Institute for European Ethnology and Cultural Analysis
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Scientific Activities

Research areas

  • Aestheticization processes in cultural contexts
  • Eastern European transformation processes (i.a. Poland and Croatia)
  • Gender and women’s studies (i.a. reproductive rights, feminist theory)
  • Social movements and protest cultures
  • Emotive practices in religious and political contexts
  • Material and popular culture
  • Public memory in Eastern European societies
  • Engaged and moral anthropology

Selected conferences and lectures

  • 12/2023: Traditional Family as the Future of the Nation? On the Ambivalence of Family and Gender Constructions in Poland, Research colloquium “Family in Eastern Europe Between Society, Politics and Everyday Life”, Bern, Switzerland
  • 11/2023: With a Mustache, in Black, as a Rainbow Queen? A Cultural-Analytical Essay on the Memefication of the Black Madonna, Conference “Memes in Popular Culture: Platforms, Processes, Practices”, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
  • 11/2023: On Trading in Courtyards, Garages and Barns or on the Way in Czacz, the Polish “Village of Things”. Sketches on Cultural Hermeneutics of a Regional Flea Market between East and West, Conference “The Flea Market Is Calling”. Prolegomena to a Cultural History of the Flea Market, Düsseldorf, Germany
  • 10/2023: 19. IUAES-WAU World Anthropology Congress: Marginalities, Uncertainties, and World Anthropologies: “Marginalities, Uncertainties, and World Anthropologies: Enlivening Past and Envisioning Future”, International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, New Delhi, India
  • Pro-Choice Rallies, Subversive (Barbie) Memes or Abortion Herstories? Rethinking the Feminist Resistance against Reproductive Restrictions and Abortion Stigma in Poland; Walls Saying No To War: Aesthetic Language of Anti-War Street Art in Poland and Germany. Empirical Findings (with Magdalena Lemańczyk), 19. IUAES-WAU World Anthropology Congress: “Marginalities, Uncertainties, and World Anthropologies: Enlivening Past and Envisioning Future”, International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, New Delhi, India
  • 09/2023: #sexedpl or Education at the Heart of an Ideological War. Bottom-up Educational Formats on Sexuality and Reproduction in the Current Polish Context, International Mid-term ESA RN 10 Conference „Sociology of Education: Wellbeing and Resilience in the Times of Crisis“, UNESCO Janusz-Korczak-Lehrstuhl für Sozialpädagogik der Maria-Grzegorzewska-Universität Warschau, Polnische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Warschau, Polen
  • 06/2023: Walls Saying No To War: Exploring the Aesthetic Language of Anti-War Street Art as Public Forum in Poland and Germany after the Outbreak of War in Ukraine. Methodological Considerations (with Dr. Magdalena Lemańczyk), 20th ISA World Congress of Sociology ”Resurgent Authoritarianism: The Sociology of New Entanglements of Religions, Politics, and Economies”, Melbourne, Australia
  • 06/2023: Who Will Write the History of Tears? Re-Articulating the Relationship between Female Aesthetics, Reproduction and the Political in Uncertain Times, 16th SIEF Congress ”Living Uncertainty, International Society for Ethnology and Folklore”, Brno, Czech Republic
  • 04/2023: Brave Sisters or ”Keep Your Rosaries Off My Ovaries”: Reproductive Rights, Abortion Access and Bodily Autonomy in Poland and Croatia, 14th European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC), Gothenburg, Sweden
  • 07/2022: The Abortion Dream Team: ”Contemporary Women’s Hell”, Abortion Self-Care and the Aesthetics of Reproduction in Poland, 17th EASA Biennial Conference ”Transformation, Hope and the Commons”, Belfast, United Kingdom
  • 06/2022: Abortion Imageries. The Power of Visual Culture and Affective Strategies in the Politics of Reproduction in the Current European Context (Germany, Croatia, Poland), RE:22 Nordic Ethnology and Folklore Conference, Reykjavik, Iceland
  • 03/2022: ”Grotesque, Absurdity, Cuteness”. Aesthetics and Affects in the Polish ”War on Abortion”, Populist Aesthetics in Cultural Perspectives. Workshop ”Truthmaking, Faking, and the Politics of Affect in (Digital) Media, Heidelberg, Germany
  • 02/2022: ”Sie sollen uns sehen”. Zur ästhetisch-emotiven Dimension des (Un-) Sichtbarkeitsdiskurses in der polnischen LGBT-Bewegung, Forschungskolloquium ”(Un-) Sichtbarkeiten. Kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven auf machtvolle Verhandlungen von Aufmerksamkeit, Tübingen, Deutschland (online)
  • 06/2021: ”Make Abortion Great Again”. On the Aesthetics and Emotiveness of Feminist Pro-Choice Activism in Poland, 15th SIEF Congress ”Breaking the Rules? Power, Participation and Transgression”, Helsinki, Finland (online)
  • 04/2021: ”PIS OFF”. Emotive and Aesthetic Dimension of Feminist Pro-Choice Interventions in the Polish Abortion Discourse, ”Troubling Gender. New Turbulences in the Politics of Gender in Europe”, Göttingen, Germany (online)
  • 10/2020: ”The Charm of the PRL”. Ethnographic Perspectives on Nostalgic Representations and Images of the Communist Past in Warsaw, ”Memory of the Communist Past”, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia (online)
  • 07/2020: ”The Big Facebook Cleaning”. E-Activism as a Form of Protest against the New Wave of Right-Wing Populism and Nationalism in Poland, 16th EASA Biennial Conference ”New Anthropological Horizons in and beyond Europe”, Lisbon, Portugal (online)
  • 02/2020: ”Amor patriae nostra lex”. On the Economy of the National as Identity Marker and Aesthetic Resource within the Right-Wing Music Scene in Poland, 6th KPUV Conference: ”Pop the Nation!” The National as a Resource and Argument in Cultures of Popular Entertainment and Amusement, Munich, Germany
  • 04/2019: The Rosary Crusade for the Homeland. Poland’s Controversial New Religious Movement The Rosary Crusade for the Homeland. Poland’s Controversial New Religious Movement, 14th SIEF Congress ”Track Changes: Reflecting on a Transforming World”, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
  • 09/2018: Poland’s Wars of Symbols. Visuality and Emotions in the Polish Culture of Protest after 1989, 9th InASEA Congress ”Emotions, Senses and Affects in the Context of Southeast Europe”, Zadar, Croatia
  • 08/2018: Between Cross and Rainbow. War of Symbols in the Protest Culture of the Polish LGBT Movement after 1989, 15th EASA Biennial Conference ”Staying, Moving, Settling”, Stockholm, Sweden
  • 12/2017: ”The (In)Visible Others”. Identity Policy and Protest Culture of the Polish LGBT Movement after 1989, ”Self-Images, Images of Others, Identities in Eastern Europe”, Herder Research Council, Schroubek Fund Eastern Europe, Munich, Germany
  • 12/2016: ”God, Honour, Fatherland”. The Rvival of Nationalism in Poland within National-Conservative Protest Movements, ”New Nationalism in Eastern Europe. Cultural Perspectives”, Herder Research Council, Schroubek Fund Eastern Europe, Munich, Germany
  • 06/2015: In the (Utopian) World of a Rainbow. Cultural Representations of the LGTB Movement in Post-Communist Poland, 12th SIEF Congress ”Utopias, Realities, Heritages. Ethnographies for the 21st Century”, Zagreb, Croatia
  • 10/2014: Between the Extremes. On the Cultural Repertoire of Selected Social Movements in Poland after 1989, ”Everyday Life and Cultural Change. Current Studies on Eastern Europe”, Herder Research Council, Federal Institute for Culture and History of Germans in Eastern Europe (BKGE), Oldenburg, Germany
  • 04/2014: Between the Extremes? Poland’s Post-communist Landscape of Social Movements between Liberal LGBT Equality Parades and National-Conservative Marches of Independence, BASEES Annual Conference, British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies, Cambridge, United Kingdom
  • 02/2012: ”We are the Dwarves!” Orange Alternative’s Humorous Fight against the Communist Regime in Poland in the 1980s, 11th International Postgraduate CCEEC ”Crisis. Interruptions, Reactions and Continuities in Central and Eastern Europe”, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, London, United Kingdom
  • 11/2011: ”Revolution of the Dwarves”. Spatial Control by the Orange Alternative in Poland since the 1980s, 19th Conference of Young Eastern European Experts, German Society for Eastern European Studies (DGO), Research Center for Eastern Europe at the University of Bremen (FSO), Berlin, Germany
  • 04/2011: ”There Is no Freedom without the Dwarves”. The History and Change of the Socio-Political Movement and Cultural Phenomenon Orange Alternative, 10th SIEF Congress ”People Make Places. Ways of Feeling the World”, Lisbon, Portugal

