Special Guest Lectures
The American Studies Center strives to introduce students to the wider academic world of American studies by inviting special guests. They join us from foreign academic institutions, diplomatic missions, governmental agencies, and non-governmental organizations to share their knowledge and passion related to American history, politics, and culture. You can learn all about the past and upcoming meetings and special guest lectures organized at the ASC on this page.
Special Guest Lectures
Spring Term 2019/2020
- June 9, 2020
Shayani Bhattacharya (Lebanon Valley College)
Joshua Clark Davis (University of Baltimore)
William Glass (ASC UW)
Krystyna Mazur (ASC UW)
On Looting Black Bodies and the Social Contract in America
[watch on YouTube] - June 5, 2020
Line Henriksen (IT University of Copenhagen)
Hybrids, monsters and unfinished texts: some stories for the anxious - June 4, 2020
Richard Payne-Holmes (U.S. Embassy Warsaw)
U.S. Foreign Policy in Eastern and Central Europe
[watch on YouTube] - May 14, 2020
Esther Bell (U.S. Embassy Warsaw)
The Role of Congressional Oversight in Foreign Affairs
[watch on YouTube]
Fall Term 2019/2020
- January 23, 2020
Aleksandra Lis (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań)
Renewable energy sources as socio-technical projects – searching for contexts and meanings in Poland and Argentina
- January 17, 2020
Stefan Rabitsch (Universität Graz)
“The Best [and Worst] of Both Worlds”: Star Trek’s Transatlantic Pax Galatica - January 16, 2020
Stefan Rabitsch (Universität Graz)
“I Like Big Hats and I Cannot Lie”: Petasus Americanus or a Cultural History of Cowboy Hats
[watch on YouTube] - December 19, 2019
Anna Sosnowska-Jordanowska (University of Warsaw)
Tomasz Zarycki (University of Warsaw)
Józef Böröcz (Rutgers University)
Explaining Economic Backwardness. Post-1945 Polish Historians on Eastern Europe - November 14, 2019
Jamie Loda (U.S. Embassy in Warsaw)
From Warsaw to New York – Work and Travel Program - November 14, 2019
Jhon Picard Byron (Université d’État d’Haïti)
Africa Within Haitian National Narratives - October 10, 2019
Heinz Ickstadt (Freie Universitat Berlin)
Backward Glance over the Much Traveled Road of Postmodern Fiction - October 7, 2019
Daniel Fried (US Department of State Assistant Secretary)
The US and Today’s Global Challenges
Special Guest Lectures
Spring Term 2018/2019
- June 21-22, 2019
Failed Leadership – International Conference - May 30, 2019
Najjar Abdul Musawwir (Southern Illinois University Carbondale)
From Africa to America: A Visual Artist Aesthetic Reaction to the Banjo - May 24, 2019
Edward Commentale (Indiana University Bloomington)
Krzysztof Michałek Memorial Lecture: Kurt Vonnegut and ‘Quality of Place’ in America’s Midwest - May 23, 2019
Andrew Wise (Daeman College)
Immigrant Communities and Environmental Justice in the Progressive Era: Dr. Francis Fronczak and Public Health in Buffalo, NY (1899-1917) - May 15, 2019
Meeting with a Columbian writer Winston Morales Chavarro - May 9, 2019
Paul Auster
Photography Exhibition by Arnaud Rodamel
[watch on YouTube]
Fall Term 2018/2019
- December 5, 2018
Marjorie Perloff (Stanford University)
Poetry in the Digital Age - November 29, 2018
Henryk Szlajfer (University of Warsaw)
Co-authors of the Atlantic World: New Christians and Jews in the Latin America’s Colonial Economy of the 16th-17th Century - November 21, 2018
Hasrat Arjjumend (Grassroots Institute – Canada/India)
Environmental Issues of Indigenous Peoples in Canada - November 14, 2018
Frank J. Finver (Public Affairs Officer, US Embassy)
US and Current Affairs - October 26, 2018
Robin Wagner-Pacifici (New School for Social Research)
Our Age of Crisis: Donald Trump’s Elongated Rupture as Elusive Event - October 18, 2018
“Salam Neighbor:” Screening and Discussion
Introduction by Natalia Gebert - October 12, 2018
Paulina Ambrozy (Adam Mickiewicz University)
George Blaustein (University of Amsterdam)
Tim Jelfs (University of Groningen)
Zuzanna Ładyga (University of Warsaw)
Josephine Metcalf (University of Hull)
Miroslaw Miernik (University of Warsaw)
Tomasz Basiuk (University of Warsaw)
The Launch of The New Americanist: A Symposium.
