Preserve World Languages at WVU

In full agreement with expressions of deep concern on the part of members of the GSA, the Executive Council has sent the following statement opposing the termination of World Languages at West Virginia University to the contacts recommended by our impacted colleagues. We would like to thank you for your vocal advocacy and for providing expert insights and perspectives in support of the preservation of subjects core to our disciplines, especially German language and German-speaking cultures. Individual EC members have also signed the open letters and petitions circulated by faculty and students at WVU, the Joint National Council of Languages and the Diversity, Decolonization and the German Curriculum collective and encourage you to consider doing the same.

We as officers of the German Studies Association write this letter in the name of our members to urge you emphatically to preserve the teaching of World Languages by disciplinary experts at West Virginia University by reversing the recommendation to close the World Languages program and terminate the work of its world-class faculty.

Language learning provides pathways to educational opportunities, jobs, and professions that rely on clear communication and cultural literacy. Language departments and the professional organizations... Read more

GSA 2023 Conference Registration Open

Dear Members and Friends of the GSA,

We are happy to announce that the registration portal is now open for our conference in Montréal, Québec, Canada, taking place from 5 to 8 October 2023. Your emailed receipt from Johns Hopkins will include a link to reserve your room at the discounted GSA conference rate at the Le Centre Sheraton hotel in Montréal, so make sure to check your spam folders if you don’t see it in your inbox. After you select the dates and room on the conference hotel registration page, you may, on the next page, request an accessible room and include other notes for the hotel.

Please note that we have updated our conference webpage to include the preliminary schedule as well as other useful information for presenters, including registration rates and a list of frequently asked questions. There will be more conference information coming throughout the summer.

Please check the preliminary schedule carefully (note that the full listings for the seminars are on a second tab, you may click on that at the bottom of the spreadsheet). We have worked hard to accommodate all accumulated... Read more

GSA Preliminary Schedule, 47th Annual Conference

[posted June 12, 2023]

Dear Friends and Colleagues of the GSA:

The GSA 2023 preliminary conference schedule has now been published with day/time slots, titles of sessions, and participant names and affiliations. Please check it carefully and notify of us of any corrections requests on this form no later than June 30. The final program is due shortly thereafter and we will be unable to make changes to the printed program after that point.

As you look over the schedule, we ask that you note the following:

• The full listings for the seminars are on a second tab, click on "Closed Seminars" at the bottom of the spreadsheet to view them.
• We have worked hard to accommodate all special requests received regarding scheduling, placement in rooms with sound equipment, and honoring the order of panels in series.

If the affiliation displayed for you is no longer current or is inaccurate, let us know via the correction requests form, but please also make the correction yourself in your GSA member profile (this last item is not something we can do), as your member profile... Read more