Weird Fictions Research Group cordially invites you to the very last event this semester!

Agata Chełstowska

Biosocial Groups, Biosocial Criminals – the Body and Medicine as Organizing Agents

Tuesday, June 11, 2024
 4:45PM

You can get 3 OZN points for participating in this event.

Where?

Dobra 55, room: 2.118
(the building features some mobility accommodations: ramp and lift)

What?

Ozempic, abortion pills, the anti-vaxx movement – medical events, interventions, inventions and knowledges are causing new social groups and cultures to form and proliferate. Science and technology studies, as well as medical anthropology offer a social sciences-centered approach to understanding and interpreting the interactions between medicine and technology as well as between medicine and humans as social creatures. The lecture will touch on recent developments in these fields, and show how medical anthropology and cultural studies can shed light on medicine-related social and cultural phenomena.

Who?

Agata Chełstowska – anthropologist, sociologist, lecturer at American Studies Center. She is interested in the intersection of medicine, law, criminalization and gender. She taught at Copenhagen University and Warsaw University. She received the Kościuszko Scholarship to study at the New School for Social Research, New York.

News

The Office for Student Affairs will be closed on November 14.

November 13, 2024

We would like to kindly inform you that the Office for Student Affairs will, exceptionally, be closed on November 14. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Year 2024/2025

November 14: Recruitment for the Student Chapter of the Gender/Sexuality Research Group

November 12, 2024

We are happy to announce that we are opening recruitment for the team coordinating the activities of the Student Chapter of the Gender/Sexuality Research Group at the ASC! This year, we would like to invite new members of the ASC community (and not only) to our team, in order to coordinate the next series of events and, above all, to make our space available to different classes of graduates at the BA and MA level.

American Studies Colloquium Series

November 14: Building a Hemispheric Empire. The United States in Latin America, 1898-1945

November 6, 2024

Join us for the opening lecture of the American Studies Colloquium Series in the 2024/2025 Fall semester! Most historians agree that the US has played an imperial role in 20 th -century Latin America. However, what kind of empire was that? Was it based on dollars or bullets? Latin American elites and public opinion were passive actors within “empire’s workshop” or were actively “cooperating with the colossus”? Focusing on the first five decades of the 20 th -century, Marco Mariano argues that Washington built a hemispheric empire whose most distinctive feature was to be found in the material and immaterial infrastructures that enabled Washington to put in place what Paul Kramer defined an “international empire”.

Year 2024/2025

November 12: Mirror Mirror – The Repeated Use of Unnerving Duplicates Within Children’s Television.

November 6, 2024

Dear All, Please, join us for the online meeting in the Weird TV series! This presentation will investigate area of children-focused media where the notions of the unnerving, unease and the dark imaginary tend to be found and explore this repeating or indeed duplicating aspect of fear and replicated weirdness present within children’s televisual media.

Year 2024/2025

Recruitment for the MOST program for the Spring Semester 2024/2025

November 6, 2024

Dear Students, Recruitment for the MOST program for the Spring Semester 2024/2025 has begun and will last until November 31st.