Round table discussion on American Studies Publishing in Europe. - October 12, 2018
Josephine Metcalf (University of Hull)
The Launch of The New Americanist: A Symposium.
“Dynamic”; “Distinct”; “Accessible”? Navigating the Evolving American Studies Publishing Scene in the UK - October 12, 2018
Tim Jelfs (University of Groningen)
The Launch of The New Americanist: A Symposium.
Publication Workshop for Graduate Students/Early Career Academics - October 11, 2018
George Blaustein (University of Amsterdam)
The Launch of The New Americanist: A Symposium.
“Nightmare Envy and Other Stories: American Culture and European Reconstruction” - October 4, 2018
Radosław Sikorski
Nasz Amerykański Sen
[watch on YouTube]
Special Guest Lectures
Spring Term 2017/2018
- September 27, 2018
Ryszard Schnepf (ASC UW)
The American Pattern: Independence-Democracy-Constitution - September 24-26, 2018
Festiwal Nauki 2018
Agnieszka Kotwasińska (ASC UW)
Klub “Kultura Popularna”: Zrozumieć (folk) horror
Marta Usiekniewicz (ASC UW)
Klub “Kultura Popularna”: Zrozumieć powieść kryminalną
Paweł Frelik (ASC UW)
Klub “Kultura Popularna”: Zrozumieć science fiction - September 22, 2018
Sarah Schulman (The City University of New York)
Let The Record Show: ACT UP and The Enduring Relationship of AIDS - June 13, 2018
Bohdan Szklarski (ASC UW)
Studia hemisferyczne: interpretacje i definicje - June 12, 2018
Ogólnopolska konferencja naukowa: Badanie i mierzenie przywództwa - June 6, 2018
Christopher Breu (Illinois State University)
Public Violence as Private Pathology: Noir Affect in Chester Himes’s “The End of a Primitive” - June 4, 2018
Maja Możdżonek
Weronika Pietras
Jorge Marti Martinez
Sławomir Klimkiewicz
Młodzi Kubańczycy i ich wizja przyszłości - May 30, 2018
Elizabeth Dunn (Indiana University Bloomington)
Krzysztof Michałek Memorial Lecture: The Trouble with Refugees: Xenophobia, Populism, and the 2016 American Presidential Election - May 24, 2018
Leonard Gadzekpo (Southern Illinois University)
A new paradigm: African Americans in the American experience - May 16, 2018
Daniel Blinder (Nacional University de San Martín)
Desarrollo Espacial en Argentina: una trama política - May 9, 2018
Martin Klepper (Humboldt University in Berlin)
Race, Eugenics, and Mass Cultures in the United States
Fall Term 2017/2018
- January 10, 2018
Lázaro Pena (University of Havana)
La inserción de la economía cubana en la economía global - December 19, 2017
Leadership Studies Division: ME TOO: The Limits of Permissiveness - December 15, 2017
Frederick W. Gooding, Jr. (Northern Arizona University)
In Living Color: Hollywood’s Relationship with Race - December 7, 2017
Jack Halberstam (University of Columbia)
New Gender/Queer Archives Conference Keynote lecture: Trans* – A Hidden Archive - November 24, 2017
Steve Berry
Meeting and discussion - November 16, 2017
Aleksandra Leniarska
Tomasz Jacheć
Radosław Leniarski
Leadership Studies Division: SPORTS, POLITICS, PROTEST - November 16, 2017
Bogumiła Lisocka-Jaegermann (University of Warsaw)
Renata Siuda-Ambroziak (ASC UW)
Joana Bahia (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro)
Inter-Institutional Symposium: Transnational Afro-American Religions - November 15, 2017
John B. Judis
The Populist Phenomenon in the United States and Europe - November 7, 2017
Neal Pease (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
A Hundred Years of US-Polish Relations - November 6, 2017
Carlos Vasquez-Zawadzki (University of Cali)
La cuentística de Gabriel García Márquez desde una perspectiva musicográfica
- October 26, 2017
Ruben Sykora
Exhibition: Paraguay vive - October 19, 2017
Michał Bilewicz
Feras Daboul
Dominika Michalak
Jarosław Ziółkowski
Hate-speech, Civic Society, and the Media - October 17, 2017
Marta Figlerowicz (Yale University)
Economy-Sized Giants - October 16, 2017
Robert Brinkmeyer (University of South Carolina)
The Dynamics of Segregation in “To Kill a Mockingbird” and “Go Set a Watchman” - October 11, 2017
Heizel Christina Tórrez Velásquez
Pedro Cabezas
