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American Studies Colloquium Series

January 18: The Birth of the Concept of the Federal State during the Antebellum Constitutional Debates

January 18, 2024

Join us for final lecture of the American Studies Colloquium Series in the 2023/2024 Fall semester! This lecture focuses on the concept of the federal state as it emerged during the theoretical and political struggles over the shaping of the Constitution in the antebellum United States.

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March 7: The State of Presidential Elections

March 7, 2024

We are delighted to invite you to the opening lecture of the American Studies Colloquium Series in the 2023/2024 Spring semester! This time, we are joined by Stephen J. Farnsworth from University of Mary Washington, who will present a lecture entitled “The State of Presidential Elections”.

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March 21: American-German Relations: From Partnership in Leadership to War in Ukraine

March 21, 2024

We are pleased to invite you to the third lecture of the American Studies Colloquium Series in the 2023/2024 Spring semester! The lecture will try to outline the historical roots of the complicated relations between USA and Germany as well as focus on the recent debates surrounding the war in Ukraine.

American Studies Colloquium Series

April 15: Film, AIDS, Activism: Culture Engagements that Move

April 15, 2024

We are pleased to invite you to a lecture in the American Studies Colloquium Series in the 2023/2024 Spring semester! This talk will look at the structures of feeling that guide notions of kinship in AIDS activist video works from the earliest years of the AIDS epidemic of the United States.

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March 14: The Invisible Designer: Meg Crane and the Invention of Home Pregnancy Testing in 1960s New York

March 12, 2024

We are pleased to invite you to a lecture in the American Studies Colloquium Series in the 2023/2024 Spring semester. This time we’ll be joined by Jesse Olszynko-Gryn, who will talk about Predictor, the groundbreaking home pregnancy test developed in New York in the late 1960s by Margaret “Meg” Crane.

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November 16: New Forms/Known Rivers

November 16, 2023

When #BlackLivesMatter emerged in 2013, it animated the most consequential Black-led mobilization since the civil rights and Black power era. Today, the hashtag turned rallying cry is but one expression of a radical reorientation toward Black politics, protest, and political thought.

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Lorraine Hansberry on Racism, Antisemitism, and Postwar American Intellectual Life

October 16, 2023

Sometime in the early 1960s, Lorraine Hansberry drafted an essay on the Eichmann trial, one that she never completed. Writing in the early 1960s, at a moment of anti-communist fervor that silenced both Black and Jewish radical thinkers, Hansberry understood antisemitism and anti-Black racism as an intertwined agenda of white supremacy that defined twentieth-century politics.

Year 2022/2023

27. Festiwal Nauki: Postsekularyzm. Polska i amerykańska perspektywa

September 24, 2023

Postsekularyzm jest odpowiedzią zarówno ludzi wierzących jak i niewierzących na rosnącą polaryzację społeczeństwa. Uznaje sekularyzację za niezbywalny i pozytywny wymiar nowoczesności, jednocześnie akceptując religie jako ważny i pozytywny element kultury. W czasie wykładu przyjrzymy się temu zjawisku z polskiej i amerykańskiej perspektywy, próbując zaobserwować jego skutki i potencjalne możliwości.

Year 2022/2023

27. Festiwal Nauki: Nie tylko roboty, kosmici i geniusze: aseksualność w amerykańskiej kulturze popularnej

September 24, 2023

Aseksualność długo była w kulturze popularnej niewidoczna, a postaci aseksualne bywały sprowadzane do robotów, kosmitów, lub innych „nieludzkich” dziwaków. W czasie wykładu przyjrzymy się różnym wcieleniom aseksualności w amerykańskiej popkulturze oraz zastanowimy się nad tym, jak rasa i płeć wpływają na konstrukcję aseksualnych postaci. Porozmawiamy między innymi o serialach “BoJack Horseman” i “Teoria wielkiego podrywu”, powieściach dla młodzieży oraz literaturze science fiction.

Year 2022/2023

June 16: Forecasting & Prediction – Necessary Skills for the 21st Century Leadership

June 16, 2023

Leadership Studies Research Group has the pleasure to invite for a lecture by Dr. Sam Potolicchio on skills neccessary in 21-century leadership.

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June 1: Reckless Shelter: Contemporary Ecopoetic Practice

June 1, 2023

In this lecture, Karen Holmberg — a poet, writer and academic —will talk about the engagements with environmental and ecological initiatives at Oregon State that have shaped her and her recent work, while sharing and discussing sample poems that show her lifelong preoccupations with language as a living matter and one of the chief tools humans have for “being toward and becoming with” the natural world.

Year 2022/2023

May 29: Persephone & Demeter: A Workshop on “Lore Olympus”

May 29, 2023

Join this workshop on the current reiterations of the Persephone and Demeter myth and take part in a little knowledge-production experiment.

Year 2023/2024

March 19: The Algernon-Gordon Effect: Rethinking Human-Animal Relationships

March 19, 2024

Weird Fictions Research Group proudly invites you to the next “Weird Medicine” event! During this workshop, we will reflect upon the potentialities of Daniel Keyes’ Hugo Award-winning short story “Flowers for Algernon” (1959) to challenge—or not—our relationship with laboratory animals.

Year 2023/2024

April 11: Pregnant with an Abject Fetus: Disruptiveness of the Patriarchal Order in “Rosemary’s Baby” and Halsey’s “If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power”

April 6, 2024

Weird Fictions Research Group proudly invites you to the next “Weird Medicine” event! The talk will focus on the theme of the dangerous fetus in two movies on monstrous gestation – Rosemary’s Baby (1968) and Halsey’s independent movie If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power (2021).

Year 2023/2024

March 12: “I Want it Out!”: Gynaehorror & Pro-Life Narratives in Post-Roe v. Wade

March 4, 2024

Join us for another lecture in the Weird Medicine series, this time focusing on a subgenre of horror called gynaehorror. As a thematic subgenre, it refers to films that center on lived female experience and the horrors embodied therein – such as the state’s use of biopower in its dominion over reproductive autonomy.