The Arqus Café is a virtual meeting place where students of the Arqus University Alliance can practice their foreign languages outside of language classes.

Here you can expand your language and cultural knowledge informally and with other language learners. You will have the support from language tutors who are not language teachers, but competent first or native language speakers.

Deutschlandstipendium for ASL Students

For the first time, a scholarship in the Deutschlandstipendium program specifically for ASL-students has become available.

For details on the program and how to apply, please see https://www.uni-leipzig.de/en/studying/prospective-students/student-finance/deutschlandstipendium/.

aspeers, the first and currently only peer-reviewed print journal for MA-level scholars of American studies in Europe, has just published its latest issue. Now in its fourteenth year, aspeers is edited as part of ASL’s MA program and aims to showcase the excellent scholarship done in American studies already on the graduate level.

Attention all 2021 ASL Graduates! 

ASLAA e.V. is proud to announce that this year’s Graduation Ceremony will take place online on 9 July 2021 at 5PM!

As the pandemic still makes planning an in-person graduation impossible for this year, we have switched to an online version that will not lack in celebratory atmosphere.

Exam Dates Summer Semester 2021

Bachelor Courses

Module “Society, History, and Politics I” (04-001-1002)

Lecture: American Horizons – North American History on a Global Context I: From Colonial Times to the Civial War (PD Dr. Olaf Stieglitz)

• written exams:  July 12, 2021; 3 – 5 pm (group 1)

                                  July 14, 2021; 10 am – noon (group 2) 

As part of the year-long celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Fulbright Program, former ASL Picador Professor Daniel Peña will moderate a special virtual Fulbright event, Roger Rosenblatt: The Writing Life, taking place on Friday, May 14, 2pm EST (8pm CEST).

For participants of last winter’s Literature and Culture I module who have failed the overall module (i.e., your module grade is 5,0), you may redo those parts of the module exam that were graded 5,0. The instructions for the repeat take-home essay will be uploaded to Moodle on May 21; the essay will be due on June 6 at 11 am.

Please join us for Picador Professor Sheila Heti’s reading, “Mermaids, Stories and Sex” on Wednesday, May 19, 7pm! Sheila Heti will read from her books, The Middle Stories and How Should A Person Be? The reading will be followed by a conversation with journalist Teresa Bücker about writing, her time as a Picador Guest Professor, online seminars, sex, and feminism. The event will be held in English and streamed on YouTube (please click here).