deathanddying 

Due to a change in our program, we are happy to inform you that Franz Erhard, cultural studies PhD student at Leipzig University, will be the keynote speaker for this year's ASL MA-level Graduate Student Conference "Death and Dying in American Culture."
He will talk about "Pragmatism and New Securities - Sociological Remarks on Dealing with Death in a Secular World."

We are glad to welcome Franz Erhard to our conference and look forward to seeing you all on Friday.

The 2nd year MA cohort is happy to present the poster for the fourth annual American Studies Leipzig MA-Level Graduate Student Conference on "Death and Dying in American Culture."

You can find it here, or at the conference team's homepage: www.death-and-dying.de

The ASL MA-Level Graduate Student Conference "Death and Dying in American Culture" is happy to announce that our conference program is now available on our website.

For the upcoming ASL MA-Level Graduate Student Conference "Death and Dying in American Culture," held at the Deutsches Literaturinstitut Leipzig on March 21 - 22, 2014, we would kindly like to ask those interested in attending the conference to register via email asl-gradconference@uni-leipzig.de until March 14. The conference fee will be 3 Euros for the two days.

Dear ASL students,

Please note that the deadline for submissions for the ASL Graduate Student Conference on "Death and Dying in American Culture" has been extended till January 19, 2014.