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 2021/2022
- March 2, 2022
Karolina Krasuska, Ludmiła Janion, Aleksandra Kamińska, Agnieszka Kotwasińska, Anna Kurowicka, Natalia Pamuła, Marta Usiekniewicz (University of Warsaw), Anna Piekutowska (TOK FM)
Talking Gender: Academic Activism, Innovative Research and Feminist Pedagogy
[watch on YouTube]
- March 16, 2022
Weird Music series
Joanna Kaniewska (University of Warsaw)
Reading Movie Soundtracks: A Workshop - March 23, 2022
Elizabeth Cullen Dunn (Director, Center for Refugee Studies, Indiana University Bloomington) and Iwona Kaliszewska (Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Warsaw)
Distributed Humanitarianism: Digital Disruption, Grassroots Labor, and Volunteer Affect in Poland’s Refugee Response - March 24, 2022
Carsten Junker (TU Dresden)
An Introduction to Concepts of the Archive and Methods of Archival Research - March 27, 2022
ASC Oscar Night 2022 - March-May 2022
Raymond Malewitz (Oregon State University)
The (Early) Literature of COVID-19 - March 30, 2022
Carolin Jesussek (Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz)
Queer Ecosystems: Gothic Materialism in Carmen Maria Machado’s In the Dream House - May 23, 2022
Gender/Sexuality Conference ASC
Fall Term 2021/2022
- September 30, 2021
ASC Welcome Event
Julia Fiedorczuk (University of Warsaw)
‘To See the World Before the End of the World’: 21st-Century Poetry in the Face of Planetary Catastrophe
[watch on YouTube] - October 21, 2021
Marta Usiekniewicz, Tomasz Basiuk, Michał Bilewicz, Ludmiła Janion, Agnieszka Graff, Elżbieta Korolczuk (University of Warsaw), Patrycja Sasnal (College of Europe)
Book launch “Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment” by Agnieszka Graff and Elżbieta Korolczuk
[watch on YouTube] - October 26, 28, 2021
Małgorzata Gajda-Łaszewska, Marta Usiekniewicz, Anna Kurowicka, Ludmiła Janion (University of Warsaw)
BA Fresher’s Guide to the ASC - October 28, 2021
XXVII Seminar of the Polish-American Ethnological Society - November 3, 2021
Weird Music series
Tracey M. Salisbury (California State University)
Play This Only At Night: Hip Hop, Horror, and Afrofuturism
[watch on YouTube] - November 17, 2021
Weird Music series
Jakub Guziński (University of Warsaw)
“I Guess This Is My Dissertation”: A Hip Hop Music Video Workshop - December 16, 2021
Weird Music series
Joanna Kaniewska (University of Warsaw)
Cyborgs, Transhumans, and Posthumans in the Popular Music of 2010s - January 26, 2022
Weird Music series
Colin Walder (CD Projekt RED)
In Conversation with CD Projekt Red: Audio in Cyberpunk 2077
Special Guest Lectures
Spring Term 2020/2021
- June 24, 2021
Stefan “Steve” Rabitsch (University of Graz/University of Warsaw)
Chewing on Big Rock Candy Mountain: Reading and understanding the “real” American West in two essays - May 31, 2021
Stefan “Steve” Rabitsch (University of Graz/University of Warsaw)
Infinite, Never Final Frontiers: The Fantastic Legacy of the American West(ern) - May 24, 2021
Monsters ReVisited series
Stefan “Steve” Rabitsch (University of Graz/University of Warsaw)
“There be whales here!”: Star Trekkin’ White Leviathans round the Moons of Nibia with Captain Ahab - May 11, 2021
Monsters ReVisited series
Sorcha Ní Fhlainn (Manchester Metropolitan University)
‘Knowledge is a Fatal Thing:’ Confessing Vampire Secrets from Polidori to Neil Jordan - May 5, 2021
Charlie Leduff
Is America Doomed? A Critical Reflection from the Inside - April 30-May 2, 2021
2020 EAAS CONFERENCE: 20/20 Vision: Citizenship, Space, Renewal
Wendy Brown (University of California, Berkeley)
What’s Left of Freedom? In Conversation with Zuzanna Ładyga
Michelle Burnham (Santa Clara University)
1620/2020: Colonies, Corporations, and Constructing American Cultural Histories
