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American
Studies at Lessius
About the Lessius American Studies
Center
Our Mission Statement (click to access an
introduction to the purpose and mission of the
Lessius American Studies Center)
Are you interested in learning more about American
history, American culture, or everyday American
life? This website is designed to provide a starting
point for Lessius students, the Antwerp community,
and other webusers interested in discovering more
about the U.S. Search
the Lessius American Studies Center Library,
including EBSCO
and other databases. Browse Crossroads,
Georgetown University's American Studies website.
Use the tabs at the left to search the site by
topic, or check out the links at the right for
some recommended sites all about the United States.
Recent Events
- LASC would like to invite you to six lectures on the interdisciplinary field of law and literature by Prof. Laura H. Korobkin, Associate Professor of English and Director of Graduate Studies at Boston University and Fulbright Visiting Professor at KU Leuven and Lessius. More information.
- Download: powerpoint presentatie Counting Donkeys and Elephants: 2008 U.S. Presidential Elections
- Counting Elephants and Donkeys: De Amerikaanse presidentsverkiezingen 2008
- March 4, 2008 - Kathleen O'Connor, Fulbright Teaching Assistant: Counting Donkeys and Elephants: 2008 U.S. Presidential Elections
- Lessius English Week
2008
- September 14, 2007 - The US Judiciary: A Conference in Honor of Prof. Dr. Erik Hertog
- Prof. Dr. Kristiaan Versluys, of Ghent University:
September 11 and the Other: Novelists Respond
- Dr. Gene M. Moore, of the University of Amsterdam:
Law and Disorder in American Literature
- Ms Kathleen O’Connor, Fulbright Teaching Assistant:
Judicial Overtones in American Schools: An IDEA for Special Education
- Prof. Dr. John A. Dick, of K.U.Leuven:
Religion and Politics: The Battle over the Judiciary
- March 28, 2007 - Prof Mullin, 'Constitutional Interpretation and Judicial Review: The Early History of the U.S. Supreme Court'
- March 7, 2007 - David Makovsky, Director of the Project on the Middle East Peace Process at The Washington Institute: Transatlantic Unity in the Mideast: What are the Prospects?
- March 16, 2006 - I
Hear America Singing: Understanding the Cultural
Values in American Folk Music
- March 8, 2006 - Peter
Vandermeersch, ‘De media in de Verenigde
Staten’.
March 8, 2006 - Paul
De Bruyn, ‘George Bush, The Christian
Right and the future of the Republican Party’
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February 13, 2006 - A Look at the Civil
Rights Movement Through the Eyes of Female
African American authors
Dr. Ethel Morgan Smith ,
Prof. of English at West Virginia University,
Morgantown, West Virginia. Dr. Smith is
an expert on American literature, especially
the writings of African-American and Women
authors, and she is here in the context
of Black History Month.
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