Diversity, Decolonization, & the German Curriculum (DDGC) is a scholarly collective and forum for transnational and transdisciplinary German studies. Members of the collective recognize that oppression persists today around the world and commit to teaching and scholarship in the service of ending oppression. You can find out more about our collective by reading our DDGC Guiding Principles.
Braden Russell provides an analysis of the discourses on anti-antisemitism in Canada, the USA, and Germany.
DDGC Germanists for Palestine Research Co-Op and the Coalition of Women in German BDS working group issue a statement of solidarity with Ali Abunimah.
A report on the work of the DDGC Mutual Aid Network. The report details resource sharing facilitated through the group. It lists information on how to support and join the work of the network.
Jason Groves reflects on teaching Holocaust studies in the context of the Holocaust-Nakba nexus, drawing on personal experience and asking vital questions for comrades pursuing the teaching of the Holocaust in the future.
DDGC Germanists for Palestine Research Cooperative on solidarity struggles in our times.
Join our DDGC Online Writing Support Groups. They meet May-August, 2025.
DDGC has run virtual writing support groups three times a year since May 2018. The goal of the groups is to organize a forum in which people working in German Studies (and sibling disciplines) can support one another's research, share writing tips, discuss pitfalls, and thereby stimulate intellectual work while building community.
The DDGC Collective is excited to announce the launch of the Antifascist Research Cooperative (ARC). To kick off our programming, we invite everyone to a virtual welcome event on 19 May at 12pm ET. This informal session will introduce ARC’s mission and upcoming activities, and offer space to discuss recent political developments in a collegial setting.
The DDGC collective is hosting an ongoing reading group featuring texts that help us think with artists and academics with vital insights about Palestine. The next installment of the group will feature two texts: Ghassan Kanafani’s “Returning to Haifa” (1970) and Michael Rothberg’s The Implicated Subject: Beyond Victims and Perpetrators (2019).
