Ula Urszula Chowaniec: research, lectures, events, projects
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- November 23-26, 2022 Kraków. Fuga Melancholii
- https://ifis.up.krakow.pl/nauka/melancholia/
- November 19-20, 2022 LIMMUD Stockholm lecture on Chava Rosenfarb and her essays.
- Talk on Chava Rosenfarb https://limmud.se/na-sessions/confessions-of-a-yiddish-writer-chava-rosenfarb/
- October 16-18, 2022: Conference on emotions, tenderness in art and education. All About Tenderness. Contexts of Olga Tokarczuk's Writings. See: https://konferencjakonteksty.ka.edu.pl/en/
- September 12-14, 2022: Christian Jewish Contacts. Södertörn University, Stockholm.
- Link: https://www.sh.se/english/sodertorn-university/calendar/events/2021-10-18-conference-12-14-september-2022-jewish-christian-contacts-past-and-present.-sweden-and-germany-compared
- September 4, 2022: Paideia Conference, Stockholm, Bait. Paper on What is New in the Yiddish Literature?
- Paper published in EVENTS at the Jewish Women's Writing website
- August 12-14 2022: Yiddish Seminar in Stockholm Jiddisch Forbundet
- See overview: https://www.jiddischforbundet.se/hem-2/526-efterlangtat-och-valbesokt-jiddischseminarium-i-augusti
- My lectures on Ida Kamińska and Irena Klepfisz in EVENTS at the Jewish Women's Writing website
- June-July 2022: series of seminars at YIVO programme in New York
- See the short film on Rivke Basman Ben Hayim: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVcTesuTrCI&t=198s
- Amsterdam, June 9-11, 2022: Paideia Alumni Conference. Networking and Presenting the research, fantastic atmosphere and great chance for catching up with friends.
- Photo: from the women's section at the Portuguese Synagogue of Amsterdam, June 2022
- March-June 2022: Yiddish Literature in Translation (Solemn Aleichem, IL Peretz, I Bashevis Singer, Kadia Malodowski, Chava Rosenfarb and Irena Klepfisz). Course at Paideia Folkhögskola. See: https://jewishwomenswriting.weebly.com/yiddish-literature-in-translation.html
- See also Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5EuEbRCawWeSjRFQDjs7J7?si=6W6E6lJ1RkCIivufsFIO_Q
- From January 2022: Literary Meetings at AFM Kraków University Literackie Koło Studenckie. Spotkania co miesiąc. Rozmowy o książkach.
- Spring 2022: Eastern European Women's Writing and Jewish Identity. An academic course at the Aleksanteri Institute in Helsinki University in Spring 2022 (academic year: 2021/2022). The stories of Jewish Women's Writing are speaking around the world and tell something very very truthful about life and women's experiences!
- The Course Page: https://studies.helsinki.fi/courses/cur/hy-opt-cur-2122-28356c86-3490-44c0-b9db-39e5e5f8a589
- From February 2021. Katarzyna Tubylewicz, a Stockholm-based Polish writer and journalist and I run a podcast SNACK (in Polish) on Stockholm's Unruly and To the Point Conversation :-) (Sztokholmskie Niepokorne Arcycelne Konwersacje)!
- Website with description and links to the podcasts: SNACKKasiiUli
- Podcasts platform (we are also on Spotify): HERE
- #snackkasiiuli, #katarzynatubylewicz, #ulachowaniec, #ulastories, #ulachowaniec
- SNACK also have a column at Polish monthly Wysokie Obcasy EXTRA (starting from July 15, 2021 every month :-)
- Summer 2021: Quarantine writing (from London about books). #ulastories, #ulachowaniec
- From September 2021: Course on Jewish Women's Writing: new readings, new stories, other pomes, books and names. Women's stories, mothers and daughters and family, wars and peace, loves and loneliness, dependent and entanglement in problematic relationships, politics and aesthetics. Paideia Folhögskola in Stockholm. Course online. Course site HERE, or type:
- https://jewishwomenswriting.weebly.com
- December 2020 Review/ recenzja (in Polish) and reflection about the politics of memory during the December visit in Oświęcim (2020) HERE
- From September 2020 (and from February 2021): Course on Jewish Women's Writing 20th century at Paideia in Stockholm: a fun evening course devoted to the close reading and contextual analysis of the selected women's Jewish voices. To sign for the course here: https://paideiafolkhogskola.se/courses/judiska-kvinnliga-forfattare-under-1900-talet/ also for more information and material, follow the link JEWISH WOMEN"S WRITING/ literature, essays, though, poetry of the 20th century (course 2020/2021, Autumn and Spring)
- Website: https://jewishwomenswriting.weebly.com
- 2-19 January, 2020: Research visit to Israel (as a Amos Oz Fellow at the European Institute for Jewish Studies, Paidia, visit at National Library of Israel and Yad Vashem.
