News
Lecture: White Trash: when racial privilege collides with class inferiority
March 1, 2021
Dr Małgorzata Durska will be a guest at the EUROREG’s seminar on March 4. She will discuss the paradox of privilege: when the racial privilege of being white collides with class inferiority.
News
Dr Renata Siuda-Ambroziak awarded MINIATURA research project
February 10, 2021
We are excited to announce that Dr Renata Siuda-Ambroziak’s project “Contemporary Religius Culture of the Descendants of the Polish 19th Century Immigrants in the South of Brazil” will be funded by the National Science Center in the MINIATURA 4 scheme.
Current Research Projects
Contemporary Religious Culture of the Descendants of the Polish 19th Century Immigrants in the South of Brazil
February 12, 2021
Year 2020/2021
February 25: Q&A with Comic Book Artist Shawn Martinbrough
February 25, 2021
Shawn Martinbrough, a comic book artist, who has made projects for DC Comics, Marvel and Dark Horse Comics will be a guest of prof. Paweł Frelik during the Q&A session. He will discuss the diversifying role of comics, his personal story, and influences on his work.
News
University of Florida 2024/2025 Stipends
February 11, 2024
The American Studies Center offers twp stipends for 2024/2025 Fall or Spring semester at the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Florida. Applications should be sumbitted by the end of February.
News
Competition “Entrepreneur of the Year at University of Warsaw”
February 9, 2021
We invite all the University of Warsaw’s employees, students and graduates, involved in running their own company, to participate in the competition for the “Entrepreneur of the Year.”
News
Professor Jerzy Gąssowski
(1926–2021)
February 3, 2021
Born in 1926, Professor Gąssowski was an eminent Polish archeologist, who served as the Director of the American Studies Center between 1984 and 1987.
News
Funds for promoting scientific research projects
February 2, 2021
Rules for reveiving funds for research projects whose popularisation will lead to the increased visibility of the University of Warsaw, its employees, and its ongoing scientific enquiries.
News
Zotero training for MA
January 29, 2021
On February 8, we invite all OSA MA students to take part in a free online Zotero training with prof. Paweł Frelik. The training will be held in Polish.
News
Institute of the Americas and Europe
January 24, 2021
Announcement regarding online exams at the Institute of the Americas and Europe in the fall semester 2020/2021.
News
Online meeting with Vice-Rector
January 22, 2021
On January 29, Prof. Sławomir Żółtek, will be answering questions regarding the organisation of classes in the upcoming semester.
News
Lecture: Demokracja po przejściach, Ameryka po wyborach
January 22, 2021
On January 27, prof. Bohdan Szklarski will take part in a lecture dealing with the post-election situation in the USA.
News
Festival “Imagining the Future”
Call for proposals
January 14, 2021
Students and the university staff of the University of Warsaw are invited to take part in Festival “Imagining the Future” held at the Sorbonne University.
News
WarSAW: Go & Explore
January 8, 2021
The ASC students and the Volunteer Centre of the University of Warsaw invite you to a project created for those who seek inspiration and want to get to know Warsaw better by exploring its worth-seeing sites.
News
Lecture: Biden przejmuje stery
January 13, 2021
Join two ASC’s professors, Ryszard Schnepf and Bohdan Szklarski, on a session co-organized by the ASC and Centre for International Realtions on January 19, at 5 pm.
American Studies Colloquium Series
January 28: Cyberfeminism, an Orthodox Version in North America: Social Media as a Counterpublic Transformative Space of Religiosity
January 28, 2021
Our next guest, Jessica Roda from Georgetown University will give a talk on the usage of social media by ultra-Orthodox women, as a tool for the development of cyberfeminism(s) in the transformative counterpublic space reinforcing religious norms and authority.