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ASL's Thorsten Burkhardt was interviewed by Leipzig University student radio mephisto 97.6 on the occasion of Stephen King's 70th birthday. In the interview, Thorsten Burkhardt talked about the mass appeal of King's books and his impact on American popular culture in general.

The interview also addressed the new movie adaptation of King's IT and why this book holds such a prominent place in American horror fiction.

The online course registration for Kernfach/Wahlfach/BAIT AND Wahlbereich students for the winter semester 2017/18 starts on 27 September (noon). For parallel courses, choose early to get the seat you want.

TOOL closes on October 5, 5 pm.

You must enroll via TOOL at: https://almaweb.uni-leipzig.de/einschreibung

For further information please consult our course catalog and the attached registration info sheet.

The Robert Bosch Foundation Alumni Association is currently looking for applicants for a study trip to New York City to learn about podcasting.

APPLICATION DEADLINE IS SEPTEMBER 15, 2017.

As part of his tenure in the winter term of 2017/18, Picador Professor Daniel Peña will teach two classes at American Studies Leipzig. Please note that these courses will partly take place as block seminars, since they start slightly later and end sooner than the official semester dates. See below for further information, and if you have questions beyond that, please contact the professorship's coordinator, Stefan Schubert.

American Studies Leipzig is proud to announce Daniel Peña as our next Picador Guest Professor for Literature. He will hold the professorship in the winter term of 2017/18.

Starting with the winter term of 2017/18, ASL will offer two new professional skills modules (Schlüsselqualifikationsmodule) for creative writing, taught by the Picador Guest Professor for Literature. The new modules, "Creative Writing: Imagining America" (in the winter) and "Creative Writing: Envisioning America" (in the summer), will allow students to gain insights into the practices and deeper intricacies of creative writing as part of their regular curriculum.

The course catalog for the upcoming semester (winter 2017/18) is available now.

Please be aware that these pages will be updated throughout the break and the semester.

Das Lehr-Lernprojekt SHRIMP (Social Hypertext Reader & Interactive Mapping Platform) sucht zum Wintersemester 2017/18 Verstärkung für sein Team.

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American Studies Leipzig’s SHRIMP project will receive new funding, starting this winter, to begin a new project phase and to further improve the learning experience in the BA 1st-year module “Literature and Culture I.” The project's third milestone will focus on "learning analytics" -- strategies of using metadata analyses to personalize the learning experience, to digitally coach students and instructors, and to better understand the users' reading and learning processes.

Dear students,

The make-up exam for the lecture "Society, History, and Politics I" (SHPI) will take place on

October 18, 2017, 6:00 - 7:30 pm
Room 2 5.16
Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum Leipzig