Events

American Studies Colloquium Series

January 28: Cyberfeminism, an Orthodox Version in North America: Social Media as a Counterpublic Transformative Space of Religiosity

January 28, 2021

Our next guest, Jessica Roda from Georgetown University will give a talk on the usage of social media by ultra-Orthodox women, as a tool for the development of cyberfeminism(s) in the transformative counterpublic space reinforcing religious norms and authority.

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January 25: Weird Space Junkies: Speculations on the Psychedelic

January 25, 2021

In this lecture, Jędrzej Burszta proposes to examine the cultural history of psychedelic science fiction in the United States, focusing on the legacy of the 1960s New Wave movement.

American Studies Colloquium Series

January 21: Refugees and Racial Capitalism: What “Integration” in the US Labor Market Means?

January 21, 2021

This talk by Elizabeth Cullen Dunn focuses on the situation of refugees during the COVID-19 epidemic, by discussing the example of the American meatpacking industry, which relies heavily on refugees resettled by the US Department of State.

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January 18: The Ur-Savage: The Anthropological Horror of Green Inferno and Bone Tomahawk

January 18, 2021

This lecture aims to elaborate on the problem of presenting indigenous people as a threat in current horror cinema, and to analyze it through the lenses of growing racist and far-right ideologies in the USA.

American Studies Colloquium Series

January 14: Police Against the Movement: US Law Enforcement and Racial Justice Activists from the 1960s to Today

January 14, 2021

To transform the present and the future of policing, we must first understand its past. In his lecture, Joshua Davis tackles the issue of how protesters can bring about a meaningful transformation in the United States’s law enforcement based on the realities and treatment of the 1960s civil rights movement.

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2020 PAAS MA Thesis Award

December 30, 2020

ASC students’ success in the 2020 MA Thesis Award presented by the Polish Association for American Studies for the best thesis written in American Studies.

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Christmas wishes from
the ASC Director

December 23, 2020

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to the ASC community!

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December 14: Bliskie spotkania z istotami nie-ludzkimi we współczesnej literaturze japońskiej

December 14, 2020

The upcoming meeting from the EcoGothic Landscapes series will take us to Japan to meet the animals and non-human beings that inhabit the local literature. Our guide on this journey will be prof. Beata Kubiak.

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December 9: Old South – New South and the 2020 Elections

December 9, 2020

Leadership Studies Section is happy to invite for an online conversation on the American South and the 2020 Elections. Topics covered during the meeting will include the runoffs in Georgia, possible future strategies for the political parties, and the importance of race and class in the presidential race.

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The ASC library opening hours from December 1, 2020

November 27, 2020

Due to the public health requirements to slow the spread of COVID-19, the Library’s operations and services have been modified. Students may now have their books checked on several days a week upon an order.

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Happy Thanksgiving!

November 26, 2020

If it were not for the pandemic, we would hold our annual ASC Thanksgiving Party today. Although we cannot meet in person, on this special occasion, we wish you all good health, happiness and every success, academic and otherwise! 

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Democracy or Authoritarianism?
After the US Elections

November 22, 2020

The ASC’s Professor and the former Polish Ambassador to the USA, Ryszard Schnepf will moderate an online debate hosted by the Jagiellonian University and Polish Ambassadors’ Conference. The keynote speaker at this debate will be Donald Tusk.

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Online workshops: Emotions management in epidemic
and post-epidemic world

November 19, 2020

The coronavirus outbreak is a particularly demanding and stressful time for us all. During the workshops you will learn about emotion regulation strategies and find out how to experience positive emotions more often in the context of Polish culture.

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December 1: Weird Fiction and Ecological Thought

December 1, 2020

This meeting will lay out some key concepts useful for thinking the relation between contemporary (New) Weird fictions and ecological thought.

American Studies Colloquium Series

November 26: Like a Thief in the Night: Pandemic and the Culture of Healing

November 26, 2020

The pandemic is a virus, but it is more than this: it is a dramatic symptom of the malaise of the way of life, a sharp curve which we cannot fail to negotiate. Starting from the 17th century time of the plague, we shall be asking questions how to survive the crisis, how to live on, and how to think the change without which our future is bleak.