How to Survive at ASC?
Useful Tips, Skills, and Know-How for Academia
A Three-Part Online Seminar for BA Freshers

Part. 1.
Thursday, Oct 8 at 4:45 pm by Filip Boratyn
Navigating ASC’s administration and online spaces with special focus on USOS and ASC website.

Part 2.
Thursday, Oct 29 at 4:45 pm by Anna Kurowicka
Studying at university vs studying at school; academic etiquette and communication with lecturers; online and irl class participation; uses and abuses of phones in class; inclusive vs discriminatory language;

Join Zoom Meeting
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Part 3.
Thursday, Nov 5 at 4:45 pm by Ludmiła Janion
Tips on how to prepare for and benefit from different types of classes: lectures, seminars and workshops, tips for active participation in class; the purpose of the reading list; practical tips for studying for exams; the uses and abuses of Wikipedia; reading, listening, and note taking.

2 OZN for each seminar

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.

Year 2025/2026

16 Jan: “U.S Democracy in Crisis: ethnonational authoritarianism, liberal democracy, a Balkanized federation, and the threat to the Transatlantic alliance”

January 13, 2026

Leadership Research Group & Koło Naukowe Amerykanistów have a pleasure of inviting you to a meeting with a renown American journalist and writer Mr. Colin Woodard.

American Studies Colloquium Series

January 22: “Yearning for Crip Horizons: Crip Theory for Postsocialist Spaces”

January 9, 2026

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”.

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.

News

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.