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.
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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.