Tag Archive: events
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.
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.