We have extended the deadline for submissions to our art section to the 11th December 2009. Please see our Call for Papers (pdf) for more information on what we are looking for and send in your poetry, fotos, collages, short stories, sculptures, or any other form of creative expression by 11 December 2009.

Prof. Marina Camboni, who has contributed to the aspeers 1 (2008) issue, has asked us to publish the following announcement:

The Transatlantic Walt Whitman Association (TWWA), founded in Paris in 2007, invites students, researchers, and Whitman enthusiasts to participate in its third annual Whitman Week, consisting of a seminar for advanced students interested in Whitman and Whitman’s poetry, and a symposium bringing together international scholars and graduate students.

As of October 12, a new team of editors is working on the next issue of aspeers. The upcoming issue, organized around the topic of "Crime and America" will be the third issue of the first and currently only graduate-level peer-reviewed journal for European American studies.

aspeers calls for contributions to its next issue. The issue will be organized around the topic of Crime and America. Check out the detailed calls for contributions at: www.aspeers.com/2010

Today, the American Studies Leipzig community celebrated the release of the second issue of aspeers:emerging voices in american studies. This year’s editorial team welcomed faculty, staff, fellow students, last year’s editors, and two of this year’s contributors for a release ceremony, drinks, and food at the Bibliotheca Albertina lecture hall.

On 20 March 2009, 4 p.m., American Studies Leipzig will celebrate the release of the second issue of aspeers: emerging voices in american studies, Europe’s first and currently only peer-reviewed graduate journal in American studies. The publication project is part of American Studies Leipzig’s MA program. Over the course of the last semester, an editing team of six MA students has worked to select contributions, revise them together with the authors, edit them, and make them ready for publication. The

A few days ago, members of the aspeers project have founded the aspeers e.V., an incorporated association that will act as a legal entity for the project from now on.

To add to aspeers's fame and to solicit ever more art contributions, we came up with a couple of posters we put up. For those of you who can't see them in paper, here's a digital version:

Once again, we have received a large number of submissions for the upcoming issue of aspeers. We were a little worried that the topical call for papers would leave us with too few submissions... looks like that was nothing to worry about. However, the regional distribution seems a little narrower this time.

As of October 17, a new editorial team has begun to work on the second issue of aspeers, Europe’s first—and currently only—graduate-level peer-reviewed journal for American Studies. Between now and the Spring of 2009, Tanja Aho, Ingrid Betz, Franziska Böhme, Susan Büttner, Sebastian M. Herrmann, Benedikt Schäfer, and Isabel Simão will work to edit the second issue of the journal, the first to be organized around a topical call for papers.