American Studies Colloquium Series
The American Studies Colloquium Series presents new research in American Studies. It brings together both junior and senior scholars from different national contexts, and addresses topics ranging from cultural readings of poetry through environmental history to security studies. The Colloquium Series is geared primarily toward American Studies scholars and students, but all talks are open to the interested public. All previous ASCS events are listed on this site.
American Studies Colloquium Series
Fall Term 2024/2025
- Thursday, November 14, Room 2.118 (at 4:45 pm)
Marco Mariano (University of Turin)
“Building a Hemispheric Empire. The United States in Latin America, 1898-1945” - Thursday, November 28, Room 2.118 (at 4:45 pm)
Stuart Taberner (University of Leeds)
“Soviet-Born Jewish Literature between North America and Germany” - Thursday, December 5, Room 2.118 (at 4:45 pm)
David M. Higgins (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Worldwide)
“Reinventing the Past to Change the Future: Alt-History and Reactionary Futurity” - Thursday, December 12, Room 2.118 (at 4:45 pm)
Elisabetta Ferrari (Aarhus University)
“Technological Imaginaries and the Universal Ambitions of Silicon Valley” - Thursday, December 19, Room 2.118 (at 4:45 pm)
Thục Linh Nguyễn Vũ (University of Vienna)
“A World of Their Own: Vietnamese Studentsin Late Socialist Poland” - Thursday, January 16, Room 2.118 (at 4:45 pm)
Stephen Proski (Fulbright Poland)
“Painting in Total Darkness: Blindness as the Medium for Vision”
American Studies Colloquium Series
Spring Term 2023/2024
- Thursday, March 7, Room 3.014 (at 4:45 pm)
Stephen J. Farnsworth (University of Mary Washington)
“The State of Presidential Elections” - Thursday, March 14, Room 3.014 (at 4:45 pm)
Jesse Olszynko-Gryn (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)
“The Invisible Designer: Meg Crane and the Invention of Home Pregnancy Testing in 1960s New York” - Thursday, March 21, Room 3.014 (at 4:45 pm)
Michał Kuź (Uczelnia Łazarskiego)
“American-German Relations: From Partnership in Leadership to War in Ukraine” - *RESCHEDULED FOR 2024/25* Thursday, April 4
Marco Mariano (University of Turin)
“Building a Hemispheric Empire. The United States in Latin America, 1898-1945” - Monday, April 15, Room 2.118 (at 4:45 pm)
Todd Sekuler (University of Zurich)
“Film, AIDS, Activism: Culture Engagements that Move” - Thursday, May 23, Room 2.118 (at 4:45 pm)
Eveline Kilian (Humboldt University of Berlin)
“The Role of Different Media in Transgender Life Narratives: The Case of Kate Bornstein”
American Studies Colloquium Series
Fall Term 2023/2024
- Monday, 16 October, 2023 (at 4:45 pm)
Allison Schachter (Vanderbilt University)
Lorraine Hansberry on Racism, Antisemitism, and Postwar American Intellectual Life - Thursday, 16 November, 2023 (ZOOM at 5:15 pm)
Christopher Harris (University of California, Irvine)
New Forms/Known Rivers - Thursday, 30 November, 2023 (at 4:45 pm)
Małgorzata Myk (University of Łódź)
Conceptual Writing In Extremis: Poetic A(na)rchives in North America - Thursday, 14 December, 2023 (at 4:45 pm)
Agnieszka Rzepa (Adam Mickiewicz University)
’What are you?’: Canadian Black and Multiracial Writers on Race, Home, and Belonging - Thursday, 11 January, 2024 (at 4:45 pm)
Kamil Lipiński (University of Łódź)
Modernism from Nordeste. From „Essa Negra Fulô” to surrealist photomontages by Jorge de Lima - Thursday, 18 January, 2024 (at 4:45 pm)
Jan Smoleński (University of Warsaw)
The Birth of the Concept of the Federal State during the Antebellum Constitutional Debates
American Studies Colloquium Series
Spring Term 2022/2023
- March 9, 2023
Elizabeth Dunn (Indiana University Bloomington)
Violent Divisions: Family Separations, Industrial Accidents and other Disconnections among Refugee Workers in the American Food System - March 28, 2023 (ZOOM at 10:00 am)
David Slucki (Monash University)
The Flashy Girl from Flushing: The Nanny and its Influence on American Culture
[watch on YouTube] - *CANCELLED* April 27, 2023
Judith Rauscher (University of Cologne)
Beyond Nature Poetry: Environmental Imaginaries of Mobility in Contemporary American Poetry - May 18, 2023