Institute of Global Responsibility and the CESLA Research group on Latin America and the Caribbean: The environmental, social and political impacts of mining industry on the democratic development of Central America
Special Guest Lectures
Spring Term 2016/2017
- May 26, 2017
Winnifred F. Sullivan (Indiana University Bloomington)
Krzysztof Michałek Memorial Lecture: Banning Bibles, Constituting the People - May 23, 2017
Salvatore Barbones
Meeting and discussion - May 18, 2017
Nabil M. Alawi (An-Najah National University)
Dehegemonizing American Studies: A Palestinian Perspective - May 18, 2017
Lisa K. Parshall (Daemen College)
Election 2016: Time and Con(sequence): Reforming America’s Presidential Nominating Process Post-2016 - April 27, 2017
Margaret Ohia-Nowak (Wrocław University of Science and Technology)
Black People in Poland: A Self-Reflective Study of Discourse - March 29, 2017
Stanisław Filipowicz (University of Warsaw)
Steven Hayward (UC Berkeley)
Michał Kuź (Lazarski University)
Peter L.P. Simpson (Graduate Center of CUNY)
Artur Szutta (Gdansk University)
Tomasz Żyro (War Studies University, Warsaw)
The Centrality of the Regime for Political Science - March 28, 2017
Paul W. Jonesa
Meeting with the US Ambassador - March 23, 2017
Katarzyna Pisarska (Founder and Director of the European Academy of Diplomacy in Warsaw, Poland and the Visegrad School of Political Studies)
Russia’s Information Warfare in a World of Post-Truths - March 9, 2017
Małgorzata Ziółek-Sowińska (piano, vocal)
Karolina Gadomska (vocal)
Dominik Gręda (guitar)
Black History Month in ASC, a concert: Remembering African American Music - March 9, 2017
Małgorzata Ziółek-Sowińska (ASC UW)
Black History Month in ASC: The Soul Music Aesthetics in the Music of Aretha Franklin - March 6, 2017
Elizabeth L. Evans (a Eurasia Foreign Area Officer – FAO) Women’s Career Paths and Challenges in the US Military Forces - March 2, 2017
Małgorzata Ziółek-Sowińska (ASC UW)
Black History Month in ASC: Jazz and the Blues in the Poetry of Langston Hughes and Sterling A. Brown
Fall Term 2016/2017
- October 27-29, 2016
Polish Association for American Studies Annual Conference: Transnational American Studies: Histories, Methodologies, Perspectives - October 13, 2016
Debata z okazji Dnia Solidarności z Uchodźcami
Special Guest Lectures
Spring Term 2015/2016
- June 18-19, 2016
Academia at Night and Family Picnic: Discover UW – University of Warsaw 200 anniversary celebration - June 7, 2016
Emily C. Burns (Auburn University)
The Terra Foundation for American Art:“Local Color in Art”: Nationalism and Impressionism in the United States, Australia, and France - June 6, 2016
Queer Feminist Film: The Punk Singer (2013), Sini Anderson - June 6, 2016
Thomas Greven (University of Berlin)
The Rise of Right-wing Populism in Europe and the United States: A Comparative Perspective - June 3, 2016
Chris Steineger (former Kansas State Senator)
U.S. Embassy in Warsaw: U.S. Elections 2016 - June 2, 2016
Claire Bea (U.S. Foreign Service Officer from the American Embassy in Warsaw)
American-Polish Relations: The U.S. Perspectives on American-Polish Relations - May 12, 2016
Spotkanie z Katarzyną Surmiak-Domańską, autorką książki Ku Klux Klan. Tu mieszka miłość - May 9, 2016
Queer Feminist Film: Public Speaking (2010), Martin Scorsese - April 28, 2016
Stanisław Obirek
American Studies Center 40th Anniversary Lecture: John Paul II and His Impact on the Polarization of the Catholic Church: Poland as a Case Study - April 26, 2016
Michał Chudoliński (comic book and film critic, editor of “Gotham in the rain”)
Superman – Twilight of the American God - April 21, 2016
Tomasz Basiuk (University of Warsaw)
American Studies Center 40th Anniversary Lecture: Viral Communications: Jonathan Demme in Dialogue with Pedro Almodóvar - April 19, 2016
A debate with Pamela Wells and Paul Bryan Robinson (“Replika” LGBTQ magazine)
Election 2016: LGBTQ Issues and 2016 Presidential Election - April 12, 2016
Omar López Montenegro (Human Rights Director at the Cuban American National Foundation)
Mr. Obama goes to Havana: the Future of US relations with Cuba - April 11, 2016
