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!

News

Get to Know UW – online information meeting

June 1, 2026

Get to Know UW – online information meetings for prospective students Are you planning to study at the University of Warsaw in the 2026/2027 academic year? Join our online information meeting for international students and learn more about study opportunities and the admission process at UW.

Year 2025/2026

May 27: “We Shall Meet at the Crossroads, Where Nothing and Everything Grows: Imaginations of Nature and Culture in the Hungarian New Weird.”

May 22, 2026

Hear, hear! Weird Fictions Research Group is teaming up with Speculative Texts and Media Research Group for the final meeting in the “Weird Vegetation” series.

American Studies Colloquium Series

May 28: “Extroverted Financialization: Banking on USD Debt”

May 21, 2026

We are pleased to invite you to the last lecture of the American Studies Colloquium Series in the 2025/2026 Spring semester! This time we are pleased to host Mareike Beck with a lecture “Extroverted Financialization: Banking on USD Debt”.

Year 2025/2026

May 25: “Standing Woman – Fear Takes Root: Exploring Eco-Horror and dystopia through short film practice”.

May 20, 2026

Weird Fictions Research Group is pleased to invite you to an online film screening and conversation with Max Gee (University of Salford), the writer behind the short film Standing Woman. Join us on Zoom to watch the film together and learn more about arts-based research practices and eco-horror.

Year 2025/2026

May 20: “In the Orbit of Empire: Space, Race, and Inequality in Brazil and the United States”

May 18, 2026

Join us for the next lecture in the ‘Western Hemisphere Lecture Series’! This time we are pleased to host Sean T. Mitchell from Rutgers University, Newark with a lecture titled “In the Orbit of Empire: Space, Race, and Inequality in Brazil and the United States”.