Penny Messinger (Daemen University)
Understanding Appalachian Otherness - May 25, 2023
Ewelina Wnuk (University of Warsaw)
English Language Bias and the Generalizability Problem in the Face of Global Linguistic Diversity - June 1, 2023
Karen Holmberg (Oregon State University)
Reckless Shelter: Contemporary Ecopoetic Practice
[watch on YouTube]
American Studies Colloquium Series
Fall Term 2022/2023
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October 20, 2022Ben Alexander (University of Southern California)
When American Television Became American Literature
[watch on YouTube] -
October 27, 2022Jakub Kowalewski (Birkbeck, University of London/St Mary’s University)
The Shapes of Apocalyptic Time: Decolonising Eco-Eschatology
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November 17, 2022Alexis Lothian (University of Maryland)
Imagining Sex Between White Men: Slash Fan fiction and the Racial Politics of Feminist Fantasy
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December 8, 2022Josh Lambert (Wellesley College)
Was There an American Literary Mafia? -
January 12, 2023Melody Jue (UC Santa Barbara)
Wild Blue Media: Encountering the Bookshelf, Underwater -
January 19, 2023Selma Bidlingmaier (Humboldt University of Berlin)
American Studies Colloquium Series
Spring Term 2021/2022
- March 3, 2022
Carsten Junker (TU Dresden)
Field Notes toward American Studies as Relational Diversity Studies - March 17, 2022
Tracey Salisbury (California State University)
Black on the Range: Recentering the History and Culture of Black Americans in the Old West
[watch on YouTube] - April 7, 2022
Matthew Levay (Idaho State University/University of Warsaw)
The Look of the Past: Anachronism and Critique in Contemporary Comics - May 12, 2022
Laura Levitt (Temple University)
American Jewish Loss After the Holocaust: An Object Lesson
[watch on YouTube] - May 19, 2022
Raymond Malewitz (Oregon State University/University of Warsaw)
‘bits of agitation on the body of the whole’: Animals in COVID-19 Literature
[watch on YouTube] - June 2, 2022
Richard Reitsma (Buffalo Canisius College)
Eat, Migrate, Love: Gastronomic and Sexual Desire as Identity
[watch on YouTube]
American Studies Colloquium Series
Fall Term 2021/2022
- November 18, 2021
Michał Choiński (Jagiellonian University)
Studying Authorial Fingerprints – On Stylometric Study of American Literature
[watch on YouTube] - December 02, 2021
Katrine Smiet (Radboud University)
“Ain’t I a woman?”: Sojourner Truth, Feminist Theory, and the Unstable Category of “Woman”
[watch on YouTube] - December 09, 2021
Brian Willems (University of Split)
Sham Ruins, A User’s Guide
[watch on YouTube] - January 13, 2022
Edyta Frelik (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University)
Why Write if You Can Paint: Thoughts on Thoughts and Feelings in American Artists’ Writings
[watch on YouTube] - January 20, 2022
Anat Pick (Queen Mary University of London and Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies)
Kelly Reichardt’s Gastro-Aesthetics
[watch on YouTube]
American Studies Colloquium Series
Spring Term 2020/2021
- March 18, 2021
Laura Arnold Leibman (Reed College)
The Art of the Jewish Family: Early American Women’s History Through Objects
[watch on YouTube] - April 15, 2021
Kristin Hoganson (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
The Heartland: Myth and History - April 22, 2021
Sorcha Ní Fhlainn (Manchester Metropolitan University)
“Hey Honey, I Think We Should Move…”: Gothic Property, (Re)Possession, and Economic Horror in the Long 1980s - April 29, 2021
Sam McBean (Queen Mary University London)
Queer Ecological Networks
[watch on YouTube] - May 13, 2021
Łukasz Muniowski (University of Warsaw)
Narratives, Basketball, Authorship: NBA Storytelling on and off the Court
Fall Term 2020/2021
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November 19, 2020
Michael Kochin (Tel Aviv University)
Showdown at Fort Miamis: War & Diplomacy in the Anglo-American Crisis of 1794
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November 26, 2020
Tadeusz Sławek (University of Silesia)
