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;

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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

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.

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.