Dear students,

Prof. Garrett's office hours on May 22, 4-6 pm, will have to be cancelled.
Please excuse any inconvenience.

On May 3, Rajesh Parameswaran, the current Picador Guest Professor for Literature, read from his work at the Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst. Parameswaran read excerpts from two short stories of his collection I Am an Executioner: Love Stories and discussed his work with American Studies Leipzig's Stefan Schubert.

Due to illness, all classes of Heather Pruessing have to be canceled on Monday, May 7, and Wednesday, May 9, 2018.

Due to vacation, the Secretariat remains closed on 30 April, 2018.

Anne Keyselt
ASL Secretariat

Americanists from all over Germany convened in Leipzig on April 20 and 21 to inaugurate a Research Network on "Narrative Liminality." Funded by the German Research Foundation, the network serves to explore the boundaries and interrelationships between the symbolic forms of narrative, play, data, ritual, spectacle, and others. It is meant to test and advance the assumption that these forms are best understood as gradable rather than as binary, and that important cultural and symbolic work is done in the spaces where these forms meet, intersect, or overlap.

Final call for applications:

The deadline for the MA American Studies entrance exam expires on April 30, 2018, at midnight. ASL strongly encourages you to submit your application packet soon if you plan on entering our MA class of 2018!

Please upload your application materials on our MA Application platform!

Bachelor Courses

Society, History, Politics I (04-001-1002)

Lecture "From the Colonial Period to Reconstruction" (Prof. Crister Garrett):

• July 16, 2018 (written exam, 90 minutes, between 11:00 am – 1:00 pm), HS 3 (HSG)

Seminars (Heather Prüßing and Eric Fraunholz):

Prof. Pisarz-Ramírez

Wednesday, 11 am - 12 pm (starting on April 18)
GWZ 3 5.08
 

Prof. Garrett

Tuesdays 4-6 PM, and by appointment.
GWZ 3 5.05

Please Note: Office Hours will start Tuesday, 23 April.
 

Prof. Junker

Wednesdays 2:15–3:15 pm, and by appointment.
GWZ 3 5.07

Call for Volunteers for the ASL Graduate Confernce (April 28-29, 2018)

We are currently looking for student volunteers to help with all kinds of conference-related tasks for the upcoming conference, "American Cultures of Dissent". If you are interested, please contact us at: asl-gradconference@uni-leipzig.de 

Das Parlamentarische Partnerschaftsprogramm (PPP/CBYX) sucht für die Region Sachsen eine/n Betreuungskoordinator/-in (Regional Representative) möglichst mit interkulturellem Erfahrungshintergrund.

Wichtige weitere Voraussetzungen/Komponenten für die Tätigkeit sind: