As many as five doctoral candidates working with the ASC faculty have gotten into the UW Doctoral School of Humanities.

Cultural and Religious Studies has accepted Joanna Kaniewska and Olga Gajek (to be supervised by Prof. Paweł Frelik) as well as Julia Płaczkiewicz (who will work with Prof. Tomasz Basiuk). Both Kaniewska and Płaczkiewicz have also been granted entrance to the Literary Studies so they are free to choose between the disciplines. The Literary Studies has also accepted Joanna Piechura-Velychenko who will work with Prof. Grzegorz Kosc, while History has granted entrance to Bruno Zwierz, the candidate of Prof. Sylwia Kuzma-Markowska.

This is in addition to Aleksandra Julia Malinowska (working with Prof. Karolina Krasuska) who has qualified to the Cultural and Religious Studies through an earlier special procedure linked to the NCN Preludium BIS grant.

Congratulations to all!

Year 2025/2026

Jan 22: “‘Do I look famished?’: Weird Orality and Convivial Dying in Ishirō Honda’s Matango (1963).”

January 15, 2026

We’re cordially inviting you to the last open event in the “Wiedze u-korzenione” series in the fall semester 2025/26, co-organized by the Weird Fictions Research Group and Centrum Humanistyki Środowiskowej UW.

Year 2025/2026

16 Jan: “U.S Democracy in Crisis: ethnonational authoritarianism, liberal democracy, a Balkanized federation, and the threat to the Transatlantic alliance”

January 13, 2026

Leadership Research Group & Koło Naukowe Amerykanistów have a pleasure of inviting you to a meeting with a renown American journalist and writer Mr. Colin Woodard.

American Studies Colloquium Series

January 22: “Yearning for Crip Horizons: Crip Theory for Postsocialist Spaces”

January 9, 2026

We are pleased to invite you to the last lecture of the American Studies Colloquium Series in the 2025/2026 Winter semester! This time we are pleased to host Kateřina Kolářová with a lecture “Yearning for Crip Horizons: Crip Theory for Postsocialist Spaces”.

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Student research grant 2025/26

December 11, 2025

The American Studies Center is pleased to announce a competition for student research grants. The grants will support students’ work on their MA theses and BA papers written in conjunction with their BA seminars. As the research must be related to a BA paper or an MA thesis, 3rd-year BA students and MA students of all years will have priority.

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Holiday break at the ASC

December 9, 2025

We would like to inform you that the holiday break at the American Studies Center will take place from 22 December 2025 to 6 January 2026. On 22, 23, 29, 30 and 31 December the offices will have limited online availability.