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
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 16, 2019
Patrycja Antoszek (Catholic University of Lublin)
Haunted by Hill House: Shirley Jackson, Housewife Horrors and the Politics of Fame - May 15, 2019
Meeting with a Columbian writer Winston Morales Chavarro - May 9, 2019
Photography Exhibition by Arnaud Rodamel
Inspired by Paul Auster - April 25, 2019
Piotr Gwiazda (University of Pittsburgh)
Ghosts and Anchors: Translingualism in Contemporary US Poetry - March 28, 2019
David Schmid (University at Buffalo)
Crime Narratives in the Age of Trump: A Manifesto - March 14, 2019
Anna Mazurkiewicz (University of Gdańsk)
Defining State-Private Network. American Freedom Committees During the Cold War
[watch on YouTube] - March 7, 2019
Mary Erdmans (Case Western Reserve University)
Transnational Identities and Behaviors among Solidarity Refugees in the US
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]
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