We are very happy to announce that a peer-reviewed journal of the American Studies Center, Revista del CESLA. International Latin American Studies Review, has been added to the Ministry of Education’s latest list of indexed scientific journals and has received 100 points.

Revista has been appreciated for its scientific quality, ensured by thorough evaluation of all selected articles by the editorial board, which consists of the experts in the field. We are delighted, as it bestows the journal with well-deserved credibility and prestige, leading to a broader audience and greater influence.

We extend our congratulations to the editor-in-chief, Dr. Renata Siuda-Ambroziak, and the entire editorial board.

In Revista del CESLA we publish original research on Latin America, dealing with cultural, social, economic, and political issues, events, processes, and phenomena, viewed from both historical and contemporary perspectives.

Year 2023/2024

December 1: Screening & Discussion with Co-directors of ‘CURED’ documentary

November 30, 2023

The American Studies Center and the U.S. Embassy Warsaw invite you to a special private screening of the award-winning documentary CURED, which highlights a pivotal but little-known moment in LGBTQ history when activists and psychiatrists rose up to challenge a formidable institution — and won!

News

Changes in Dr. Gajda-Łaszewska’s office hours schedule

November 30, 2023

Dr. Gajda-Łaszewska’s office hours will be cancelled on Thursday, December 7, 2023.

American Studies Colloquium Series

November 30: Conceptual Writing in Extremis: Sonic A(na)rchives in 21st-century North American Poetry

November 30, 2023

The lecture focuses on current developments in North American conceptual writing as a poetic mode invested in archival research. The common denominator of the archives that the poets selected for this study foreground are the forms of present-day extremity.

American Studies Colloquium Series

November 16: New Forms/Known Rivers

November 16, 2023

When #BlackLivesMatter emerged in 2013, it animated the most consequential Black-led mobilization since the civil rights and Black power era. Today, the hashtag turned rallying cry is but one expression of a radical reorientation toward Black politics, protest, and political thought.

Year 2023/2024

November 9: Scared Sick: Medicine and the Gothic Tradition

November 9, 2023

Join Weird Research Group for the second meeting of Weird Medicine Series! This talk will be grounded in the foundational Romantic period and will explain ways in which Gothic works reflected some of the most controversial medical pursuits, playing out their possibilities and dangers.