All American Studies first-semester students are invited to join our Student Orientation Day on September 30. Starting at 9 am in lecture hall 9 (HSG/Hörsaalgebäude @Augustusplatz), we will introduce you to our BA and MA programs. Please consult our welcome page for further information.
Lange Leipziger Lesenacht and HALLE 14 cordially invite you to their free event “Houston - We Have A Reading” at Baumwollspinnerei on October 30th. You can expect literary speed dating, cookies, music, poetry, readings, and a documentary with authors from the US and Germany. Our very own Picador Professor Sasha Pimentel will be there and many other fascinating authors, too.
From November 6 to 8, 2013, American Studies Leipzig hosted the international symposium “Selling Ethnicity and Race: Consumerism and Representation in 21st-Century America.” At the opening dinner which was held at the restaurant Centralapotheke on November 6, the organizers Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez, Frank Usbeck, Anne Grob, and Maria Lippold welcomed keynote speaker Marilyn Halter alongside most of the fifteen presenters from Germany and the United States.
Submitted by Susi Ehrhardt on Sun, 11/17/2013 - 20:23
Please note that Susann Ehrhardt's office hours on November 18 are cancelled. For questions concerning BA Plus please send an email to asl-baplus@uni-leipzig.de
Submitted by Susi Ehrhardt on Fri, 11/15/2013 - 16:39
Yesterday, Thomas S. Miller, Attaché for Public Affairs at the United States Embassy Germany, joined ASL and the ASAA for an informal professional brown bag lunch. ASL students and faculty had a chance to ask all sorts of questions concerning diplomatic work and current transatlantic relations. Mr. Miller shared experience from his work as senior level diplomat and asked students about their views and opinions of recent NSA headlines. Consul Teta M.
American Studies Leipzig is very happy to welcome Prof. Barry Laga as Fulbright Guest Professor for the coming two semesters. Prof. Laga earned his BA and MA at Brigham Young University in Utah and his PhD from Purdue University in Indiana. Since 1997, he has been teaching at Colorado Mesa University in Colorado where he is Chair of the Department of Literature, Languages, and Mass Communication.
MDR Info, the main news radio station for the Mitteldeutschland region, conducted a live interview with American Studies Leipzig on Saturday, October 12, about the ongoing political crisis in Washington DC involving the federal government being closed and the country rapidly heading to defaulting on paying its debts.
For the module Transatlantic Space, there is now a new seminar that can be taken as an equivalency to the seminar being offered by Professors Garrett and Laga. The alternative seminar is being offered by Professor Keil and other colleagues from the Universität Leipzig. The seminar is entitled “Culture and Language: The Tradition of Transatlantic Migration and Slavery”. Details are included in the attached announcement.
If you are thinking about studying in the US after finishing your BA, please have a look at the attached flyers of the McCloy and the ERP scholarship programs. McCloy specifically supports students at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, while ERP offers support for studies at other US universities. Both programs are open to excellent students with at least a BA degree from all academic disciplines. Application deadlines are October 15, 2013, for the ERP and November 1, 2013, for the McCloy program.
American Studies Leipzig is very happy to welcome Prof. Barry Laga as Fulbright Guest Professor for the coming two semesters. Prof. Laga earned his BA and MA at Brigham Young University in Utah and his PhD from Purdue University in Indiana. Since 1997, he has been teaching at Colorado Mesa University in Colorado where he is Chair of the Department of Literature, Languages, and Mass Communication.
