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ZIP research grants for MA students

August 2, 2021

Research grants, funded by the The University’s Integrated Development Programme (ZIP), are available to the second-year MA students in American Studies program.

Current Research Projects

dr hab. Paweł Frelik, prof. ucz. – Digital Weather: Speculative Video Games and Climate

July 28, 2021

Current Research Projects

Dr Natalia Pamuła – Disability in Polish Culture After 1989

July 28, 2021

Current Research Projects

Dr Anna Kurowicka – Asexuality in American Popular Culture

July 26, 2021

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Intensive Polish language course online

June 28, 2021

The University of Warsaw is offering an unpaid 40-hour intensive Polish language course aimed at preparing international students for living in Poland.

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Another great success of the ASC Academics

May 23, 2021

Dr Anna Kurowicka and dr Natalia Pamuła received two NCN Sonata grants for their projects on asexuality and disability, respectively.

Year 2020/2021

June 24: Chewing on Big Rock Candy Mountain: Reading and understanding the “real” American West in two essays

June 24, 2021

Engaging in close reading and discussion of two essays written by Wallace Stegner, we will excavate the complexities, historical, contemporary, and imaginary alike, of the excessively mythologized and romanticized topos of the American West.

Year 2020/2021

May 31: Infinite, Never Final Frontiers: The Fantastic Legacy of the American West(ern)

May 31, 2021

Offering a broad historically anchored sweep through national imaginaries and imaginary worlds, this lecture will analyze the imagined future of Star Trek with the United States’ principal imperial mythos: the violent conquest and subjugation of the Trans-Mississippi West.

Year 2020/2021

May 24: Workshop: ‘There be whales here!’: Star Trekkin’ White Leviathans round the Moons of Nibia

May 24, 2021

Melville’s inscrutable behemoth of a “sea monster” has migrated into the “ocean of space” that is the vast outer space world of Star Trek. Our voyage will reveal to what end Melville’s Moby- Dick has been adapted a total of six times in the Star Trek universe.

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Getting Your Final OZN Grade

May 11, 2021

If you collected all the OZN points required by your program of studies, you need to submit documents to the OZN Coordinator in order to get a grade.

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2020 EAAS CONFERENCE: 20/20 Vision: Citizenship, Space, Renewal

May 9, 2021

The Conference was organized by the EAAS in collaboration with the American Studies Center and the Institute of English Studies of the University of Warsaw and held virtually between April 30 and May 2, 2021.

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Directory on counteracting sexual harassment at the University

April 27, 2021

The directory comprises values ​​and ethical standards of the University of Warsaw, including mutual respect and equal treatment of all members of the academic community.

American Studies Colloquium Series

May 13: Narratives, Basketball, Authorship: NBA Storytelling on and off the Court

May 13, 2021

This talk will be devoted to narratives created around the National Basketball Association, the best basketball league in the world, in order to construct a comprehensive picture of today’s NBA from a cultural studies perspective.

Year 2020/2021

May 11: ‘Knowledge is a Fatal Thing:’ Confessing Vampire Secrets from Polidori to Neil Jordan

May 11, 2021

Vampiric voices carry the power of Gothic time that may terrify, seduce, and ensnare future victims in the quest to be heard across eternity. Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn will examine the spellbinding whispers and murmurs of vampires that can be traced back to John Polidori’s 1819 novella, ‘The Vampyre.’

Year 2020/2021

May 5: Is America Doomed? A Critical Reflection from the Inside

May 5, 2021

Leadership Studies Group invites for a conversation with Charlie Leduff, an outspoken social critic, Pulitzer winning journalist-writer, and one of the leading public intellectuals in contemporary America, on the direction in which American society and politics are heading.