Year 2021/2022
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, 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, 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.
August 1, 2022
Robert Lowell’s Memoirs, which Prof. Grzegorz Kosc, ASC Director, has coedited with Prof. Steven Gould Axelrod from the University of California, Riverside, will be released next week by renowned New York publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and in the London by Faber and Faber.
July 25, 2022
The ASC is moving to Dobra 55 but not until the intersession break in January/February 2023. We will yet spend this coming fall semester at the Ksawerów building.
July 25, 2022
The ASC Office for Students’ Affairs will be closed between August 5th – August 22nd, 2022.
July 12, 2022
It is our pleasure to report that an 8-person team led by Prof. Paweł Frelik has just received a major grant from NPRH (National Programme for the Development of the Humanities) […]
July 9, 2022
Andrzej Barczewski, ASC librarian, is now retiring, after a busy thirty-six-year career at the University of Warsaw (for twenty-six of those years he worked at the ASC as such). He received an MA degree from the Institute of Archeology of the University of Warsaw (MA) and completed postgraduate studies at the Institute of the Geography of Developing Countries […]
July 4, 2022
Zgodnie z Zarządzeniem nr 111 Rektora Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego z dnia 16 września 2021 w sprawie organizacji zajęć dydaktycznych, egzaminów i zaliczeń w trybie zdalnym ogłasza się listę przedmiotów, które w semestrze zimowym 2022/23 będą prowadzone zdalnie.
June 15, 2022
Seven ASC MA students participated in the 20th Transatlantic Symposium, which addressed the challenges of the multi-crisis transatlantic world.
June 6, 2022
Pawel Frelik co-edited a special issue of Teksty Drugie, and contributed, together with Anna Kurowicka, articles to the issue on cyberpunk.
