It is our pleasure to inform the ASC community that Filip Boratyn, our doctoral student and – at the same time – USOS office assistant, is a recipient of the 2020 David G. Hartwell Emerging Scholar Award presented by the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts. Originally founded in 1987 as the Graduate Student Award and renamed in 2016 to honor the late David. G. Hartwell, the award has been given annually to a graduate student submitting the most outstanding paper at the Association’s conference. Filip is the first recipient from Poland
and Central/Eastern Europe to receive the award. Congratulations, Filip!
Year 2024/2025
November 21: “House of Horrors: Familial Intimacies in Contemporary American Horror Fiction” Author’s Meeting
November 19, 2024
Join us on November 21, 2024 for an author’s meeting with Dr. Agnieszka Kotwasińska about her book “House of Horrors: Familial Intimacies in Contemporary American Horror Fiction” published last year by the University of Wales Press. Dr. Kotwasińska will be joined by Dr. Sorcha Ní Fhlainn, and the event will be moderated by Dr. Jędrzej Burszta.
Year 2024/2025
November 20: ‘A Plane out of Phase’ – The Dark Continuance of the Gothic 1980s
November 19, 2024
Weird Fictions Research Group invites you to join for a fantastic (no pun intended) lecture by our guest, Dr. Sorcha Ní Fhlainn from Manchester Metropolitan University! This lecture asks you to consider the dark return of the Gothic 1980s in contemporary culture. Drawing upon ideas and examples of sequelisation, IP branding, apparatus theory, YouTube video curation, nostalgic programming, weird TV, and music, and the confluence of such forms in streaming series including Stranger Things and the current media adoption of Dark MAGA, this lecture invites you to examine the toxicity of the rhetoric of restorative projections and to query its undervalued reflective nostalgia as imagined onscreen to reclaim the future from the precarious dark present.
Year 2024/2025
November 18: After the US Elections: The Futures of European Security and Transatlantic Cooperation
November 18, 2024
Together with Gazeta Wyborcza we are delighted to invite you to the whole-day conference “After the US Elections: The Futures of European Security and Transatlantic Cooperation” dedicated to the global and regional (CEE) impact of the results of the 2024 US presidential elections. We will try to parse through the scenarios regarding the relationship between the US and Europe, human rights and democracy worldwide, aid to Ukraine, and new global threats. The invited guests include President Aleksander Kwaśniewski, ASC professors, external policy experts, and journalists and editors from GW.
Year 2024/2025
November 14: Recruitment for the Student Chapter of the Gender/Sexuality Research Group
November 14, 2024
We are happy to announce that we are opening recruitment for the team coordinating the activities of the Student Chapter of the Gender/Sexuality Research Group at the ASC! This year, we would like to invite new members of the ASC community (and not only) to our team, in order to coordinate the next series of events and, above all, to make our space available to different classes of graduates at the BA and MA level.
News
The Office for Student Affairs will be closed on November 14.
November 13, 2024
We would like to kindly inform you that the Office for Student Affairs will, exceptionally, be closed on November 14. We apologize for the inconvenience.