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)”.

American Studies Colloquium Series

December 11: “Poetry After Barbarism: The Invention of Motherless Tongues and Resistance to Fascism”

December 3, 2025

We are pleased to invite you to the next lecture of the American Studies Colloquium Series in the 2025/2026 Winter semester! This time we are pleased to host Jennifer Scappettone (University of Chicago) with a lecture titled “Mother(less) Tongues of ‘America’: Xenoglossic Writing and Xenoglossic Breathing in the Poetry of Etel Adnan and LaTasha N. Nevada-Diggs”.

Year 2025/2026

Dec 11-12: International Conference on Anti-Gender Campaigns and the Politics of Knowledge Production

November 28, 2025

The American Studies Center at the University of Warsaw invites you to the international conference Anti-gender campaigns and the politics of knowledge production, to be held on 11–12 December 2025 in Warsaw, Poland.

News

Call for Papers: “America and the World: A Reciprocal History of Influence and Exchange”

November 26, 2025

In 2026, the American Studies Center at the University of Warsaw will celebrate its 50th anniversary, a landmark occasion that coincides with the 250th anniversary of the United States. To mark these dual jubilees, we invite scholars to submit papers that explore the past, present, and future of the United States, its global impact, and the evolving role of American Studies as a field of inquiry.

American Studies Colloquium Series

December 2: “Distressing Language: Disability and the Poetics of Error”

November 25, 2025

We are pleased to invite you to the fourth lecture of the American Studies Colloquium Series in the 2025/2026 Winter semester! This time we are pleased to host Michael Davidson from University of California, San Diego with a lecture “Distressing Language: Disability and the Poetics of Error”.

American Studies Colloquium Series

November 27: “The Era of Political (Not) Kidding. How Politics Became a Strategically Ambiguous Joke”

November 24, 2025

We are pleased to invite you to the third lecture of the American Studies Colloquium Series in the 2025/2026 Winter semester! This time we are pleased to host Aaron J. Leonard who is an independent scholar with a lecture titled “Menace of Our Time: The Long War Against American Communism”.