Dear ASC Students,
The UW’s Central Office has just informed us that October 1, which was supposed to be a regular day of classes, is – after all – a day without them.
This means that your first day of courses and lectures is Wednesday, October 2.
All best,
Paweł Frelik
ASC Director
American Studies Colloquium Series
November 6, 2024
Join us for the opening lecture of the American Studies Colloquium Series in the 2024/2025 Fall semester! Most historians agree that the US has played an imperial role in 20 th -century Latin America. However, what kind of empire was that? Was it based on dollars or bullets? Latin American elites and public opinion were passive actors within “empire’s workshop” or were actively “cooperating with the colossus”? Focusing on the first five decades of the 20 th -century, Marco Mariano argues that Washington built a hemispheric empire whose most distinctive feature was to be found in the material and immaterial infrastructures that enabled Washington to put in place what Paul Kramer defined an “international empire”.
Year 2024/2025
November 6, 2024
Dear All, Please, join us for the online meeting in the Weird TV series! This presentation will investigate area of children-focused media where the notions of the unnerving, unease and the dark imaginary tend to be found and explore this repeating or indeed duplicating aspect of fear and replicated weirdness present within children’s televisual media.
Year 2024/2025
November 6, 2024
Dear Students, Recruitment for the MOST program for the Spring Semester 2024/2025 has begun and will last until November 31st.
Year 2024/2025
October 30, 2024
You are cordially invited to an evening devoted to Dorothy Arzner, an amazing figure of Hollywood cinema. Arzner, one of the only two women directors of the classical era, was a trailblazing filmmaker and a queer artist who created a number of films showcasing female protagonists. By screening Dance, Girl, Dance (1940) we celebrate her work before the major retrospective of Arzner organized in Wrocław by the American Film Festival. The festival is the partner of this event and the Festival’s director Urszula Śniegowska will greet the audience before the film. After the screening, we will discuss Arzner, her cinema, and her career with ASC and AFF experts, trying to provide a cultural framework for understanding Hollywood and gender in the classical era.
Year 2024/2025
October 29, 2024
The Weird Fiction Research Group would like to invite you to a Halloween workshop! Together, we will watch and discuss an episode of the classic 90s TV show, The X-Files. We don’t want to spoil too much, but the episode chosen by dr Kotwasińska is a wonderful gateway into this year’s theme, “Weird TV”! There is much to unpack there: TV as a medium, TV as a threat, conspiracy theories, and, last but not least, the wonderful campiness of The X-Files as a series.