Filmmaker and author Claus Bredenbrock (Bochum) will be in Leipzig as part of the series “History in Conversation” - a series of lectures organized by the History Department of the University. He will show his documentary “4 Tote in Ohio: Ein amerikanisches Trauma” followed by a lecture and discussion. The film is about an unprocessed American trauma: the shooting of four Kent State University students by the National Guard during an anti-war demonstration on May 4, 1970. Bredenbrock used archival material and interviewed eyewitnesses to make this historical documentary.
Leipzig’s University Radio, cooperating with MDR Sputnik, did an Interview with this year’s Picador Guest Professor for Literature Chuck Klosterman. Check out their article online at http://mephisto976.uni-leipzig.de or download the audio below.
Picador Professor John Haskell wrote a piece for the Buchmessenbeilage of Leipzig’s Kreuzer. The piece is part of a new series “Mein Leipzig,” Haskell’s text appeared together with contributions by You-Il Kang, Clemens Meyer, and Fritz Rudolf Fries. John Haskell was Leipzig’s 2007/08 Picador Professor for Literature.
American Studies Leipzig is proud to announce this year’s Frank Freidel Scholar in Residence, Dr. Paula Lee. Dr. Lee, currently a visiting scholar in the History of Science at Harvard University, will stay in Leipzig for six weeks in June and July. She holds a PhD in Art History from the University of Chicago, her research addresses practices of animal captivity in the United States and France, including museums, menageries, barnyards, and slaughterhouses. Dr.
American Studies Leipzig is proud to welcome six distinguished Fulbright Scholars from Germany and from around Europe to the University of Leipzig for the annual Leipzig-Fulbright Lecture Series. The theme for this year’s FLS is “ Reform and Reaction in the American Revolutionary ”. The theme deals with the conflict between American Revolutionary ideals, the efforts actually to achieve such ideals, and the reactions that such efforts have unleashed. It is a theme at the heart of the American story, and its global context.
MDR Info, the most listened to source of news on radio in Central Germany (Mitteldeutschland), interviewed American Studies Leipzig today about the implications of the latest round of primary elections in the United States that are part of this presidential election season.
One of America’s most prestigious journals of letters, The Atlantic Monthly, has published submissions by two of American Studies Leipzig’s students, Ms. Alexandra Pitzing, and Ms. Heather Carmody.
As part of celebrating its 150 years of being in print, The Atlantic Monthly created a special issue on “The American Idea” containing contributions from notable Americans. It then asked readers worldwide to write essays of up to two-hundred-fifty words on what they consider to be the essence of “The American Idea”.
Picador Professor John Haskell wrote a piece for the Buchmessenbeilage of Leipzig’s Kreuzer. The piece is part of a new series “Mein Leipzig,” Haskell’s text appeared together with contributions by You-Il Kang, Clemens Meyer, and Fritz Rudolf Fries.
