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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.

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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.

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May 18: Oscillations: On Electronic Music and Science Fiction

May 18, 2022

What is science fiction music and what makes it science fictional in the first place? This talk will explore postwar popular music in English, basic taxonomy of the subgenre, and the role that the various technologies of musical production and reproduction have played in constructing the ‘sound of the future’ with the musical machinery of the present moment.

American Studies Colloquium Series

May 12: American Jewish Loss After the Holocaust: An Object Lesson

May 12, 2022

This talk describes how the Shoah has been commemorated in the United States, as well as asks critical questions about the future of Holocaust commemoration. It reconsiders how the Shoah is experienced and understood in relation to other American Jewish losses in terms of how different losses touch and illuminate each other.

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May 10: The American Day

May 10, 2022

A one-day program of The American Day, under the patronage of the US Embassy in Poland, encompasses presentations, lectures, film screenings and exhibitions devoted to key events in Polish-American relations in 1917–2022.

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April 23: UW Open Day 2022

April 23, 2022

Are you considering applying for a degree in American Studies? Visit our stand during UW Open Day to meet our students and faculty, and learn more about our programs!

American Studies Colloquium Series

April 7: The Look of the Past: Anachronism and Critique in Contemporary Comics

April 7, 2022

This talk will address the visual styles of contemporary cartoonists, who often mimic the early twentieth-century popular culture, producing work that appears much older than it actually is. Levay explores the work of American cartoonist Al Columbia – a vital figure in experimental comics’ fascination with anachronism.

Year 2021/2022

March 30: Queer Ecosystems: Gothic Materialism in Carmen Maria Machado’s In the Dream House

March 30, 2022

This talk addresses the anxieties related to moving through a heteropatriarchal world as a marginalized person and looks into the trauma of queer intimate partner abuse through the trope of the haunted house in Carmen Maria Machado’s memoir. Carolin Jesussek seeks to show how the gothic can address long-distance relationships, the silence around queer intimate partner abuse, and gendered understandings of violence.

Year 2021/2022

March 27: ASC Oscar Night 2022

March 27, 2022

The iconic ASC event is back! The ASC students union has the pleasure to invite to the ASC Oscar Night 2022, during which we will meet for an all-night watch party of movies and, most importantly, this year’s Oscar gala.