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2020 Emerging Scholar Award
March 29, 2020
It is our pleasure to inform the ASC community that Filip Boratyn, our doctoral student and – at the same time – USOS office assistant, is a recipient of the 2020 David G. Hartwell Emerging Scholar Award presented by the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts.
American Studies Colloquium Series
April 2: Networks of Holocaust Memory in Third Generation Graphic Narratives
March 25, 2020
During the online streamed lecture, Dana Mihăilescu will present the Amy Kurzweil’s debut graphic memoir, Flying Couch (2016), in order to consider how the Holocaust narrative at the core of this graphic narrative is negotiated by the three generations of Kurweil’s family. Hence, she will highlight an ethical, future-oriented use of mediating forms of Holocaust memories for third generation artists.
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US National Emergency Library
March 26, 2020
During this unprecedented time in history, access to printed books is becoming difficult or impossible. COVID-19 is forcing students, educators, and everyday readers to rely on digital books more than ever before.
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Collecting OZN points online
March 25, 2020
Despite the unusual situation we must deal with at the moment, you do not have to worry about your OZN points! OZN program is going online until regular operations are resumed! Check in which activities you may take part online, in order to get yourself the points, and how to keep a record of those.
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Accommodation fee reduced by 50%
March 24, 2020
On 23rd March, the University of Warsaw rector issued an order which states that students, doctoral candidates, postgraduate students of the School of Education of the Polish-American Freedom Foundation and the University of Warsaw, and participants of the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange, who live in UW facilities, will pay a partial accommodation fee in April.
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ASC Classes Online (March 20, 2020)
March 20, 2020
The following classes will go online. Most probably you have already been contacted by your instructors. If not, it will take place soon. We are aware that the intensive course by dr. J. Wendland planned for May may not take place. Yet, do not worry. We know that some of you need it badly to graduate on time.
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Attention! Important information during the closing of the University of Warsaw Library (BUW) (10.03 – 14.04.2020)
March 14, 2020
In order to prevent the COVID-19 disease spread among the UW community, the Rector of the University of Warsaw decided that the Library will be closed to readers from March 11 to April 14, 2020.
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Student IDs will be automatically renewed until May 31st
March 13, 2020
Polish Minister of Science and Higher Education has now officially decided that your student IDs will be automatically renewed until May 31st, without the need to appear in the students’ office in person.
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All ASC Classes and Lectures Cancelled until April 14, 2020 Due to the Coronavirus Outbreak
March 14, 2020
As was decreed by the Rector on March 10, 2020, all regular classes and lectures scheduled for the period between March 11, 2020 and April 14, 2020 are cancelled.
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Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Humanities and Social Sciences at the ASC
March 5, 2020
On March 5, 2020, at the Kazimierz Palace, the Executive Director of the US-Polish Fulbright Commission Justyna Janiszewska and Professor Maciej Duszczyk, the UW Vice-Rector for Research and International Relations, signed an agreement establishing the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Humanities and Social Sciences at the American Studies Center.
Current Research Projects
Robert Lowell’s Financial Problems and the Crisis of Modernism
January 27, 2020
Current Research Projects
Polish Immigrant and Second-Generation Women in the United States: Private and Intimate Lives (1890-1940)
January 27, 2020
Current Research Projects
Crip Appetites: Crip Theory and Food Studies in American Graphic Novels
January 27, 2020
Current Research Projects
Migrant Memory: Post-Soviet Jewish American Literature
January 27, 2020
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The winning thesis got published
February 3, 2020
The American Studies Center is pleased to present the book “Between the Virgin of Guadalupe and la Malinche. Maternity of Mexicans in oral testimonies” published within the “Working Papers” series.
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Erasmus+ agreements with the UK
February 6, 2020
Good news! Despite Brexit, the Erasmus+ agreements with the UK are still valid for the 2020/2021. B.A. students are welcome to apply for an Erasmus+ short-term studies at our partner institution in Sussex, England. More info: the IRO, UW and the ASC Mobility Coordinator.