Events

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.

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.