The December Issue of Leipzig's Universitätsjournal features an article about the Frank Freidel Memorial Library. The article details the history and character of the library, as well as its usefulness for the first Frank Freidel Memorial Library Fellow in Residence Professor Madeleine Vala from the University of Puerto Rico.

Due to illness, the Secretariat for the Institute for American Studies will be open from 10 Dec. to 14 Dec. during the following special hours.

Monday: 10 am - 1 pm
Tuesday: 10 am - 1pm
Wednesday: 10 am - 1 pm
Thursday: 10 am - 1 pm
Friday: 10 am - 1 pm

Thank you for your understanding.

Due to the illness of Anne Keyselt, the institute secretariat will have altered office hours this week. The office will be open as follows:

Monday: 10 am – 1 pm
Tuesday: 10 am – 1 pm
Wednesday: 1 pm – 4 pm
Thursday: 11 am – 3 pm
Friday: 10 am – 1 pm

On Wednesday, December 5, the American Studies Alumni Association invites students to the following event:

Information on the MA admissions process for the upcoming term (Winter 2008/09) is now available online on our MA Application Page. The application deadline for the American Studies Leipzig MA program is March 14 (April 18 for domestic applications).
Please refer to our MA Application Page for details.

No Office Hours on 3 Dec. because of "dies academicus".

No courses on Monday 26 Nov. because of Illness.

The Veranstaltungsforum der Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck and American Studies Leipzig jointly hosted the third Picador Professorship Reading in the Galerie Pierogi on Thursday, November 22. In the gallery packed with over 90 guests, Picador Professor and novelist John Haskell read from his acclaimed novel American Purgatorio. The reading was complemented by actor Günter Schossböck reading excerpts from the German translation Amerikanisches Fegefeuer.

American Studies Leipzig cordially invites you to join the Picador Guest Professor John Haskell's public reading on 22 November, 8pm, at Galerie Pierogi.

The leading radio news program for central Germany, MDR Journal, interviewed American Studies Leipzig on 7 November 2007 about the impending visit of Chancellor Angela Merkel to the United States, and what the symbolism of a visit to the presidential ranch in Texas can mean for German-American relations.