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Submitted by Caterina Rost on Fri, 08/22/2008 - 09:44
I’m currently on a one-person study tour through the US to research the ongoing presidential elections. I will post larger, in depth-pieces to American Studies Leipzig’s election blog and will use my personal blog below to report on the everyday encounters. More information on my journey is also available in this news item. Please enjoy reading, and please comment or ask questions.
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The repeat exam for module 04-AME-1402 „Literatures and Cultures of the USA“ (Lehramt) will take place on Oct. 21 from 5 to 7 pm. It will be an e-exam taken on Moodle. More information will be provided later.
We would like to draw your attention to an event hosted by Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut Sachsen e. V. (DAIS): 4 Jahre “America First”: Die Transatlantischen Beziehungen Heute
When: Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020, at 4:00 pm
Where: Abilene Christian University - Leipzig Villa, Käthe-Kollwitz-Str. 52, 04109 Leipzig
American Studies Leipzig is looking for a motivated student to help with a number of administrative tasks in the upcoming winter term. You are expected to work alongside and in support of the secretariat.
Your duties will include, among others:
managing the backoffice of teaching projects
assisting distant-teaching formats
providing administrative support, e.g. for paperwork involving the university’s central administration
The ASL-based graduate journal aspeers just published its new calls for papers. The general section of the 14 (2021) issue aims to showcase, without topical restrictions, outstanding academic work done on the MA level of American studies at European universities. The topical section will feature academic submissions organized around the theme of “Narratives of American Colonization and Imperialism.”
I’m currently on a one-person study tour through the US to research the ongoing presidential elections. I will post larger, in depth-pieces to 
Dear ASL students,