Queer Feminist Film: Regarding Susan Sontag (2014), Nancy D. Kates - April 7, 2016
Agnieszka Graff (ASC UW)
American Studies Center 40th Anniversary Lecture: Getting paid to read difficult books. Democracy, market liberalism and the crisis of the humanities - April 4, 2016
Meeting with members of the US House of Representatives: Dana Rohrabacher
Juan Vargas
Brian Higgins
David Cicilline - March 31, 2016
Grzegorz Kość (ASC UW)
American Studies Center 40th Anniversary Lecture: Rebalancing “Near the Unbalanced Aquarium”: Revisiting the Archival Sources of Robert Giroux’s Version of Lowell’s Memoir for a New Copy-Text - March 10, 2016
David A. Jones (ASC UW)
American Studies Center 40th Anniversary Lecture: Return of Fallen Empires? What are the Aspirations of the Russian Federation, China, the United States, and the European Union? - March 7, 2016
Queer Feminist Film: Angela Davis: Portrait of a Revolutionary (1972), Yolande DuLuart
Fall Term 2015/2016
- February 25, 2016
Maciej Świderski (ASC UW)
Modernicana: Highway to the future – glittery appeal of the American mid-century modern style - January 27, 2016
Michael “Patches” Stewart
The Story of Jazz, from New Orleans to Warsaw - January 26, 2016
John Law
Elections 2016: What Decides Who Wins - January 22, 2016
Ralph Talmont (Curator Team Leader for TEDex Warsaw)
“Communicating Effectively at the American Workplace”, Q&A session: TED Talks, public speaking and the art of finding what you are not looking for - January 21, 2016
Michał Chudoliński (comic book and film critic, editor of Gotham w deszczu)
Arkham Asylum – the Neurotic Mythology of Our Times - January 19, 2016
Molly O’Neal (Johns Hopkins University, Fulbright Visiting Lecturer and Researcher at Collegium Civitas)
Election 2016 : Foreign Policy Debates And the U.S. Presidential Campaign - January 12, 2016
Angela Palazzolo
The State Department – How Does it Work? - December 17, 2015
Doroczna debata o sytuacji osób LGBTI w USA: Tęczowy raport o stanie państwa 2015 - December 14, 2015
Magdalena Maksimiuk (OSA UW)
American Independent Cinema elective course: A Contester in Suburbia. Anna Tatarska on Todd Solondz - December 10, 2015
Tomasz Szczerbicki (ASC UW)
Harley-Davidson – symbol i legenda. 110 lat historii w USA i w Polsce - December 7, 2015
Queer Feminist Film: Waiting for the Moon (1987), Jill Godmilow - December 3, 2015
Maciej Świderski (ASC UW)
Modernicana: Failures in the park. New York City’s public housing projects and urban renewal - December 2-4, 2015
Shibboleth 19671968 – International Conference - November 20, 2015
Seminarium poświęcone dyskusji nad książką: Niekonfrontacyjna asymetria w relacjach polsko-amerykańskich - November 19, 2015
Kenneth Stikkers (Southern Illinois University Carbondale)
The Spirit of Capitalism and the Caribbean Slave Trade - November 9, 2015
Queer Feminist Film: Paris Was a Woman (1996), Greta Schiller and Andrea Weiss - October 15, 2015
An open meeting and discussion concerning the situation of refugees in Poland and abroad: A day of solidarity with the refugees - October 8, 2015
Piotr Kimla (Institute of Political Science and International Relations of the Jagiellonian University)
Henry Kissinger and the art of self-restrain in politics
Special Guest Lectures
Spring Term 2014/2015
- June 13, 2015
Meeting of the American Studies Network - June 3, 2015
Andrzej Krakowski (City University of New York)
Pollywood. Jak stworzyliśmy Hollywood - June 1, 2015
Queer Feminist Film: The L Word vs. Lip Service, F to 7th, Orange is the New Black - May 14, 2015
Spotkanie autorskie i debata z Joanną Masiubańską, autorką książki Kubańskie kłamstewko - May 11, 2015
Heinz Ickstadt (Freie Universität Berlin)
Transcendentalists and Cultural Nationalists: from Thoreau and Church to the Painters and Writers of the Stieglitz Circle - May 4, 2015
Queer Feminist Film: Jenny Livigstone, Paris Is Burning (1990), Daniel Peddle, The Aggressives (2005) - April 13, 2015
Queer Feminist Film: Silas Howard & Harry Dodge: By Hook or by Crook (2001); Sadie Benning - March 26, 2015
