Due to the bilateral agreement between University of Warsaw and University of Florida, Gainesville the American Studies Center offers two stipends for a 2023/2024 fall or spring semester at the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

The stipend involves a fee waiver. Other costs (travel and accommodation, J-visa, health insurance) are to be covered by the student.

How to apply?

Applications that involve:

  • a CV
  • a motivation statement
  • a transcript of records in English (“karta przebiegu studiów” from USOS)
  • a signed “pozwolenie na wyjazd” form (please, note that for now, you do not need to collect the Head of the Educational Unit’s signature)
  • a signed RODO agreement form
  • and any other documents which you think could be useful in the recruitment process (e.g. a certificate TOEFL iBT 80, TOEFL PBT 550, IELTS 6.0, MELAB 7 or Verbal GRE 140).

should be submitted by e-mail to ASC Mobility Coordinator Dr. Ludmiła Janion (l.janion@uw.edu.pl) by February 26, 2023. Please send all documents in one e-mail.

B.A. and M.A. students may apply. The person granted the stipend will be required to provide a Covid vaccination certificate and a bank statement in English, confirming min. 6,000 USD (or equivalent in PLN or EUR) on their bank account.

More information on courses at the website of the hosting university.

The ASC Mobility Coordinator will be happy to answer any additional questions you may have, so feel free to contact her by email.

American Studies Colloquium Series

November 14: Building a Hemispheric Empire. The United States in Latin America, 1898-1945

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 12: Mirror Mirror – The Repeated Use of Unnerving Duplicates Within Children’s Television.

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

Recruitment for the MOST program for the Spring Semester 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: Screening of “Dance, Girl, Dance”

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: [WEIRD HALLOWEEN WORKSHOP] “The Truth Is Out There” – The X-Files and (Meta) TV Discourse

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.