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American Studies BA
Admission criteria for the BA program in American Studies comprise a high-school diploma and an adequate grade in High-level English at the school-leaving exams.
MA in American Studies
MA admission criteria include an undergraduate degree and an adequate score at the entrance exam.
Readings on American Race Relations
This resource list was compiled by Krystyna Mazur, William Glass, Agnieszka Graff, and Marta Usiekniewicz and announed in the statement issued by Polish Americanists.
Events
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Year 2020/2021
April 13: Ze wszystkich istot nadprzyrodzonych najszkodliwszy. Wilkołaki w słowiańskim folklorze
March 30, 2021
In this lecture, we will be looking at werewolves and their presence in Polish folklore. Katarzyna Bielicka will talk about the transformation process described by ethnographers, the effect of werewolves on pagan religions, and accidents when werewolves saved someone’s life.
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Year 2020/2021
March 29: Customary Strangers: Double Mirroring of Otherness in Eastern-Western Vampire Narratives
March 29, 2021
The Vampire serves as a perfect embodiment of the Other of all sorts: racial, sexual, ethnic, gender and class. The main objective of this lecture is to provide a comparative description of Vampire Narratives as collective fantasies about the radical otherness.
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American Studies Colloquium Series
April 15: The Heartland: Myth and History
March 28, 2021
The American heartland refers to a quintessentially all-American place: white, buffered, bunkered, isolationist, exceptionalist, and local. In this lecture, Kristin Hoganson will take the history of a seemingly local place in a seemingly local time to turn the myth of the American heartland inside out.
Tweets
News
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The 21st edition of the “Polityka” Scientific Awards
April 8, 2021
Applications for the competition are now open. Five young researchers might win scholarship of 15.000 PLN in the fields of humanities, science, social sciences, life sciences and technical sciences.
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Dr. Franciszek Lyra
(1932 – 2021)April 6, 2021
It is with great sadness that we have learned of the death of Dr. Franciszek Lyra, a longtime lecturer of the American Studies Center of the University of Warsaw.
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Żegnamy Jacka Tokaja
March 23, 2021
Z przykrością informujemy, że zmarł Jacek Tokaj, sekretarz ds. studenckich Centrum Europejskich Studiów Regionalnych i Lokalnych EUROREG – jednostki, która wraz z OSA tworzy Instytut Ameryk i Europy UW.
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Donate 1% of the income tax to the University of Warsaw Foundation
March 8, 2021
As in previous years, in 2021 you can donate 1% of the income tax to support the University of Warsaw Foundation and its activities in service of the academic community and organizational units.
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Lecture: White Trash: when racial privilege collides with class inferiority
March 1, 2021
Dr Małgorzata Durska will be a guest at the EUROREG’s seminar on March 4. She will discuss the paradox of privilege: when the racial privilege of being white collides with class inferiority.
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Erasmus+ applications are now open
February 12, 2021
Deadline for the first round of recritment is the 8th of March. More detailed information regarding the list of partnering universities and required documents is to be found on our website.
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2021/2022 Stipend at the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
February 10, 2021
Due to the bilateral agreement between University of Warsaw and University of Florida, Gainesville the American Studies Center offers 1 stipend for a 2021/2022 fall or spring semester at the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
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Dr Renata Siuda-Ambroziak awarded MINIATURA research project
February 10, 2021
We are excited to announce that Dr Renata Siuda-Ambroziak’s project “Contemporary Religius Culture of the Descendants of the Polish 19th Century Immigrants in the South of Brazil” will be funded by the National Science Center in the MINIATURA 4 scheme.
