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2021 Science Festival
September 22, 2021
As every year, the American Studies Center will take part in the Science Festival organized for the twenty-fifth time in Warsaw.
Year 2021/2022
The ASC Welcome Event 2021
September 22, 2021
The welcome event in the upcoming academic year will take place on September 30, 2021 in the Main Room of the University’s Old Library.
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ZIP research grants for MA students
August 2, 2021
Research grants, funded by the The University’s Integrated Development Programme (ZIP), are available to the second-year MA students in American Studies program.
Current Research Projects
dr hab. Paweł Frelik, prof. ucz. – Digital Weather: Speculative Video Games and Climate
July 28, 2021
Current Research Projects
Dr Natalia Pamuła – Disability in Polish Culture After 1989
July 28, 2021
Current Research Projects
Dr Anna Kurowicka – Asexuality in American Popular Culture
July 26, 2021
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Intensive Polish language course online
June 28, 2021
The University of Warsaw is offering an unpaid 40-hour intensive Polish language course aimed at preparing international students for living in Poland.
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Another great success of the ASC Academics
May 23, 2021
Dr Anna Kurowicka and dr Natalia Pamuła received two NCN Sonata grants for their projects on asexuality and disability, respectively.
Year 2020/2021
June 24: Chewing on Big Rock Candy Mountain: Reading and understanding the “real” American West in two essays
June 24, 2021
Engaging in close reading and discussion of two essays written by Wallace Stegner, we will excavate the complexities, historical, contemporary, and imaginary alike, of the excessively mythologized and romanticized topos of the American West.
Year 2020/2021
May 31: Infinite, Never Final Frontiers: The Fantastic Legacy of the American West(ern)
May 31, 2021
Offering a broad historically anchored sweep through national imaginaries and imaginary worlds, this lecture will analyze the imagined future of Star Trek with the United States’ principal imperial mythos: the violent conquest and subjugation of the Trans-Mississippi West.
Year 2020/2021
May 24: Workshop: ‘There be whales here!’: Star Trekkin’ White Leviathans round the Moons of Nibia
May 24, 2021
Melville’s inscrutable behemoth of a “sea monster” has migrated into the “ocean of space” that is the vast outer space world of Star Trek. Our voyage will reveal to what end Melville’s Moby- Dick has been adapted a total of six times in the Star Trek universe.
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Getting Your Final OZN Grade
May 11, 2021
If you collected all the OZN points required by your program of studies, you need to submit documents to the OZN Coordinator in order to get a grade.
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2020 EAAS CONFERENCE: 20/20 Vision: Citizenship, Space, Renewal
May 9, 2021
The Conference was organized by the EAAS in collaboration with the American Studies Center and the Institute of English Studies of the University of Warsaw and held virtually between April 30 and May 2, 2021.
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Directory on counteracting sexual harassment at the University
April 27, 2021
The directory comprises values and ethical standards of the University of Warsaw, including mutual respect and equal treatment of all members of the academic community.
American Studies Colloquium Series
May 13: Narratives, Basketball, Authorship: NBA Storytelling on and off the Court
May 13, 2021
This talk will be devoted to narratives created around the National Basketball Association, the best basketball league in the world, in order to construct a comprehensive picture of today’s NBA from a cultural studies perspective.
Year 2020/2021
May 11: ‘Knowledge is a Fatal Thing:’ Confessing Vampire Secrets from Polidori to Neil Jordan
May 11, 2021
Vampiric voices carry the power of Gothic time that may terrify, seduce, and ensnare future victims in the quest to be heard across eternity. Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn will examine the spellbinding whispers and murmurs of vampires that can be traced back to John Polidori’s 1819 novella, ‘The Vampyre.’