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!

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ASC Anniversary Symposium

May 7, 2026

In 2026, the American Studies Center at the University of Warsaw celebrates its 50th anniversary. To mark this milestone, we are delighted to invite you to the Anniversary Symposium “American Studies: Past, Presents, Futures”.

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Get to Know UW – online information meeting

May 4, 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 7: “Unrooted Voices: Weird Vegetation in Contemporary Weird Fiction Audio Drama”

April 29, 2026

Weird Fictions Research Group invites you to join the fourth student lecture in the Weird Vegetation series in the spring semester 2025/26.

American Studies Colloquium Series

May 14: “Queerversity as an Aesthetic Principle: Colonial ghosts and fog machines in the work of Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz”

April 29, 2026

We are pleased to invite you to the third lecture of the American Studies Colloquium Series in the 2025/2026 Spring semester! This time we are pleased to host Antke A. Engel with a lecture “Queerversity as an Aesthetic Principle: Colonial ghost and fog machines in the work of Pauline Boudry/ Renate Lorenz”.

Year 2025/2026

April 23: “Crippled Ecology in Motion. Toxic Environments, Non-Normative Bodies and the Politics of Survival in Weird Vegetation”

April 29, 2026

Weird Fictions Research Group invites you to join the first student lecture in the Weird Vegetation series in the spring semester 2025/26.