Debata: Przełom w stosunkach amerykańsko-kubańskich Przyczyny i konsekwencje
Fall Term 2014/2015
- February 2, 2015
Queer Feminist Film: Carole Roussopoulos, SCUM (1976), Mary Harron, I Shot Andy Warhol (1996) - November 26, 2014
Performance: Tracie Morris - November 3, 2014
Queer Feminist Film: Dyketactics (1974), Multiple Orgasm (1976), Double Strength (1978), Still Point (1989), Sanctus (1990), Generations (2010); Barbara Hammer - October 30, 2014
Panel dyskusyjny o sytuacji osób LGBT w USA: Tęczowy raport o stanie państwa– zmiany prawne, zmiany w języku, współczesne wyzwania i ikony ruchu LGBT w USA - October 9, 2014
I have a dream – Martin Luther King in Polish
Special Guest Lectures
Spring Term 2013/2014
- September 22-23, 2014
Festival of Science: Skandal w amerykańskiej polityce i kulturze - June 12, 2014
Michał Chudoliński
Batman – Dark Knight of Moral Anxiety. Popcultural mythology of USA - June 9, 2014
An interim report from a research project: Perceptions of USA in Poland since 1956 - June 5, 2014
A discussion with Alexia Kosmider,
Screening of the documentary film: Sappho’s Fire (2011), Alexia Kosmider and Deb Monuteaux - May 16-17, 2014
Students and Doctoral Students International Interdisciplinary Conference: Thinking Food: The Functions of Food in the US American Culture and Society - April 30, 2014
Samuel Marotta
On American Catholicism - April 23, 2014
Seminarium: Kategoria gender w nauce i w działaniach antydyskryminacyjnych - April 16, 2014
Jakub Staszelis
This Could Only Happen in America – an Outline of the History and Teaching of the Hare Krishna Movement - April 10, 2014
Magdalena Maksimiuk
The Man Behind the Alluring Image. All the Faces of JFK in Selected Movies and TV Series - March 28-29, 2014
International Conference: Deconstructing The Kennedy mystique: JFK as a cultural phenomenon - March 28, 2014
Dominic Pacyga (Columbia College Chicago)
Polish Americans and the Labor Movement in Steel and Meat Packing, 1880 to 1960 - March 19, 2014
Agata Sobiecka
On American Buddhism - March 18, 2014
Hanna Buczyńska-Garewicz
William James and Others: Philosophy of Memory - March 13, 2014
Magda Maksimiuk
New American Cinema in Berlin: reviews, impressions, trends of 64. Berlinale
Fall Term 2013/2014
- January 23-24, 2014
Sabine Broeck (University of Bremen)
Property and Anti-Blackness: Revisiting Anti-Slavery Literature - January 16, 2014
Józefem Piniorem
Amerykańskie tajne więzienia CIA w Polsce? - January 13, 2014
Kirk Savage (University of Pittsburgh)
National Museum in Warsaw, The Embassy of the United States and American Studies Center, University of Warsaw: The National Mall: The Organization of Washington’s Public Space and its Functions - December 17, 2013
Tomasz Sikora (Uniwersytet Pedagogiczny)
Virtually Wild. Wilderness, Technology, and the Ecology of Mediation
Tomasz Basiuk (University of Warsaw)
The Transatlantic Symposium: Sustainability in Education, Culture and Politics. Questioning the Validity of National Narratives and Policies - December 16, 2013
James E. Young (University of Massachusetts)
National Museum in Warsaw, The Embassy of the United States and American Studies Center, University of Warsaw: Holocaust Museums in Europe and in the United States - December 9, 2013
Steven Conn (Ohio State University)
National Museum in Warsaw, The Embassy of the United States and American Studies Center, University of Warsaw: Museums of Ethnic Specificity and National Narrative in the United States - December 2, 2013
Robert Dizard
National Museum in Warsaw, The Embassy of the United States and American Studies Center, University of Warsaw: Serving the Congress and the People: Library of Congress (mission, role, research, overview of the Library of Congress) - November 18, 2013
Clifford Chanin
Ośrodek Studiów Amerykańskich UW, Muzeum Historii Żydów Polskich i Ambasadę Stanów Zjednoczonych: The Organization, function and mission of the National 9/11 Memorial and Museum - November 14, 2013
Panel dyskusyjny o sytuacji osób LGBT w USA: Czy Biały Dom może być tęczowy?
