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Gender/Sexuality Research Group
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Team of gender and sexuality studies scholars, American Studies Center, University of Warsaw | Podcast „Oswoić Gender”
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The conference “Gender and Sexuality Studies in Local and International Perspectives” is just 1 day away! 🎉

We will map 🗺️ the contemporary state of the field, both from the perspective of Polish research & teaching, as well as the potential for international collaboration 🌎

55 Dobra Street, 10-17
October 5, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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And now a selection of speakers seating on the Polish-language panel: dr Ludmiła Janion (Gender/Sexuality Research Group, ASC, UW), dr hab. Dobrochna Kałwa (WH, UW), dr Konrad Sierzputowski (IKP, UW) & mgr Izabella Tyborowicz (MSD, UW). 🎉
Ludmiła Janion jest kulturoznawczynią, adiunktką w Ośrodku Studiów Amerykańskich Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, członkinią Pracowni Gender/Sexuality. Jej zainteresowania naukowe koncentrują się wokół przemian kulturowo-społecznych lat 90. w Polsce i Europie, studiów nad seksualnością oraz teorii queer. Ludmiła Janion is a cultural studies scholar, assistant professor at the American Studies Center, University of Warsaw, and a member of the Gender/Sexuality Research Group. Her research interests focus on the cultural and social changes of the 1990s in Poland and Europe, sexuality studies and queer theory. Historyczka, absolwentka Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, od 2012 adiunkta na Wydziale Historii Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego. Naukowo zajmuje się kulturową historią kobiet/gender, historią mówioną i metodologią. Członkini redakcji czasopism „Aspasia” i „Women’s History Review”, członkini Komisji Historii Kobiet Komitetu Nauk Historycznych PAN i zarządu International Federation for Researchers in Women’s History. Historian, graduate of the Jagiellonian University, and assistant professor at the Faculty of History, University of Warsaw since 2012. Her research interests include the cultural history of women/gender, oral history, and methodology. She is a member of the editorial board of the journals "Aspasia" and "Women’s History Review," and a member of the Women’s History Commission of the Committee on Historical Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the board of the International Federation for Researchers in Women’s History. Kulturoznawca, muzykoznawca, badacz współczesnych kultur LGBTQ+, adiunkt w Instytucie Kultury Polskiej UW. Jego zainteresowania naukowe obejmują: aktualną muzykę popularną, historię mediów audiowizualnych, transformacje kultury cyfrowej oraz wernakularne strategie i praktyki queer — online i offline. Konrad Sierzputowski is a cultural anthropologist, music scholar, and researcher of contemporary LGBTQ+ cultures and assistant professor at the Institute of Polish Culture, UW. His academic interests include contemporary popular music, the history of audiovisual media, transformations of digital culture, and vernacular queer strategies and practices — both online and offline. Doktorantka Międzydziedzinowej Szkoły Doktorskiej UW, absolwentka Instytutu Kultury Polskiej, w którym ukończyła kulturoznawstwo ze specjalizacją z kultury wizualnej, absolwentka filmoznawstwa w Instytucie Sztuki PAN. Obecnie studiuje gender studies w Instytucie Badań Literackich PAN. W ramach projektu doktoranckiego prowadzi badania nad queerowymi performansami na polskiej scenie klubowej, przede wszystkim skupiając się na kulturze ballroomowej i dragu. PhD student at the Interdisciplinary Doctoral School at the University of Warsaw, graduate of the Institute of Polish Culture, where she graduated in cultural studies with a specialization in visual culture, and a graduate of film studies at the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences. She is currently studying gender studies at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences. She researches queer performances of the Polish club scene, primarily focusing on ballroom and drag culture.
October 2, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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The conference is fast approaching ⏳. Please get to know some of our wonderful speakers: dr Josef Šebek (Charles University), dr Camilla Bruun Eriksen (University of Copenhagen) & prof. Andrea Pető (Central European University) on the English-speaking panel ⬇️
Josef Šebek jest adiunktem w Instytucie Literaturoznawstwa Porównawczego i Literatury Czeskiej na Wydziale Humanistycznym Uniwersytetu Karola oraz współpracującym badaczem w CEFRES (Centre français de recherche en sciences sociales). Specjalizuje się w materializmie kulturowym, socjologii Pierre’a Bourdieu oraz współczesnej francuskiej socjologii literatury. Jego zainteresowania obejmują również gatunki pisarstwa biograficznego i studia queer. Josef Šebek is an assistant professor at the Institute of Czech and Comparative Literature at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University and an associated researcher at CEFRES (Centre français de recherche en sciences sociales). He specializes in cultural materialism, the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu, and current French sociology of literature. His other interests include genres of life writing and queer studies. Dr Camilla Bruun Eriksen jest profesorą w Katedrze Studiów Nordyckich i Lingwistyki (Uniwersytet Kopenhaski). Specjalizuje się w studiach kulturoznawczych i teorii krytycznej, zwłaszcza w poststrukturalistycznej teorii feministycznej i teorii afektu. Dr Camilla Bruun Eriksen in an associate professor at the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics (University of Copenhagen). She specializes in cultural studies and critical theory, especially post-structuralist feminist theory and affect theory. Andrea Pető jest profesorą w Katedrze Studiów nad Płcią na Uniwersytecie Środkowoeuropejskim w Wiedniu (Austria) oraz doktorą nauk ścisłych Węgierskiej Akademii Nauk. Jest autorką licznych publikacji w wiodących czasopismach, takich jak „East European Politics and Society”, „Feminist Theory”, „NORA”, „Journal of Women’s History” i „European Journal of Women’s Studies”, a także autorką 7 monografii. Prowadzi zajęcia z europejskiej historii porównawczej płci i społeczeństwa, płci i polityki, ruchów kobiecych, metod jakościowych, historii mówionej i Holokaustu. Andrea Pető is a Professor in the Department of Gender Studies at Central European University, Vienna, Austria, and a Doctor of Science of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. She has published widely in leading journals including East European Politics and Society, Feminist Theory, NORA, Journal of Women’s History and European Journal of Women’s Studies, as well as authored 7 monographs. She teaches on European comparative social and gender history, gender and politics, women’s movements, qualitative methods, oral history, and the Holocaust.
October 2, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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#MartaUsiekniewicz recently took part in the "Silent Echos: Golden Age Crime Fiction and Trauma" Conference organized by @goldenagemysteries.bsky.social & Florida State University. She presented a paper on "Consumption, Trauma, and Masculinity in Dorothy L. Sayers’ Lord Peter Wimsey Series" 💡
September 24, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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This week 🗓️ in Kraków #JoannaMąkowska will discuss her translation of Claudia Rankine’s iconic “Citizen: An American Lyric” (recently pub. in Poland by Karakter), alongside Prof. Paulina Ambroży&Dr. Bartosz Wójcik.

