Events

Year 2024/2025

April 29: Feminism and Gender Representations in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

April 23, 2025

Join us for a lecture by Agata Zygardowicz on Buffy and her iconic impact on American television: “Feminism and Gender Representations in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” Buffy the Vampire Slayer occupies a significant space in the history of feminist media, portraying themes of 1990s third-wave feminism, postfeminist aesthetics, and television genre for teens. This lecture examines how the series both reflects and critiques feminist ideals, offering a protagonist who is emotionally vulnerable, fashion-conscious, and physically powerful at the same time.

Year 2024/2025

April 15: “Becoming the Horror” – Interactive Movies as the Perfect Horror Medium

April 10, 2025

Weird Fiction Research Group kindly invites you to the fourth Weird TV meeting in spring semester. We’re continuing the subject of the game/TV relationship with Dominik Kędzierawski’s lecture about (among others) Until Dawn and Bandersnatch – “Becoming the Horror – Interactive Movies as the Perfect Horror Medium”!

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New MA program program Gender and Sexuality (in Polish), in cooperation with the Faculty of Polish Studies and the Institute of Polish Culture!

April 8, 2025

In cooperation with the Faculty of Polish Studies and the Institute of Polish Culture, American Studies Center is launching a new MA program in Polish in Gender and Sexuality!

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UW Open Day

April 6, 2025

The University of Warsaw Open Day will be held on 12th April on the Main Campus at Krakowskie Przedmieście. It is an excellent opportunity to get to know the university better: the offer of studies, admission rules, activities of student associations, voluntary centre, as well as cultural and sports teams.

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Competition for Student Research Grants

March 27, 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. 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 a priority.

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Meeting with the Vice-Rector for Student Affairs and Quality of Teaching and Learning

March 21, 2025

On March 26 at 6:30 PM, we invite you to an open online meeting with the Vice-Rector for Student Affairs and Quality of Teaching and Learning, Prof. Maciej Raś. During the meeting, we will discuss topics important to students and those interested in studying at the University of Warsaw.

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ZIP 2.0 Integrated Teaching Development Program for the ASC Undergraduate Program

March 20, 2025

We would like to inform you that as of January 1, 2025, the University of Warsaw is implementing the “Integrated Teaching Development Program – ZIP 2.0,” co-financed by the European Social Fund under the European Funds for Social Development 2021–2027 (FERS) program. Its goal is to adapt the educational offer to the needs of the economy and labor market, as well as to support green and digital transformation.

Year 2024/2025

March 25: Don’t Adjust the TV: TV Heads and Television Nightmares in Horror Video Games

March 25, 2025

On the heels of a meeting about horror in children’s films we’re switching gears to video games! Join Weird Fiction Research Group for “Don’t Adjust the TV: TV Heads and Television Nightmares in Horror Video Games”. In this presentation, we will explore the evolution of TV Head monsters in gaming, arguing that their prominence reflects the medium’s deep-rooted preoccupation with film.

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Current Issues in Publishing Studies – 2025 University of Warsaw International Summer School

March 17, 2025

We invite interested doctoral students and early career researchers working in publishing studies and book history to our inaugural summer school “Current Issues in Publishing Studies” hosted by the University of Warsaw!

American Studies Colloquium Series

April 3: Gatekeeping, Paranoid Professionalism, and Redefining Literacy: How US Librarians Fought, Found, and Loved Comic Books

April 3, 2025

We are pleased to invite you to the third lecture of the American Studies Colloquium Series in the 2025 Spring semester! In this talk, we will look at how US librarians fought against comic books as though libraries were the last line of defense in a vital war. We will examine the existential threat that librarians perceived comics to pose in the mid-century and the gradual, nervous thawing of that opposition in the 1970s and 1980s.

American Studies Colloquium Series

April 24: The Minima Moralia of Autotheory: New Reflections on Damaged Life

April 16, 2025

We are pleased to invite you to the fourth lecture of the American Studies Colloquium Series in the 2025 Spring semester! This time we welcome Jonathan Alexander with a lecture titled “The Minima Moralia of Autotheory: New Reflections on Damaged Life”.

Year 2024/2025

24 Marca: Dlaczego Amerykanie Zaufali Szarlatanom? Klub Amerykański #1: Anna Kurowicka i Elżbieta Korolczuk

March 24, 2025

Kim są uzdrawiacze ciał i na czym polega ich fenomen? Z czym wiąże się rosnąca popularność szarlatanów, uzdrowicieli i handlarzy wątpliwymi suplementami diety? Dlaczego USA wypisały się z WHO, a sekretarzem ds. zdrowia w administracji Donalda Trumpa został człowiek, który uważa, że miał w mózgu robaka? Na te inne pytania spróbujemy odpowiedzieć podczas pierwszego spotkania Klubu Amerykańskiego w Księgarni Czarnego. Okazją do dyskusji będzie wydany niedawno nakładem Wydawnictwa Czarne reportaż „Inwazja uzdrawiaczy ciał” Matthew Hongoltz-Hetlinga (przeł. Hanna Pasierska), a przewodniczkami po świecie amerykańskiej alternatywnej medycyny będą Elżbieta Korolczuk i Anna Kurowicka z Ośrodka Studiów Amerykańskich Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego.

American Studies Colloquium Series

March 20: Limits to/of Representation: Intersectional and Gender-Based Violence in Taylor Sheridan’s Wind River

March 20, 2025

We are pleased to invite you to the second lecture of the American Studies Colloquium Series in the 2025 Spring semester! This time, we are joined by Dr Tereza Jiroutová Kynčlová of Charles University, who will offer a nuanced analysis of Taylor Sheridan’s directorial debut Wind River through the categories of representation as inclusion and representation as portrayal.

Year 2024/2025

March 18: Horror in Kids’s Movies

March 18, 2025

Weird Fiction Research Group kindly invites you to the third Weird TV meeting in spring semester. ASC student, Julia Michalak, will introduce you into the subject of Horror in Kids’s Movies!

Year 2024/2025

March 14: SPLOT Artemis Generation Open Event: To Boldly Go Or Not: Human Futures in Space

March 14, 2025

After a decades-long slowdown of extra-terrestrial exploration, humanity seems poised to return to space. Some visions of this return are very ambitious, but much remains unclear about the feasibility, the scope, and the cost of expanding beyond the third planet from the Sun. To think through these (and other) aspects through the lens of science fiction, space psychology, design and architecture, SPLOT Artemis Generation in collaboration with the American Studies Center, University of Warsaw, is hosting a discussion panel featuring Dr. Joanna Jurga, Dr. Agnieszka Skorupa, and Prof. Sherryl Vint and moderated by Prof. Paweł Frelik.