Tag Archive: events
Year 2019/2020
May 14: The Role of Congressional Oversight in Foreign Affairs
May 14, 2020
Esther Bell, an Economic Officer at the U.S. Embassy Warsaw, during her presentation will speak about The Role of Congressional Oversight in Foreign Affairs.
American Studies Colloquium Series
May 12: Global Brooklyn
May 12, 2020
In his lecture, Mateusz Halawa will talk about transnational aesthetic regime of urban consumption. Global Brooklyn is not only the title of his soon-to-be-published book, but also a metaphor used to essentialize the unprecedented circulation of visual styles, flavors, practices and values – all carefully designed and masterfully instagrammed – that have been sweeping the world and shaping food cultures.
American Studies Colloquium Series
May 7: Archiving Pain: On Crip Queer Evidence
May 7, 2020
In her research Alyson Patsavas focuses on disability studies, feminist and queer theory and the cultural politics of pain. In this lecture, she will outline dominant pain epistemologies and juxtapose medical record on pain with its personal accounts, in order to theorize what constitutes crip and queer evidence of pain.
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.
Year 2019/2020
February 20: Naciones Cautivas Europeas
February 10, 2020
The Free Europe Committee engaged in psychological and political warfare against Communism on both sides of the Iron Curtain. In her talk professor Anna Mazurkiewicz will explain what was really at stake for the exiles involved in US-sponsored programs in Latin America, assessing the gains and losses for the American propaganda built in cooperation with the exiles based on the “captive nations” concept.
Year 2019/2020
January 23: Renewable Energy Sources as Socio-technical Project
January 10, 2020
During the lecture, doctor Aleksandra Lis will present social aspects of energy production in Poland and Argentina, as well as the meaning of electric energy for different actors – communities, nations and companies.
Year 2019/2020
January 17: Star Trek seminar
January 7, 2020
The seminar consists of prior viewing of the two episodes of Star Trek and the following discussion led by our guest lecturer – Stefan Rabitsch from University of Graz. Read more, sign up and participate!
Year 2019/2020
January 16-17: Film and TV Criticism Methodology Workshops
January 6, 2020
During each session Kaja Klimek, who is an educator, translator, and film and culture critic, will present key trends and perspectives in current film and tv criticism in various media, including traditional and new media.
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.
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 […]
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 […]
Year 2019/2020
November 14: From Warsaw to New York: Work and Travel Program
November 7, 2019
Work and travel program allows students to take up summer jobs in the United States and thus improve their English, gain signifacant working experience and travel around the US. The American consul will visit American Studies Center to talk about advantages of the work and travel program.