Year 2019/2020
January 16: “I Like Big Hats and I Cannot Lie”: Petasus Americanus or a Cultural History of Cowboy Hats
January 6, 2020
Stefan Rabitsch will argue during the lecture that cowboy hats do matter. Unlike other headwear, western hats—*petasus americanus*—have retained their potency and recognizability as a wearable signifiers of Americanness.
American Studies Colloquium Series
January 14: Food: A Systemic Approach
December 27, 2019
Knowing where our food comes from is important to us as consumers and as citizens, allowing us to make more careful choices. During the lecture, Fabio Parasecoli will explore different conceptualizations of the global food system, together with the structures, flows, and stakeholders that compose it.
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Christmas with the Psychological Counselling Centre
December 19, 2019
Psychologists from the UW Psychological Counselling Centre (CPP) will be available for UW students and employees also around Christmas time. Watch a video with Dr. Szymon Chrząstowski encouraging those who do not feel comfortable in this period or face some difficult situations, to come for short conversations.
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UW as a research university – an excellence initiative
December 19, 2019
The Ministry of Science and Higher Education awarded UW in the first competition in the framework of the “Excellence initiative – research university” programme. Out of 20 applications submitted in response to the call, the Ministry has selected 10 HEIs.
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4EU+ information meeting
December 19, 2019
On 5th December, the University of Warsaw organised a 4EU+ information meeting for its entire academic community.
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The Polish Word of the Year – poll
December 19, 2019
Until 31st December, one can vote for a word or expression which, in their opinion, has great resonance for the year 2019. Słowo Roku 2019 (Word of the Year 2019) will be announced at the beginning of January by the UW linguists who organise the event.
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UW congratulates Olga Tokarczuk
December 9, 2019
On 9th and 10th December, at the University of Warsaw, there will be an action called “UW congratulates Olga Tokarczuk”. Members of the UW academic community will have an opportunity to congratulate Nobel Prize laureate. The author of “The Books of Jacob” (Księgi Jakubowe) or “Flights” (Bieguni) graduated from the UW Faculty of Psychology.
Year 2019/2020
December 19: Explaining Economic Backwardness. Post-1945 Polish Historians on Eastern Europe
December 7, 2019
Anna Sosnowska provides an insightful interpretation of how local and generational experience shaped the notions of post-1945 Polish historians about Eastern European backwardness, and how their debate influenced Western historical sociology, social theories of development and dependency in peripheral areas, and the image of Eastern Europe in Western, Marxist-inspired social science.
American Studies Colloquium Series
December 12: AHS: Cult, The Purge, and the End of Subtlety in the Age of Trump
December 2, 2019
Michael Fuchs, University of Graz: In his book New Television (2017), Martin Shuster suggests that contemporary American television depicts a “world […] emptied of normative authority” (6). According to Shuster […]
American Studies Colloquium Series
December 5: The Future of American Media and the Crisis of the Public Sphere
November 29, 2019
Curd Knüpfer, Freie Universität, Berlin: Digitalization and increased networkability of information sources have resulted in profound shifts in how news and political information reaches the American public […]
Year 2019/2020
December 5-7: The Senses of Science Fiction: Visions, Sounds, Spaces
November 29, 2019
For most of its history, or at least since the late 19th century, the core conversations of science fiction (SF) have not been kind to the senses. For different reasons in different decades, the creative communities and the critical circles have focused on the genre’s status as the supreme expression […]
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Spotkanie informacyjne 4EU+
November 27, 2019
5 grudnia w godz. od 9.00 do 11.30 w dawnej Bibliotece Uniwersyteckiej odbędzie się spotkanie informacyjne dotyczące działań zaplanowanych dla Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego w ramach Sojuszu 4EU+ oraz projektu „Uniwersytety Europejskie”. Mogą wziąć w nim udział wszyscy członkowie społeczności UW.
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Dr hab. Sylwia Kuźma-Markowska awarded OPUS research project
November 25, 2019
We are excited to announce a new research project to be conducted at the American Studies Center! Dr hab. Sylwia Kuźma-Markowska’s project entitled “Polish Immigrant and Second-Generation Women in the United States: Private and Intimate Lives (1890-1940)” will be funded by the National Science Center in the OPUS 17 scheme.
Erasmus annoucements
Erasmus Days 2019
November 20, 2019
If you consider applying for Erasmus+ exchange program this year, do not miss Erasmus Days organized by the International Relations Office on the 26th and 28th of November.
American Studies Colloquium Series
November 28: There sat down, once, a thing on Henry’s heart
November 20, 2019
Dr Anna Warso, SWPS University: In his 1917 essay, Freud distinguishes between the “normal” state of mourning and the “pathological” condition of a melancholic. Both mourning [Trauer] and melancholia [Melancholie] result from a sense of lack but melancholia is viewed as […]
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Warsztat biblioteczny dla wszystkich studentów i studentek BA i MA
November 20, 2019
Warsztat biblioteczny dla wszystkich studentów i studentek BA i MA odbędzie się 27 listopada w godz. 10.30-14.30 w BUW