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Irena Klepfisz, May 2019 during her visit in Stockholm
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Conference is about to begin: François Guesnet, co-organiser of the conference, Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College London, December 2019
- 1-2 December, 2019, Warsaw: CONFERENCE Biographies and Politics: Involvement of Jews and People of Jewish Origin in Leftist Movements in 19th and 20th Century Poland
- https://www.polin.pl/en/biographies-and-politics-conference
- 20 November, 2019, Stockholm, Paideia Saving Fading Stories. Discussion with Ewa Ekblad Heller, a Holocaust survival about the Importance of Memory and Remembering. (Event is organised only for the Paideia students)
- 16-17 November, 2019: LIMMUD Stockholm, two events in November 2019
- On Agnon and His Memory in International Perspectives and on Irena Klepfisz, see description of my presentations HERE
- The programme of the whole event HERE
- Panel on SY AGNON
- Panel on poetry by Irena Klepfisz
Credits: Małgorzata Dawidek, 2019
- 24-25 October, 2019
- Arachne and Teaching with Epiphanies and Aporias: the quest for the reparative academia
- Conference in Brussels and Performance with Małgorzata Dawidek!
- Ula Chowaniec's manifesto created for this performance HERE
- Have a look: Sofia Gender Studies Conference
- August, 2019 -March, 2020: Paidea: the European Institute for Jewish Studies. I am at the one-year course on Modern Jewish Studies
As an Amos Oz Fellow and I am working on the long term project devoted to the Jewish women's writing and art in the 1920s and 1930s and its memory in today's culture
- 23 May, 2019: Stockholm: a poetry meeting with Irena Klepfisz, a New York-based poet, discussion about her life journey as seen in her poetry, coming out as a lesbian, writing about it, juxtaposing English and Yiddish languages in literary texts. HERSTORY. Come and join us in the discussion. 6.30 pm.
JIDISKA FÖRSAMLINGEN I STOCKHOLM
- September 21-22, 2018: Kraków Women's Utopias Conference (paper) Link: http://www.utopiekobiet.socjologia.uj.edu.pl/
- We Can’t Have it/ Niechciane historie feminizmu lesbijski separatyzm, gorzkie rewindykacje oraz złość smutnych dziewczyn: ABSTRACT: Referat o Niechcianych historiach feminizmu ma na celu analizę wybranych historycznych i kulturowo-politycznych zjawisk, które mają odpowiedzieć, dlaczego kobiecy separatyzm, rewindykacyjny stosunek do kultury łączy się zawsze z etykietką utopijnych, nierealistycznych, a także niesprawiedliwych, a nawet szalonych projektów, które ostatecznie uchodzą za szkodliwy dla ruchu feministycznego. Na początku lat 70-tych, kiedy lesbijski odłam National Organisation of Women domagał się swojego głosu, Betty Friedan, sprzeciwiła się temu wypowiadając słynne: „we can’t have it” (interview, film She is beautiful When She is Angry, 2014). Przywołując tę historię oraz odnosząc się do wybranych trzech kulturowych fenomenów, referat odpowie na pytania, dlaczego niektóre historie kobiet są nie do przyjęcia dla ruchu feministycznego, traktowane za zbyt radykalne, zbyt utopijne, czasem szkodliwe? Czy problemem jest ich utopijny charakter, czy też historia ruchu feministycznego jest historią negocjacji z kulturą heteronormatywną (patriarchalną) i te negocjacje mają charakter stopniowalny w różnych okresach i w zależności od różnych kontekstów politycznych i kulturowych? Referat ten będzie chciał odpowiedzieć na te pytania zarysowując trzy zjawiska: fenomen pierwszego lesbijskiego kolektywu w USA i czasopisma wydawanego przez nich (1) the Furies Collective (1970/1971), w odniesieniu do pierwszego lesbijskiego czasopisma, Furia jako kobiecego separatystycznego głosu. Po drugie, tekst odniesie się do historii głośnej powieściowej rewindykacji kobiecej pozycji w nowoczesnym społeczeństwie w powieściach (2) Rachel Cusk i odbioru jej twórczości jako głosu utopijnego lub głosu „rozłoszczonej pisarki”. Ostatnim zjawiskiem, jaki zarysowany zostanie w referacie, to fenomen nowoczesnego feminizmu rozłoszczonych młodych dziewcząt i jego odbicia w powieści (3) Naomi Anderman, Siła (2017).