Tomasz Basiuk (ASC, University of Warsaw)
Crusing and Method: Notes on Queer Studies in a Transnational Context - April 28, 2021
John Wills (University of Kent)
Showdown on the Pixel Frontier - April 13, 2021
Monsters ReVisited series
Katarzyna Bielicka (University of Warsaw)
Ze wszystkich istot nadprzyrodzonych najszkodliwszy.Wilkołaki w słowiańskim folklorze - April 12, 2021
Dr. Cynthia Miller-Idriss (The American University)
Hate in the Homeland – Right-wing Extremism in the USA - April 8, 2021
Race in US Popular Culture. Presentation of ASC Students’ Articles Published in “View” - March 29, 2021
Monsters ReVisited series
Patrycja Pichnicka-Trivedi (University of Warsaw)
Customary Strangers: Double Mirroring of Otherness in Eastern-Western Vampire Narratives - March 22, 2021
Roman Kuźniar (University of Warsaw)
American Leadership in the World – a Myth or Reality? - February 25, 2021
Q&A with Comic Book Artist Shawn Martinbrough
Fall Term 2020/2021
- Janurary 25, 2021
EcoGothic Landscapes series
Jędrzej Burszta (University of Warsaw)
Weird Space Junkies: Speculations on the Psychedelic - January 18, 2021
EcoGothic Landscapes series
Filip Peringer (University of Warsaw)
The Ur-Savage: The Anthropological Horror of Green Inferno and Bone Tomahawk - December 14, 2020
EcoGothic Landscapes series
Beata Kubiak Ho-Chi (University of Warsaw)
Bliskie spotkania z istotami nie-ludzkimi we współczesnej literaturze japońskiej - December 9, 2020
Robert Henry, Judit Trunkos (University of South Carolina)
Old South – New South and the 2020 Elections - December 1, 2020
EcoGothic Landscapes series
Alison Sperling (Technische Universität Berlin):
Weird Fiction and Ecological Thought - November 23, 2020
EcoGothic Landscapes series
Brittany A. Roberts (Southeastern Louisiana University)
Ecological Intimacies in the Anthropocene: Horror, Ethics, and the Shadow of Nonhuman Difference - November 20, 2020
Q&A with Activist and LGBT Pioneer Mark Segal - November 18, 2020
Paweł Laidler (Jagiellonian University)
Post-elections in USA: Legal Challenges to Electoral Procedures in American Democracy - November 3, 2020
Anna Mazurkiewicz (University of Gdańsk)
Ryszard Schnepf, Bohdan Szklarski, Marek Wilczyński (ASC UW)
US Elections 2020 - October 22, 2020
Stanley Nelson (film director)
Freedom Riders -
October-November 2020
Filip Boratyn, Anna Kurowicka, Ludmiła Janion (ASC UW)
How to Survive at ASC? A Three-Part Online Seminar for BA Freshers
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-Jordanovska (ASC UW)
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 Universität Berlin)
Backward Glance over the Much Traveled Road of Postmodern Fiction - October 7, 2019
Daniel Fried (U.S. Department of State Assistant Secretary)
The US and Today’s Global Challenges
Special Guest Lectures
Spring Term 2018/2019
- June 21-22, 2019
International Conference
Failed Leadership - 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 at Bloomington)
Krzysztof Michałek Memorial Lecture: Kurt Vonnegut and ‘Quality of Place’ in America’s Midwest - May 23, 2019
Andrew Wise (Daemen 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
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)
Book launch: 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, U.S. Embassy in Warsaw)
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 11-12, 2018
The Launch of The New Americanist: A Symposium
George Blaustein (University of Amsterdam)
Nightmare Envy and Other Stories: American Culture and European Reconstruction
Tim Jelfs (University of Groningen)
Publication Workshop for Graduate Students/Early Career Academics
Josephine Metcalf (University of Hull)
