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.
News
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.
News
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.