There are now TWO FURTHER ENTRANCE TESTS scheduled in 2013. An additional Entrance Test will now be offered on Saturday, 6th July, 2013, 10-10.30 a.m., in the Audimax. You should sign
up for this in the period from 1st to 30th June 2013. The last Entrance Test of 2013 will take place on 18th September 2013, 10-10.30 a.m., in the Audimax.The sign-up period is 1st to 15th
September 2013.
PLEASE NOTE THAT Marilyn Schapiro SHOULD BE CONTACTED TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTRANCE TEST!
For further information, please click on "Future Students" on the left.
PROFICIENCY TEST
The remaining PTs of 2013 will be taking place on Saturday, 20th July and Monday, 23rd September, 2013. Both PTs take place from 10-11a.m. (s.t.) in Hörsaal 1.
You will be invited to sign up and given details of when and how to do so in a Newsletter to all students of English ahead of the relevant dates.
Potential new students: the
Proficiency Test is NOT the same thing as the Entrance Test (see above!) which you have to pass to be admitted to Anglistik: British and American Studies.
BMBF PROJECT, INAUGURAL CONFERENCE
Announcing the inaugural conference of the BMBF Project The Americas as Space
of Entanglement(s), entitled (Trans)Cultural Mobility in the Americas, 6th and 7th May 2013 in the ZiF. The
programme can be viewed here.
FIRST BIELEFELD STUDENT CONFERENCE IN BRITISH STUDIES: MASCULINITIES IN BRITISH POPULAR MUSIC
The 1st Bielefeld Student Conference in British Studies is to be held from 28th to 29th June 2013. The topic is Masculinities in British Popular Music, and the keynote lecture will be held by
Prof. John Storey, notable for his book Cultural Studies and Popular Culture and numerous other studies in that field. Here is the
Call for Papers and the
conference poster.
POSTGRADUATE CONFERENCE EXPLORING THE PERIPHERY, CALL FOR PAPERS
Each Tuesday this summer semester, 4-6 pm in H14, a different member of staff will give a lecture on a topic related to linguistic,literary, cultural or historical perspectives on
migration. This is a public lecture and all interested parties are welcome to attend! For details of speakers and titles, please see the
poster.
THE LEGENDARY ENGLISH STAMMTISCH
The English Stammtisch meets every Friday evening from around 7.30 p.m. in Buena Vista, on the corner of August-Bebel-Strasse (No. 207) and Luisenstrasse.
Although its (true) origins are lost in the mists of time, the English Stammtisch was founded soon after the Faculty was,
by the first English Lektors to work here in Bielefeld, as a place where students and staff could meet informally to speak English in a relaxed and unconstrained atmosphere.
In the forty or so years since the Stammtisch started up, it has been attended by people from all over the world. Students and visiting scholars from India, China, Japan, USA, Pakistan,
Australia and, yes, Germany, and even England (and Scotland!) as well, so people of all shapes, sizes, ages and professions meet there. Why not collar a friend and join in too?
More information can be found at English Stammtisch.
FIAR - CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
The editors of fiar (forum for inter-american research), the official electronic journal of the International Association of Inter-American Studies,
invite scholars to send articles (English and Spanish) for a special issue Theorizing Hemispheric Studies of the Americas. Submissions should address the
limits and possibilities of Hemispheric Studies of the Americas and discuss methodologies and concepts as well as theoretical approaches relevant for reflections
upon studies of the Americas within the dynamics and tensions of globalization. This special issue of fiar intends to focus the theoretical debates currently
renegotiating critical directions in Canadian, American, Latin American and Inter-American Studies in a dialogical and critical fashion.
Please submit articles latest by June 30th 2013. More information and contact details can be found in the flyer:
.
OUR PUBLICATIONS
Members of staff and postgraduate students in our section have been publishing prolifically of late! There is
now a new section on the website with details of recent publications.
NEW ISSUE OF FIAR
The editors of fiar (forum for inter-american research)
would like announce the publication of the new issue, Vol 5 No.1:
Transitions and Continuities in Contemporary Chicano/a Culture
FIAR Volume 5.1.
SCHOLARSHIP SUCCESS
Two students of British and American Studies, Jessica Seliger and
Susanne Steguweit, have recently been awarded full scholarships by the
German National Academic Foundation
(Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes).
While members of the department were able to attest to their academic
excellence, both applicants also successfully demonstrated the responsibility
and initiative the Foundation looks for in applicants during
a gruelling two-day assessment in Meschede.
STAFF FEATURE IN PODCASTS
Klaus Scherwinski, who teaches seminars on graphic narrative in
the department of British and American Studies, and Pat Skorge
are among five researchers and teachers at Bielefeld University
featured as "Querdenker" in the latest batch of
2-minute "Vorsicht Podcast" films created in the eponymous seminar
offered by the faculty of Educational Science. The podcasts can be viewed at
Portrait
Klaus Scherwinski and
Portrait Patricia
Skorge.