“Dynamic”; “Distinct”; “Accessible”? Navigating the Evolving American Studies Publishing Scene in the UK
Special Guest Lectures
Spring Term 2017/2018
- September 27, 2018
Ryszard Schnepf (ASC UW)
The American Pattern: Independence-Democracy-Constitution
at Freshmen Welcome Ceremony - 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)
Sexual Citizenship, Oral History, and the Archive in 1970s Central and Eastern Europe:
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 (ASC student)
Weronika Pietras (ASC student)
Jorge Marti Martinez (Cuban Ambassador to Poland)
Sławomir Klimkiewicz (former Polish Ambassador to Cuba)
Młodzi Kubańczycy i ich wizja przyszłości - May 30, 2018
Elizabeth Dunn (Indiana University at 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
Debate: #METOO: 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 (Humanity in Action Fellow)
Tomasz Jacheć (University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn)
Radosław Leniarski (Gazeta Wyborcza)
Sports, Politics, Protest - November 16, 2017
Bogumiła Lisocka-Jaegermann (ASC UW)
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 (editor-at-large at Talking Points Memo)
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
Hate-speech, Civic Society, and the Media
Panel discussion with Michał Bilewicz, Feras Daboul, Dominika Michalak and Jarosław Ziółkowski - 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 (environmental activist from Nicaragua)
Pedro Cabezas (environmental activist from El Salvador)
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 at 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)
Discussion on Clifford Angell Bates Jr’s new book: The Centrality of the Regime for Political Science - March 28, 2017
Paul W. Jones (U.S. Ambassador to Poland)
Meeting with the U.S. Ambassador to Poland - 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
Black History Month at ASC: Remembering African American Music
A concert by Małgorzata Ziółek-Sowińska (piano, vocal), Karolina Gadomska (vocal) and Dominik Gręda (guitar) - March 9, 2017
Małgorzata Ziółek-Sowińska (Akademia Humanistyczno-Ekonomiczna w Łodzi)
Black History Month at ASC: The Soul Music Aesthetics in the Music of Aretha Franklin - March 6, 2017
Elizabeth L. Evans (Eurasia Foreign Area Officer, U.S. Embassy in Warsaw)
Women’s Career Paths and Challenges in the US Military Forces - March 2, 2017
Małgorzata Ziółek-Sowińska (Akademia Humanistyczno-Ekonomiczna w Łodzi)
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: Discover UW — University of Warsaw 200 anniversary celebration - June 7, 2016
Emily C. Burns (Auburn University)
“Local Color in Art”: Nationalism and Impressionism in the United States, Australia, and France - June 6, 2016
Queer Feminist Film: Sini Anderson - June 6, 2016
Thomas Greven (Freie Universität 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)
Election 2016: U.S. Elections 2016 - June 2, 2016
Claire Bea (U.S. Foreign Service Officer, U.S. 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: 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
[watch on YouTube]
- April 26, 2016
Michał Chudoliński (Collegium Civitas)
Superman – Twilight of the American God - April 21, 2016
Tomasz Basiuk (ASC UW)
American Studies Center 40th Anniversary Lecture:
Viral Communications: Jonathan Demme in Dialogue with Pedro Almodóvar
[watch on YouTube]
- April 19, 2016
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: 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
[watch on YouTube]
- April 4, 2016
Meeting with members of the U.S. House of Representatives: Dana Rohrabacher, Juan Vargas, Brian Higgins and 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
[watch on YouTube]
- 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?
