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  • ​4-8 June, 2018: Festival of Culture UCL: discussions and debates on Poland/Identity/Belonging. Details to be announced 

  • 11-12 June, 2018: Impacts of Gender, 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 ​
  • ​Call for Paper HERE 
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The Project supports research and knowledge exchange in gender, queer, and women's studies
through

SEMINARS TALKS
FESTIVALS ACTIVIST INITIATIVES

key words: gender, queer, LGBTQ, contemporary women's fiction, the notion of foreigner, women’s writing, Poland and Eastern Europe, melancholy, the body, identity, migration, travelling, displacement,
languages of exclusions and discrimination
SSEES University College London: Impacts of Gender Seminar Series
website HERE 

​BLOG entries HERE 
Organiser: dr Urszula Chowaniec
u.chowaniec@ucl.ac.uk

Past events/quick links

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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
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  • 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.
  • 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). 

Projects supported by:
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 ​

events are free and open

all are welcome