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Join this panel discussion exploring tensions between art, gender and the struggle for reproductive rights in contemporary Poland organised by Calvert 22 Foundation and UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies.
The event runs alongside the conference Impacts of Gender Discourse on Polish Politics, Society & Culture at UCL School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies and Calvert 22 Foundation’s exhibition Family Values: Polish Photography Now.
Programme
Agnieszka Graff, University of Warsaw
From ‘Polska’ to ‘Polka’: The Black Protest’s ‘Fighting Polish Woman’ as Subversive Appropriation of National Symbolism
Aneta Stępień, Trinity College
Politics of gender and sexuality in the feminist memes of Marta Frej
Kate Bush, Curator
Introduction to the exhibition Family Values and the work of Zofia Rydet
Chaired by Urszula Chowaniec
About the speakers
Agnieszka Graff is an associate professor at the American Studies Center, University of Warsaw, where she teaches US culture, literature and film, African American studies and gender studies. She has authored five books of feminist essays in Polish, is an activist and media commentator, a founding member of the Women’s 8th of March Alliance and co-organizer and speaker of Congress of Polish Women.
Aneta Stępień is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies at Trinity College Dublin where she lectures on Polish culture and literature, and on gender. She is the author of a comparative study of the literary expressions of shame, Shame, Masculinity and Desire of Belonging. Reading Contemporary Male Writers, published by Peter Lang in 2017.
Kate Bush is a curator and critic specialising in contemporary art and photography. Kate is Adjunct Curator of Photography at Tate Britain. She was most recently Head of Photography at the Science Museum Group, including the Science Museum in London and National Media Museum in Bradford. In 2014, Kate curated Close and Far , a show on historical and contemporary Russian photography at Calvert 22 Foundation. She is the curator of Family Values: Polish Photography Now.
Urszula Chowaniec, Ph.D., is senior teaching fellow and researcher at School of Slavonic and East European Studies University College London.
Join this panel discussion exploring tensions between art, gender and the struggle for reproductive rights in contemporary Poland organised by Calvert 22 Foundation and UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies.
The event runs alongside the conference Impacts of Gender Discourse on Polish Politics, Society & Culture at UCL School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies and Calvert 22 Foundation’s exhibition Family Values: Polish Photography Now.
Programme
Agnieszka Graff, University of Warsaw
From ‘Polska’ to ‘Polka’: The Black Protest’s ‘Fighting Polish Woman’ as Subversive Appropriation of National Symbolism
Aneta Stępień, Trinity College
Politics of gender and sexuality in the feminist memes of Marta Frej
Kate Bush, Curator
Introduction to the exhibition Family Values and the work of Zofia Rydet
Chaired by Urszula Chowaniec
About the speakers
Agnieszka Graff is an associate professor at the American Studies Center, University of Warsaw, where she teaches US culture, literature and film, African American studies and gender studies. She has authored five books of feminist essays in Polish, is an activist and media commentator, a founding member of the Women’s 8th of March Alliance and co-organizer and speaker of Congress of Polish Women.
Aneta Stępień is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies at Trinity College Dublin where she lectures on Polish culture and literature, and on gender. She is the author of a comparative study of the literary expressions of shame, Shame, Masculinity and Desire of Belonging. Reading Contemporary Male Writers, published by Peter Lang in 2017.
Kate Bush is a curator and critic specialising in contemporary art and photography. Kate is Adjunct Curator of Photography at Tate Britain. She was most recently Head of Photography at the Science Museum Group, including the Science Museum in London and National Media Museum in Bradford. In 2014, Kate curated Close and Far , a show on historical and contemporary Russian photography at Calvert 22 Foundation. She is the curator of Family Values: Polish Photography Now.
Urszula Chowaniec, Ph.D., is senior teaching fellow and researcher at School of Slavonic and East European Studies University College London.