Special Guest Lectures
Spring Term 2012/2013
- September 23-26, 2013
Festival of Science: USA w latach 60. XX wieku - June 6, 2013
Agnieszka Mastalerz
Tendencje współczesnego kina, czyli relacja z 66 Festiwalu Filmowego w Cannes - June 5, 2013
Rabbi Dr. Gil Nativ
American Religion Seminar: Jews in the U.S. -Will the future American Jew be Reconservadox? - May 21, 2013
Karolina Krasuska
Płeć i naród: Trans/lokacje. Maria Komornicka/Piotr Odmieniec Włast, Else Lasker-Schüler, Mina Loy - May 16, 2013
Isabel Marcus (University at Buffalo Law School)
Feminist jurisprudence and the expansion of women’s rights in the USA - April 26, 2013
John Krafft
How Posthuman Have We Become - April 10,18, 2013
Gedeon W. Werner
Controversial Issues in Contemporary American Life: Racism, Gun Control
Fall Term 2012/2013
- January 16, 2013
Stephen Mull
Polish – American Relations in 2013 – Priorities and Opportunities - December 13, 2012
John Mueller
The Delusion of Terrorism - December 2-9, 2012
Marco Pustianaz (University of Eastern Piedmont in Vercelli)
An Erasmus visit, lectures on The Poetics of Theater, Film, Queer Theory - November 29, 2012
Kevin Uhler
American WWII Home Front Propaganda - November 20, 2012
Debata: Czy w Polsce powstanie ruch Sojuszników LGBT? - November 7, 2012
ASC Students and Kevin Uhler (Junior Fulbright Fellow at the ASC)
The U.S. Embassy-organized discussion on Election Night
[watch on YouTube] - October 24, 2012
Frankie Sturm
Presidential Debates 2012: Close Analysis of Stategies and Tactics - October 11, 2012
Joshua A. Tucker
Election System in the USA and the Role of The Electoral College
Special Guest Lectures
Spring Term 2011/2012
- September 25-27, 2012
Festival of Science, a series of three events: Presidential Elections - August 24 – September 21, 2012
American Month, the U.S. Embassy announces a series of events devoted to American culture: American Dream - May 25-26, 2012
Ogólnopolska interdyscyplinarna konferencja organizowana przez Doktoranckie Koło Naukowe Gender i Queer: Nienormatywne praktyki rodzinne - May 11-12, 2012
The American Studies Center of the University of Warsaw hosts a conference: The 1960s: Legacies - February 22, 2012
A screening and debate: Miss Representation
Special Guest Lectures
Spring Term 2010/2011
- September 20-22, 2011
The Festival Club Basic USA as part of the 15’th Science Festival:
Urszula Jarecka
Everything you wanted to know about Hollywood
Michał Goszczyński
The Warsaw University faculty and the representative of the Fulbright Commission in Warsaw: Beyond Harvard: studying in the U.S. Everything you wanted to know about U.S. higher education
Bohdan Szklarski
Everything you wanted to know about the U.S. President - June 3-4, 2011
Ogólnopolska Konferencja Naukowa pod patronatem Komisji Rektorskiej ds. Przeciwdziałania Dyskryminacji UW: Strategie queer. Kulturowa i społeczna sytuacja osób nieheteroseksualnych i transpłciowych w perspektywie interdyscyplinarnej - May 25, 2011
Roman Rewald
Discussion: An Academy Award Documentary “Inside Job” (2010) - May 19, 2011
John Karaagac
The Obama Foreign Policy: A Work in Progress - April 13, 2011
Lee Feinstein
Transatlantic Relations Today - March 15, 2011
Isabel Marcus
Discussion on Developments and Dilemmas in Reproductive Rights in the United States - March 3, 2011
Alan L Draper (St. Lawrence University)
Elections 2010-2012 - February 22, 2011
Richard Wolin
Intellectuals and Contemporary Politics
Fall Term 2010/2011
- November 17, 2010
Morton Halperin
The Community of Democracies and New Democracies - October 19, 2010
Michał Jan Rozbicki (Saint Louis University)
The American Revolution: Did the Founders Betray Their Own Ideals? - October 14, 2010
Yu Han (Xiamen University)
The Study of American History in China: retrospect and prospect - October 1, 2010
Stuart Loory (Distinguished Fulbright Chair to the University of Warsaw)
Is the United States Media Really Free?
