Dear Students,

The following classes will go online. Most probably you have already been contacted by your instructors. If not, it will take place soon.
We are aware that the intensive course by dr. J. Wendland planned for May may not take place. Yet, do not worry. We know that some of you need it badly to graduate on time.

Yours,
Małgorzata Gajda-Łaszewska

 

BA I Obligatory classes

Course name Instructor
United States and the World David Jones
History of American Cinema Paweł Frelik
Political Culture in the US Marcin Gajek
History of the United States II William Glass
Migrations, Race, and Ethnicity in the US Joanna Kulpińska
Academic Writing II Joanna Mąkowska
Emma Oki
Natalia Pamuła
Filip Boratyn
Blanka Kotlińska
Marta Werbanowska
Matthew Chambers
Alicja Relidzyńska

 

Electives

North American Fiction Today Joanna Mąkowska
Civil Liberties in the US David Jones
Politics of Film Noir Marta Usiekniewicz
Diplomacy Applied Ryszard Schnepf
Writing American Life Natalia Pamuła
Introduction to Gender and Sexuality Studies Ludmiła Janion, Aleksandra Kamińska, Anna Kurowicka
Migrations, Race and Ethnicity in the USA Joanna Kulpińska
NYC, Chicago, Los Angeles Anna Sosnowska-Jordanovska
American Science Fiction Cinema Paweł Frelik
Introduction to the American Civil War Zbigniew Kwiecień

 

BA II Obligatory classes

Economy of the United States Andrzej Kondratowicz
Am. Lit. II – lecture Grzegorz Kość
Am. Lit. II – sections Joanna Mąkowska
Marek Wilczyński
Aleksandra Kamińska
Anna Kurowicka
Antoni Górny
Jędrzej Burszta
Agnieszka Kotwasińska
Information Technology – sections Various Instructors
Intercultural Communication Paulina Orbitowska-Fernandez
Małgorzata Durska
Dariusz Zembrzuski
Key Methods in American Studies Various Instructors

 

BA III Obligatory classes

BA Seminar Anna Kurowicka
Alicja Fijałkowska-Myszyńska (Latin)
Natalia Pamuła
David Jones
Karolina Lebek
Włodzimierz Batóg
Grzegorz Kość
Paweł Frelik
Agnieszka Graff-Osser
Krystyna Mazur
Hector Calleros
Matthew Chambers
Zbigniew Kwiecień
Agnieszka Kotwasińska

 

BA II & III Electives

American Presidency David Jones
American Independent Cinema Magdalena Maksimiuk
Madness in American Culture Natalia Pamuła
Introduction to Body Studies Marta Usiekniewicz
Introduction to American Comics Emma Oki
Forced Migrations and the American Dream Joanna Kulpińska
American Television Series after 2000 Paweł Frelik
Technology and Automation in American Culture Anna Malinowska
New Media in/and Power Blanka Kotlińska
Militarism, Militarization and War Weronika Grzebalska
Latinx and Hispanic Identities Hector Calleros
Queering the Canon Krystyna Mazur
Native American Writings of Memory and Self Gabriela Jeleńska
20th/21st Century American Poetry Matthew Chambers
American Jewishness at the Turn of the 21st Century Karolina Krasuska
Congress Clifford Bates
The Monroe Doctrine Zbigniew Kwiecień

 

BA III Latin

Modern Latin American Issues Renata Siuda-Ambroziak
Futbal w Ameryce Łacińskiej Alicja FIjałkowska-Myszyńska
Spanish language class Ana Fornet
Spanish language class Luis Miletti

 

