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Contemporary Women's Writing, Culture, Art, Film and Language(s)
academic website of prof. Ula Urszula Chowaniec 

Ula Urszula Chowaniec: events, initiatives, projects
(academic profile)


From December 2023: ​inauguration of the project let by prof. Ramona Gonczol, PROLang, seminars on language, culture linguistic and politics at University College London. With my participation and full support. About ProLang and forthcoming events here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/news-events/seminar-series/prolang 
21. February, 2023: Lecture/ talk on Queering language in comparative Polish vs English contexts with Shaun Foley, SSEES UCL. 

January 2023: członkini Rady Naukowej czasopisma AUTOBIOGRAFIA https://wnus.edu.pl/au/pl/page/editorial
Autobiografia: Literatura, Kultura, Media 

January - April 2023: Grant for the project Poetry to Songs. Creating a music and song representation of selected poems by Celia Dropkin, Kadia Molodowski, Anna Margolin, Rokhl Korn and others (Janiary-April 2023) at Paideia Folkhögskola, Sweden. 

Grudzień 2022: 
Konferencja Wszystko o Czułości. All About Tenderness
Information website: https://konferencjakonteksty.ka.edu.pl/materialy-video-z-konferencji
 
Rozmowa z Agnieszką Holland (rozmawiają Urszula Ula Chowaniec i Anna Taszycka): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2wrwjQVUIs&t=1s 

  • 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

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  • Amsterdam, June 9-11, 2022: Paideia Alumna 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


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  • 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. 

  • October 2019 - September 2020:​ Ula Chowaniec starts a news project the Art of Remembering/ the Politics of Memory, focusing on  Irena Klepfisz's Poetry and the Contemporary Idea of Secular Identity,  aiming at preliminary research in contemporary Jewish identity and collecting fort interviews.
  • Supported by AFM Kraków Academy 2020-2021 research project 
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Irena Klepfisz, May 2019 during her visit in Stockholm

PictureConference 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

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  • 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. 
         About the event see HERE 
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         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). 

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Podcast SNACK Sztokholmskie Konwersacje 
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 


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


See also previous project on Women's Online Writing and follow the valuable materials:
  • WOW
http://www.womenonlinewriting.org/issues.html​ 
  • Polish issue on Feminism and Academia
http://womenonlinewriting.weebly.com/issue-no-3-history-of-polish-feminism-in-academia-in-polish.html

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



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  • 100 years and So What? 
  • Curating of the exhibition at the Gallery Centrala, Birmingham (May-July 2018)
2018 marks the centenary of women gaining voting rights in Poland,also in the UK and many other countries. Centrala in the exhibition 100 Years, SO What? present what this centenary means for women in contemporary society. Juxtaposing the political and social debate on emancipation at the beginning of the 20th century with contemporary artistic practices (suchasselfie-feminism), the exhibition aims to create a cultural and social space for discussion of the position of women in contemporary society.
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 


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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 ​
  • All the details about the event HERE ​​https://impactsofgender.weebly.com


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  • 7 March, 2018: Seminar discussion commemorating 100th anniversary of Polish women gaining their political rights/ celebrating 8th of March. Venue: Ground Floor Common Room, IAS UCL (Institute of Advanced Studies UCL, SSEES). 
  • PROGRAMME 
  • Straight to REGISTRATION


  • 5 December, 2017 1.pm: Taboo – Lesbians as a metaphorical threat to the heteronormative national order? History of sexualities, politics and cinema under Communism in Eastern Europe Lunch Hour Lecture, University College London (part of current Ula Chowaniec's current project)​ Details HERE

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  • 10th of November, 2017​, Birmingham. Centrala Association, Queer East, South and West of Europe. Sminar 10.30-5.30pm. Link HERE


  • 24th of October, 2017: Beyond Borders: Sexuality and Cold War. Evenbrite here. Author of the book, Łukasz Szulc in discussion with Urszula Chowaniec and Richard Mole. University College London School of Slavonic and East European Studies. When: 6-8pm. Reception afterwards.

  • June 5-11, 2017: Programme gender/queer/the other europe  (within UCL FESTIVAL OF CULTURE)​

  • February 2, 2017: Escaping from this small place.... (Wioletta Greg with her Swallowing Mercury, 2017 and discussion on women's writing, Poland, Brexit and translation). More about the event HERE and about Wioletta Greg and her writing HERE ​

  • October 28, 2016: Abortion Talk / Body Politics and LGBTQ in Poland (focusing on the social movement against further radicalisation of the anti-abortion law). 

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 ​

Projects supported among others by:

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  • HOME
    • About Urszula Chowaniec
      • Conferences
        • Monstrous Gender (BASEES Conference, Cambridge 2015)
        • Abortion Talk 2016
        • PO(st)GRANICZNE NARRACJE MIEJSKIE (konferencja, SZCZECIN, październik 2014)
        • UCL Festival of Culture 2017
        • Conference Talk Perpetual Others
        • Gender/queer/the other Europe
      • Urszula Chowaniec: Academic Profile
        • Grants
        • Interviews
      • Academic Courses: QUICK LINKS
        • Contact
        • CV
        • Teaching Experience
        • Publications
        • Why CUDZOZIEMKI?
    • ARCHIVES Reading Room
  • KOŁO LITERACKIE