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.
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The ASC Gender/Sexuality Research Group awarded an IDUB UW grant
April 26, 2021
The Excellence Initiative grant for the popularization of research will support establishing a new website with a series of podcasts to be launched at the beginning of the next academic year.
American Studies Colloquium Series
April 29: Queer Ecological Networks
April 29, 2021
In this talk, Sam McBean will offer a reading of Ren Hang’s photography to explore its queer play with forms and patterning by revisiting shapes, intimacies and body affiliations present in his work.
Year 2020/2021
April 28: Digital Americas Warm-up: “Showdown on the Pixel Frontier” with John Wills
April 28, 2021
In this talk, John Wills will explore the nineteenth-century American West as a popular gameworld and discuss issues of storytelling, stereotyping, and myth-making in the Western video game genre.
American Studies Colloquium Series
April 22: Hey honey, I think we should move…’: Gothic Property, (Re)Possession, and economic horror in the long 1980s
April 16, 2021
This lecture by Sorcha Ní Fhlainn examines touchstone films of the 1980s to reveal social and ethnic anxieties around property and homeownership, and posits the decade’s reigning ideology as a failed economic project.
American Studies Colloquium Series
April 15: The Heartland: Myth and History
April 15, 2021
The American heartland refers to a quintessentially all-American place: white, buffered, bunkered, isolationist, exceptionalist, and local. In this lecture, Kristin Hoganson will take the history of a seemingly local place in a seemingly local time to turn the myth of the American heartland inside out.
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The 21st edition of the “Polityka” Scientific Awards
April 8, 2021
Applications for the competition are now open. Five young researchers might win scholarship of 15.000 PLN in the fields of humanities, science, social sciences, life sciences and technical sciences.
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Dr. Franciszek Lyra
(1932 – 2021)
April 6, 2021
It is with great sadness that we have learned of the death of Dr. Franciszek Lyra, a longtime lecturer of the American Studies Center of the University of Warsaw.
Year 2020/2021
April 13: Ze wszystkich istot nadprzyrodzonych najszkodliwszy. Wilkołaki w słowiańskim folklorze
April 13, 2021
In this lecture, we will be looking at werewolves and their presence in Polish folklore. Katarzyna Bielicka will talk about the transformation process described by ethnographers, the effect of werewolves on pagan religions, and accidents when werewolves saved someone’s life.
Year 2020/2021
April 12: Hate in the Homeland –
Right-wing Extremism in the USA
April 12, 2021
During the talk, Cynthia Miller-Idriss, a renown sociologist and public policy analyst, will share her thoughts on the rise of right wing extremism in the United States, derived from her recent book, “Hate in the Homeland.” The event is organized by the Leadership Studies Group.
Year 2020/2021
April 8: Race in US Popular Culture. Presentation of ASC Students’ Articles Published in “View”
April 8, 2021
In this academic session three ASC students, Anna Maria Grzybowska, Karolina Toka and Jakub Olech, will discuss and celebrate the publication of their articles, originally written for the Research Proseminar „Race in American Film” taught by Prof. Agnieszka Graff in the Spring of 2020.
Year 2020/2021
March 29: Customary Strangers: Double Mirroring of Otherness in Eastern-Western Vampire Narratives
March 29, 2021
The Vampire serves as a perfect embodiment of the Other of all sorts: racial, sexual, ethnic, gender and class. The main objective of this lecture is to provide a comparative description of Vampire Narratives as collective fantasies about the radical otherness.
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In Memory of Jacek Tokaj
March 23, 2021
With regret, we report that Jacek Tokaj, our close Colleague and secretary for student affairs of the Center for European Regional and Local Studies EUROREG, passed away on March 19th, 2021.
Year 2020/2021
March 22: American Leadership in the World – a Myth or Reality?
March 18, 2021
Leadership Studies Group invites all followers of American politics to a meeting with professor Roman Kuźniar, a distinguished expert in international relations, a diplomat, and an advisor to the President of the Polish Republic Bronisław Komorowski.