Year 2024/2025
November 20: ‘A Plane out of Phase’ – The Dark Continuance of the Gothic 1980s
November 19, 2024
Weird Fictions Research Group invites you to join for a fantastic (no pun intended) lecture by our guest, Dr. Sorcha Ní Fhlainn from Manchester Metropolitan University! This lecture asks you to consider the dark return of the Gothic 1980s in contemporary culture. Drawing upon ideas and examples of sequelisation, IP branding, apparatus theory, YouTube video curation, nostalgic programming, weird TV, and music, and the confluence of such forms in streaming series including Stranger Things and the current media adoption of Dark MAGA, this lecture invites you to examine the toxicity of the rhetoric of restorative projections and to query its undervalued reflective nostalgia as imagined onscreen to reclaim the future from the precarious dark present.
Year 2024/2025
November 18: After the US Elections: The Futures of European Security and Transatlantic Cooperation
November 18, 2024
Together with Gazeta Wyborcza we are delighted to invite you to the whole-day conference “After the US Elections: The Futures of European Security and Transatlantic Cooperation” dedicated to the global and regional (CEE) impact of the results of the 2024 US presidential elections. We will try to parse through the scenarios regarding the relationship between the US and Europe, human rights and democracy worldwide, aid to Ukraine, and new global threats. The invited guests include President Aleksander Kwaśniewski, ASC professors, external policy experts, and journalists and editors from GW.
Year 2024/2025
November 21: “House of Horrors: Familial Intimacies in Contemporary American Horror Fiction” Author’s Meeting
November 19, 2024
Join us on November 21, 2024 for an author’s meeting with Dr. Agnieszka Kotwasińska about her book “House of Horrors: Familial Intimacies in Contemporary American Horror Fiction” published last year by the University of Wales Press. Dr. Kotwasińska will be joined by Dr. Sorcha Ní Fhlainn, and the event will be moderated by Dr. Jędrzej Burszta.
Year 2024/2025
November 14: Recruitment for the Student Chapter of the Gender/Sexuality Research Group
November 14, 2024
We are happy to announce that we are opening recruitment for the team coordinating the activities of the Student Chapter of the Gender/Sexuality Research Group at the ASC! This year, we would like to invite new members of the ASC community (and not only) to our team, in order to coordinate the next series of events and, above all, to make our space available to different classes of graduates at the BA and MA level.
Year 2024/2025
November 12: Mirror Mirror – The Repeated Use of Unnerving Duplicates Within Children’s Television.
November 12, 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.
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
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.
Year 2024/2025
October 24: The Disunited States of America. Politics, Elections, and the Future of Democracy in a Polarized USA.
October 24, 2024
Should ubiquitous warnings about possible political violence in the US be taken seriously? How do deepening divisions affect the political landscape and the political process in the US? What are the sources of polarization? And what are the stakes of the upcoming elections in polarized America? Join us for a discussion on Stany Podzielone Ameryki with dr. Łukasz Pawłowski, the author of the book and the co-host of “Podcast Amerykański”, dr. hab. Agnieszka Graff, and dr. Jan Smoleński!
Year 2024/2025
24-25 Października: Nowe Odkrywanie Tubylczej Ameryki
October 24, 2024
Serdecznie zapraszamy na jubileuszowe XXX Seminarium Antropologiczne Polsko-Amerykańskiego Towarzystwa Etnograficznego PAES/PATE. Konferencja będzie miała miejsce w Ośrodku Studiów Amerykańskich Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, który jest partnerem PAES/PATE i jednocześnie współorganizatorem przedsięwzięcia. Partnerem PAES/PATE jest także Polskie Stowarzyszenie Przyjaciół Indian.
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October 11, 2024
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Year 2024/2025
October 17: “Soviet-Born: The Afterlives of Migration in Jewish American Fiction” Book Launch
October 17, 2024
We are pleased to invite you to the book launch of Prof. Karolina Krasuska’s book “Soviet-Born: The Afterlives of Migration in Jewish American Fiction”. In 2010, when The New Yorker published a list of twenty writers under the age of forty who were “key to their generation,” it included five Jewish-identified writers, two of whom—American Gary Shteyngart and Canadian David Bezmozgis—were Soviet-born. This publicity came after nearly a decade of English-language literary output by Soviet-born writers of all genders in North America. Soviet-Born: The Afterlives of Migration in Jewish American Fiction traces the impact of these now numerous authors—among others, David Bezmozgis, Boris Fishman, Keith Gessen, Sana Krasikov, Ellen Litman, Gary Shteyngart, Anya Ulinich, and Lara Vapnyar—on major coordinates of the Jewish American imaginary. Discussion will be followed by wine & snacks!
Year 2024/2025
1 Października: Pomiędzy Światami/ Between Worlds: Spotkanie autorskie i rozmowa z Ireną Klepfisz
October 1, 2024
Pracownia Gender/Sexuality przy OSA UW oraz Girls and Queers to the Front serdecznie zapraszają na spotkanie z Ireną Klepfisz, poetką, ikoną literatury lesbijskiej i żydowskiej, znaną jidiszystką. Rozmowę z okazji wydania tomu “Pomiędzy światami / Between Worlds”, pierwszego tak obszernego zbioru poezji i prozy Ireny Klepfisz, poprowadzą fanki, a jednocześnie badaczki i tłumaczki twórczości Klepfisz: Justyna Bilik, Małgorzatą Sikora-Tarnowska i Karolina Krasuska. Porozmawiamy między innymi o wielojęzyczności, splątanej tożsamości i roli poezji we współczesnym doświadczeniu marginalizacji i uciszenia. Moderatorką spotkania będzie Aleksandra Kamińska.
Year 2024/2025
ASC Inauguration and Graduation Ceremony 2024/2025
October 4, 2024
Join us for the upcoming Graduation and Inauguration Ceremony on October 4, 2024!
Year 2024/2025
28 Festiwal Nauki: México y Polonia: 95 años de relaciones diplomáticas
September 21, 2024
The lecture marks the 95th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Mexico and Poland (February 26, 1928). The lecture examines the collective perceptions that the two countries had of each other at the time, suggesting that the painters Frida Kahlo and Tamara Łempicka embody these collective imaginaries. These two painters provide an opportunity to reflect on the diplomatic relationship between these two republics. The conference also highlights other elements that give content to the bilateral relationship between the republics of Mexico and Poland.