Tag Archive: events

Year 2025/2026

May 25: “Standing Woman – Fear Takes Root: Exploring Eco-Horror and dystopia through short film practice”.

May 20, 2026

Weird Fictions Research Group is pleased to invite you to an online film screening and conversation with Max Gee (University of Salford), the writer behind the short film Standing Woman. Join us on Zoom to watch the film together and learn more about arts-based research practices and eco-horror.

Year 2025/2026

May 20: “In the Orbit of Empire: Space, Race, and Inequality in Brazil and the United States”

May 18, 2026

Join us for the next lecture in the ‘Western Hemisphere Lecture Series’! This time we are pleased to host Sean T. Mitchell from Rutgers University, Newark with a lecture titled “In the Orbit of Empire: Space, Race, and Inequality in Brazil and the United States”.

Year 2025/2026

May 19: “Bummerland: Ruin and Restoration in Trump’s New America”

May 18, 2026

Join us for a public talk titled “Bummerland: Ruin and Restoration in Trump’s New America” by Randolph R. Lewis (University of Texas at Austin).

Year 2025/2026

May 18: “From Respectability to the Fringe: The Far Right in the Interwar Era”

May 15, 2026

The European Forum on US History, in cooperation with the ASC is hosting an online lecture “From Respectability to the Fringe: The Far Right in the Interwar Era” by Dr. Olivier Burtin.

American Studies Colloquium Series

May 28: “Extroverted Financialization: Banking on USD Debt”

May 21, 2026

We are pleased to invite you to the last lecture of the American Studies Colloquium Series in the 2025/2026 Spring semester! This time we are pleased to host Mareike Beck with a lecture “Extroverted Financialization: Banking on USD Debt”.

American Studies Colloquium Series

May 21: “God Bless the Pill: The Surprising History of Contraception and Sexuality in American Religion”

May 15, 2026

We are pleased to invite you to the fourth lecture of the American Studies Colloquium Series in the 2025/2026 Spring semester! This time we are pleased to host Samira K. Mehta with a lecture “God Bless the Pill: The Surprising History of Contraception and Sexuality in American Religion”.

American Studies Colloquium Series

May 14: “Queerversity as an Aesthetic Principle: Colonial ghosts and fog machines in the work of Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz”

April 29, 2026

We are pleased to invite you to the third lecture of the American Studies Colloquium Series in the 2025/2026 Spring semester! This time we are pleased to host Antke A. Engel with a lecture “Queerversity as an Aesthetic Principle: Colonial ghost and fog machines in the work of Pauline Boudry/ Renate Lorenz”.

American Studies Colloquium Series

April 16: “Zombies, Vampires, and Climate Change in the Films of Jim Jarmusch”

April 7, 2026

We are pleased to invite you to the second lecture of the American Studies Colloquium Series in the 2025/2026 Spring semester! This time we are pleased to host Sara Juliet Lauro with a lecture “Zombies, Vampires, and Climate Change in the Films of Jim Jarmusch”.

Year 2025/2026

Użytek z gniewu. Amerykańskie kino wywrotowe w KINOMUZEUM na 50-lecie Ośrodka Studiów Amerykańskich, UW

March 30, 2026

„Użytek z gniewu. Amerykańskie kino wywrotowe” to sekcja filmowa tegorocznego festiwalu Millennium Docs Against Gravity, w ramach której zostaną zaprezentowane filmy dokumentalne poświęcone kulturze amerykańskiej i kinu oporu. Pokazom kinematografii dokumentalnej i eksperymentalnej, kształtowanej w kontrze do narracji Hollywood, będą towarzyszyły spotkania z osobami eksperckimi w zakresie kultury amerykańskiej.

Year 2025/2026

April 23: “Crippled Ecology in Motion. Toxic Environments, Non-Normative Bodies and the Politics of Survival in Weird Vegetation”

April 29, 2026

Weird Fictions Research Group invites you to join the first student lecture in the Weird Vegetation series in the spring semester 2025/26.

Year 2025/2026

May 7: “Unrooted Voices: Weird Vegetation in Contemporary Weird Fiction Audio Drama”

April 29, 2026

Weird Fictions Research Group invites you to join the fourth student lecture in the Weird Vegetation series in the spring semester 2025/26.

Year 2025/2026

April 9: “Greek Dryads, Singing Flowers and Power Hungry Mushrooms – Plants and Fungi in culture then and now”

April 13, 2026

Weird Fictions Research Group invites you to join the first student lecture in the Weird Vegetation series in the spring semester 2025/26.

Year 2025/2026

March 25: “Decentralized Biological Warfare: Plants as Non-State Actors in Contemporary Media”

March 12, 2026

Weird Fictions Research Group invites you to join the first student lecture in the Weird Vegetation series in the spring semester 2025/26.

Year 2025/2026

17 marca: Strategie przetrwania w erze dezinformacji. Klub Amerykański #6: Agnieszka Graff i Elżbieta Korolczuk

February 25, 2026

Na śniadanie: dwadzieścia rolek z Instagrama, na obiad: pół godziny TikToka, na podwieczorek: kilka kłótni z Twittera, na kolację: Netflix. I tak w kółko. Współczesna dieta medialna jest nie do opanowania i przetrawienia. Jak sobie radzimy z tym przesytem?

Year 2025/2026

Jan 26: “Laboring in America: Polish-American Women and Labor Migration (1890s-1930s)”

January 21, 2026

The European Forum on US History, in cooperation with the ASC and as a part of the celebration of the ASC’s 50th Anniversary, is hosting an online lecture “Laboring in America: Polish-American Women and Labor Migration (1890s-1930s)” by Sylwia Kuźma-Markowska.