Events

Year 2021/2022

June 8: Sounds of Dune(s): Music-landscaping in Cinema

June 8, 2022

In this workshop we’ll talk about Frank Herbert’s “Dune” and its many adaptations (both real and unrealized), in order to see how music and sound are used to bridge sensory gaps in cinematic experiences, and how to write about such synaesthetic encounters in our research.

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Online Admission System for Ukrainian Candidates

May 30, 2022

Online Admission System is meant to help candidates from Ukraine to become acquainted with education and job opportunities at Polish universities and institutes of science.

American Studies Colloquium Series

June 2: Eat, Migrate, Love: Gastronomic and Sexual Desire as Identity

June 2, 2022

This talk, whose title plays off the Julia Robert’s film “Eat, Pray, Love,” will explore queer films and queer immigrants’ relationships to food as part of the cultural identity, and how the rituals around food preparation and consumption informs their negotiations in the US.

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May 30: The (Early) Literature of COVID-19. Session V

May 30, 2022

This open seminar will explore initial literary responses to the ongoing SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, offering participants opportunities to talk through this world-changing event. By the end of the seminar, participants should be able to not only identify but also to interpret and evaluate common features of early COVID literature within and beyond the United States.

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Prof. Agnieszka Graff at Millennium Docs Against Gravity

May 11, 2022

Prof. Agnieszka Graff will talk about the lessons from the second wave of feminism during Millennium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival.

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New Media in Contemporary Culture

May 11, 2022

The Department of British Culture at the Institute of English Studies invites for a talk revisiting the 1990s and the emergence of the world wide web.

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Comprehending Canada COIL course at Masaryk University

May 9, 2022

Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic invites to a online course about society, identity, culture, economy, and politics of Canada.

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Studying in the US:
Pre-Departure Orientation

May 2, 2022

The US Embassy invites everyone interested in studying in the United States for the pre-departure orientation webinar.

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Prof. Mary McGann
(1945 – 2022)

May 2, 2022

We are greatly saddened by the news of the demise of Mary McGann, who had been directly engaged in founding the American Studies Center.

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Lecture by Mark Brzezinski

April 29, 2022

On May 9, UW will host a lecture by Mark F. Brzezinski, Ambassador of the United States in Poland, on global leadership. Registration required.

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Visiting Professor in the Spring 2022

April 28, 2022

We are pleased to introduce prof. Richard Reitsma from Canisius College, Buffalo, NY, who will soon start his course LatinX in the US at the ASC.

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JUWenalia 2022

April 27, 2022

The biggest student event at the University of Warsaw starts on Friday, May 6th! This weekend the Main Campus will be taken over by students.

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The American Day at Polin Museum

April 29, 2022

A day packed with film screenings, exhibitions and inspiring lectures featuring ASC’s faculty devoted to key events in Polish-American relations.

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May 23: Gender/Sexuality Conference ASC

May 23, 2022

ASC’s Gender/Sexuality Research Group invites all students and faculty members to the first ASC’s Student Conference on gender and sexuality in American studies. We have an exciting day planned, with a keynote by Dr. Richard Reitsma and four panels of student presentations, on everything from feminist theories to representation of trans characters on TV and challenging the norms of masculinity.

American Studies Colloquium Series

May 19: ‘bits of agitation on the body of the whole’: Animals in COVID-19 Literature

May 19, 2022

Given its origins in horseshoe bat populations, the SARS-CoV-2 virus offers many opportunities to re-think our relationships with the nonhuman world around us. In this talk, Raymond Malewitz will explore emerging cultural narratives embodied in COVID poetry and fiction, which tend to reinforce the stiff differences between the human and the nonhuman as physically and conceptually separate from one another.