MA I

Course name Instructor
Research Seminar: Race in American Film Agnieszka Graff-Osser
Research Seminar: Dystopia and Its Uses Karolina Lebek
Research Seminar: Immigrants and Cities Anna Sosnowska-Jordanovska
Research Seminar: American Outsider Art Anna Malinowska
Research Seminar: Christianity in the New World Renata Siuda-Ambroziak
Research Seminar: Transatlantic Modernism Matthew Chambers
Research Seminar: Haunted America Agnieszka Kotwasińska
Research Seminar: Issues in American Political Thought Clifford Bates
Research Seminar: Urbanization and Mega-Cities Kacper Pobłocki
Senior Res. Lecture: Clips, Shorts, Videos Paweł Frelik
Senior Res. Lecture: Voyages of the Self Marek Wilczyński
Senior Res. Lecture: Power and Its Discontents Elżbieta Korolczuk
Practical Spanish Luis Miletti
Paulina Bojarska
Advanced Practical English Dariusz Zembrzuski
Anna Mejer

 

MA II

Seminar Tomasz Basiuk
Seminar Paweł Frelik
Seminar Marcin Gajek
Seminar William Glass
Seminar Marta Usiekniewicz

 

OGUN

Course name Instructor
Contemporary Latin American Film Tomasz Rudowski
The Sixties Włodzimierz Batóg
Seeing Is Believing Włodzimierz Batóg
America Under Trump Ryszard Schnepf
American Television Series after 2000 Paweł Frelik
El Caribe: Unidad en diversidad Katarzyna Dembicz
The Korean War 1950-1953 Zbigniew Kwiecień
African American Film after the Civil Rights Movement Krystyna Mazur

 

American Studies Colloquium Series

December 19: Between The Mundane and the Heroic: Vietnamese Presence in State Socialist Poland

December 19, 2024

We are delighted to invite you to the fifth lecture of the American Studies Colloquium Series in the 2024/2025 Fall semester! This talk will examine the depictions of the (North) Vietnamese as freedom fighters within the context of the state socialist public sphere and the everyday life of Vietnamese students in Poland across generations. From idealized wartime reportages to mixed-race couples, the Vietnamese presence was marked by a multifaceted experience of adaptation, challenges, opportunities, and dynamic, interactive bonds with Polish society. This history continues to exert a profound influence on the contemporary Vietnamese diaspora and Polish-Vietnamese relationships.

Year 2024/2025

December 18: The Trump Transition – What is New and What is Not

December 18, 2024

Leadership Research Groupis inviting all those who would like to put the Trump transition to a presidential scholarship context and better understand the Trump transition decisions, the prospects for the future in domestic and foreign policy areas they bring, and the impact that Trump leadership may have on the political scene in Washington to a talk followed by a Q&A session by Professor Stephen Farnsworth.

Year 2024/2025

December 17: We Want Change NOW! The Feminist Manifesto in Theory and Practice

December 17, 2024

During the workshop “We Want Change NOW! The Feminist Manifesto in Theory and Practice”, Aleksandra Julia Malinowska, a doctoral candidate at the University of Warsaw,will delve into the history of feminist manifestos and their pivotal role in the women’s movement in the United States. We’ll explore how activists of the second wave of feminism used grassroots publications to raise awareness, voice the demands of emerging women’s groups, and build communication networks between organizations spread across the country. Together, we’ll analyze the literary techniques that make the manifesto genre a powerful tool for inspiring activist mobilization beyond the pages of the text.

American Studies Colloquium Series

December 12: Technological Imaginaries and the Universal Ambitions of Silicon Valley

December 12, 2024

Drawing on her new book, Appropriate, Negotiate, Challenge: Activist imaginaries and the politics of digital technologies (University of California Press), in this talk Ferrari shows how these discourses, which she calls “technological imaginaries”, shape how we experience digital technologies. She discusses how, for the past 30 years, Silicon Valley tech actors have produced and popularized a specific way of thinking about digital technologies, which has become mainstream. This dominant technological imaginary brings together technocratic aspirations and populist justifications. While arising out of the peculiarities of Silicon Valley and of the American 1990s, this dominant imaginary has posited its universality by presenting its tenets as if they were global, unbiased, and equally suitable for everyone, everywhere. She argues that to really curb the socio-political influence of Big Tech companies we also need to understand, critique, and resist the power of their technological imaginary.

News

ASC Library has received funding from the Social Responsibility of Science

December 12, 2024

ASC Library has received funding from the Social Responsibility of Science (SON) program — “Support for Scientific Libraries,” implemented by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education.