Tag Archive: events
Year 2023/2024
May 15: The White Lady: Transhistorical Affinities in Contemporary Lesbian Art from Poland
May 15, 2024
We are pleased to invite you to a talk organized by the Gender/Sexuality Research Group! This talk traces transhistorical affective affinities between nineteenth-century Polish lesbians and those living today. It asks how women’s and lesbian practices of self-memorialisation, portraiture, and self-portraiture, may be crucial repositories of queer knowledge which must be read between the lines, intuited, and felt.
Year 2023/2024
May 13: Entertainment Media and Politics
May 13, 2024
We are delighted to invite you to the double talk “Entertainment Media and Politics” with our special guest Professor Philip Habel and Professor Stephen Farnsworth. The participants will present their recent and current research on politics in late night comedy shows, movies, and video games.
Year 2023/2024
May 9: Queering the National Romance: LatinX Narratives of Belonging
May 9, 2024
We are pleased to invite you to a lecture by Professor Richard Reitsma in which we will explore LatinX literary, cinematic, and television narratives which attempt to situate LatinX persons in the national discourse of “America” through romance tropes. These narratives, often veering towards fantasy, use love between opposing forces (class, race/ethnicity, nations, etc.) as an allegory for a better nation.
Year 2023/2024
April 29: I Settle for Nothing but the Best: Biomedicalization in the Mass Effect Franchise
April 29, 2024
Weird Fictions Research Group cordially invites you to a lecture about biomedicalization in the Mass Effect franchise! In this lecture, we delve into the concept of biomedicalization within the sci-fi franchise, exploring how advancements in genetics, cybernetics, and artificial intelligence reshape the fate of humanity, at the cost of human privacy.
Year 2023/2024
April 26: Bad Gays and They/Them Armies: Homonationalism and its Backlash
April 26, 2024
We are pleased to invite you to a lecture by Ben Miller and Huw Lemmey, the hosts of Bad Gays, “a podcast about evil and complicated queers in history” and the authors of Bad Gays: A Homosexual History.
Year 2023/2024
April 16: Screening of Nostalgia and Elegy in the Streets by Jim Hubbard
April 16, 2024
Join us for a screening of films by Jim Hubbard, who has been making experimental films about lesbian and gay activism and community building since the mid-1970s. The screening will be followed by an audience Q&A with the filmmaker.
Year 2023/2024
March 15: The 2024 US Presidential Election: What’s in the Cards?
March 15, 2024
What are the stakes of the 2024 American presidential election for the US and its allies, like Poland? What does this election tell us about the state of American politics more broadly? Join us for the panel discussion “The 2024 US Presidential Election: What’s in the Cards?”.
Year 2023/2024
March 14: BridgeUSA: Exchange Program Opportunities in the US
March 9, 2024
We are excited to invite you to a special event featuring DAS Rebecca Pasini, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Private Sector Exchange, who will be speaking about the diverse range of BridgeUSA (J1) program categories available to both students and faculty.
Year 2023/2024
April 26-27: Status Quo/Status Queer
April 26, 2024
The aim of the conference is to create an opportunity for MA and BA students at the American Studies Center and Institute of Applied Social Sciences to present their research projects and facilitate an exchange of inspiring ideas.
Year 2023/2024
December 1: Screening & Discussion with Co-directors of ‘CURED’ documentary
December 1, 2023
The American Studies Center and the U.S. Embassy Warsaw invite you to a special private screening of the award-winning documentary CURED, which highlights a pivotal but little-known moment in LGBTQ history when activists and psychiatrists rose up to challenge a formidable institution — and won!
Year 2023/2024
15 Stycznia: Druga Fala Feminizmu – historia, afekt i audiowizualne archiwum
January 15, 2024
Serdecznie zapraszamy na kolejne wydarzenie Sekcji Studenckiej Pracowni Gender/Sexuality pt. „Druga Fala Feminizmu – historia, afekt i audiowizualne archiwum”!
Year 2023/2024
15 Kwietnia: Monstrualna Kobieta kontra Patriarchat: Czy “horror ciąża” to nowy wyraz kobiecej siły?
April 15, 2024
Drogie Osoby Studenckie, serdecznie zapraszamy na kolejne wydarzenie Sekcji Studenckiej Pracowni Gender/Sexuality! Na najbliższym spotkaniu dowiemy się, czy dekonstrukcja patriarchalnych wyobrażeń na temat ciąży jest możliwa oraz jak współczesna kultura audiowizualna odbiera dwoistość tożsamości, jaką dotknięte są ciężarne.
Year 2023/2024
18 Marca: Pornografia w dyskursie feministycznym – wstęp do wojen o seks według teorii A. Dworkin i E. Willis
March 18, 2024
Serdecznie zapraszamy na kolejne wydarzenie Sekcji Studenckiej Pracowni Gender/Sexuality! Na najbliższym spotkaniu przyjrzymy się problemowi pornografii w dyskursie feministycznym.
Year 2023/2024
26 Lutego: Postfeminizm, Bimbo Feminizm i Film ,,Barbie”. O Feministycznych Praktykach w Erze Neoliberalizmu Kulturowego
February 22, 2024
Drogie Osoby Studenckie! Zapraszamy na kolejne wydarzenie Sekcji Studenckiej Pracowni Gender/Sexuality! Na najbliższym spotkaniu przyjrzymy się różnym rodzajom praktyk feministycznych we współczesnej erze neoliberlizmu kulturowego.
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!