Teacher Training

Aspects of American Culture 2014

Event Information

  • Friday, March 7, 2014 - Saturday, March 8, 2014
  • Riebeckplatz 9
  • 06110 Halle

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Aspects of American Culture 2014

Organized by:
U.S. Embassy Berlin
Muhlenberg Center for American Studies (MCAS)
Thüringer Institut für Lehrerfortbildung, Lehrplanentwicklung und Medien (Thillm)
Landesinstitut für Schulqualität und Lehrerbildung Sachsen-­Anhalt

Sponsored by:

 usembassy_web  ucconsulate_web  MBC_web

Program

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Friday, March 7 10:00

Welcome and Introduction

Julia Nitz, MCAS Halle/Wittenberg
Ines Klausch, LISA Halle
Helga Hämmerling, Thillm Bad Berka

10:15 – 11:00

“Awesome, you bet – American Culture and Language”

Anka Fehling (Thillm, Bad Berka)

11:15 – 12:00

“The College Experience in the US”

Melinda Palmer-Kolb (MLU Halle)

12:00 – 12:45

“Tracing American Exceptionalism in American Literature”

Dr. Barry Laga (Fulbright fellow at Leipzig university)

12:45 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 16:00

Conversation sessions (small groups with lecturers)

 

16:00 – 16:30

Coffee break

16:30 – 18:00

Tour of town

19:00 Dinner (Hallesches Brauhaus)
Saturday, March 8 09:00 – 10:30

Workshop I: “Cross-Cultural Communications”

Michelle Sudbrock

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30

Workshop II: “Documentary Film and the Environment”

John Dean (University of Versailles, France)

12:30 – 13:00

Final feedback

 

13:00 Lunch, departures

Venue

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Venue: Aspects of American Culture 2014

LISA Halle

Landesinstitut für Schulqualität und Lehrerbildung Sachsen-Anhalt
Fachbereich 4
Riebeckplatz 9
06110 Halle

Contact

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Christin Reimann

Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Adam-Kuckhoff-Straße 35
06108 Halle (Saale)
GERMANY
Tel.       : +49-(0)345-55-23549
E-Mail: christin.reimann@amerikanistik.uni-halle.de