Special Guest Lectures
Spring Term 2009/2010
- September 20-22, 2010
XIV Festiwal Nauki: Ameryka w XXI wieku: Kultura i społeczeństwo
Anna Sosnowska
Czy na Greenpoincie czas się zatrzymał? Polscy imigranci w Nowym Jorku
Karolina Krasuska
Tomasz Basiuk
Spisek, Tolkien i krykiet: Proza amerykańska XXI wieku
Ewa Hauser
Jan Szelągiewicz
Społeczeństwo zdezinformowane, czyli jak sprzedawano Amerkanom wojnę w Iraku - June 23, 2010
Bill Schneider (George Mason University)
Discussion on the current political situation in the U.S. and in Poland. - June 1, 2010
Kurt Schock (The State University of New Jersey)
Civil Rights Movement in the US as an example of non violent civil resistance - May 26, 2010
Hasia Diner (New York University)
Fitting Memorials: American Jews and the Memory of the Holocaust, 1945-1962 - May 17, 2010
Derek Hackett (Fordham University)
‘Fools Rush in Where Angels Fear to Tread’: An Interpretation of the Movie The Third Man as a Political Allegory - May 17, 2010,
Elisabeth Frost (Fordham University)
The “Photo-Text”: Contemporary Women Poets And Visual Artists - May 15 and 17, 2010
Jeff Friedman
Performin’ Signifyin’: The Whitman Sisters Get In Your (Black) Face - May 13, 2010
A discussion with the students of National War College: America in the World: Polish and American Perspectives - April 27 and 28, 2010
Kamil Aydin
America’s Influence in Turkey and Orientalism and Post-Colonialism - April 24, 2010
Sheila Lalwani
The Challenges of Reporting on Islam and Muslims in a Global World: What is the Way Forward? - April 21, 2010
Maciej Wierzyński
Głos Ameryki, Wolna Europa – narzędzia amerykańskiej polityki zagranicznej - April 20, 2010
Werner Krieglstein
Science and Morality in Contemporary America - March 10, 2010
Rita Felski (University of Virginia)
Suspicious Minds
Fall Term 2009/2010
- February 24 and 25, 2010
Mark J. Rozell
Obama: His First Year Leadership and Panel: Religia – Polityka – Demokracja - December 14, 2009
Barclay Key (Western Illinois University)
Southern Confessionals: Racial Reconciliation in the 1960s - November 23, 2009
Catrin Gersdorf (University of Berlin)
Beyond the Vernacular: Landscape and the African American Cultural Tradition - November 19, 2009
Donald C. Martin
Road Map for Graduate Education in the USA - October 27, 2009
Anne Nelson
Theater and Trauma: how New Yorkers used theater in response to the September 11th attacks - October 21, 2009
John R. Leo (University of Rhode Island)
Gay Marriage/Registered Partnership and Citizenship - October 20, 2009
Cezary M. Ornatowski (University of California)
The War of Ideas: Rhetoric, Extremism, and Security - October 16, 2009
Elahe Haschemi Yekani (Humboldt University Berlin)
The Spectacle of the ‘Self’: White Masculinity in Photography
Special Guest Lectures
Spring Term 2008/2009
- September 25, 2009
E. Grzeszczyk
S. Kuźma-Markowska
S. Góźdź
R. Miszczak
M. Pisuk
“Hip-hop generation” kontra “pokolenie hip-hopu”. Znaczenie kultury hip-hop dla polskiego i amerykańskiego społeczeństwa. - May 7, 2009
Eric J. Sundquist
Martin Luther King’s “Dream Speech” – Its Sources and Legacy - May 20, 2009
J. Peter Burkholder (Indiana University)
Music as a Transatlantic Tradition - April 17 and 18, 2009
Suzanna Danuta Walters (Indiana University)
The End of Coming Out
Interdisciplinary Symposium: Post-Race? Post-Gender? The Politics of Identity in Contemporary United States
Fall Term 2008/2009
- January 13, 2009
Uwikłani w tożsamość. Butler w Polsce
Dyskusja wokół polskiego wydania książki Judith Butler “Uwikłani w płeć” (“Gender Trouble”) w tłumaczeniu Karoliny Krasuskiej (American Studies Center) - December 18, 2008
Magdalena Kropiwnicka (Food and Hunger Policy Advisor in ActionAid International)
Hunger Back on the Global Agenda? Brazil Leads the Way - December 9, 2008
Heinz Ickstadt (Free University of Berlin)
Constructing Self – Inventing the Other Race in 20th Century American Fiction - November 27, 2008
Victor Ashe (U.S. Ambassador in Poland)
American Elections: The Role of Local Elites and Campaign Chairs - November 19, 2008
Phil Ranstrom (documentary filmmaker)
Discussion about the documentary “Cheat You Fair: The Story of Maxwell Street”
- November 4, 2008
The ASC Election Night - October 22-24, 2008
International Conference
The Past in the Present: The American Uses of History - October 21, 2008
