We are pleased to invite you to the joint Graduation and Inauguration Ceremony, which will be held on October 6, 2023, at 4 pm – 6 pm, in Room 0.410 at Dobra 55.

Following the official part of the ceremony, there will be an after party in the “Yellow Stairs” hall.

Dear Freshers!

Please join us on that special day to receive a warm and heartfelt welcome from the faculty, staff, and fellow students as you begin your academic journey at the American Studies Center! We can’t wait to meet you all! During the ceremony, you will have the chance to meet some of your future professors, listen to the Inaugural speech, and get ready for the new academic year.

Dear soon-to-be Graduates!

We would be delighted if you join on us on that day to celebrate the years of your hard work and all academic accomplishments that have brought you to this pivotal moment. We will be thrilled to hand you your well-deserved diplomas and acknowledge your academic success. Let’s celebrate the end of this chapter together as you toss your graduation cap into the air! Let’s celebrate YOU!

Year 2025/2026

Jan 22: “‘Do I look famished?’: Weird Orality and Convivial Dying in Ishirō Honda’s Matango (1963).”

January 15, 2026

We’re cordially inviting you to the last open event in the “Wiedze u-korzenione” series in the fall semester 2025/26, co-organized by the Weird Fictions Research Group and Centrum Humanistyki Środowiskowej UW.

Year 2025/2026

16 Jan: “U.S Democracy in Crisis: ethnonational authoritarianism, liberal democracy, a Balkanized federation, and the threat to the Transatlantic alliance”

January 13, 2026

Leadership Research Group & Koło Naukowe Amerykanistów have a pleasure of inviting you to a meeting with a renown American journalist and writer Mr. Colin Woodard.

American Studies Colloquium Series

January 22: “Yearning for Crip Horizons: Crip Theory for Postsocialist Spaces”

January 9, 2026

We are pleased to invite you to the last lecture of the American Studies Colloquium Series in the 2025/2026 Winter semester! This time we are pleased to host Kateřina Kolářová with a lecture “Yearning for Crip Horizons: Crip Theory for Postsocialist Spaces”.

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Student research grant 2025/26

December 11, 2025

The American Studies Center is pleased to announce a competition for student research grants. The grants will support students’ work on their MA theses and BA papers written in conjunction with their BA seminars. As the research must be related to a BA paper or an MA thesis, 3rd-year BA students and MA students of all years will have priority.

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Holiday break at the ASC

December 9, 2025

We would like to inform you that the holiday break at the American Studies Center will take place from 22 December 2025 to 6 January 2026. On 22, 23, 29, 30 and 31 December the offices will have limited online availability.