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Prof. Mary McGann
(1945 – 2022)
May 2, 2022
We are greatly saddened by the news of the demise of Mary McGann, who had been directly engaged in founding the American Studies Center.
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Lecture by Mark Brzezinski
April 29, 2022
On May 9, UW will host a lecture by Mark F. Brzezinski, Ambassador of the United States in Poland, on global leadership. Registration required.
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Visiting Professor in the Spring 2022
April 28, 2022
We are pleased to introduce prof. Richard Reitsma from Canisius College, Buffalo, NY, who will soon start his course LatinX in the US at the ASC.
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JUWenalia 2022
April 27, 2022
The biggest student event at the University of Warsaw starts on Friday, May 6th! This weekend the Main Campus will be taken over by students.
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The American Day at Polin Museum
April 29, 2022
A day packed with film screenings, exhibitions and inspiring lectures featuring ASC’s faculty devoted to key events in Polish-American relations.
Year 2021/2022
May 23: Gender/Sexuality Conference ASC
May 23, 2022
ASC’s Gender/Sexuality Research Group invites all students and faculty members to the first ASC’s Student Conference on gender and sexuality in American studies. We have an exciting day planned, with a keynote by Dr. Richard Reitsma and four panels of student presentations, on everything from feminist theories to representation of trans characters on TV and challenging the norms of masculinity.
American Studies Colloquium Series
May 19: ‘bits of agitation on the body of the whole’: Animals in COVID-19 Literature
May 19, 2022
Given its origins in horseshoe bat populations, the SARS-CoV-2 virus offers many opportunities to re-think our relationships with the nonhuman world around us. In this talk, Raymond Malewitz will explore emerging cultural narratives embodied in COVID poetry and fiction, which tend to reinforce the stiff differences between the human and the nonhuman as physically and conceptually separate from one another.
Year 2021/2022
May 18: Oscillations: On Electronic Music and Science Fiction
May 18, 2022
What is science fiction music and what makes it science fictional in the first place? This talk will explore postwar popular music in English, basic taxonomy of the subgenre, and the role that the various technologies of musical production and reproduction have played in constructing the ‘sound of the future’ with the musical machinery of the present moment.
American Studies Colloquium Series
May 12: American Jewish Loss After the Holocaust: An Object Lesson
May 12, 2022
This talk describes how the Shoah has been commemorated in the United States, as well as asks critical questions about the future of Holocaust commemoration. It reconsiders how the Shoah is experienced and understood in relation to other American Jewish losses in terms of how different losses touch and illuminate each other.
Year 2021/2022
May 10: The American Day
May 10, 2022
A one-day program of The American Day, under the patronage of the US Embassy in Poland, encompasses presentations, lectures, film screenings and exhibitions devoted to key events in Polish-American relations in 1917–2022.
Year 2021/2022
April 23: UW Open Day 2022
April 23, 2022
Are you considering applying for a degree in American Studies? Visit our stand during UW Open Day to meet our students and faculty, and learn more about our programs!
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ASC Library closed during the Easter holiday
March 22, 2024
During the Easter holiday (March 28 – April 2, 2024) the ASC Library will be closed. Have a great Easter break!
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ASC classes open to students from Ukraine
March 29, 2022
All students from Ukraine are welcome to attend our classes as auditors—that is to say, as unenrolled students.
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ASC for Ukraine
March 22, 2022
The ASC for Ukraine student initiative aims to provide immediate help to Ukrainian refugees in the Mokotów district. Check how to get involved.
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Fulbright grants – call for applications
March 10, 2022
Applications for Fulbright grants aimed at Polish students, scholars and/or educators, who wish to study or conduct research and teaching projects in the U.S., are now open.
American Studies Colloquium Series
April 7: The Look of the Past: Anachronism and Critique in Contemporary Comics
April 7, 2022
This talk will address the visual styles of contemporary cartoonists, who often mimic the early twentieth-century popular culture, producing work that appears much older than it actually is. Levay explores the work of American cartoonist Al Columbia – a vital figure in experimental comics’ fascination with anachronism.