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Current Picador Professor Morgan Jerkins's public readings in Leipzig and Berlin both attracted large crowds. In Leipzig, she read from her essay collection This Will Be My Undoing and discussed her work with Senthuran Varatharajah and the audience. The reading took place on October 26 at the Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst as part of a literary festival co-organized by EDIT and the Literarischer Herbst.

Current Picador Professor Morgan Jerkins was recently interviewed for the print and online edition of die tageszeitung. While the interview focuses on her experiences as a black female writer, she also specifically talks about her tenure at ASL and the courses she teaches this semester.

The interview is available via the taz website.

On Thursday, October 24, ASL instructor Eleonora Ravizza successfully defended her doctoral thesis in front of a dissertation committee and an audience of about 20 people. This process is part of receiving a doctorate degree at Leipzig University's Philological Faculty.

Due to the high number of participants, the seminar "Sources of Wealth and Roots of Power - United States Economic and Social History in an International Context" will now take place in room S302 in the seminar building (NSG) at the central campus (Universitätsstraße 5), starting this week.

The Grassi Museum für Völkerkunde cordially invites to a panel discussion on the cultural and political impact of constructed “images of Indians”.

Grassi director Léontine Meijer-van Mensch and curator Frank Usbeck will talk to James Mackay, professor of American Literature specializing in indigenous literature, and Johanna Cree Summers, daughter of the indigenous author John Blackbird. The discussion will especially focus on the question how “images of Indians” are used – and instrumentalized – nowadays in Europa and the US, e. g., in the immigration debate. Cree Summers will also share her personal experience with the German “enthusiasm for Indians” (thinking of Karl May or Buffalo Bill) and cultural prejudices.

The event takes place at Grassi Museum für Völkerkunde, Johannisplatz 5-11, 04103 Leipzig.
It will be held in German and entrance is free.

Applications for the Transatlantic Leadership Program (TLP) 2020 are now open until 30 November 2019. The TLP gives young professionals of the European Union the opportunity to work on transatlantic relations first-hand by offering an internship of three months at the United States Congress. The working experience will be from September to December 2020.

Requirements:

For the past two years, researchers from around Germany have investigated and discussed 'narrative liminality' in a network funded by the German Research Foundation. As part of their collaboration, they have explored and theorized the boundaries and interrelations between the symbolic forms of narrative, play, data, ritual, spectacle, and others.

Heather Pruessing's office hours are canceled on Wednesday, November 28th. 

The German American Institute in Nuremburg is looking for interns to join their team on a rolling basis. 

Interns must