Due to our relocation to Dobra 55, the ASC library will be shut down from January 26, 2023 to February 19, 2023. The last day to check out books from the library will be Wednesday, January 25, 2023. The library will reopen at Dobra 55 on Monday, February 20, with the beginning of the new semester. If you want to collect any course materials for the next semester, make sure to do it before the library closes for three weeks.
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.