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.
Year 2023/2024
29 Lutego: W stolicy światowej polityki. Warsztat pracy polskiego dyplomaty w Waszyngtonie
February 29, 2024
Pracownia Badań nad Przywództwem zaprasza na spotkanie z dr Justyną Bartkiewicz-Godlewską. Na spotkaniu dowiemy się jak zewnętrzni interesariusze starają się wpłynąć na kształt amerykańskiej polityki.
American Studies Colloquium Series
January 11: Modernism from Nordeste. From „Essa Negra Fulô” to surrealist photomontages by Jorge de Lima
January 11, 2024
Join us for the first meeting of the American Studies Colloquium Series in 2024! This lecture focuses on surrealist works of Jorge de Lima, an important figure in Brazilian modetnist surrealism, representative of modern Brazilian literary vanguard.
American Studies Colloquium Series
January 18: The Birth of the Concept of the Federal State during the Antebellum Constitutional Debates
January 18, 2024
Join us for final lecture of the American Studies Colloquium Series in the 2023/2024 Fall semester! This lecture focuses on the concept of the federal state as it emerged during the theoretical and political struggles over the shaping of the Constitution in the antebellum United States.
American Studies Colloquium Series
March 7: The State of Presidential Elections
March 7, 2024
We are delighted to invite you to the opening lecture of the American Studies Colloquium Series in the 2023/2024 Spring semester! This time, we are joined by Stephen J. Farnsworth from University of Mary Washington, who will present a lecture entitled “The State of Presidential Elections”.
American Studies Colloquium Series
March 21: American-German Relations: From Partnership in Leadership to War in Ukraine
March 21, 2024
We are pleased to invite you to the third lecture of the American Studies Colloquium Series in the 2023/2024 Spring semester! The lecture will try to outline the historical roots of the complicated relations between USA and Germany as well as focus on the recent debates surrounding the war in Ukraine.
American Studies Colloquium Series
April 15: Film, AIDS, Activism: Culture Engagements that Move
April 15, 2024
We are pleased to invite you to a lecture in the American Studies Colloquium Series in the 2023/2024 Spring semester! This talk will look at the structures of feeling that guide notions of kinship in AIDS activist video works from the earliest years of the AIDS epidemic of the United States.
American Studies Colloquium Series
March 14: The Invisible Designer: Meg Crane and the Invention of Home Pregnancy Testing in 1960s New York
March 12, 2024
We are pleased to invite you to a lecture in the American Studies Colloquium Series in the 2023/2024 Spring semester. This time we’ll be joined by Jesse Olszynko-Gryn, who will talk about Predictor, the groundbreaking home pregnancy test developed in New York in the late 1960s by Margaret “Meg” Crane.
American Studies Colloquium Series
November 16: New Forms/Known Rivers
November 16, 2023
When #BlackLivesMatter emerged in 2013, it animated the most consequential Black-led mobilization since the civil rights and Black power era. Today, the hashtag turned rallying cry is but one expression of a radical reorientation toward Black politics, protest, and political thought.
American Studies Colloquium Series
Lorraine Hansberry on Racism, Antisemitism, and Postwar American Intellectual Life
October 16, 2023
Sometime in the early 1960s, Lorraine Hansberry drafted an essay on the Eichmann trial, one that she never completed. Writing in the early 1960s, at a moment of anti-communist fervor that silenced both Black and Jewish radical thinkers, Hansberry understood antisemitism and anti-Black racism as an intertwined agenda of white supremacy that defined twentieth-century politics.
News
UW offers access to Drama Online Database
September 23, 2023
University of Warsaw offers a trial access to Drama Online Database, with playtext content and scholarly publications.
News
Dr. Anna Kurowicka in a EAAS Women’s Network Steering Committee
September 7, 2023
Congratulations to Dr. Anna Kurowicka on joining the European Association for American Studies Women’s Network Steering Committee!
Year 2022/2023
27. Festiwal Nauki: Postsekularyzm. Polska i amerykańska perspektywa
September 24, 2023
Postsekularyzm jest odpowiedzią zarówno ludzi wierzących jak i niewierzących na rosnącą polaryzację społeczeństwa. Uznaje sekularyzację za niezbywalny i pozytywny wymiar nowoczesności, jednocześnie akceptując religie jako ważny i pozytywny element kultury. W czasie wykładu przyjrzymy się temu zjawisku z polskiej i amerykańskiej perspektywy, próbując zaobserwować jego skutki i potencjalne możliwości.
Year 2022/2023
27. Festiwal Nauki: Nie tylko roboty, kosmici i geniusze: aseksualność w amerykańskiej kulturze popularnej
September 24, 2023
Aseksualność długo była w kulturze popularnej niewidoczna, a postaci aseksualne bywały sprowadzane do robotów, kosmitów, lub innych „nieludzkich” dziwaków. W czasie wykładu przyjrzymy się różnym wcieleniom aseksualności w amerykańskiej popkulturze oraz zastanowimy się nad tym, jak rasa i płeć wpływają na konstrukcję aseksualnych postaci. Porozmawiamy między innymi o serialach “BoJack Horseman” i “Teoria wielkiego podrywu”, powieściach dla młodzieży oraz literaturze science fiction.