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The ASC library opening hours from December 1, 2020
November 27, 2020
Due to the public health requirements to slow the spread of COVID-19, the Library’s operations and services have been modified. Students may now have their books checked on several days a week upon an order.
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Happy Thanksgiving!
November 26, 2020
If it were not for the pandemic, we would hold our annual ASC Thanksgiving Party today. Although we cannot meet in person, on this special occasion, we wish you all good health, happiness and every success, academic and otherwise!
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Democracy or Authoritarianism?
After the US Elections
November 22, 2020
The ASC’s Professor and the former Polish Ambassador to the USA, Ryszard Schnepf will moderate an online debate hosted by the Jagiellonian University and Polish Ambassadors’ Conference. The keynote speaker at this debate will be Donald Tusk.
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Online workshops: Emotions management in epidemic
and post-epidemic world
November 19, 2020
The coronavirus outbreak is a particularly demanding and stressful time for us all. During the workshops you will learn about emotion regulation strategies and find out how to experience positive emotions more often in the context of Polish culture.
Year 2020/2021
December 1: Weird Fiction and Ecological Thought
December 1, 2020
This meeting will lay out some key concepts useful for thinking the relation between contemporary (New) Weird fictions and ecological thought.
American Studies Colloquium Series
November 26: Like a Thief in the Night: Pandemic and the Culture of Healing
November 26, 2020
The pandemic is a virus, but it is more than this: it is a dramatic symptom of the malaise of the way of life, a sharp curve which we cannot fail to negotiate. Starting from the 17th century time of the plague, we shall be asking questions how to survive the crisis, how to live on, and how to think the change without which our future is bleak.
Year 2020/2021
November 23: Ecological Intimacies in the Anthropocene: Horror, Ethics, and the Shadow of Nonhuman Difference
November 23, 2020
In this talk, Brittany Roberts will argue that the horror genre offers a powerful means of confronting the traumas of the Anthropocene and, concurrently, imagining more ethical ecological futures and rethinking what it means to be human on an environmentally devastated planet.
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Meeting with Vice-Rector for Students and Quality of Teaching, Prof. Sławomir Żółtek
November 13, 2020
On November 17, during an online meeting, Professor Sławomir Żółtek will answer the students’ questions concerning academic year organization in time of pandemic.
Year 2020/2021
November 20: Q&A with Activist and LGBT Pioneer Mark Segal
November 20, 2020
A live Q&A session in English on ZOOM with Mark Segal – a participant at the Stonewall rebellion, a founding member of Gay Liberation Front and founder of Gay Youth, organized by The U.S. Embassy, InterAlia journal and the ASC.
American Studies Colloquium Series
November 19: Showdown at Fort Miamis: The Anglo-American Crisis of 1794
November 19, 2020
In this talk, Michael S. Kochin from Tel Aviv University will show how the Anglo-American crisis of 1794 displays the United States as both a rising empire and a revolutionary and subversive power.
Year 2020/2021
November 18: Post-elections in the USA. Legal challenges to electoral procedures in American democracy
November 18, 2020
Leadership Studies Group (LSG) invites all who are concerned with the outcome of the 2020 elections to take part in a virtual ZOOM conversation with prof. Pawel Laidler from the Jagiellonian University.
Year 2020/2021
November 3: US Elections 2020
November 3, 2020
Zapraszamy na rozmowę wykładowców Ośrodka Studiów Amerykańskich UW na temat napływających pierwszych wyników wyborów prezydenckich w USA 2020.
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CSM LIVE TALKS: Amerykanie i USA. Percepcja a rzeczywistość
October 30, 2020
Zapraszamy na kolejną rozmowę z cyklu CSM LIVE TALKS – EUROPA I ŚWIAT, organizowaną przez Centrum Stosunków Międzynarodowych oraz 2Konrad Adenauer Stiftung in Polen.
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All ASC Courses Switch to Remote Mode
October 18, 2020
Due to the new near-lockdown restrictions to slow the spread of COVID-19, the Rector has issued a new order that forbids all in-person instruction. That means from now on all ASC courses will be remote.
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Equality and Anti-discrimination Actions at the UW
October 16, 2020
An equality university website presents comprehensive and practical information about what is discrimination, its types and examples, what to do in case of witnessing discrimination or being its victim, as well as which university and national institutions one can ask for support and help.
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Minigranty
October 15, 2020
Ruszyła druga edycja konkursu minigrantów. O wsparcie projektów mogą ubiegać się zespoły badawcze składające się z przedstawicieli przynajmniej trzech uczelni sojuszu 4EU+.