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.
Ervin Malakaj introduces a collection of contributions reflecting about the labor of solidarity work, the building of infrastructures for collectivity, and the impasses as well as the urgency associated with such work.
Siham Bouamer and Hasheem Hakeem reflect on the institutional infrastructure of the DDFC collective, the intellectual and organizational labor underpinning the work behind it, and ongoing changes for the collective.
Nichole Neuman reflects on the intellectual and organizational impulses behind the DDGC Mutual Aid Network.
Suzuko Knott reflects on the intellectual and organizational impulses behind the DDGC Research Cooperatives framework.
Hannah V. Eldridge and Cynthia Shin provide a reflection about the DDGC writing support groups and how support structures around writing rest on solidarity frameworks.
Helen Gunn and Cynthia Shin from Indiana University reflect on some of the work they undertook to bring people together during times difficult for community-making. Read more about their story here.
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 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).
The DDGC Queer and Trans German Studies Research Cooperative (aka the Pink Pony Club) is hosting a reading group. Join the co-op for discussion and community.
A two-day symposium hosted by DDGC and the Coalition of Women in German. See full description and schedule here.
