the news page.
- German Politics and Society journal
- Palgrave series "Studies in European Culture and History"
German Politics and Society is the only peer-reviewed American publication that explores issues in modern Germany from the combined perspectives of the social sciences, history, and cultural studies. The journal is a joint publication of the BMW Center for German and European Studies (of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University) and all North American universities that feature programs and centers of German and European studies associated with the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). These centers are represented by their directors on the journal's Editorial Committee.
The journal provides a forum for critical analysis and debate about politics, history, film, literature, visual arts, and popular culture in contemporary Germany. Every issue includes contributions by renowned scholars commenting on recent books about Germany. The journal invites submissions from contributors in English.
"Studies in European Culture and History" is a new book series established by Palgrave Publishers of New York and London in collaboration with the Midwest Center for German & European Studies. Its authors analyze significant formations and developments in modern Europe.
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism, the very meaning of Europe is contested and being redefined. Europeans are wrestling with the expansion of NATO and the European Union, confronting new streams of migration and immigration, and witnessing a boost in cultural engagements between the former East and West. But the fast-paced transformations of the last fifteen years also have deep historical roots: they are entwined with the cataclysmic events of the twentieth century—two world wars and the Holocaust—and with the processes of modernity that, since the eighteenth century, have shaped Europe and its relations with the rest of the world. "Studies in European Culture and History" publishes books that explore major issues in Europe's past and present from various disciplinary perspectives. With its broad span of topics, geography, and chronology, the series aims to gather the most interesting and innovative work on modern Europe.
Recent and forthcoming titles:
- Angelica Fenner and Eric D. Weitz, eds., Fascism and Neofascism: Critical Writings on the Radical Right in Europe (2004)
- Susan McManus, Fictive Theories: Towards a Deconstructive and Utopian Political Imagination (2005)
- Pascale Bos, German-Jewish Literature in the Wake of the Holocaust: Grete Weil, Ruth Klüger, and the Politics of Address (2005)
- Leslie A. Adelson, The Turkish Turn in Contemporary German Literature: Towards a New Critical Grammar of Migration (2005)
- Gene Ray, Terror and the Sublime in Art and Critical Theory: From Auschwitz to Hiroshima to September 11 (2005)
- David Kettler and Gerhard Lauer, eds., Exile, Science, and Bildung: The Contested Legacies of German Émigré Intellectuals (2005)
- Ruth Starkman, ed., Transformations of the New Germany (2006)
- Sabine Eckmann and Lutz Koepnick, eds., Caught by Politics: Hitler's Exiles and American Visual Culture (forthcoming)
- Alex Lubet, ed., Richard Wagner for the New Millennium: Essays in Music (forthcoming)
- Patrizia C. McBride, Richard W. McCormick, and Monika Zagar, eds., Legacies of Modernism: Art and Politics in Northern Europe, 1890-1950 (forthcoming)
For information about submissions to the series, please contact the editors Eric D. Weitz or Jack Zipes.