“Like a Thief in the Night”: Pandemic and the Culture of Healing
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January 14, 2021
Joshua Clark Davis (University of Baltimore)
Police Against the Movement: US Law Enforcement and Racial Justice Activists from the 1960s to Today -
January 21, 2021
Elizabeth Cullen Dunn (Indiana University Bloomington)
Refugees and Racial Capitalism: What “Integration” in the US Labor Market Means
[watch on YouTube] -
January 28, 2021
Jessica Roda (Georgetown University)
Cyberfeminism, an Orthodox Version in North America: Social Media as a Counterpublic Transformative Space of Religiosity
[watch on YouTube]
American Studies Colloquium Series
Spring Term 2019/2020
- March 26, 2020
Michael Kochin (Tel Aviv University)
Showdown at Fort Miamis: War and Diplomacy in the Anglo-American Crisis of 1794 [moved to next academic year] - April 2, 2020, Online
Dana Mihăilescu (University of Bucharest)
Networks of Holocaust Memory in Third Generation Graphic Narratives: On Amy Kurzweil’s Flying Couch (2016) and Kindred Narratives - May 7, 2020, Online
Alyson Patsavas (The University of Illinois at Chicago)
Archiving Pain: On Crip Queer Evidence - May 12, 2020, Online
Mateusz Halawa (Polish Academy of Science)
Global Brooklyn - May 28, 2020, Online
Ela Przybyło (Illinois State University)
An Erotic Toolkit: Asexual and Aromantic Critiques of Heteronormativity
[watch on YouTube]
Fall Term 2019/2020
- October 17, 2019
Anna Malinowska (University of Silesia)
Objects and Technofeelia: Love in Contemporary Technoculture - October 24, 2019
Marta Figlerowicz (Yale University)
A Short History of Virality
[watch on YouTube] - November 28, 2019
Anna Warso (SWPS University)
“There sat down, once, a thing on Henry’s heart”: On Mourning and Melancholia in John Berryman’s Dream Songs - December 5, 2019
Curd Knüpfer (Freie Universität Berlin)
The Future of American Media and the Crisis of the Public Sphere - December 12, 2019
Michael Fuchs (University of Graz)
“No law, no person, no governing body dictating your behavior”: AHS: Cult, The Purge, and the End of Subtlety in the Age of Trump - January 14, 2020
Fabio Parasecoli (New York University)
Food: A Systemic Approach
[watch on YouTube]
American Studies Colloquium Series
Spring Term 2018/2019
- February 28, 2019
Jaap Kooijman (University of Amsterdam)
The Diva Project: Analyzing Stardom in American Pop Culture
[watch on YouTube] - March 7, 2019
Mary Erdmans (Case Western Reserve University)
Transnational Identities and Behaviors among Solidarity Refugees in the US
[watch on YouTube] - March 14, 2019
Anna Mazurkiewicz (University of Gdańsk)
Defining State-Private Network. American Freedom Committees During the Cold War
[watch on YouTube] - March 28, 2019
David Schmid (University of Buffalo)
Crime Narratives in the Age of Trump: A Manifesto - April 25, 2019
Piotr Gwiazda (University of Pittsburgh)
Ghosts and Anchors: Translingualism in Contemporary US Poetry - May 16, 2019
Patrycja Antoszek (Catholic University of Lublin)
Haunted by Hill House: Shirley Jackson, Housewife Horrors and the Politics of Fame
[watch on YouTube]
Fall Term 2018/2019
- November 8, 2018
Kacper Pobłocki (University of Warsaw)
The Rise and Fall of Atlantic Capitalism - November 22, 2018
Renata Hryciuk (University of Warsaw)
Ethnography of New Culinary Elites: Gastronomic Heritage, Gender and Neoliberal Multiculturalism in Oaxaca (Southern Mexico) - December 6, 2018
Marek Wojtaszek (University of Łódź)
Sensory Interface and Algorithmic Desire in a Society of Anticipation - December 13, 2018
Gerry Canavan (Marquette University)
The Humanities after BLACKFISH - January 17, 2019
Alison Sperling (ICI Berlin)
Nuclear Afterlives: Toxicity and Nonhuman Embodiments in the Anthropocene
American Studies Colloquium Series
Spring Term 2017/2018
- March 8, 2018
Andrew Kier Wise (Daemen College)
American Marxists: Boris and Anna Reinstein and the Socialist Movement in Buffalo, NY (1891-1917) - April 12, 2018
Maisha Wester (Indiana University/University of Sheffield)
Voodoo Queens and Zombie Lords: Haiti in U.S. Horror Film - May 10, 2018
