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Please join us for Picador Professor Rajesh Parameswaran's reading at the Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst (Karl-Tauchnitz-Straße 9-11) on Thursday, May 3, 7pm!

Rajesh Parameswaran will discuss and read from his work, and there will be ample opportunity to talk about literature, writing, and the US with him. The event will take place in English and is free and open to the public. There will be a small reception (pretzels and drinks) afterward.

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Join the American Space Leipzig for a roundtable discussion on innovation and success in the tech industry with Gideon Marks, Anchor Mentor at Google Launchpad Accelerator and Board Advisor at GlobeKeeper.

Gideon Marks has been active in high tech for 30 plus years in growth companies from inception through initial public offering and in M&A transactions. Working with many entrepreneurs from Europe, Korea, Israel, and Silicon Valley led Gideon to share his experience with what makes startups more successful than others and what is needed as far as leadership, traction, funding, and technology. 

In his talk he will focus on topics such as: doing the right things, telling a good story to investors, numbers have to add up, finding the right investors, building credibility. In addition Gideon will cover the topic of innovation and why Silicon Valley and Israel spearhead it.

The event is free and open to the public.

On January 9, Schaubühne Lindenfels (in cooperation with the University of Leipzig and the American Studies Institute Leipzig) is screening the documentary movie FOR AHKEEM.

Post-movie discussion will be joined by Prof. Dr. Carsten Junker and Prof. Dr. Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez.

Tickets for the event are 7 EUR for a normal ticket and 6 EUR for a discounted (student ticket). Share the event with your classmates and others that would be interested.

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Please join us for the MA Townhall Meeting on January 8, 2018 at 5 pm in GWZ seminar room 3.515.

The Townhall Meeting is open to all interested in the MA in American Studies at ASL. For more information please refer to the attached poster and visit our MA website.

States have long tried to influence one another, at times through subversive means. Today, reports of hacking and leaking, “fake news,“ rumors of foreign funding to extremist parties, and other similar tactics have caused alarm in Western democracies.

On December 6, we're inviting you to a lecture held by one of the most prominent Americanists today, Professor Donald E. Pease.

Prof. Pease directs the annual Futures of American Studies Institute at Dartmouth and is the editor of The New Americanist series, which has transformed the field of American studies. Some of his publications include Theodor Seuss Geisel, New American Exceptionalism, and many more.

Join the American Space Leipzig for a roundtable discussion with Dr. Derek Scissors on Chinese-American relations and transpacific economic partnership.

Dr. Scissors is resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he focuses on the Chinese and Indian economies and on US economic relations with Asia. He is the chief economist of the China Beige Book, a leading international source for following the Chinese economy.

Join the American Space Leipzig for a public screening of Free to Rock followed by a discussion with producer DOUG YEAGER, U.S. Consul General TIMOTHY EYDELNANT and SEBASTIAN HERRMANN from American Studies Leipzig.