[watch on YouTube]
- March 7, 2016
Queer Feminist Film: Angela Davis and Yolande DuLuart
Fall Term 2015/2016
- February 25, 2016
Maciej Świderski (University of Warsaw)
Modernicana: Highway to the Future – Glittery Appeal of the American Mid-century Modern Style - January 27, 2016
Michael “Patches” Stewart (trumpeter)
The Story of Jazz, from New Orleans to Warsaw - January 26, 2016
John Law (Deputy Chief, U.S. Embassy in Warsaw)
Elections 2016: What Decides Who Wins - January 22, 2016
Ralph Talmont (Curator Team Leader for TEDex Warsaw)
TED Talks, Public Speaking and the Art of Finding What You Are Not Looking For - January 21, 2016
Michał Chudoliński (Collegium Civitas)
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 (U.S. Foreign Service Officer)
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 (Polish Academy of Sciences)
A Contester in Suburbia. Anna Tatarska on Todd Solondz - December 10, 2015
Tomasz Szczerbicki (University of Warsaw)
Harley-Davidson — symbol i legenda. 110 lat historii w USA i w Polsce - December 7, 2015
Queer Feminist Film: Jill Godmilow - December 3, 2015
Maciej Świderski (University of Warsaw)
Modernicana: Failures in the park. New York City’s Public Housing Projects and Urban Renewal - December 2-4, 2015
International Conference
Shibboleth 1967/1968 - 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: Greta Schiller and Andrea Weiss - October 15, 2015
Open Meeting and Discussion on the Situation of Refugees in Poland and Abroad - October 8, 2015
Piotr Kimla (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: TV Series - May 14, 2015
Joanna Masiubańska
Spotkanie autorskie wokół 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 and Daniel Peddle - April 13, 2015
Queer Feminist Film: Silas Howard and Harry Dodge, and Sadie Benning - March 26, 2015
Abp Celestino Migliore
Bohdan Szklarski (ASC UW)
Henryk Szlajfer (ASC UW)
Piotr Łaciński (Collegium Civitas)
Joanna Masiubańska (Cuban American National Foundation)
Przełom w stosunkach amerykańsko-kubańskich? Przyczyny i konsekwencje
Fall Term 2014/2015
- February 2, 2015
Queer Feminist Film: Carole Roussopoulos and Mary Harron - November 26, 2014
Performance by Tracie Morris
- November 3, 2014
Queer Feminist Film: Barbara Hammer - October 30, 2014
Panel dyskusyjny o sytuacji osób LGBT+ w USA: Tęczowy raport o stanie państwa 2014 - 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
Dominika Ferens (University of Wroclaw)
Alexia Kosmider (Rhode Island School of Design)
Screening of the documentary: “Sappho’s Fire” (2011) - May 16-17, 2014
International Interdisciplinary Conference
Thinking Food: The Functions of Food in the US American Culture and Society
- April 30, 2014
Samuel Marotta (Open University of UW)
On American Catholicism - April 23, 2014
Ewa Rumińska-Zimny (Gender Studies IBL PAN)
Elżbieta Korolczuk (Södertörn University, School of Social Sciences)
Agnieszka Graff (OSA UW)
Janina Pietrzak (University of Warsaw)
Maciej Gdula (University of Warsaw)
Tomasz Basiuk (ASC UW)
Seminarium. Kategoria gender w nauce i w działaniach antydyskryminacyjnych - April 16, 2014
Jakub Staszelis (Kryszna Kirtan Das)
This Could Only Happen in America – Outline of the History and Teaching of the Hare Krishna Movement
- April 10, 2014
Magdalena Maksimiuk (Polish Academy of Sciences)
The Man Behind the Alluring Image. All the Faces of JFK in Selected Movies and TV Series - March 28-29, 2014
International Academic 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 (College of the Holy Cross in Worcester)
William James and Others: Philosophy of Memory
- March 13, 2014
Magda Maksimiuk (Polish Academy of Sciences)
New American Cinema in Berlin: Reviews, Impressions, Trends of 64. Berlinale
Fall Term 2013/2014
- January 23-24, 2014
Sabine Broeck (University of Bremen)
