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On May 2, 2017, 7 p.m., at the Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst in Leipzig, American writer Tom Drury (US) is reading from his trilogy Grouse County. The reading will be followed by a discussion with Prof. Crister Garett, from the Institute of American Studies, University of Leipzig. Admission will be free. Tom Drury has published several novels […]
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In its fourth workshop-session on May 19-20, 2017, the interdisciplinary group “weiter sehen” will be focusing on the first episode of Westworld – a series that, although having been produced only in 2016, has already sparked lively debates and gained widespread attention. In looking at and discussing HBO’s most recent remake of the 1973 film of […]
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Donald J. Trump has been the 45th President of the United States for more than 100 days now and the past three months were everything but uneventful: from the so-called ‘Muslim-ban’ or the cancellation of the Trans-Pacific Partnership to a more recent attempt to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (better known as Obamacare), the […]
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As part of the weekly American Studies Research Colloquium, Maria Sulimma (FU Berlin) will present her work-in-progress on gender in contemporary television culture. Maria Sulimma is part of the interdisciplinary Popular Seriality Reasearch Unit (PSRU), which investigates the aesthetics as well as practices of and in popular seriality. For further information on Sulimma’s research project “Serial […]
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Whether you are currently in the process of writing seminar papers, extended essays, theses, or your dissertation, you may want to leave the solitude of your desk and instead come to the SLUB (Zellescher Weg 18, 01069 Dresden): On 02.03. 2017, from 6 p.m. – 12 p.m., you can ‘write through the night’ at the Lange Nacht […]
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There are two job offers for student assistants at the TU Dresden at the moment! One position is offered at the Staff Unit Diversity Management, the other at the Referat für Entwicklung und Internationales at the Faculty of Medicine Carl Gustav Carus. So, whether you are generally interested in gaining new (work) experience or want […]
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Whatever political stance you take in this year’s US presidential election, we invite you to join us for our official election night on November 8/9, 2016! From 8 p.m. on, you can listen to live interviews, presentations, and short lectures on different topics from US politics and political culture; you can follow the election on […]
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In 2015, Ursula Maria Ewald provided the first German translation of Gordon Leidner’s Abraham Lincoln. Quotes, Quips, and Speeches. On October 11, 2016, Ewald will be reading from this translation, Abraham Lincoln. Vermächtnisse, at the Literaturhaus Villa Augustin in Dresden. The reading is hosted on the occasion of the International Translation Day, which was celebrated on […]
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Whether you would like to simply attend the conference “Von House of Cards bis Game of Thrones: Über Politik in Fernsehserien” or listen to the talks as part of your participation in this semester’s honor class, please make sure to register for the conference as soon as possible as available seats are already limited! You […]
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