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Dear students,

Prof. Garrett's office hours on May 30 will have to be cancelled.

Next office hours will be held next week, June 6, 4-5 pm.

Leipzig University's Sprachenzentrum is currently looking for German-speaking tandem partners for a group of students from the University of Arizona. The students partake in a Summer School in Leipzig from June 2 to July 1.

For more information, please contact Fabiana de Lima at tandem@uni-leipzig.de

ASL's Professors Crister S. Garrett was interviewed by Deutschlandfunk about Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov's visit to the White House and the ensuing complications for Trump's administration.

You can listen to the interview at the link below:

ASL's Professors Crister S. Garrett was interviewed by Tagesschau about President Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey.

You can read the interview in the link below:

http://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/comey-entlassung-101.html

On May 2, current Picador Professor Tom Drury read a selection from his extensive 'Midwest trilogy' encompassing his novels The End of Vandalism, Hunts in Dreams, and his most recent book, Pacific. The reading was held at the Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, in cooperation with Klett-Cotta and the Holtzbrinck Veranstaltungsforum. The reading saw up to 50 guests in attendance and was moderated by the director of the Institute for American Studies at Leipzig University, Prof. Crister S.

Please excuse any inconvenience. 

The Atlantische Initiative, a Berlin-based NGO dedicated to promoting collaboration between US and European citizens, is currently offering fellowships to 30 applicants to take part in their Atlantic Expedition to Chicago, IL and Houston, TX in October 2017.

Dear students,

Prof. Garrett's office hours need to be cancelled for today (May 2).
The next office hours will be held on Tuesday, May 9, 4-5 PM.

Please excuse any inconvenience.

Dear students,

Professor Garrett's office hours on Tuesday, 25 April, will have to be canceled.

Please excuse any inconvenience.

Due to illness the institute's secretariat will remain closed until May 12, 2017.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

For urgent matters please contact Wiebke Kartheus.