Tag Archive: events
Year 2022/2023
January 25: Meeting with the authors of “Pieśni Grozy: Straszne, mordercze i tajemnicze polskie pieśni ludowe”
January 25, 2023
Meet the authors of the book “Pieśni Grozy: Straszne, mordercze i tajemnicze polskie pieśni ludowe.” We are going to talk about how folklore still inspires artists, the process of creating illustrations and publications, and how folk art can be used in contemporary art.
American Studies Colloquium Series
January 19: Covid and a History of Racialized Asian Bodies in the US
January 19, 2023
Anti-Asian racism has been on the rise since the covid pandemic began. This talk by Selma Bidlingmaier examines the historical moments in US history that shaped the ideas that fuel anti-Asian racism. It focuses specifically on 19th Century scientific racism, coolie labor and the making of the white working class, and the 20th Century myth of the model minority.
American Studies Colloquium Series
January 12: Wild Blue Media: Encountering the Bookshelf, Underwater
January 12, 2023
What would media and literary studies look like, underwater? In this lecture, Melody Jue, the author of “Wild Blue Media: Thinking Through Seawater,” is going to show how the ocean can be a science fictional environment for defamiliarizing concepts, offering cold and briny contexts in which to rethink what it means to store and organize information.
Year 2022/2023
December 15: “Veer”: Movie Screening with Q&A
December 15, 2022
Join us for the Polish premiere and one of the first world screenings of the documentary film “Veer,” an artistic interview directed by Karol Jałochowski and featuring the prominent American writer, Cormac McCarthy.
American Studies Colloquium Series
December 8: Was There an American Literary Mafia?
December 8, 2022
In the 1960s and 1970s, many American authors, Jewish and non-Jewish alike, complained about a “Jewish literary mafia.” How did Jews’ roles in publishing influence the development of American literature? How can attention to this story help to produce a more equitable industry now?
Year 2022/2023
December 6: Witches in American Popular Music: Introduction + Discussion
November 24, 2022
Rebellious and powerful, witches penetrate the social spaces and popular culture. In her introduction, Joanna Kaniewska will map the presence of witches in American music. Later, she will invite all the participants to discuss the “music witches,” their common traits and associations.
Year 2022/2023
ASC Thanksgiving Dinner
November 18, 2022
We’re happy to invite all students, faculty and staff to join our traditional Thanksgiving Potluck Dinner!
American Studies Colloquium Series
November 17: Imagining Sex Between White Men: Slash Fan Fiction and the Racial Politics of Feminist Fantasy
November 10, 2022
In this talk, Alexis Lothian discusses slash fan fiction by examining the ways that dynamics of racialization can be critically engaged on and through the bodies of white male protagonists, and whether a speculative erotics of white masculinity might have something to contribute to a feminism committed to antiracist politics.
American Studies Colloquium Series
October 27: The Shapes of Apocalyptic Time: Decolonising Eco-Eschatology
October 20, 2022
On the contrary to contemporary ecological discourses, rooted in linear temporality derived from Christian eschatology, this presentation offers to see eco-eschatological time as a spiral and as a non-contemporaneous totality, which can help us devise more accurate strategy for decolonial environmental politics.
American Studies Colloquium Series
October 20: When American Television Became American Literature
October 14, 2022
In this lecture, Ben Alexander discusses the phenomena of the most poignant American serial dramas and places them in historical context, as well as suggests to see American television as a new art form that requires dedicated critical approaches.
Year 2021/2022
June 14: ASC Picnic 2022
June 14, 2022
The ASC Students’ Union is happy to invite all students and faculty to the first post-pandemic ASC picnic!
Year 2021/2022
June 8: Sounds of Dune(s): Music-landscaping in Cinema
June 8, 2022
In this workshop we’ll talk about Frank Herbert’s “Dune” and its many adaptations (both real and unrealized), in order to see how music and sound are used to bridge sensory gaps in cinematic experiences, and how to write about such synaesthetic encounters in our research.
American Studies Colloquium Series
June 2: Eat, Migrate, Love: Gastronomic and Sexual Desire as Identity
June 2, 2022
This talk, whose title plays off the Julia Robert’s film “Eat, Pray, Love,” will explore queer films and queer immigrants’ relationships to food as part of the cultural identity, and how the rituals around food preparation and consumption informs their negotiations in the US.
Year 2021/2022
May 30: The (Early) Literature of COVID-19. Session V
May 30, 2022
This open seminar will explore initial literary responses to the ongoing SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, offering participants opportunities to talk through this world-changing event. By the end of the seminar, participants should be able to not only identify but also to interpret and evaluate common features of early COVID literature within and beyond the United States.
Year 2021/2022
May 23: Gender/Sexuality Conference ASC
May 23, 2022
ASC’s Gender/Sexuality Research Group invites all students and faculty members to the first ASC’s Student Conference on gender and sexuality in American studies. We have an exciting day planned, with a keynote by Dr. Richard Reitsma and four panels of student presentations, on everything from feminist theories to representation of trans characters on TV and challenging the norms of masculinity.
American Studies Colloquium Series
May 19: ‘bits of agitation on the body of the whole’: Animals in COVID-19 Literature
May 19, 2022
Given its origins in horseshoe bat populations, the SARS-CoV-2 virus offers many opportunities to re-think our relationships with the nonhuman world around us. In this talk, Raymond Malewitz will explore emerging cultural narratives embodied in COVID poetry and fiction, which tend to reinforce the stiff differences between the human and the nonhuman as physically and conceptually separate from one another.