GSAI

The German Studies Association of Ireland (GSAI, formerly ATLTGI) was established in 1997 to represent the interests of Germanists working in Ireland. These were not fully represented by the long-established Association for German Studies in Great Britain and Ireland (AGS) as educational policies and practices, together with the general framework in which modern languages are taught and learned, frequently differ between the two countries. Since its foundation, the GSAI has represented third-level teachers and postgraduate students of German from a variety of institutional settings in Ireland and Northern Ireland, including universities and Institutes of Technology. In addition, the GSAI has made an effort to include teachers and students from other disciplines with an interest in aspects of German Studies in its activities, such as colleagues from media studies, linguistics, history or philosophy. The GSAI has its own Yearbook “Germanistik in Ireland” which it publishes on an annual basis by a renowned publishing house in Germany, Hartung-Gorre Verlag in Konstanz. The GSAI committee consists of two joint chairs, the secretary, the treasurer, one of the Yearbook editors and a postgraduate representative.