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On December 6, 2012, American Studies Leipzig, the Fulbright Commission in Berlin, and the US Consulate in Leipzig celebrated 60 years of German-American higher education exchange thanks to the Fulbright Program at an afternoon symposium. Entitled, “Diversity, Economic Change, and Employment: The Transatlantic Laboratory,” the symposium brought together some 75 Fulbright alumni, current fellows, students, staff, and professors from the United States and Germany.

American Studies, Leipzig. 24 April 2009.

The FLS 2008 opened with a very well attended lecture by Professor Murry Nelson from Penn State University. Some fifty students and colleagues gathered in the main lecture hall of the Albertina University Library to hear Nelson discuss the dynamics of American immigration since the later nineteenth century. Asian immigration to America provided the focus of the talk.

American Studies Leipzig is proud to welcome six distinguished Fulbright Scholars from Germany and from around Europe to the University of Leipzig for the annual Leipzig-Fulbright Lecture Series. The theme for this year’s FLS is “ Reform and Reaction in the American Revolutionary ”. The theme deals with the conflict between American Revolutionary ideals, the efforts actually to achieve such ideals, and the reactions that such efforts have unleashed. It is a theme at the heart of the American story, and its global context.

The Picador-Fulbright Roundtable on American film, literature, and society was attended by some forty students and members of the University of Leipzig community. The overwhelming response by participants was “When can we do that again?!”.

Picador Professor John Haskell and Fulbright-Leipzig Chair Ben Alpers joined students and colleagues to kick off the roundtable in the Villa Tillmanns over some pizza and beer (and sparkling water) to talk about film, literature, and American society.

American Studies Leipzig is proud to offer a roundtable on The Sweet Smell Of Success on Wednesday, 9 January 2008, 7pm in Villa Tillmanns, Wächterstraße 30.

The German-American Fulbright Commission’s newsmagazine The Funnel has a long and interesting essay in its most recent edition (October 2007) by Professor Charles Johanningsmeier, who just stepped down as Fulbright-Leipzig Chair for American Studies. In both a very personal and professional way, Professor Johanningsmeier relates in his article, “How My Fulbright Experience Changed Me”, how his year in Leipzig and at American Studies has changed his life and that of his family.

Starting Tuesday, May 8, the American Studies Leipzig Fulbright Lecture Series will move to the Library Lecture Hall in the Bibliotheca Albertina, Beethovenstraße 6.

American Studies Leipzig is proud to announce this Summer Term’s Fulbright Lecture Series on “Contesting the Public Space in American Society.” The Lecture Series will be held from April 17 to June 12.

Tuesdays 5:15 – 6:45 pm
Dresdner Bank Building
Dittrichring 5-7, Room 401

For the 2007 Fulbright Lecture Series poster including the individual lectures’ topics please click here.