ASC Freshers, Undergraduate and Graduate, join us virtually for the ASC Welcome Event 2020!

Saturday, October 3, 2020
at 4:00 pm

The event will be live-streamed:

https://youtu.be/7hC1l48rhrI

It will be held at the lecture theater of the University of Warsaw Old Library Building (aka Stary BUW), ul. Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28. Thirty-seven freshers have registered to attend the event in person. Thirty-seven is about as many as can be accommodated in the great lecture hall without breaching the public health requirements to fight COVID. The event will be attended by some of the ASC faculty, representatives of the ASC Student Union, and the faculty coordinating your program. Professor Pawel Frelik of the ASC UW will give an inauguration lecture: “U.S. Witch Corps, or, How (Almost) Everything You Know About the United States is Wrong (And What We’re Going to Do About It)”.

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”.

Year 2025/2026

May 19: “Bummerland: Ruin and Restoration in Trump’s New America”

May 18, 2026

Join us for a public talk titled “Bummerland: Ruin and Restoration in Trump’s New America” by Randolph R. Lewis (University of Texas at Austin).