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American Studies Colloquium Series

December 6: Sensory Interface and Algorithmic Desire in a Society of Anticipation

December 6, 2018

The digitally enhanced capitalism promotes anticipatory experimentalism as a novel foundation of American morals, revealing that the provisional is the ultimate object of desire. This lecture demonstrates how the optimization-fixated sensory media algorithmically feed-forward the data, thus promulgating a forever accomplished future.

Year 2018/2019

December 5: The Promised Land of American Integration

December 5, 2018

Ryszard Piasecki, a professor of the University of Lodz, and a former Ambassador to Chile, will discuss the myth of the integration in America as the so-called Promised Land.

American Studies Colloquium Series

November 22: Ethnography of New Culinary Elites: Gastronomic Heritage, Gender and Neoliberal Multiculturalism in Oaxaca

November 22, 2018

This presentation focuses on the rise of new culinary female elites in Oaxaca to present the role female cooks play in the process of heritagization of local foodways.

Year 2018/2019

November 21: Environmental Issues of Indigenous People in Canada

November 21, 2018

According to Amnesty International, despite living in one of the world’s wealthiest countries, Indigenous families and communities in Canada continue to face widespread impoverishment, inadequate housing, food insecurity, ill-health and unsafe drinking water.

Year 2018/2019

November 14: US and Current Affairs

November 14, 2018

A lecture by Frank J. Finver, a Public Affairs Officer at the US Embassy.

American Studies Colloquium Series

November 8: The Rise and Fall of Atlantic Capitalism

November 8, 2018

This lecture explains how work, space and money have become the pillars of capitalism – a system that is now becoming a thing of the past, giving the audience a mirror in which they can look at themselves from a new, global perspective.

Year 2018/2019

October 18: “Salam Neighbor”: Screening and Discussion

October 18, 2018

“Salam Neighbor” is an award-winning feature documentary and campaign to connect the world to refugees. Natalia Gebert, who is going to give a short presentation at the event, has received the award of the Capital City of Warsaw for her pro-refugee work.

Year 2018/2019

October 4: Our American Dream

October 2, 2018

We have a pleasure and honor to invite to the opening lecture of the Western Hemisphere Lectures series by former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland, Radosław Sikorski.