Kenneth Roberts (Cornell University/Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Latin America, Varieties of Capitalism, and the Comparative Study of Populism
Populism and Party System Transformation: Latin America in Comparative Perspective (Research Seminar) - May 17, 2018
Robert Morace (Daemen College)
Cheever, Updike, and the Making of the American ‘Suburban’ Soul - May 28, 2018
Ann Cvetkovich (University of Texas at Austin)
After Depression: Feeling Bad Now - June 7, 2018
Agnieszka Radziwinowiczówna (University of Warsaw)
Mexicans and the US Deportation Regime
Fall Term 2017/2018
- October 12, 2017
Philip McGowan (Queen’s University, Belfast)
“Can I Pray?” On John Berryman’s Last Collections
- October 26, 2017
Carrie J. Cole (Indiana University of Pennsylvania)
21st-Century US Theater: Performance and Practice - November 9, 2017
Kacper Bartczak (University of Lodz)
The Poetics of Plenitude and Self-Creation in the Poem
- November 23, 2017
Anna Horolets (University of Gdansk)
Living an American Dream: Leisure of Polish Migrants in the US
- December 14, 2017
Anna Pochmara-Ryżko (University of Warsaw)
From Slaves to the Bottle to Speakeasies and Champagne Baths
American Studies Colloquium Series
Spring Term 2016/2017
- March 16, 2017
Bettina Hofmann (University of Wuppertal)
Transgenerational Writing on the Second World War - April 6, 2017
Ryszard Schnepf (former Polish Ambassador to the US)
Trump’s America - April 20, 2017
Łukasz Kamieński (Jagiellonian University)
Fighting Better Than Well? Stimulants in the US Military - *CANCELLED* May 4, 2017
Anna Pochmara-Ryżko (University of Warsaw)
From Slaves to the Bottle to Speakeasies and Champagne Baths: Alcohol and American Literature, 1865-1933 - May 25, 2017
Bonnie Costello (Boston University)
Speaking of Us: Modern Poetry’s Anxious ‘We’ - June 1, 2017
Michael Kimmage (Catholic University of America)
Partners of Last Resort: U.S.-Russian Relations since the End of the Cold War
Fall Term 2016/2017
- October 20, 2016
Izabela Morska (University of Gdańsk)
Glorious Outlaws: On the Desirability of Debt in Life and Literature - November 3, 2016
Mary Ann Doane (UC Berkeley)
The Face in Early Cinema and the Discourse of the Universal Language - November 17, 2016
Magdalena Grabowska (Polish Academy of Sciences)
Beyond the ‘Development’ Paradigm: State Socialism, Transnationalism and the Second Wave Feminism in the US - December 8, 2016
Dagmara Drewniak (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań)
Les Lieux de Mémoire and Postmemory: After/Images of Polish Towns in Canadian Literature - January 12, 2017
Cathy Covell Waegner (University of Siegen)
Cultural Palimpsests on the Ethnic Shore: Re-functionalizing Seaside Forts
American Studies Colloquium Series
Spring Term 2015/2016
- March 3, 2016
Lance Olsen (University of Utah)
Theories of Forgetting: An Historiographic Metafictional Reading
[watch on YouTube]
- March 17, 2016
Cristina Iuli (University of Eastern Piedmont)
Trans-Atlantic American Studies and the Question of the Archive
[watch on YouTube]
- April 14, 2016
Zofia Kolbuszewska (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin)
Neobaroque in 20th and 21st-Century American Fiction
[watch on YouTube]
- May 5, 2016
Michael Rembis (SUNY Buffalo)
“A Secret Worth Knowing”: Gender and Madness in the Shadow of the Asylum - May 19, 2016
John Rieder (University of Hawaii)
The Mass Cultural Genre System
[watch on YouTube]
- June 2, 2016
Heather Love (University of Pennsylvania)
A Queer Method? Samuel Delany’s Empiricism and the Uses of the Literary
Fall Term 2015/2016
- October 8, 2015
Marta Marciniak (Independent Scholar)
“Tompkins Square Everywhere!” Punk as a Post-Capitalist Transnational Movement
[watch on YouTube]
- October 22, 2015
Justyna Szachowicz-Sempruch (University of Warsaw)
Feminist Love Studies? Current Contingencies and Visions
[watch on YouTube]
- November 5, 2015
Robin Einhorn (UC Berkeley)
Varieties of Tax Reform in American History
[watch on YouTube]
- November 12, 2015
Thomas Austenfeld (University of Fribourg)
Reassessing the “Age of Lowell”
[watch on YouTube]
- December 10, 2015
Paulina Ambroży (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań)
