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Moving to the Dobra 55 building / Time Frame
July 25, 2022
The ASC is moving to Dobra 55 but not until the intersession break in January/February 2023. We will yet spend this coming fall semester at the Ksawerów building.
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Office for Students’ Affairs
July 25, 2022
The ASC Office for Students’ Affairs will be closed between August 5th – August 22nd, 2022.
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ASC heading a major research project!
July 12, 2022
A team led by Prof. Paweł Frelik has just received a major grant from NPRH to create online catalog of all Polish-made video games documenting their bibliographical data and critical writing about them.
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Institute of the Americas and Europe
July 4, 2022
Zgodnie z Zarządzeniem nr 111 Rektora Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego z dnia 16 września 2021 w sprawie organizacji zajęć dydaktycznych, egzaminów i zaliczeń w trybie zdalnym ogłasza się listę przedmiotów, które w semestrze zimowym 2022/23 będą prowadzone zdalnie.
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The 20th Transatlantic Symposium
June 15, 2022
Seven ASC MA students participated in the 20th Transatlantic Symposium, which addressed the challenges of the multi-crisis transatlantic world.
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Cyberpunk never dies!
June 6, 2022
Pawel Frelik co-edited a special issue of Teksty Drugie, and contributed, together with Anna Kurowicka, articles to the issue on cyberpunk.
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Stan Rzeczy co-edited by Anna Sosnowska
June 6, 2022
Anna Sosnowska co-edited and authored the newest special issue of Stan Rzeczy, published by the Department of Sociology, University of Warsaw.
Year 2021/2022
June 14: ASC Picnic 2022
June 14, 2022
The ASC Students’ Union is happy to invite all students and faculty to the first post-pandemic ASC picnic!
Year 2021/2022
June 8: Sounds of Dune(s): Music-landscaping in Cinema
June 8, 2022
In this workshop we’ll talk about Frank Herbert’s “Dune” and its many adaptations (both real and unrealized), in order to see how music and sound are used to bridge sensory gaps in cinematic experiences, and how to write about such synaesthetic encounters in our research.
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Online Admission System for Ukrainian Candidates
May 30, 2022
Online Admission System is meant to help candidates from Ukraine to become acquainted with education and job opportunities at Polish universities and institutes of science.
American Studies Colloquium Series
June 2: Eat, Migrate, Love: Gastronomic and Sexual Desire as Identity
June 2, 2022
This talk, whose title plays off the Julia Robert’s film “Eat, Pray, Love,” will explore queer films and queer immigrants’ relationships to food as part of the cultural identity, and how the rituals around food preparation and consumption informs their negotiations in the US.
Year 2021/2022
May 30: The (Early) Literature of COVID-19. Session V
May 30, 2022
This open seminar will explore initial literary responses to the ongoing SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, offering participants opportunities to talk through this world-changing event. By the end of the seminar, participants should be able to not only identify but also to interpret and evaluate common features of early COVID literature within and beyond the United States.
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Prof. Agnieszka Graff at Millennium Docs Against Gravity
May 11, 2022
Prof. Agnieszka Graff will talk about the lessons from the second wave of feminism during Millennium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival.
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New Media in Contemporary Culture
May 11, 2022
The Department of British Culture at the Institute of English Studies invites for a talk revisiting the 1990s and the emergence of the world wide web.
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Comprehending Canada COIL course at Masaryk University
May 9, 2022
Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic invites to a online course about society, identity, culture, economy, and politics of Canada.
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Studying in the US:
Pre-Departure Orientation
May 2, 2022
The US Embassy invites everyone interested in studying in the United States for the pre-departure orientation webinar.