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Borrow for the summer!
June 19, 2023
Starting June 19, you will be able to borrow books from the ASC Library for the entire summer.
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ASC has a Deputy Director
February 1, 2024
For the first time in its history, the American Studies Center will have a Deputy Director – a position that has been taken up by Professor Paweł Frelik.
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Changes in Dr. Gajda-Łaszewska’s office hours schedule
April 2, 2024
Dr. Gajda-Łaszewska’s office hours will be temporarily moved from Thursday, March 4 to Friday, March 5.
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Extending the ELS
March 1, 2024
Extending the ELS (electronic student ID) validity will take place on March 18 – 21, 2024,10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
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Apply for BA and MA programs in American Studies
June 6, 2023
Registrations are now open! Learn more about our program offerings and apply by July 6, 2023.
Getting your OZN grade
May 29, 2023
Collected all the OZN points required by your program of studies? See what you need to do to get your grade.
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Włodzimierz Siwiński
(1939–2023)
May 15, 2023
It is with heavy hearts that we have learned of the passing of Prof. Włodzimierz Siwiński, the ASC Director between 1981 and 1984.
Year 2022/2023
June 16: Forecasting & Prediction – Necessary Skills for the 21st Century Leadership
June 16, 2023
Leadership Studies Research Group has the pleasure to invite for a lecture by Dr. Sam Potolicchio on skills neccessary in 21-century leadership.
American Studies Colloquium Series
June 1: Reckless Shelter: Contemporary Ecopoetic Practice
June 1, 2023
In this lecture, Karen Holmberg — a poet, writer and academic —will talk about the engagements with environmental and ecological initiatives at Oregon State that have shaped her and her recent work, while sharing and discussing sample poems that show her lifelong preoccupations with language as a living matter and one of the chief tools humans have for “being toward and becoming with” the natural world.
Year 2022/2023
May 29: Persephone & Demeter: A Workshop on “Lore Olympus”
May 29, 2023
Join this workshop on the current reiterations of the Persephone and Demeter myth and take part in a little knowledge-production experiment.
Year 2023/2024
March 19: The Algernon-Gordon Effect: Rethinking Human-Animal Relationships
March 19, 2024
Weird Fictions Research Group proudly invites you to the next “Weird Medicine” event! During this workshop, we will reflect upon the potentialities of Daniel Keyes’ Hugo Award-winning short story “Flowers for Algernon” (1959) to challenge—or not—our relationship with laboratory animals.
Year 2023/2024
April 11: Pregnant with an Abject Fetus: Disruptiveness of the Patriarchal Order in “Rosemary’s Baby” and Halsey’s “If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power”
April 6, 2024
Weird Fictions Research Group proudly invites you to the next “Weird Medicine” event! The talk will focus on the theme of the dangerous fetus in two movies on monstrous gestation – Rosemary’s Baby (1968) and Halsey’s independent movie If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power (2021).
Year 2023/2024
March 12: “I Want it Out!”: Gynaehorror & Pro-Life Narratives in Post-Roe v. Wade
March 4, 2024
Join us for another lecture in the Weird Medicine series, this time focusing on a subgenre of horror called gynaehorror. As a thematic subgenre, it refers to films that center on lived female experience and the horrors embodied therein – such as the state’s use of biopower in its dominion over reproductive autonomy.
Year 2023/2024
February 28: The (Im)perfect Body: Body Horror in the Magnus Archives
February 28, 2024
Duing this talk we will listen to few episodes of The Magnus Archives and then discuss how Body Horror operates through sound and narrative.
Year 2023/2024
November 9: Scared Sick: Medicine and the Gothic Tradition
November 9, 2023
Join Weird Research Group for the second meeting of Weird Medicine Series! This talk will be grounded in the foundational Romantic period and will explain ways in which Gothic works reflected some of the most controversial medical pursuits, playing out their possibilities and dangers.
Year 2023/2024
December 19: Body in Ruins: Brandon Cronenberg’s Cinema of Exhaustion
December 19, 2023
Join Weird Research Group for the another meeting of Weird Medicine Series! This talk will focus on “the principle of somatic wholeness,” that is the idea that the body is to be “understood as a sovereign self: closed, contained, unified, and under rational control”