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As in previous years, American Studies Leipzig will offer priority enrollment to Wahlbereichsstudents students who enter a designated “Grosser Wahlbereichs Track.” Please see our original news item on the issue for more information on this special program.

Over the last few years, Leipzig's American Studies homepage has evolved into a communications hub on American studies in the region. The frontpage alone has, as of this week, received 200'000 clicks since the homepage relaunch in May 2008. More importantly, over 70 of a total of approximately 470 registered users have subscribed to our automatic buzz newsletter and receive updates on new items on the page at least once a week.

To celebrate this success story, we have looked at where our users come from. If you are a registered user, you can enter your home region as part of your user profile. Visualizing this information gave us the map below. Note that this is not simply a map of our clicks, it is a map of our registered users! It is great to see that American Studies Leipzig is a truly international community already.

American Studies Leipzig kindly requests the pleasure of your company at a joint reading by the current Picador Professor for Literature Christian Hawkey and Berlin-based poet Uljana Wolf on Tuesday, 22 June 2010 at the Deutsches Literaturinstitut Leipzg (DLL), Wächterstraße 34, 04107 Leipzig.

John Haskell, former Picador Guest Professor for Literature, will return to Leipzig for a reading on January 18, 7pm at the Deutsches Literaturinstitut Leipzig (DLL). American Studies Leipzig cordially invites you to join us for this occasion.

Effective immediately, American Studies Leipzig will offer a new and experimental project-driven format of instruction specifically for BA students with a taste for research and a desire to sink their teeth into scholarship early on. The BA Research Track (BART) is a unique opportunity to participate in American Studies research during the BA education. It answers to a demand we diagnosed in our internal student survey in the summer of 2009.

The secretariat will have to be closed from 7 to 11 December due to illness.

Just in time for the upcoming Winter, we are able to bring to you this special offer:

Between now and November 29, all products (shirts, sweaters, and other ASL products) from our online shop at asl.spreadshirt.de are discounted by 15%! Just enter NOVEMBERAKTION when checking out.