Archive

Archived - News and Events

13.01.2011

Guest lecture: Aspects of Irish Cultural Studies

The Irish Semester <www.uni-saarland.de/theirishsemester>
Prof. Dr. Astrid M. Fellner, North American Literary and Cultural Studies presents

Dr. Dieter Fuchs, University of Vienna
Aspects of Irish Cultural Studies,
Wednesday, January 26th, 2011, 10 am – 12, Building B 2.1, Room 002
[...]

13.01.2011

Guest lecture and poetry reading: Ciaran M. Berry, Trinity College, Hartford, CT, "Transatlantic Correspondence: Poems"

The Irish Semester <www.uni-saarland.de/theirishsemester>
Prof. Dr. Astrid M. Fellner, North American Literary and Cultural Studies presents

Ciaran M. Berry, Trinity College, Hartford, CT
"Transatlantic Correspondence: Poems"
Thursday, January 20th, 10 am - 12, C 5 3; Room 120
and

Poetry Reading
5 pm, Campus, C 5 3, Fachbibliothek Anglistik/Amerikanistik
Ciaran Berry is an Irish poet who has spent the last decade living, writing,
and teaching in the United States. His… [...]

13.12.2010

Guest Lecture: Developments in Asian American and Asian Canadian Literature

Guest Lecture: Developments in Asian American and Asian Canadian Literature
Prof. Eleanor Ty
Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo/Ontario
Tuesday, Dec. 14th 2010, 12 - 2 pm
Building C 5.1, Musiksaal [...]

05.11.2010

Guest Lecture: When Irish Guys Aren't Smiling: Studs Lonigan and the Irish-American Mythos of Male Violence

Prof. Timothy Conley,
Bradley University, Peoria / Illinois
Tuesday,
Nov. 9th, 2010
12 pm Musiksaal
Hosted by: Prof. Dr. Astrid M. Fellner
North American Literary and Cultural Studies
Multicultural Americas:
Ethnic Literatures in North America
As part of: The Irish Semester
www.uni-saarland.de/theirishsemester
[...]

02.11.2010

Transatlantic Dialogues: Presentation of Projects

TRANSATLANTIC DIALOGUES
Presentation of Projects of an International Collaboration between Saarland University, University of Vienna and Bradley University
Monday, November 8, 2010
5 p.m.
Schlosskeller, Saarbrücken [...]

24.10.2010

Guest Lecture: "Melting Pot or Salad Bowl?" - Immigration in America

Dr. David Goldfield, University of North Carolina
Tuesday, October 26, 2010, 12.15 pm
Saarland University, Building C5.1, Musiksaal 1.01
Organized by Prof. Dr. Astrid M. Fellner and the Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut Saarbrücken in cooperation with the U.S. Embassy Berlin and the German-Pennsylvanian Friendship Association. [...]

14.09.2010

Anglistentag 2010 in Saarbrücken

Event website [...]

14.09.2010

7th Annual Teachers’ Day

7th Teachers’ Day “Which fictional text - when, where and how?” Wednesday, 22nd September 2010 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Teachers’ Day, organized by the English department and the ZfL, is an annual event that aims to bring together people from all three phases of teacher education: students, teacher-trainees, and serving teachers. It is designed to enhance teacher education at Saarland University.  (Overview of past Teachers' Days) The 7th Teachers’ Day 2010 takes place within the framework of… [...]

30.07.2010

Informationsveranstaltung zu den Reformen in unseren Bachelor- und Lehramtsstudiengängen

Although this event has already taken place, Powerpoint presentations have been posted in PDF format under the headings "Lehramt" and "Bachelor" in the Your Studies portion of the website.
Mittwoch, 14. Juli 2010 16 bis 18 Uhr Campus B3 2, Hörsaal 00.3 Wichtige Informationen für alle, die derzeit in unseren modularisierten Studiengängen eingeschrieben sind und in die neue Ordnung wechseln wollen! [...]

15.06.2010

Guest Lecture, North American Literary and Cultural Studies / Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft

Prof. Wendy Sutherland, New College of Florida "Staging Blackness and the Construction of Whiteness in 18th- and Early 19th-Century German Bourgeois Drama" Thursday, 24 June 2010, 16:00 Campus B3 1, Großer Sitzungssaal --- This lecture analyzes the German bourgeois drama from a new perspective by “racing” the genre and locating both racial and class hierarchies within it. I argue that the German bourgeois drama, in presenting the racial and class other, constructs a bourgeois value system… [...]

15.06.2010

Guest Lecture, North American Literary and Cultural Studies: The Places of Literary History

Mag.a Susanne Hamscha, FU Berlin "The Wilderness of Walden Pond: Emerson, Thoreau and the American Mind" Wednesday, June 23, 2010, 12:00, Campus B2 1, HS 0.02
[...]

11.06.2010

STAFF SEMINAR — Structures, content, contexts: Framing EFL teacher education in Germany and Austria

Priv.-Doz.in Dr. Susanne Reichl
Universität Wien
Monday, June 14, 2010; 4 pm
C5 2, Room 128
Organized by Prof. Dr. Astrid Fellner and Dr. Roger Charlton [...]

06.05.2010

Words That Sing

A Program of Poems

by John Donne, William Wordsworth, Alfred Tennyson, Lewis Carroll, William Butler Yeats, Thomas Hardy, John Masefield Set and Sung by Bert Hornback Arranged and Accompanied by Patrick Kutscha Monday, 17 May 7:00 p.m. Musikwissenschaft (C 5.2) Room 1 [...]

06.05.2010

Abbey East Players present Samuel Beckett's "Waiting For Godot"

“The most important play of the twentieth century” Monday, 31 May, Tuesday, 1 June, Wednesday, 3 June, 7:00 p.m. OPEN AIR—IN FRONT OF THE NEW CAMPUS CENTER UNIVERSITÄT DES SAARLANDES Dopwnload/View the poster
[...]

The English Department on Twitter