American Book Club
American Book Club/Klub Amerykański in partnership with Czarne Publishing
Inaugurated in 2025, American Book Club/Klub Amerykańśki is a hybrid Polish-language book-and-discussion club combining new fiction and non-fiction releases from Czarne Publishing with expertise of the ASC faculty. Quarterly conversations offer a deeper understanding of the social, political, and cultural processes shaping the United States.
American Book Club Initiator and Coordinator: Dr. Marta Usiekniewicz.
All events are open to the public, conducted in Polish, and held at Czarne Bookstore in Warsaw (Jana Pawła II 45a).
This is an OZN event. Students receive 3 OZN for documented attendance.
American Book Club in 2026
January 29, 2026
Atomic Weapons: A Threat or Guarantee of Peace?
Prof. Paweł Frelik and Dr. Jan Smoleński discuss Sarah Scoles’ Countdown: The Blinding Future of Nuclear Weapons.
March 17, 2026
Survival strategies in the desinformation era.
Dr Agnieszka Graff and dr Elżbieta Korolczuk discuss Amanda Montels’ The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality.
April 9, 2026, Special Event
A meeting with American journalist Katherine Stewart, about her book “The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism”.
American Book Club in 2025
March 24, 2025
Why Americans Trust Snakeoil Sellers?
Dr. Anna Kurowicka and Prof. Elżbieta Korolczuk discuss Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling’s If It Sounds Like a Quack…: A Journey to the Fringes of American Medicine.
June 23, 2025
The Broken Promises of the Wellness Industry
Dr. Jędrzej Burszta and Dr. Natalia Pamuła discuss Rina Raphael’s The Gospel of Wellness: Gyms, Gurus, Goop and the False Promise of Self-Care.
October 2, 2025
Religious Fundamentalists in the Political Mainstream
Prof. Stanisław Obirek and Dr. Ludmiła Janion discuss “Katherine Stewart’s The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism.
November 17, 2025
Lost in the Woods: Dangers of US National Parks
Dr. Joanna Mąkowska and Dr. Agnieszka Kotwasińska discuss Jon Billman’s The Cold Vanish: Seeking the Missing in North America’s Wildlands.
In 2025 American Book Club was financed with an IDUB grant awarded to Marta Usiekniewicz.