Emily Dickinson, the Luminists and the Sign of the Absolute
[watch on YouTube]
- *CANCELLED* January 14, 2016
Zofia Kolbuszewska (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin)
Neobaroque in 20th and 21st-Century American Fiction
American Studies Colloquium Series
Spring Term 2014/2015
- March 12, 2015
Aneta Dybska (University of Warsaw)
American Urban Utopias
[watch on YouTube] - March 19, 2015
Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet (University of Lausanne)
From Iwo Jima to Iraq: Approaching Combat Death through Genre in the American War Narrative
[watch on YouTube]
- Apil 9, 2015
Monika Płatek (University of Warsaw)
What is Good for us in the Bad American Criminal Policy
[watch on YouTube]
- *CANCELLED* April 30, 2015
Lindsay Thistle (University of Silesia/University of Trent)
Narrating the Nation: Issues of Culture and Identity in Canadian Television - May 7, 2015
Krzysztof Majer (University of Łódź)
Zolotaya Fuga: Vladimir Nabokov’s ‘Bachmann’ as Musicalized Fiction
[watch on YouTube]
- May 25, 2015
Hasia Diner (New York University)
The Lower East Side Memories: The Jewish Place in America
Fall Term 2014/2015
- October 16, 2014
Barbara Ladd (Emory University / Charles University)
Beyond the Plantation: Writing at the Edge of the Swamp
[watch on YouTube] - November 13, 2014
Aleksandra Różalska (University of Łodź)
Post-9/11 Television Discourses: Gender, Violence, and the War on Terror in American TV Series
[watch on YouTube] - November 27, 2014
Charles Bernstein (University of Pennsylvania)
The Pitch of Poetry: Moral Perfectionism, Occupy Wall Street, and the Poetics of Holocaust Representation
[watch on YouTube] - December 4, 2014
Karolina Golimowska (Humboldt University / NYU)
Navigating the Post-9/11 Metropolis: Reclaiming and Remapping Urban Space in Contemporary US-American Novels
[watch on YouTube] - December 18, 2014
William Pettigrew (University of Kent)
American and English Exceptionalism in the Development of American Slavery - January 15, 2015
Julia Fiedorczuk (University of Warsaw)
What Does Poetry Have to do with Ecology? An Introduction to Ecopoetics
[watch on YouTube]
American Studies Colloquium Series
Spring Term 2013/2014
- March 6, 2014
Paweł Frelik (Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin)
Against Narrative and Design: How to Stop Being Puritan and Do Things with Contemporary Culture - March 27, 2014
Dominic Pacyga (Columbia College Chicago)
Class, Ethnicity, and the American City in the 19th Century: Chicago as an Example - *CANCELLED* April 10, 2014
Winfried Fluck (Free University, Berlin)
Post-Americanization? The Changing Role and Function of American Culture - May 8, 2014
Justyna Włodarczyk (University of Warsaw)
Beyond the Species Boundary: Keywords for Human-Animal Studies - May 22, 2014
Özge Özbek Akiman (Hacettepe University)
Amiri Baraka as Historian: The Tales of the Out and Gone
Fall Term 2013/2014
- October 17, 2013
Elisabeth Frost (Fordham University)
Body and Word: Handwriting in U.S. Feminist Poetry - November 7, 2013
Mirosława Buchholtz (Nicolaus Copernicus University)
Portraits of Henry James - December 5, 2013
Marta Koval (University of Gdańsk)
The Novel about History: Past, Memory and Experience - January 23, 2014
Sabine Broeck (University of Bremen)
Property and Anti-Blackness: Revisiting Anti-Slavery Literature
American Studies Colloquium Series
Spring Term 2012/2013
- March 7, 2013
Tom Cousineau (Washington College)
Plagiarism Unbound: Borrowing Desire in “The Great Gatsby” - March 21, 2013
Michael Davidson (UC San Diego)
Missing Bodies: Poetics and Disability - April 11, 2013
Steven Conn (Ohio State University)
The Anti-Urban Tradition in American Life; or, Why Americans Don’t Like Their Cities - April 25, 2013
Zuzanna Ładyga (University of Warsaw)
Technophobia and Technophilia in American Postmodernism - May 9, 2013
Donna Drucker (Darmstadt University of Technology)
The Technologies of Second-Wave Feminism - *CANCELLED* May 23, 2013
Matthew Sutton (Washington State University)
Standing at Armageddon: The Rise of American Fundamentalism in a Global Age
Fall Term 2012/2013
- October 11, 2012
Rob Latham (UC Riverside)
