Agnieszka Graff and Elżbieta Korolczuk’s book Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment is now also available in Polish.

Kto się boi gender? Prawica, populizm i feministyczne strategie oporu has just been released with Wydawnictwo Krytyka Polityczna. The book charts the new phase of global struggles around gender equality and sexual democracy: the ultraconservative mobilization against “gender ideology” and feminist efforts to counteract it. The authors offer a novel conceptualization of the relationship between the ultraconservative anti-gender movement and right-wing populist parties, examining the opportunistic synergy between these actors.

The book is available on the publisher’s website.

At the same time, the English version of the book is available in open access.

We congratulate the authors and highly encourage you to get familiar with either English or Polish version of the book, as it is an important study for those doing research in politics, cultural studies, gender and sexuality studies, and sociology.

American Studies Colloquium Series

May 29: Surveillance and AI in the Military (and Beyond)

May 24, 2025

We are pleased to invite you to the last lecture of the American Studies Colloquium Series in the 2025 Spring semester! This lecture focuses on the revelatory power of media technology, particularly AI and other new media innovations. Beginning with an analysis of contemporary military surveillance projects, the presentation looks at the role of drones and similar technologies in making new enemies visible.

Year 2024/2025

May 27: Intersections of Queer and Class

May 24, 2025

We would like to invite you to a discussion meeting introducing the book “Reading Literature and Theory at the Intersections of Queer and Class” (Routledge 2025). We will talk about various crossovers of queer and class in American and German literary texts to explore, among others, queer precarity, intersections of queerness and class privilege, interclass queer sexuality, and lesbian response to class inequalities.

Year 2024/2025

May 26: Without the US? Europe in the New World Order

May 23, 2025

Together with Gazeta Wyborcza we are delighted to invite you to the whole-day conference “Without the US? Europe in the New World Order” concerning the first months of Donald Trump’s second term and its impact globally and in our part of the world. We will reevaluate past assessments, revise potential scenarios, and parse through options that lay ahead of us regarding European security, civil liberties in the age of globalized political polarization, and media freedom. Invited guests include ASC professors, journalists, and experts from think tanks.

Year 2024/2025

May 22: Bitburg, Ratification, and Implementation of the Genocide Convention by the US

May 16, 2025

We are pleased to invite you to a lecture by Professor Joe Delap from Athens State University, who will present a lecture titled “Bitburg, Ratification, and Implementation of the Genocide Convention by the US”. The presentation delves into the history of the US’s role in the Convention, discusses US-European dealings prompting Senate ratification, and concludes by looking at what difference, if any, US ratification has made in assessing, investigating, and prosecuting genocide in the International Criminal Court.

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Psychological Support For The UW Community

May 16, 2025

In these difficult times, the University of Warsaw offers psychological support to all members of its community