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Graduation - American Studies Leipzig Alumni Association e.V.

Submitted by Anne Keyselt on Mon, 06/29/2020 - 13:04

Dear ASL Graduates,

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Exam Dates Summer Semester 2020

Submitted by Anne Keyselt on Mon, 06/08/2020 - 11:17

Exam Dates Summer Semester 2020

Bachelor Courses

Module “Society, History, Politics I” (04-001-1002)

Lecture: American Horizons – North American History in a Global Context I: From Colonial Times to the Civil War (PD Dr. Olaf Stieglitz):

open-book exams:

July 13, 2020; 3 - 5 pm (group 1)
July 15, 2020; 10 am - noon (group 2)

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Graduate Journal aspeers Calls for Papers

Submitted by webmaster on Mon, 08/03/2020 - 09:12

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.”

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#PicadorMessage: Reckonings and Revolutions 2020

Submitted by Annika Schadewaldt on Tue, 07/14/2020 - 15:04

Former Picador Professor Daniel Peña has sent us a brilliant audio essay on Reckonings and Revolution in 2020 in which he explores the possibilities for a revolution in the USA based on the peaceful revolution in Leipzig in 1989:
“Who better to save America from itself than the black and brown people who still buy in the idea of it.”

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New Arrangements in the Bibliotheca Albertina

Submitted by Vivian Sadlik on Sun, 07/12/2020 - 12:54

While the doors to the Bibliotheca Albertina had been closed for the sake of everyone’s health during the current COVID-19 situation, some rearrangements in the organization of the open access areas for British and American Studies took place.

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New Book on Representations of the Fifties in Popular Culture

Submitted by siteadmin on Thu, 07/02/2020 - 15:31

ASL’s Eleonora Ravizza has recently published her dissertation titled Revisiting and Revising the Fifties in Contemporary US Popular Culture: Self-Reflexivity, Melodrama, and Nostalgia in Film and Television. The book was published by J.B. Metzler.