Sextrapolation in New Wave Science Fiction - October 25, 2012
Winfried Fluck (Free University Berlin)
Tocqueville’s Legacy: Towards an American Cultural History of Recognition - November 8, 2012
Zohar Weiman-Kelman (UC Berkeley)
1970s Jewish American Lesbians and the Yiddish Writers they Love: A Queer Guide to Dating - December 6, 2012
Agnieszka Salska (University of Łódź)
Whitman as Poet of His Time - *CANCELLED* January 24, 2013
Piotr Ostaszewski (Warsaw School of Economics)
American and European Dream: Between Illusion and Reality
American Studies Colloquium Series
Spring Term 2011/2012
- February 16, 2012
Ewa Domańska (Adam Mickiewicz University/Stanford University)
Ecological Humanities: A New Utopia? - March 1, 2012
Betty H. Winfield (University of Missouri)
Going Public: The U.S. President’s State of the Union and Other Examples - March 15, 2012
Grzegorz Kość (University of Łódź/University of Warsaw)
Robert Frost’s Poetic Form and the Vicissitudes of the Executive Body - March 29, 2012
M. B. B. Biskupski (Central Connecticut State University)
Hollywood’s War with Poland, 1939-1945 - April 16, 2012
Douglas Crimp (University of Rochester)
Art News Parties: a Chapter from a Memoir of New York in the 1970s
Co-organized with Art History Institute, University of Warsaw - May 17, 2012
Colin Johnson (Indiana University Bloomington)
The Ghosts of Departed Intimacies: Approaching Mike Farmers’s Photographs - May 24, 2012
Jason E. Hill (Terra Foundation/Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art)
Weegee’s Modernism - *CANCELLED* May 31, 2012
Ewa Majewska (Jagiellonian University/University of Warsaw)
Reading the Feminist Writers of Color in Poland: Towards a Politics of Translation
Fall Term 2011/2012
- October 6, 2011
Claudia Brunner (University of Klagenfurt)
Knowing Suicide Terrorism: Epistemic Violence and Occidentalism in Terrorism Studies before and after 9/11 - November 17, 2011
Paweł Laidler (Jagiellonian University)
Supremacy of Law or Supremacy of Politics? The Position of the U.S. Supreme Court in the 21st Century American Reality - December 1, 2011
Elisabeth Povinelli (Columbia University)
The Ethical Substance of the Otherwise - December 15, 2011
Stanisław Obirek (University of Łódź)
Contemporary Liberal Catholicism in the USA - *CANCELLED* January 12, 2012
Sabine Broeck (University of Bremen)
Abolish Property: Black Feminism’s Radical Vision
American Studies Colloquium Series
Spring Term 2010/2011
- February 02, 2011
Dominika Ferens (University of Wrocław)
“How Natives Think:” The Legacy of Ethnography in Criticism and Minority Literature - March 3, 2011
Alan L. Draper (St. Lawrence University)
The American South: The Tail that Wags the Dog in American Politics - March 10, 2011
James Der Derian (Brown University),
Human Terrain: War Becomes Academic, Film Screening and Discussion - March 31, 2011
Nina Gładziuk (Collegium Civitas),
The English Levellers and Thomas Jefferson - April 14, 2011
Werner Sollors (Harvard University)
“Are you occupied territory?” Black GIs in Fiction of the American Occupation of Germany after World War II - May 12, 2011
Heinz Ickstadt (Free University of Berlin),
Imaginaries of American Modernism - May 19, 2011
Tomasz Sikora (Pedagogical University of Cracow),
Multiculturalism and the Work of Desire: Transversal Readings in Canadian Film and Literature - June 2, 2011
Cezary Olbromski (Catholic University of Lublin),
Civic Safety and Information Security: New Limitations of Democracy?
Fall Term 2010/2011
- November 4, 2010
Radosław Rybkowski (Jagiellonian University)
The National University of the USA: A Dream Never Fulfilled - November 18, 2010
Christof Mauch (LMU Munich)
Stranger than Paradise: Nature and Culture in Malibu, California - December 2, 2010
Ewa Łuczak (University of Warsaw)
The Quality of Hurt: European Exile and “The Man who Cried I am” - December 16, 2010
Cristanne Miller (SUNY Buffalo)
Mythbusting on the Lyric and Emily Dickinson - January 04, 2011
Carsten Junker (University of Bremen)
Re-imagining White Masculinity in the Context of Slavery - January 20, 2011
Elżbieta Oleksy (University of Łódź)
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