All ASC Classes and Lectures Cancelled until April 14, 2020 Due to the Coronavirus Outbreak

As was decreed by the Rector on  March 10, 2020, all regular classes and lectures scheduled for the period between March 11, 2020 and April 14, 2020 are cancelled.

The Rector has also cancelled all academic events open to the public such as conferences, symposia, open lectures, artistic events as well as all student research and conference trips planned for the period between March 11, 2020 and April 30, 2020.

By March 20, 2020 we will announce a list of lectures and courses which will be offered online starting from March 23, 2020.

In a few days, we will post full info about the opening hours of the ASC office during the period when the Rector’s ban is in effect.

Here is the full text of the decree: http://en.uw.edu.pl/information-on-preventing-covid-19-spread-among-the-uw-community/

Polish: https://www.uw.edu.pl/zarzadzenie-rektora-uw-z-10-marca-2020-r-w-sprawie-zapobiegania-rozprzestrzenianiu-sie-wirusa-covid-19-wsrod-spolecznosci-uw/

Grzegorz Kosc
ASC Director

UPDATE:

The ASC Library will be closed to readers from March 12 to April 14, 2020.
No penalties will be charged from March 12 to April 14.

 

 

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.

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American Studies Colloquium Series

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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

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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

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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.