Carsten Junker (Humboldt University in Berlin)
Transatlantic Race Man: W.E.B. Du Bois
Special Guest Lectures
Spring Term 2007/2008
- September 23, 2008
Agnieszka Graff (American Studies Center)
Anger, guilt, denial – the logic of “racial problem” in the U.S. in the context of upcoming presidential elections - May 19-21, 2008
International Conference
Beyond Imagined Uniqueness: Nationalisms in Comparative Perspective - April 8, 2008
Jennifer Ashton (University of Illinois)
The Black Aesthetic and the Critique of Self-Expression in the 1960s: From Charles’ Olson’s ‘Projective Verse’ to LeRoi Jones’s ‘How You Sound?’ - April 7, 2008
Walter Benn Michaels (University of Illinois)
The Trouble with Diversity - March 26, 2008
Academic Conference
Stany Zjednoczone w świecie w perspektywie dwóch dekad - March 14, 2008
Queer Studies Workshop
The Vagaries of Subjectivity: Queer Perspectives on Subject Formation and the Critique of Identity - March 11, 2008
Celia Bense (University of Paris 8)
The Historical Context of “Tally’s Corner”
Fall Term 2007/2008
- December 8-9, 2007
International Conference, organized by School of American Studies – Collegium Civitas and American Studies Center
Quo Vadis America? - December 7, 2007
Lawrence R. Chamer
NATO in the 21st Century – Expectations and Challenges
Maintaining National Identity Within a Growing NATO - December 6, 2007
Miles White (Charles University in Prague)
From Hip-Hop to Hardcore: Race, Representation and the New Culture of Masculinity
- November 26, 2007
Edward J. Kulakowski (U.S. Embassy Public Affairs Officer)
Current Issues in U.S. – Polish Relations - November 17, 2007
Williama D. Beercase (U.S. Air Force Academy)
Guest lecture - November 16-22, 2007
Patrick B. Miller (Northeastern Illinois University)
The Culture of Reform in 1960s America
The Long Civil Rights Movement: Recent Perspectives
The Academic Experience in America
Goals and Strategies of Civil Rights Crusaders
Special Guest Lectures
Spring Term 2006/2007
- September 25, 2007
Ewa Grzeszczyk
Sebastian Góźdź
XI Festiwal Nauki: HIP-HOP i elektrofunk w Stanach i nie tylko - September 24, 2007
Agnieszka Graff (American Studies Center)
XI Festiwal Nauki: Rasowe stereotypy w Stanach Zjednoczonych - June 2, 2007
Workshops
Researching and Teaching American History - May 17, 2007
Cristianne Miller (University at Buffalo)
Edward H. Butler (University at Buffalo)
Modernism, Sexuality, and Performing the Female Body: Marianne Moore and Else Lasker-Schüler - May 11, 2007
William C. Pratt (University of Nebraska Omaha)
Place Makes a Difference: Region and Locale in American Culture - May 10, 2007
Magdalena J. Zaborowska (University of Michigan)
From Baldwin’s Paris to Benjamin’s: The Architectonics of Race/Sex in “Giovanni’s Room” - March 24, 2007
Geert Hofstede (University of Maastricht)
Culture’s Recent Consequences - March 15, 2007
Robert Faulkner (Boston College)
Participant Observation and Improvisation: A View From the Band Stand
Fall Term 2006/2007
- December 4, 2006
David T. Morris (Political Officer, U.S. Embassy, Warsaw)
Current U.S. Foreign Policy Towards Iraq and Iran, and the War on Terror - November 2, 2006
Academic Conference
American Studies: A Thirty Year Perspective Warsaw University American Studies Center Anniversary Conference 1976-2006 - October 18, 2006
Richard Yarborough (University of California)
African American Writers and the Antislavery Struggle - October 17, 2006
Academic Conference
American Model – Polish Reality - October 5, 2006
Marianne Noble (American University)
The Role of Sentimentality as Category and its Political and Social Values in the 19th Century Fiction
Special Guest Lectures
Spring Term 2005/2006
- August 29–30, 2006
Seveth International Queer Studies Conference
Seeking Queer Alliances: Resisting Dominant Discourses and Institutions - April 26, 2006
Academic Conference
Z Mariel do Miami — 25 lat po exodusie - March 18, 2006
Academic Conference
American Poetry in Poland: Teaching, Translation, Reception - March 7–8, 2005
Joint Conference
Comparative Perspectives on Race, Nationalism and the Politics of Memory. Poland and the United States - February 25–26, 2005
Academic Conference
Religion, Law, Advertising, the Dilemmas of Contemporary Culture
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