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Film Screening: FOR AHKEEM
On January 9, Schaubühne Lindenfels (in cooperation with the University of Leipzig and the American Studies Institute Leipzig) is screening the documentary movie FOR AHKEEM.
Post-movie discussion will be joined by Prof. Dr. Carsten Junker and Prof. Dr. Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez.
Tickets for the event are 7 EUR for a normal ticket and 6 EUR for a discounted (student ticket). Share the event with your classmates and others that would be interested.
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Prof. Garrett's Office Hours: January 10 & January 23
Dear students,
Prof. Garrett's next office hours will be held on
10 January 2018, 4:30-6:00 PM
23 January 2018, 4:00-6:00 PM
@ GWZ, Room 3505
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Picador Professor Daniel Pena Reads From His Work and Discusses Climate Change
On November 30, 2017, current Picador Professor at the Institute for American Studies at Leipzig University, Daniel Peña, read from his work and engaged in a discussion with Prof. Crister S. Garrett, and Dr. Jacob Schewe from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research about the increasing impact and dangers of climate change.
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Secretariat Closed
ASL's secretariat remains closed
December 21st - January 2nd.
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MA Townhall Meeting
Please join us for the MA Townhall Meeting on January 8, 2018 at 5 pm in GWZ seminar room 3.515.
The Townhall Meeting is open to all interested in the MA in American Studies at ASL. For more information please refer to the attached poster and visit our MA website.
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Dr. Schmieder's Office Hours Canceled on Wednesday, 6th Dec
Please excuse any inconvenience.
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Shielding Democracies from Outside Interference - Laura Daniels
States have long tried to influence one another, at times through subversive means. Today, reports of hacking and leaking, “fake news,“ rumors of foreign funding to extremist parties, and other similar tactics have caused alarm in Western democracies.
Dr. Herrmann's Office Hours Canceled on Monday, 3. Dec
Office Hours for Dr. Herrmann have to be canceled on Monday, 4. December, due to the Digital Humanities Day in the University Library. For all urgent matters, you can find him at the Poster Slam in the UBL, right across the street.
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The President That Is Not One (Lecture by Donald E. Pease)
On December 6, we're inviting you to a lecture held by one of the most prominent Americanists today, Professor Donald E. Pease.
Prof. Pease directs the annual Futures of American Studies Institute at Dartmouth and is the editor of The New Americanist series, which has transformed the field of American studies. Some of his publications include Theodor Seuss Geisel, New American Exceptionalism, and many more.
Lecture on Figures of Predators in Oral Narratives of North American Plains Indians
On Tuesday, November 28 @ 7pm, Tobias Enge and the Geographical Society Leipzig will hold a lecture at the Grassimuseum Leipzig focusing on figures of predators in oral narrative traditions of North American Plains Indians.
For more information on the event, please see the attached invitiation.
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