public event 

Please join us for the launch of this year's edition of aspeers: emerging voices in american studies! We will have drinks and snacks, and the event is free and open to the public.

July 14, 2016
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Bibliotheca Albertina

aspeers is a peer-reviewed journal for graduate-level American studies in Europe published by MA students at the University of Leipzig, Germany.

Picador Professor Justin Torres will give a public reading at me Collectors Room in Berlin on Wednesday, July 6, at 7pm. He will be joined by current Fischer Professor Teresa Präauer and author Daniel Kehlmann.

For more details, please see the attached flyer. More information about Prof. Torres' works and activities can be found on his faculty page.

The recently re-established American Studies Leipzig Alumni Association will be hosting this year's Graduation Ceremony for the institute's BA and MA graduates.

July 15, 2016
5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Alter Senatssaal
Ritterstraße 26, 04109 Leipzig

Please join us for a lecture with Prof. Paul Scheffer (University of Tilburg, Netherlands) on Problems and Challenges of Immigration Societies.

30 June

5-7 pm

Center for Area Studies, Thomaskirchhof 20 (1st floor), Leipzig

Please join us for a lecture with Prof. Petra Landfester (Colorado State University) on The Refugee Debate as the ‘Playing Field’ for the Construction of Germany as a New Nation.

16 June

5-7 pm

GWZ 2516

Please join us for a lecture with Dr. Felipe Rubio Isla (Free University, Berlin) on Translocal Chinese Migration to Peru, 1849 - 1930s.

2 June

5-7 pm

GWZ 2516

The event is part of a series that discussed migration, borders, and the biopolitics of the nation from a cultural studies perspective. It will address issues such as displacement, citizenship, marginality, and transnationalism and their representation in media, as well as in historiography and cultural theory.

Please join us for a lecture with Prof. Barbara Buchenau (University of Duisburg-Essen) on Hemispheric Cultural Mobility.

26 May

5-7 pm

GWZ 2516

The event is part of a series that discussed migration, borders, and the biopolitics of the nation from a cultural studies perspective. It will address issues such as displacement, citizenship, marginality, and transnationalism and their representation in media, as well as in historiography and cultural theory.

Kritische AmerikanistInnen is a reading group that seeks to stimulate a discussion within the framework of cultural studies by focusing on texts outside of the theoretical corpus, i.e., Critical Theory. By opening the debate to further perspectives, we hope to expand our understanding of society and culture, and promote a more critical engagement with conventional ideas of, e.g., culture, society, race, class, or theory.

We invite anyone interested from B.A./M.A. students to doctoral candidates to join us.

"From Superheroes to Swamp Monsters - Comics and Graphic Novels in American Popular Culture"

Lecture with Dr. Marie-Luise Löffler, University of Bremen

Tuesday, 24 May, 2016

11 am - 1 pm

Campus Augustusplatz, HS 10

The lecture is free and open to the public. 

Please join us for Picador Professor Justin Torres' reading at the Schaubühne Lindenfels (Karl-Heine-Straße 50) on Tuesday, May 17, 7pm!

You can find out more about Prof. Torres' works and activities on his faculty page. More information about the event can be found in the attached poster.