News
INTRO WEEK FOR NEW STUDENTS
Information on the LiLi Faculty's forthcoming "Freshers' Week"
(Erstsemesterwoche) can be found here:
Freshers' Week - Einführungswoche.
PROFICIENCY TEST
The next PT will take place on Friday, 23rd March 2012 at 10 a.m. in
Hörsaal 1.
There other dates earmarked for the Proficiency Test this year are
Saturday, 7th July and Friday, 28th September. Potential new students: please note that the
Proficiency Test is NOT the same thing as the Entrance Test which you have to pass
to be admitted to Anglistik: British and American Studies. Read more about
that below!
ENTRANCE TEST
The next Entrance Test is on Friday, 23rd March 2012 at 10 a.m. in Hörsaal 1
.
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.
Other Entrance Test dates in 2012 have been set for Saturday, 30th June and
Tuesday, 18th September.
International Symposium
POWER TO THE PEOPLE:
MUSIC & POLITICS IN THE AMERICAS
American Studies and the Center for Inter-American Studies at Bielefeld
University are hosting an international symposium on Music &Politics in the Americas:
Power to the People. The symposium is sponsored by the School of Music,
Washington, Seattle, and will take place at Bielefeld University (D3-121,
April 27th 2012 starting at 10a.m.). Key speakers are Michelle Habell-Pallan,
Ingrid Kummels, Martin Butler and John Miller Jones. Guests are welcome!
For further information contact the organizer:
wilfried.raussert@uni-bielefeld.de
International Summer School
GLOBAL FLOWS:
LITERATURE, MEDIA, AND ETHNICITY IN THE AMERICAS
American Studies at Bielefeld University invites MA students from other
universities to participate in the International Summer School Global Flows:
Literature, Media, and Ethnicity in the Americas (Catherine Leen, Maynooth,
Wilfried Raussert, Bielefeld, Niamh Thornton, Belfast) Room D3-121,
July 15-21, 2012
The parameters of the studies of national cultures, important as they
continue to be for the understanding of fundamental mythologies and
ideologies of nation-states and their assumed imaginary community, need to
be complemented by parameters of progressive, overlapping, and intersecting
geopolitical and cultural spaces. Critics like Arjun Appadurai view cultures
as a complex systems of flows that affect the whole globe (1996) and as a
scholarly reaction to that Ulfried Reichardt argues that a so-called
global turn in the field of cultural studies, literary and film studies
is taking place (2010). We will explore how literature, film, and media are
shaped by global flows and how they simultaneously express the dynamics,
conflicts, and changes that emerge from globalization. We will focus on
ethnic/postethnic literatures, music, film and new media in the Americas.
The course will end with the participation of all students in an international
conference in conjunction with the International Postgraduate Forum at
Bielefeld University on Global Flows in the Americas on July 21st.
Speakers will include doctoral students as well as leading scholars from the US,
Mexico, and Ireland. The Summer School is sponsored by the New Visiting
Scholar Program Bielefeld.
For enrollment and further information please contact the organizer:
wilfried.raussert@uni-bielefeld.de
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.