This event is the lead-up to the Polish Association of American Studies conference 🚅
September 22, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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REMINDER ‼️

Join us on October, 6th for a conference on "Local & International Perspectives on Gender & Sexuality Studies." It is an event in celebration of the upcoming inauguration of the new Gender & Sexuality MA studies program at the University of Warsaw ✨
September 20, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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🚨NEW PUBLICATION🚨

#JędrzejBurszta has recently contributed a Polish-language chapter on the relationship between religious individualism & young LGBT+ believers' attitudes towards parenthood in Poland to the Uni of Warsaw Press edited volume "Gender. Perspektywa antropologiczna. Kontynuacje" 📖
September 16, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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We are co-hosting a conference to celebrate the upcoming inauguration of the new Gender & Sexuality MA studies program at the University of Warsaw. The 1st panel (in PL), "Gender i Queer po polsku" explores local scholarly perspectives and the 2nd (in ENG) focuses on transnational networks! ✨
September 11, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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All members presented papers on queer speculation in literature, film, and video games. #JoannaKaniewska received the prestigious @sfrareview.bsky.social Student Paper Award for her last year's paper titled “Re-Enchanting the Future: Witches in Feminist Science Fiction." Congratulations!
August 27, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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This year’s @sfrareview.bsky.social annual conference at the University of Rochester included a large representation from the Gender/Sexuality Research Group: #JędrzejBurszta, #OlgaGajek, #AnnaMariaGrzybowska, #JoannaKaniewska, #AgnieszkaKotwasińska, #AnnaKurowicka, #AnnaTemel #JagodaTyczyńska
August 27, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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@ajmalinowska.bsky.social, our doctoral student member, has recently published with @feministreview.bsky.social. Check out her article "Valerie Solanas’ utopian world-building: Feminist poetics of anger and political violence in SCUM Manifesto (1967)": journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
August 22, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Two of our members, #AnnaKurowicka and #JoannaMąkowska, have been awarded a scholarship from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education dedicated for outstanding young researchers! Congratulations 🎉
Picture of dr Anna Kurowicka Picture of Joanna Mąkowska
July 8, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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@jplaczkiewicz.bsky.social, our PhD student, recently attended the #horrorNU conference organized by @horrorstudies.bsky.social, Northumbria University. She explored new perspectives in contemporary rape-revenge cinema, focusing on the role of affect & the transformative portrayal of female avengers
Conference poster depicting large pile of skulls in a dark-green hue. Building of the Northumbria University against the blue sky. Portrait of Julia Płaczkiewicz. She is a white woman, posed standing up, smiling on a background of neatly stacked bookshelves. She is wearing a Black shirt. He hair is dark blonde, shoulder-length.
June 12, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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@karolinakrasuska.bsky.social recently gave an interview about the new MA studies program she co-coordinates at the University of Warsaw! It is the first gender & sexuality studies program of this kind in Poland 🎓 Read about the behind the scenes of this initiative and state of the field in Poland 🇵🇱
June 9, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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A good portion of our Team is also involved with the @ncn.gov.pl QueerIT research grant. Today marked the 1st day of their international workshop on "Activist Discourse and Digital Queer" 🌎. Project members and invited guests discussed local reception of Butler, queer modes of production and more 🧠
May 27, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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#OlgaGajek, our PhD candidate member, recently took part in a conference organized by the ASC "Forgotten, Misplaced, Marginalized: Speculations We Don’t See"- she did an introductory speech to a 2019 independent film "Serpentário" (dir. Carlos Conceição) at the Museum of Modern Art. 🎥
May 15, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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@karolinakrasuska.bsky.social recently held a workshop on the global East, the Cold War & cultural studies under her IDUB grant “Tandems for Excellence: Visiting Researchers Programme”. Pictured are professors Karolina Krasuska, Sasha Senderovich, Ludmiła Janion, and MA student, Kamila Bagińska 🧠🗺️
Professors Karolina Krasuska, Sasha Senderovich, Ludmiła Janion, and MA student, Kamila Klavia Bagińska are pictured seating around a wooden table in a bright room. Materials are scattered across the table and there are some sweet treats at the center.
May 13, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Our PhD student member #JoannaSzymaniak joined the @ncn.gov.pl Queer Theory In Transit grant (OPUS LAP / Weave), led by dr hab. Tomasz Basiuk, prof. and Prof. Eveline Kilian.

