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American Studies Colloquium Series

Lorraine Hansberry on Racism, Antisemitism, and Postwar American Intellectual Life

October 16, 2023

Sometime in the early 1960s, Lorraine Hansberry drafted an essay on the Eichmann trial, one that she never completed. Writing in the early 1960s, at a moment of anti-communist fervor that silenced both Black and Jewish radical thinkers, Hansberry understood antisemitism and anti-Black racism as an intertwined agenda of white supremacy that defined twentieth-century politics.

Year 2022/2023

27. Festiwal Nauki: Postsekularyzm. Polska i amerykańska perspektywa

September 24, 2023

Postsekularyzm jest odpowiedzią zarówno ludzi wierzących jak i niewierzących na rosnącą polaryzację społeczeństwa. Uznaje sekularyzację za niezbywalny i pozytywny wymiar nowoczesności, jednocześnie akceptując religie jako ważny i pozytywny element kultury. W czasie wykładu przyjrzymy się temu zjawisku z polskiej i amerykańskiej perspektywy, próbując zaobserwować jego skutki i potencjalne możliwości.

Year 2022/2023

27. Festiwal Nauki: Nie tylko roboty, kosmici i geniusze: aseksualność w amerykańskiej kulturze popularnej

September 24, 2023

Aseksualność długo była w kulturze popularnej niewidoczna, a postaci aseksualne bywały sprowadzane do robotów, kosmitów, lub innych „nieludzkich” dziwaków. W czasie wykładu przyjrzymy się różnym wcieleniom aseksualności w amerykańskiej popkulturze oraz zastanowimy się nad tym, jak rasa i płeć wpływają na konstrukcję aseksualnych postaci. Porozmawiamy między innymi o serialach “BoJack Horseman” i “Teoria wielkiego podrywu”, powieściach dla młodzieży oraz literaturze science fiction.

Year 2022/2023

June 16: Forecasting & Prediction – Necessary Skills for the 21st Century Leadership

June 16, 2023

Leadership Studies Research Group has the pleasure to invite for a lecture by Dr. Sam Potolicchio on skills neccessary in 21-century leadership.

American Studies Colloquium Series

June 1: Reckless Shelter: Contemporary Ecopoetic Practice

June 1, 2023

In this lecture, Karen Holmberg — a poet, writer and academic —will talk about the engagements with environmental and ecological initiatives at Oregon State that have shaped her and her recent work, while sharing and discussing sample poems that show her lifelong preoccupations with language as a living matter and one of the chief tools humans have for “being toward and becoming with” the natural world.

Year 2022/2023

May 29: Persephone & Demeter: A Workshop on “Lore Olympus”

May 29, 2023

Join this workshop on the current reiterations of the Persephone and Demeter myth and take part in a little knowledge-production experiment.

Year 2023/2024

March 19: The Algernon-Gordon Effect: Rethinking Human-Animal Relationships

March 19, 2024

Weird Fictions Research Group proudly invites you to the next “Weird Medicine” event! During this workshop, we will reflect upon the potentialities of Daniel Keyes’ Hugo Award-winning short story “Flowers for Algernon” (1959) to challenge—or not—our relationship with laboratory animals.

Year 2023/2024

April 11: Pregnant with an Abject Fetus: Disruptiveness of the Patriarchal Order in “Rosemary’s Baby” and Halsey’s “If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power”

April 6, 2024

Weird Fictions Research Group proudly invites you to the next “Weird Medicine” event! The talk will focus on the theme of the dangerous fetus in two movies on monstrous gestation – Rosemary’s Baby (1968) and Halsey’s independent movie If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power (2021).

Year 2023/2024

March 12: “I Want it Out!”: Gynaehorror & Pro-Life Narratives in Post-Roe v. Wade

March 4, 2024

Join us for another lecture in the Weird Medicine series, this time focusing on a subgenre of horror called gynaehorror. As a thematic subgenre, it refers to films that center on lived female experience and the horrors embodied therein – such as the state’s use of biopower in its dominion over reproductive autonomy.

Year 2023/2024

February 28: The (Im)perfect Body: Body Horror in the Magnus Archives

February 28, 2024

Duing this talk we will listen to few episodes of The Magnus Archives and then discuss how Body Horror operates through sound and narrative.

Year 2023/2024

November 9: Scared Sick: Medicine and the Gothic Tradition

November 9, 2023

Join Weird Research Group for the second meeting of Weird Medicine Series! This talk will be grounded in the foundational Romantic period and will explain ways in which Gothic works reflected some of the most controversial medical pursuits, playing out their possibilities and dangers.

Year 2023/2024

December 19: Body in Ruins: Brandon Cronenberg’s Cinema of Exhaustion

December 19, 2023

Join Weird Research Group for the another meeting of Weird Medicine Series! This talk will focus on “the principle of somatic wholeness,” that is the idea that the body is to be “understood as a sovereign self: closed, contained, unified, and under rational control”

Year 2023/2024

January 25: New Technologies And Their Impact – From The Psychiatrist’s POV

January 25, 2024

Join Weird Research Group for the fifth meeting of Weird Medicine Series! The talk with psychiatrist Joachim Budny will serve as an occasion to exchange perspectives and information about the impact of new technologies on our everyday lives and well-being while staying close to this year’s theme of WEIRD MEDICINE.

Year 2023/2024

January 23: A New Life: Memory, Identity, and Ethics of Mind Manipulation in To The Moon 

January 23, 2024

Join Weird Research Group for the fourth meeting of Weird Medicine Series! During the meeting, we will take a closer look at the game To The Moon, which will provide a starting point for a discussion about memory, ethics, and the future of psychology.

Year 2023/2024

October 30: Weird Halloween: Normal Again? The Portrayal of Mental Health(Care) in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

October 30, 2023

Join Weird Fictions Research Group for the first Weird Medicine meeting this semester about classic 90s TV show, Buffy The Vampire Slayer.