Faculty and graduate seminar. Property and Anti-Blackness: Revisiting Anti-Slavery Literature - January 16, 2014
Józef Pinior (Senator RP)
Amerykańskie tajne więzienia CIA w Polsce? - January 13, 2014
Kirk Savage (University of Pittsburgh)
The National Mall: The Organization of Washington’s Public Space and its Functions
- December 17, 2013
Tomasz Sikora (Pedagogical University of Krakow)
Virtually Wild. Wilderness, Technology, and the Ecology of Mediation - December 16, 2013
James E. Young (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Holocaust Museums in Europe and in the United States - December 9, 2013
Steven Conn (Ohio State University)
Museums of Ethnic Specificity and National Narrative in the United States
- December 2, 2013
Robert Dizard Jr. (Deputy Librarian, Library of Congress)
Serving the Congress and the People: Library of Congress
- November 18, 2013
Clifford Chanin
The Organization, function and mission of the National 9/11 Memorial and Museum
- November 14, 2013
Tomasz Basiuk (ASC UW)
Marta Konarzewska
Mariusz Kurc
Bartosz Żurawiecki
Debata: 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
Bohdan Szklarski (ASC UW)
Mit i tajemnica śmierci prezydenta Kennedy’ego
Karolina Krasuska (ASC UW)
Spisek albo dlaczego Philip Roth nie dostał jeszcze Nagrody Nobla
Agnieszka Graff (ASC UW)
Betty Friedan: kobiecość, feminizm, rewolucja
Grzegorz Kość (ASC UW)
Martin Luther King: zbiorowa pamięć i amnezja - June 6, 2013
Agnieszka Mastalerz (University of Warsaw)
Tendencje współczesnego kina, czyli relacja z 66 Festiwalu Filmowego w Cannes - June 5, 2013
Rabbi Dr. Gil Nativ (Beit Warszawa Synagogue)
Jews in the U.S. Will the future American Jew be Reconservadox? - May 21, 2013
Karolina Krasuska (ASC UW)
Spotkanie wokół książki “Płeć i naród: Trans/lokacje” - 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 (Fulbright Lecturer at The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin)
How Posthuman Have We Become? A Seminar
- April 10 and 18, 2013
Gedeon W. Werner
Controversial Issues in Contemporary American Life: Racism, Gun Control
Fall Term 2012/2013
- January 16, 2013
Stephen Mull (U.S. Ambassador to Poland)
Polish-American Relations in 2013: Priorities and Opportunities - December 13, 2012
John Mueller (Ohio State University)
The Delusion of Terrorism - December 2-9, 2012
Marco Pustianaz (University of Eastern Piedmont in Vercelli)
A series of guest lectures - November 29, 2012
Kevin Uhler (Junior Fulbright Fellow at the ASC)
American WW II Home Front Propaganda
- November 20, 2012
Jody Huckaby (PFLAG USA)
Ireneusz Krzemiński (Instytut Socjologii UW)
Zofia Jabłońska (Kampania Przeciw Homofobii)
Debata: Czy w Polsce powstanie ruch Sojuszników LGBT? - November 7, 2012
ASC Students and Kevin Uhler (Junior Fulbright Fellow at the ASC)
The Election Breakfast sponsored by the U.S. Embassy - October 24, 2012
Frankie Sturm (Deputy Cultural Attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Warsaw)
Presidential Debates 2012: Close Analysis of Stategies and Tactics - October 11, 2012
Joshua A. Tucker (New York University)
Election System in the USA and the Role of The Electoral College
Special Guest Lectures
Spring Term 2011/2012
- September 25-27, 2012
XVI Festiwal Nauki: Presidential Elections
Bohdan Szklarski (ASC UW)
Jak się wygrywa lub przegrywa wybory w Ameryce
Bohdan Szklarski (ASC UW)
Sławomir Józefowicz (University of Warsaw)
Krajobraz przedwyborczy 2012: Spory o Obamę i nie tylko
Piotr Tarczyński (University of Warsaw)
Waszyngton i Hollywood: Amerykańska polityka w kulturze popularnej - August 24 – September 21, 2012
American Month - May 25-26, 2012
Ogólnopolska konferencja
Nienormatywne praktyki rodzinne
- May 11-12, 2012
Academic Conference
The 1960s: Legacies
- February 22, 2012
Lisa Helling (U.S. Embassy in Warsaw)