She will be researching Queer Theory in English and American Studies publications in Poland. Congrats to Joanna!
May 3, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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At the start of April our Research Group met with J. Szpilka to discuss her recent book "Gorset, wstyd i kocie uszka" ("Corset, Shame and Cat Ears") 🐱. The discussion revolved around these and similar questions: Who would like to be a woman? What is the difference between womanhood and femininity? 📖
J. Szpilka (guest) and Ludmiła Janion (host) at the head of the table Meeting participants sat at desks, organized to form a circle with J. Szpilka (guest) and Ludmiła Janion (host) at the head of the seating area "Gorset, wstyd i kocie uszka" book cover
April 29, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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NEW PUBLICATION 🚨

#AgnieszkaKotwasińska just published an article in Horror Studies! It analyses Brandon Cronenberg’s films Possessor (2020) and Antiviral (2012) as examples of transplantation horror.

The study was supported by the IDUB New Ideas for Young Parents grant.

Access link below 🔗
April 28, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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We are co-hosting Jonathan Alexander from the University of California, Irvine on April 24th @ucirvine.bsky.social ! Come join us for a lecture on "The Minima Moralia of Autotheory: New Reflections on Damaged Life".

⏰ April 24, 2025 at 4:45 p.m.
🏫 Dobra 55, Room: 2.118

Abstract: fb.me/e/6kvQbNK1m
April 16, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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NEW PUBLICATION 🚨

#JędrzejBurszta contributed to
"The Routledge Handbook of Sexuality in East Central Europe" @routledgelit.bsky.social! His chapter discusses "Operation Hyacinth and the History of State Violence in the People's Republic of Poland". Details 🔗: www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
April 15, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Dzień Otwarty UW na którym promowałyśmy nowy kierunek studiów nad płcią i seksualnością zakończył się sukcesem!

Więcej informacji o kierunku pod linkiem 🔗: gender.idub.uw.edu.pl

Dziękujemy za liczne przybycie i gorąco zapraszamy do rekrutacji! 🎓
April 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Nowy kierunek studiów magisterskich Płeć i seksualność!

W wyniku współpracy Ośrodka Studiów Amerykańskich i Instytutu Kultury Polskiej, Wydział Polonistyki otwiera od października 2025 nowy kierunek studiów Płeć i seksualność!

Więcej informacji;
www.gender.idub.uw.edu.pl
April 8, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Another event organized by our Student Chapter is just a week away 🗓️! Two speakers will present their research projects dealing with sexuality discourses 🎤 One of them is our predoctoral member #JoannaSzymaniak, who works on contemporary literary narratives of sexual violence and consent 🏫 Dobra 55
April 1, 2025 at 11:42 PM