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ASC classes open to students from Ukraine

March 29, 2022

All students from Ukraine are welcome to attend our classes as auditors—that is to say, as unenrolled students.

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ASC for Ukraine

March 22, 2022

The ASC for Ukraine student initiative aims to provide immediate help to Ukrainian refugees in the Mokotów district. Check how to get involved.

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Fulbright grants – call for applications

March 10, 2022

Applications for Fulbright grants aimed at Polish students, scholars and/or educators, who wish to study or conduct research and teaching projects in the U.S., are now open.

American Studies Colloquium Series

April 7: The Look of the Past: Anachronism and Critique in Contemporary Comics

April 7, 2022

This talk will address the visual styles of contemporary cartoonists, who often mimic the early twentieth-century popular culture, producing work that appears much older than it actually is. Levay explores the work of American cartoonist Al Columbia – a vital figure in experimental comics’ fascination with anachronism.

Year 2021/2022

March 30: Queer Ecosystems: Gothic Materialism in Carmen Maria Machado’s In the Dream House

March 30, 2022

This talk addresses the anxieties related to moving through a heteropatriarchal world as a marginalized person and looks into the trauma of queer intimate partner abuse through the trope of the haunted house in Carmen Maria Machado’s memoir. Carolin Jesussek seeks to show how the gothic can address long-distance relationships, the silence around queer intimate partner abuse, and gendered understandings of violence.

Year 2021/2022

March 27: ASC Oscar Night 2022

March 27, 2022

The iconic ASC event is back! The ASC students union has the pleasure to invite to the ASC Oscar Night 2022, during which we will meet for an all-night watch party of movies and, most importantly, this year’s Oscar gala.

Year 2021/2022

March 24: An Introduction to Concepts of the Archive and Methods of Archival Research

March 24, 2022

This workshop is addressed to BA Students of American Studies. It has two parts, one on conceptualizing archives, one on methods of archival research. It raises the question of how archives structure what can be said and thought, how archives can be oppressive to marginalized subjects and how they can also unfold liberatory potential.

Year 2021/2022

March 23: Distributed Humanitarianism: Digital Disruption, Grassroots Labor, and Volunteer Affect in Poland’s Refugee Response

March 23, 2022

The initial response to the war in Ukraine was carried out by loose networks of self-organizing volunteers. In this talk, we will offer some preliminary thoughts about how the Polish response poses a challenge to the international humanitarian system. What are the advantages of distributed humanitarianism, and what are its pitfalls?

American Studies Colloquium Series

March 17: Black on the Range: Recentering the History and Culture of Black Americans in the Old West

March 17, 2022

This talk will address the past history and contributions of Black Americans to the creation and establishment of the Old West by (re)centering Black Americans within the heart of the American West and highlighting their creativity in maintaining a rich representation of Black western life and legacy.

Year 2021/2022

March 16: Reading Movie Soundtracks: A Workshop

March 16, 2022

Music is one of the most affective forms of art: it can invoke powerful emotions and feelings that the listeners have little to no control over. This power is often used by filmmakers to amplify the scene or the sequence, give it a new meaning, or even move the viewers to tears. Join this workshop to learn how to read movie soundtracks.

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Solidarity with Ukraine

February 25, 2022

We at the ASC are deeply anguished and appalled by the news from Ukraine brutally attacked by Russia. We express our solidarity with Ukraine and with our Ukrainian students and colleagues.

American Studies Colloquium Series

March 3: Field Notes toward American Studies as Relational Diversity Studies

March 3, 2022

In this talk, Carsten Junker will reflect on the study of demographic diversity in scenarios of inequality in the broader field of American Studies. The lecture seeks to address the issues of institutionalization, theoretical frameworks and the role of ethics.

Year 2021/2022

March 2: Oswoić Gender: Naukowy aktywizm, innowacyjne badania i feministyczna dydaktyka

March 2, 2022

Anna Piekutowska in conversation with Karolina Krasuska, Ludmiła Janion, Aleksandra Kamińska, Agnieszka Kotwasińska, Anna Kurowicka, Natalia Pamuła i Marta Usiekniewicz about academic activism, innovative research and feminist pedagogy.

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Prof. Paweł Frelik elected President of the IAFA

February 10, 2022

Founded in 1982, the IAFA is a scholarly association devoted to the study of the broadly understood fantastic across media. Prof. Frelik is the first non-Anglophone president of the IAFA and only second from outside the United States.

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ZIP Visiting Professor in the Spring 2022

February 3, 2022

In the Spring 2022 semester our Center will be hosting Prof. Carsten Junker from TU Dresden, Germany. The Visiting Professorship is offered within the framework of the University’s Integrated Development Programme (ZIP).