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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.

Year 2021/2022

March 24: An Introduction to Concepts of the Archive and Methods of Archival Research

March 24, 2022

This workshop is addressed to BA Students of American Studies. It has two parts, one on conceptualizing archives, one on methods of archival research. It raises the question of how archives structure what can be said and thought, how archives can be oppressive to marginalized subjects and how they can also unfold liberatory potential.

Year 2021/2022

March 23: Distributed Humanitarianism: Digital Disruption, Grassroots Labor, and Volunteer Affect in Poland’s Refugee Response

March 23, 2022

The initial response to the war in Ukraine was carried out by loose networks of self-organizing volunteers. In this talk, we will offer some preliminary thoughts about how the Polish response poses a challenge to the international humanitarian system. What are the advantages of distributed humanitarianism, and what are its pitfalls?

American Studies Colloquium Series

March 17: Black on the Range: Recentering the History and Culture of Black Americans in the Old West

March 17, 2022

This talk will address the past history and contributions of Black Americans to the creation and establishment of the Old West by (re)centering Black Americans within the heart of the American West and highlighting their creativity in maintaining a rich representation of Black western life and legacy.

Year 2021/2022

March 16: Reading Movie Soundtracks: A Workshop

March 16, 2022

Music is one of the most affective forms of art: it can invoke powerful emotions and feelings that the listeners have little to no control over. This power is often used by filmmakers to amplify the scene or the sequence, give it a new meaning, or even move the viewers to tears. Join this workshop to learn how to read movie soundtracks.

American Studies Colloquium Series

March 3: Field Notes toward American Studies as Relational Diversity Studies

March 3, 2022

In this talk, Carsten Junker will reflect on the study of demographic diversity in scenarios of inequality in the broader field of American Studies. The lecture seeks to address the issues of institutionalization, theoretical frameworks and the role of ethics.

Year 2021/2022

March 2: Oswoić Gender: Naukowy aktywizm, innowacyjne badania i feministyczna dydaktyka

March 2, 2022

Anna Piekutowska in conversation with Karolina Krasuska, Ludmiła Janion, Aleksandra Kamińska, Agnieszka Kotwasińska, Anna Kurowicka, Natalia Pamuła i Marta Usiekniewicz about academic activism, innovative research and feminist pedagogy.

Year 2021/2022

January 26: In Conversation with CD Projekt Red: Audio in Cyberpunk 2077

January 26, 2022

Colin Walder is Code Lead for Audio and Localization at CD Projekt Red. In the conversation with Joanna Kaniewska, he will talk about audio design in Cyberpunk 2077 and whether cyberpunk can be recognized by its sound.

Year 2021/2022

January 26: ASC Student Exchange Programs: Information meeting

January 26, 2022

Interested in Erasmus+, a semester at University of Florida, or other foreign exchanges? Join a Zoom meeting with the ASC Mobility Coordinator dr Ludmiła Janion to find out about recruitment criteria, deadlines and rules of participation in student exchanges.

American Studies Colloquium Series

January 20: Kelly Reichardt’s Gastro-Aesthetics

January 20, 2022

This talk examines cinematic figurations of food in Kelly Reichardt’s ‘First Cow’, where aesthetic and gastronomic consumption converges in the figure of the cow as an image and as a source of milk. How should we think about the visual consumption of images of dairy consumption?  

American Studies Colloquium Series

January 13: Why Write If You Can Paint? Thoughts on Thoughts and Feelings in American Artists’ Writings

January 5, 2022

The history of artists’ writings is long and rich; one thus has to pose the question: Why write at all (if you can paint)? In this talk Edyta Frelik will discuss texts of American artists to explore their motivations and goals as writers, and the relation between the plastic arts and literature in general.

Year 2021/2022

December 16: Cyborgs, Transhumans, and Posthumans in the Popular Music of 2010s

December 11, 2021

This mini-lecture explores the artistic practices of musicians who draw inspiration from futuristic and weird imagery, using science fiction themes as well as the figures of cyborgs, trans-humans and post-humans to express their response to the contemporary world.

American Studies Colloquium Series

December 9: Sham Ruins, A User’s Guide

December 9, 2021

What is it that sham ruins ruin? This talk focuses on a number of American sham ruins, and new meaning they impose. The reevaluation of sham ruins helps in understanding what makes a freshly minted broken object attractive in any period.