Dear ASC Community,

If it were not for this terrible pandemic, today we would hold our annual ASC Thanksgiving Party for students, the staff, and the faculty alike. It would be a big-time event all organized by the ASC Student Council, with a hefty turkey, cranberries and pumpkin pies galore. We would hold the ASC Thanksgiving Potluck Cook-Off Contest. It has become our cherished tradition to spend this evening together at the Center. Alas, this is not to be this time. My hope is we will resume the custom of Thanksgiving next year, and we will make up for the lost time.

Yet for many of us this challenging year has also been quite fruitful and refreshing. We therefore have every reason to be thankful. It’s helped us see things anew. Before long, when the Rona is gone, we will all be ushering in a new era that may yet be very interesting. On this special occasion, I wish you all good health, happiness and every success, academic and otherwise!

Grzegorz Kosc

ASC Director

News

Student research grant 2025/26

December 11, 2025

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

December 9, 2025

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.

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.

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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.