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Bachelor Courses

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" (Dr. Olaf Stieglitz):

Final call for applications:

The deadline for the MA American Studies entrance exam expires on April 29, 2019, at midnight. ASL strongly encourages you to submit your application packet soon if you plan on entering our MA class of 2019!

Please upload your application materials on our MA Application platform!

On April 16, ASL's Stefan Schubert talked to a crowd of about 50 people about gender and genre in film and television, in a presentation titled "Von Lonesome Cowboys und Desperate Housewives: Geschlechterdarstellungen im US-Fernsehen." In his talk, Schubert discussed genres as mixtures between formal and cultural conventions and especially highlighted the cultural work that they do, tracing generic allegiances between the prototypical American genre of the Western and contemp

The joint research initiative “Selbst-Bewusste Erzählungen“ between scholars at ASL and TU Dresden has concluded its final project with the release of Frank Usbeck’s book on “Ceremonial Storytelling: Rituals and Narrative in Post-9/11 US Wars” published by Peter Lang earlier this month.

Due to a business trip, Prof. Pisarz-Ramírez' Office Hours have to be cancelled on Wednesday, 10 April.

Anne Keyselt
ASL Secretariat