The ASC’s Gender/Sexuality Research Group is proud to share our very first and very own podcast! “Oswoić gender,” hosted by Dr. Anna Kurowicka and Dr. Marta Usiekniewicz, aims to present research in gender and sexuality studies done at our center.

In the eight-episode series we cover topics ranging from the mobilization of anti-gender movements, studies of girlhood and bisexuality, gender contexts of the 1990s transformation and disability, sexual non-normativity in Polish People’s Republic, studies of queer film and Polish women immigrants in the United States, the political dimension of horror, all the way to post-Soviet Jewish literature in the US.

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Each new episode will be released on Wednesday, announced on the ASC’s social media, and available on platforms including Spotify, Anchor.fm, Apple Podcasts, Pocket Casts, and Google Podcasts. Episodes will be also published on the Gender/Sexuality Research Group’s dedicated website, which will be launched soon.

The aim of this Polish language podcast is to acquaint listeners with the diversity of research conducted within gender and sexuality studies. In each episode we show how the issues of gender and sexuality are manifested in cultural and social life. We also promise a good dose of humor and recommendations, because what would a popular science podcast be without homework?

This season will feature a slew of informative and entertaining conversations with Tomasz Basiuk, Jędrzej Burszta, Agnieszka Graff, Ludmiła Janion, Aleksandra Kamińska, Elżbieta Korolczuk, Agnieszka Kotwasińska, Karolina Krasuska, Sylwia Kuźma-Markowska, Krystyna Mazur, Natalia Pamuła, and Agnieszka Ziemińska.

The podcast is a part of Dr Karolina Krasuska’s project within “Promotion of scientific research in the public domain – 2nd edition” program under the Excellence Initiative Research University (IDUB) at the University of Warsaw and from the ASC UW.

Julia Machnowska was responsible for the sound production and editing, while Magdalena Sowul, aka Panilas, author of the podcast “Słyszane”, provided the studio space and music.

Year 2025/2026

Oct 24: “Ukorzenianie/wykorzenianie: spacer etnobotaniczny i warsztat kolażowy

October 16, 2025

We’re cordially inviting you to the second event in the “Wiedze u-korzenione” series co-organized by the Weird Fictions Research Group and Centrum Humanistyki Środowiskowej UW.

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Call for Participants: 24th Transatlantic Symposium 2025 on “Disability and Care”

October 16, 2025

Dr. Natalia Pamuła and Prof. Tomasz Basiuk are calling a meeting of ASC MA students interested in participating in the upcoming edition of the Transatlantic Symposium, an international graduate student conference held annually and preceded by a series of informal preparatory seminars.

American Studies Colloquium Series

October 30: “Emily Dickinson Mediated: How Archives and Editions ‘Slant’ Presentation of their Authors”

October 13, 2025

We are pleased to invite you to the first lecture of the American Studies Colloquium Series in the 2025 Fall semester!

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Call for Papers: International Conference on Anti-Gender Campaigns and the Politics of Knowledge Production, 11-12 December

October 6, 2025

Call for Papers: International Conference on Anti-Gender Campaigns and the Politics of Knowledge Production The American Studies Center at the University of Warsaw invites submissions for the international conference Anti-gender campaigns and the politics of knowledge production, to be held on 11–12 December 2025 in Warsaw, Poland.

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Extension of the Electronic Student ID cards

October 6, 2025

Dear Students, Extending the ELS (electronic student ID) validity will take place on: October 20 – 23, 2025 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. In order to conduct the extensions smoothly please (if possible) submit your IDs collectively.