Year 2021/2022
May 24, 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.
American Studies Colloquium Series
May 24, 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 24, 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.
May 11, 2022
Prof. Agnieszka Graff will talk about the lessons from the second wave of feminism during Millennium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival.
May 11, 2022
The Department of British Culture at the Institute of English Studies invites for a talk revisiting the 1990s and the emergence of the world wide web.
May 9, 2022
Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic invites to a online course about society, identity, culture, economy, and politics of Canada.
May 2, 2022
We are greatly saddened by the news of the demise of Mary McGann, who had been directly engaged in founding the American Studies Center.
May 2, 2022
The US Embassy invites everyone interested in studying in the United States for the pre-departure orientation webinar.
April 29, 2022
A day packed with film screenings, exhibitions and inspiring lectures featuring ASC’s faculty devoted to key events in Polish-American relations.
April 29, 2022
On May 9, UW will host a lecture by Mark F. Brzezinski, Ambassador of the United States in Poland, on global leadership. Registration required.
April 28, 2022
We are pleased to introduce prof. Richard Reitsma from Canisius College, Buffalo, NY, who will soon start his course LatinX in the US at the ASC.
