Tag Archive: events
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.
Year 2019/2020
November 14: Africa Within Haitian National Narratives
November 7, 2019
During the lecture Jhon Picard Byron from the State University of Haiti will speak of importance of Africa in the development of Haitian nationality.
American Studies Colloquium Series
October 24: A Short History of Virality
October 17, 2019
Marta Figlerowicz from Yale University will discuss the phenomenon of virality and how it has been gradually theorized over the years. She will also explain how viral network events are represented in American cinema nowadays.
American Studies Colloquium Series
October 17: Objects and Technofeelia: Love in Contemporary Technoculture
October 10, 2019
It will be the first lecture from the American Studies Colloqium Series this academic year! Doctor Anna Malinowska from University of Silesia will explain the semiotic and material dimensions of love and how those two impact the ontologies of loving in technoculture.
Year 2019/2020
October 10: A Backward Glance Over the Much-Traveled Road of Postmodern Fiction
October 2, 2019
The lecture, given by Heinz Ickstadt, a Professor Emeritus in Kennedy Institut of Freie Universität in Berlin, will discuss the instability of the term “postmodernism” and the different shades of meaning it has gained from changing historical contexts as well as via the differing perspectives of a variety of disciplines.
Year 2019/2020
October 7: The US and Today’s Global Challenges
October 1, 2019
Daniel Fried, the US Department of State Assistant Secretary and former US Ambassador to Poland will spea of contemporary global challenges and how the US deals with them.
Year 2018/2019
June 6: Crisis in Venezuela: Why it Matters?
June 6, 2019
In this lecture former PAP Correspondent and Ambassador to Brazil and Venezuela, Krzysztof Jacek Hinz, is going to speak about the complexity and importance of the economical crisis occurring currently in Venezuela.
American Studies Colloquium Series
May 16: Haunted by Hill House: Shirley Jackson, Housewife Horrors and the Politics of Fame
March 27, 2019
In this lecture Patrycja Antoszek from the Catholic University of Lublin will talk about Shirley Jackson’s personal experiences as a mother, full-time housewife and wife of a famous literary critic, that inspired her highly provocative and original stories, dominated by the Gothic tropes of haunted heroines, enclosed spaces and female madness.
American Studies Colloquium Series
April 25: Ghosts and Anchors: Translingualism in Contemporary US Poetry
March 27, 2019
This lecture considers translingualism as creative and dynamic experiment in contemporary U.S. poetry. Piotr Gwiazda from the University of Pittsburgh will discuss how it influences literary work of first- and second-generation immigrants to America.
Year 2018/2019
March 28: Crime Narratives in the Age of Trump: A Manifesto
March 27, 2019
In this talk David Schmid, from University at Buffalo, will argue that the election of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States provides the cultural critic in general and the cultural critic of crime narratives. For this purpose, he will examine a series of related issues about what televisual, filmic, and written narratives of crime from a variety of geographical and geopolitical spaces.
American Studies Colloquium Series
March 14: Defining State-Private Network. American Freedom Committees During the Cold War
March 14, 2019
In this lecture Anna Mazurkiewicz from the University of Gdańsk focuses on the fate of the political exiles who had left the Communist-dominated regions and entered into complex relations with the Americans during the Cold War.
American Studies Colloquium Series
March 7: Transnational Identities and Behaviors among Solidarity Refugees in the US
March 1, 2019
Mary Erdmans during the presentation outlines the political transnational activities and identities of Solidarity refugees in the United States (mainly Chicago and California) during the late 1980s. She also focuses on several factors influencing the return of the Solidarity refugees, who re-migrated to Poland after 1989.
American Studies Colloquium Series
February 28: The Diva Project: Analyzing Stardom in American Pop Culture
January 28, 2019
This presentation discusses the films Mahogany and Dreamgirls, as well as analyzes female super stars, such as Diana Ross, Whitney Houston and Beyonce in order to highlight the connection between on-screen and off-screen performance. Jaap Kooijman examines the common trope in African American female superstardom that commercial success comes at the expense of “authentic blackness.”
American Studies Colloquium Series
January 17: Nuclear Afterlives: Toxicity and Nonhuman Embodiments in the Anthropocene
January 17, 2019
In this talk Alison Sperling focuses on environmental records made legible in the Anthropocene, namely the radionuclides, as the result of nuclear fission and thermonuclear explosions in the biosphere, which have since inscribed themselves into all bodies, human and nonhuman, biological and geological alike. She will attempt to challenge what it might mean to flourish in and despite of a toxic Anthropocene.