Year 2023/2024
April 26-27: Status Quo/Status Queer
April 26, 2024
The aim of the conference is to create an opportunity for MA and BA students at the American Studies Center and Institute of Applied Social Sciences to present their research projects and facilitate an exchange of inspiring ideas.
News
Dr. Joanna Mąkowska was admitted to the program for young female researchers and teachers
February 13, 2024
Dr. Mąkowska will receive financial support to implement her individual research plan and will work with experienced mentors to effectively navigate her academic career.
News
Dr Anna Kurowicka received a NAWA Bekker scholarship
February 10, 2024
The scholarship will fund a 6-month long research stay at the Humboldt University in Berlin. A flagship program of the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA), the Bekker Program promotes international mobility of researchers and PhD students.
News
Student Research Grants Are Back!
February 5, 2024
After the long pandemic break, the American Studies Center is pleased to announce a competition for research grants for MA and BA students to support their work on their MA theses and BA papers.
News
Prof. Frelik in a Horizon Europe grant!
January 30, 2024
ASC’s own Paweł Frelik is a member of the consortium that has won a prestigious Horizon Europe grant!
News
Prof. Karolina Krasuska with the 2023 Cashmere Subvention Grant
December 20, 2023
Congratulations to Prof. Karolina Krasuska for winning the 2023 Cashmere Subvention Grant for Jewish, Gender, and Women’s Studies of the Gender Justice Caucus, Association for Jewish Studies!
Year 2023/2024
December 1: Screening & Discussion with Co-directors of ‘CURED’ documentary
December 1, 2023
The American Studies Center and the U.S. Embassy Warsaw invite you to a special private screening of the award-winning documentary CURED, which highlights a pivotal but little-known moment in LGBTQ history when activists and psychiatrists rose up to challenge a formidable institution — and won!
Year 2023/2024
15 Stycznia: Druga Fala Feminizmu – historia, afekt i audiowizualne archiwum
January 15, 2024
Serdecznie zapraszamy na kolejne wydarzenie Sekcji Studenckiej Pracowni Gender/Sexuality pt. „Druga Fala Feminizmu – historia, afekt i audiowizualne archiwum”!
Year 2023/2024
15 Kwietnia: Monstrualna Kobieta kontra Patriarchat: Czy “horror ciąża” to nowy wyraz kobiecej siły?
April 15, 2024
Drogie Osoby Studenckie, serdecznie zapraszamy na kolejne wydarzenie Sekcji Studenckiej Pracowni Gender/Sexuality! Na najbliższym spotkaniu dowiemy się, czy dekonstrukcja patriarchalnych wyobrażeń na temat ciąży jest możliwa oraz jak współczesna kultura audiowizualna odbiera dwoistość tożsamości, jaką dotknięte są ciężarne.
Year 2023/2024
18 Marca: Pornografia w dyskursie feministycznym – wstęp do wojen o seks według teorii A. Dworkin i E. Willis
March 18, 2024
Serdecznie zapraszamy na kolejne wydarzenie Sekcji Studenckiej Pracowni Gender/Sexuality! Na najbliższym spotkaniu przyjrzymy się problemowi pornografii w dyskursie feministycznym.
Year 2023/2024
26 Lutego: Postfeminizm, Bimbo Feminizm i Film ,,Barbie”. O Feministycznych Praktykach w Erze Neoliberalizmu Kulturowego
February 22, 2024
Drogie Osoby Studenckie! Zapraszamy na kolejne wydarzenie Sekcji Studenckiej Pracowni Gender/Sexuality! Na najbliższym spotkaniu przyjrzymy się różnym rodzajom praktyk feministycznych we współczesnej erze neoliberlizmu kulturowego.
Year 2023/2024
30 Października: Spotkanie inauguracyjne Sekcji Studenckiej Pracowni Gender/Sexuality
October 30, 2023
Mamy przyjemność zaprosić Was na spotkanie inauguracyjne Sekcji Studenckiej Pracowni Gender/Sexuality w Ośrodku Studiów Amerykanistycznych Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego.
Year 2023/2024
ASC Inauguration and Graduation Ceremony 2023/2024
October 6, 2023
Join us for the upcoming Graduation and Inauguration Ceremony on October 6, 2023!
American Studies Colloquium Series
November 30: Conceptual Writing in Extremis: Sonic A(na)rchives in 21st-century North American Poetry
November 30, 2023
The lecture focuses on current developments in North American conceptual writing as a poetic mode invested in archival research. The common denominator of the archives that the poets selected for this study foreground are the forms of present-day extremity.
Year 2023/2024
January 9: Postcolonial Legacy of Slavery across the Americas
January 9, 2024
We are pleased to invite you to a panel discussion on race and the legacy of slavery in postcolonial contexts with scholars from ASC, UFSC, and UNILA.
American Studies Colloquium Series
December 14: “What are you?”: Canadian Black and Multiracial Writers on Race, Home, and (Un)belonging
December 14, 2023
Join us for the fourth meeting of the American Studies Colloquium Series! This lecture focuses on life-writing texts—memoirs and personal essays, the majority published in the 21 st century—by Canadian black and multiracial (though black-identifying) writers.