public event

Please join us for a special, digital reading with former Picador professor and celebrated author Alexander Chee on May 21 at 7:30 pm. The reading will take place digitally, available on the offical Picador website (please click here) and on youtube (please click here).

ASL's Eleonora Ravizza will publicly defend her dissertation, titled “The Fifties in Contemporary US Popular Culture: Self-Reflexivity, Melodrama, and Nostalgia,” on Thursday, October 24, 4pm, at GWZ 4.4.15.

Please join us for Picador Professor Morgan Jerkins's reading on Saturday, October 26, 7.30pm! It will take place at the Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst (Karl-Tauchnitz-Straße 9-11, 'Auditorium').

Morgan Jerkins will read from her work This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America and engage in a discussion moderated by Senthuran Varatharajah.

Prof. Heike Paul, chair of American literary and cultural studies at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, will hold a lecture on the topic “#MeToo and Other Kinds of Feminisms in the Age of Trump” on Friday, July 19, 4pm, at the GWZ lecture hall (Beethovenstr. 15).

On June 28, 2019 at 6 pm, American Studies Leipzig will celebrate the release of the twelfth issue of aspeers: emerging voices in american studies, Europe’s first and currently only peer-reviewed graduate journal in American studies.

Over the course of the last semester, an editing team of seven MA students has worked to select contributions, revise them together with the authors, edit them, and make them ready for publication. The result is a book-size volume to be presented as part of the event.

Please join us on Friday, May 24 and Saturday, May 25 at the Lecture Hall of the University Library Albertina for a conference hosted by ASL in conjunction with the Collaborative Research Center “Invectivity” (SFB Invektivität) and the network Weiter sehen: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven der Dresdner Serienforschung. The conference will be held in German.

Please note that Prof. Kanzler's office hour on Monday, April 15 will be moved up one hour. It will take place from 3 to 4 pm.

Please join us for a guest lecture by Prof. Jeremy Douglass (UC Santa Barbara) on the topic “Interactive Narrative across Media: Gameplay Structures, Symbols, and Forms.” The talk takes place on Saturday, April 27, 9.30am at the Villa Tillmanns (Wächterstr. 30).

Please join us for a guest lecture by Prof. Leon Gurevitch (Victoria University of Wellington) on the topic “Liminal Labour: Narrating the Quantified Career and the Symbolic Value of Visual Effects Production.” The talk takes place on Friday, April 26, 5.30pm at the Villa Tillmanns (Wächterstr. 30).

Over the past several years, 25 authors have come to Leipzig as Picador Guest Professors for Literature, teaching creative writing at the Institute for American Studies and engaging in a dialogue on US literature with the wider public.