ON ULA'S RESEARCH COURSES. SEMINARS TALKS FESTIVALS INITIATIVES CONFERENCES
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1670-9850Ula (Urszula) Chowaniec, PhD., is a Professor at the Andrzej Frycz-Modrzewski Cracow University in Poland. She lives in Stockholm and lectures on Jewish Women’s Literature at the Paideia Folkhögskola. She is also an Honorary Research Fellow at the University College London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies. She worked at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies between 2011 and 2019 and also studied at UCL, where she has lead a series of seminars on gender, festivals. She is an author of a monograph Melancholic Migrating Bodies in Contemporary Women’s Writing (2015) and a monograph on the novels of Irena Krzywicka, a Jewish feminist in the 1930s W poszukiwaniu Kobiety: O wczesnych powieściach Ireny Krzywickiej (In Search of a Woman: Early Novels of Irena Krzywicka, Kraków 2007), and the editor of special issue of Central Europe: Queering Poland.
Currently, she is working on the monograph on the poetry of lesbian Jewish poet, Irena Klepfisz, as her research concentrates on Jewish history and Jewish identity in women writing and contemporary writing (https://jewishwomenswriting.weebly.com).
Currently, she is working on the monograph on the poetry of lesbian Jewish poet, Irena Klepfisz, as her research concentrates on Jewish history and Jewish identity in women writing and contemporary writing (https://jewishwomenswriting.weebly.com).
Podcast SNACK Sztokholmskie Konwersacje
Ula's podcast in Polish on cultural events and Polish-Swedish connections, with a writer Katarzyna Tubylewicz
Ula's podcast in Polish on cultural events and Polish-Swedish connections, with a writer Katarzyna Tubylewicz
Snack You Tube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-riso9y6PDo
Website
https://snackkasiiuli.weebly.com
Website
https://snackkasiiuli.weebly.com
See also previous project on Women's Online Writing and follow the valuable materials:
Ula's courses and teaching materials:
- Jewish Women's Writing: https://jewishwomenswriting.weebly.com/
- Introduction to Cultural Theory: https://popularcultureonline.weebly.com/
- Film Adaptation Course: https://filmadaptationtalks.weebly.com/
- The Art of Thinking and Rethinking: https://popularcultureonline.weebly.com/the-art-of-thinking-and-rethinking.html
- Adaptacje filmowe: https://filmadaptationtalks.weebly.com/adaptacje-filmowe.html
- Retoryka: https://pytaniaretoryczne.weebly.com/retoryka.html
- Kultura i literature popularna: https://pytaniaretoryczne.weebly.com/popularna-lit-i-kul.html
- Queer/Women and easter Europe: https://queerwomen.weebly.com
- Gendering Culture/Eastern Europe HERE
- Random Women's Poet Great Poems Reading HERE
Researcher and organiser: prof. nadzw. dr hab. Urszula (Ula) Chowaniec
u.chowaniec@gmail.com
u.chowaniec@ucl.ac.uk
u.chowaniec@gmail.com
u.chowaniec@ucl.ac.uk
key words: women's writing, identity and memory, gender, queer, language, LGBTQ, contemporary women's fiction, the notion of foreigner, YIDDISH WOMEN WRITERS, Jewish contemporary identity, POLAND AND EASTERN EUROPE, melancholy, the body, identity, migration, travelling, displacement,
languages of exclusions and discrimination
languages of exclusions and discrimination
Today's world needs transgression from the growing level of inequality and injustice to significantly new space. We have invited artists and activists for to discuss the centenary of women's emancipation is a centenary which mirrors the peoples' struggle to get rid of many injustices arising from gender inequality. #100yearssowhat #fminism #emancipation #feministart #womensart SEE also info about related events organised by Ula Chowaniec: https://impactsofgender.weebly.com/july-events-role-of-the-past-and-role-of-anger.html 
11-12 June, 2018: Impacts of Gender Discourses in Poland, an international two-days conference devoted to the gender, LGBTQ, body politics in Europe with Polish Focus (funded by Noble Oxford Foundation). Contact: Ula Chowaniec u.chowaniec@ucl.ac.uk
Here: you can also follow the information about the monograph on Polish contemporary women's writing (Melancholic Migrating Bodies in Polish Contemporary Women's Writing, 2015) as well as the event withing the project of electronic era, literature, culture, gender and migration eMigrating Landscapes as well as have a look at the online journal Women Online Writing
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