The United States Ambassador to Germany, William R. Timken, visited American Studies Leipzig on 5 February for an afternoon roundtable. Some thirty students joined the Ambassador and his wife, Sue, for a discussion about German-American relations in the context of the German “twin presidencies” of the EU and the G8, about diverse aspects of European-American relations, and American politics and society more generally.
The United States Ambassador to Germany, William R. Timken, visited American Studies Leipzig on 5 February for an afternoon roundtable. Some thirty students joined the Ambassador and his wife, Sue, for a discussion about German-American relations in the context of the German “twin presidencies” of the EU and the G8, about diverse aspects of European-American relations, and American politics and society more generally.
The United States Ambassador to Germany, Mr. William R. Timken, will visit American Studies on Monday, 5 February. He will participate in a roundtable with some thirty students to discuss German-American relations, especially in the context of Germany’s Presidencies of the EU and the G8. The Ambassador will be accompanied by his wife, Mrs. Sue Timkin.
American Studies held the first Picador Professor Roundtable at Villa Tillmanns on Wednesday evening. The Roundtable is meant to offer students and other members of the university community an opportunity to exchange ideas about literature and culture with the current Picador Professor in an informal and relaxed setting. The theme for this roundtable was “Literatures, Cultures, and National Identities”.
The student radio station mephisto 97.6 with a listenership of around 15,000 people in the greater Leipzig region conducted an interview with American Studies for its Wednesday morning show “Mephisto Brings the World to Leipzig (Mephisto holt die Welt nach Leipzig)”. Questions centered around several trends that seem to point to a larger political turn in the American landscape: growing protests against the war in Iraq, the growing greening of corporate America, and the broad popularity of Senator Barack Obama as a presidential candidate.
Regular office hours of the American Studies Leipzig faculty are not in effect during the winter break (until 31 March). Please see below for alternative office hours of our faculty members.
American Studies Leipzig cordially invites you to join the first Picador Professor Round Table. Author Tristan Hughes, the first Picador Professor for Literature, will meet with students and guests to discuss Literatures, Cultures and National Identities during an informal round table on
Wednesday, 31 January 2007 6:00 - 7:30 pm Villa Tillmanns (Wächterstraße 30)
The University of Leipzig, the Institute for American Studies, the DAAD, and the Holtzbrinck Veranstaltungsforum inaugurated the new Picador Professorship for Literature in the Alter Senatsaal of the Rektorat on 23 January. The Professorship is housed at the Institute for American Studies.
The Course Catalog for the Summer Term 2007 is now available on this website as a PDF file. Please keep on checking the course-listings for any news or updates.
Deutschlandfunk conducted a live interview with American Studies Leipzig for the noon news hour on Wednesday, 24 January. The topic of the interview involved an analysis about the content and implications of President Bush’s State-of-the-Union Speech, an important date in the annual American political calendar.
