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).
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Admissions to MA program
January 23, 2022
We would like to inform you that according to the University of Warsaw admissions rules, you need to have graduated from a BA program by the time you submit documents to the MA program.
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Kto się boi gender? Book premiere
January 21, 2022
Agnieszka Graff and Elżbieta Korolczuk’s book “Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment” is now also available in Polish on the publisher’s website.
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Fulbright Distinguished Scholars at the ASC
January 18, 2022
In the spring 2022, we are hosting two distinguished scholars: Matthew Levay of Idaho State University and Raymond Malewitz of Oregon State University.
Year 2021/2022
January 26: In Conversation with CD Projekt Red: Audio in Cyberpunk 2077
January 26, 2022
Colin Walder is Code Lead for Audio and Localization at CD Projekt Red. In the conversation with Joanna Kaniewska, he will talk about audio design in Cyberpunk 2077 and whether cyberpunk can be recognized by its sound.
Year 2021/2022
January 26: ASC Student Exchange Programs: Information meeting
January 26, 2022
Interested in Erasmus+, a semester at University of Florida, or other foreign exchanges? Join a Zoom meeting with the ASC Mobility Coordinator dr Ludmiła Janion to find out about recruitment criteria, deadlines and rules of participation in student exchanges.
American Studies Colloquium Series
January 20: Kelly Reichardt’s Gastro-Aesthetics
January 20, 2022
This talk examines cinematic figurations of food in Kelly Reichardt’s ‘First Cow’, where aesthetic and gastronomic consumption converges in the figure of the cow as an image and as a source of milk. How should we think about the visual consumption of images of dairy consumption?
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New season of “Oswoić gender” podcast is up!
March 6, 2024
In the eight-episode series we cover topics ranging from the intersection of medical anthropology and gender studies, animal studies and feminist theories as seen by the youngest gender studies researchers, genre literature studies, masculinities in Polish literature, gender and migration, diversity and equality strategies at the university, as well as the challenges of writing histories of problematic queer figures.
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“Oswoić gender” podcast is up!
January 12, 2022
In the eight-episode series of the podcast we acquaint listeners with the diversity of research conducted within gender and sexuality studies.
American Studies Colloquium Series
January 13: Why Write If You Can Paint? Thoughts on Thoughts and Feelings in American Artists’ Writings
January 5, 2022
The history of artists’ writings is long and rich; one thus has to pose the question: Why write at all (if you can paint)? In this talk Edyta Frelik will discuss texts of American artists to explore their motivations and goals as writers, and the relation between the plastic arts and literature in general.