Due to sickness, Prof. Koenen’s classes will be canceled on Thursday, Nov. 20 and Friday, Nov. 21. Her office hours on Thursday will be canceled as well.
The evening after the 2008 presidential election, about 50-60 American Studies Leipzig students gathered for a two-hour discussion with Prof. Paul Rundquist. Rundquist talked about how political interventions such as the 1971 busing decision by the Supreme Court might have helped reduce racism, about the electoral map as it emerged after the election, the question of voter turn-out, and the role Obama’s social networking platform and databases might play in the upcoming presidency.