The Institute is delighted to announce that Dr Clare George will be joining the IGRS as the Miller Project Archivist early in September. The project, expected to be completed in a year, involves sorting, accessioning, cataloguing, and indexing the Martin Miller and Hannah Norbert-Miller Papers to archival standards, so making  the Archive accessible to academic demand. The post is generously funded by the Martin Miller and Hannah Norbert-Miller Trust.

The three-day conference jointly organised by the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre for Austrian Literature at the IGRS, the Austrian Cultural Forum, the Austrian Embassy in London, the Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations at Queen Mary, University of London, the Leo Baeck Institute London, and the Stefan Zweig Centre, Salzburg, in partnership with the British Library, inspired an article by Clive Davis in the Sunday Times on 10 June 2012. The first major conference on the author since 1981, the event aimed to generate a renaissance in public interest and academic research.

Applications are now invited for an archivist to catalogue the Martin Miller and Hannah Norbert-Miller Papers and make the Archive accessible in response to academic demand. The project involves sorting, accessioning, cataloguing, listing and indexing the material and manuscripts comprising the Miller Archive to archival standards. The post, funded by the Martin Miller and Hannah Norbert-Miller Trust Fund, is available on a 9-month fixed-term contract, with a possible 3-month extension.

The Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies has been successful in obtaining a £38k award from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, in the framework of their Skills Development Call. The IGRS will be working closely with colleagues at King’s College and the University of London Institute in Paris on offering a programme on Modern Languages and Film, targeting postgraduate research students working on Film Studies in Schools of Modern Languages in the UK.