Agnieszka Graff (ASC UW)
Betty Winfield (University Of Missouri)
A screening and debate around documentary film “Miss Representation” (2011)
Special Guest Lectures
Spring Term 2010/2011
- September 20-22, 2011
XV Festiwal Nauki: Basic USA
Urszula Jarecka (Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw)
Everything You Wanted to Know About Hollywood
Michał Goszczyński (University of Warsaw)
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 (ASC UW)
Everything You Wanted to Know About the U.S. President - June 3-4, 2011
Ogólnopolska Konferencja Naukowa
Strategie queer. Kulturowa i społeczna sytuacja osób nieheteroseksualnych i transpłciowych w perspektywie interdyscyplinarnej - May 25, 2011
Roman Rewald
Discussion Around an Academy Award Documentary “Inside Job” (2010) - May 19, 2011
John Karaagac (Indiana University, School of Public and Environmental Affairs)
The Obama Foreign Policy: A Work in Progress - April 13, 2011
Lee Feinstein (U.S. Ambassador to Poland)
Transatlantic Relations Today - March 15, 2011
Isabel Marcus (University at Buffalo Law School)
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 (Graduate Center of the City University of New York)
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 (ASC UW)
Czy na Greenpoincie czas się zatrzymał? Polscy imigranci w Nowym Jorku
Karolina Krasuska (ASC UW)
Tomasz Basiuk (ASC UW)
Spisek, Tolkien i krykiet: Proza amerykańska XXI wieku
Ewa Hauser (University of Warsaw)
Jan Szelągiewicz (University of Warsaw)
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 U.S. as an Example of Nonviolent 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
Meeting with National War College students
America in the World: Polish and American Perspectives - April 27-28, 2010
Kamil Aydin
America’s Influence in Turkey
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)
Guest lecture Suspicious Minds and open seminar
Fall Term 2009/2010
- February 24, 2010
Mark J. Rozell (George Mason University at Arlington)
Obama: His First Year Leadership - December 14, 2009
Barclay Key (Western Illinois University)
Southern Confessionals: Racial Reconciliation in the 1960s - November 23, 2009
Catrin Gersdorf (Freie Universität 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 Attack - 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
Ewa Grzeszczyk
Sylwia 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 (UCLA)
Martin Luther King’s “Dream Speech” – Its Sources and Legacy - May 20, 2009
J. Peter Burkholder (Indiana University at Bloomington)
Music as a Transatlantic Tradition - April 17-18, 2009
Suzanna Danuta Walters (Indiana University)
Lecture: 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, ActionAid International)
Hunger Back on the Global Agenda? Brazil Leads the Way - December 9, 2008
Heinz Ickstadt (Freie Universität Berlin)
Constructing Self – Inventing the Other Race in 20th Century American Fiction - November 27, 2008
Victor Ashe (U.S. Ambassador to Poland)
American Elections: The Role of Local Elites and Campaign Chairs - November 19, 2008
Phil Ranstrom (documentary filmmaker)
Discussion on 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 (ASC UW)
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 at Chicago)
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 at Chicago)
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 (Public Affairs Officer, U.S. Embassy in Warsaw)
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 (ASC UW)
XI Festiwal Nauki: Rasowe stereotypy w Stanach Zjednoczonych - June 2, 2007
Workshops
Researching and Teaching American History - May 17, 2007
Cristanne 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 in 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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