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Teaching

  • Winter 2023/24: Re:think the Thing! Cultural Analysis x Material Culture, undergraduate seminar + exercises, thematic module: Practices, Representations, Symbols
  • Summer 2023: ”Closing the Loop? Sustainability, Circular Economy and Do-It-Yourself Practices in Cultural Perspective”, undergraduate seminar with lecture, thematic module: Economy and Society
  • Winter 2022/23: ”Nocturnal Urbanity: Cultural Analysis of the Night”, graduate seminar, thematic module: City and Urbanity
  • Summer 2022: ”South/East Europe in the Focus of Migration Studies”, undergraduate seminar with exercises, thematic module: Migration and Mobility
  • Winter 2021/22: ”Emotions in Cultural Contexts”, graduate course, thematic module: European Societies
  • Summer 2021:
    • ”Contemporary History(ies) at the Museum: Global, National and Local Narrations in Polish Tricity”, summer school, Elite Graduate Program for East European Studies
    • ”The Participatory Revolution. Cultural Analysis Meets DIY”, graduate seminar, thematic module: Changing Economies and Living Environments
  • Winter 2020/21:
    • ”(Un)Doing Gender. Gender Regimes and (Anti)Feminism in Eastern Europe”, undergraduate course, thematic module: ”Region, Nation, Europe”
    • ”Region – Nation – Europe. Cultural Perspectives on Everyday Phenomena and Processes in European Societies”, graduate and undergraduate lecture, thematic module: Region, Nation, Europe
  • Summer 2020: ”Poster, Street Art and Co. Visual Protest Media”, undergraduate course, thematic module: Practices, Representations, Symbols
  • Winter 2019/20: ”For the Fatherland! New Nationalism in Central Eastern Europe”, undergraduate course, thematic module: Region, Nation, Europe
  • Summer 2019: ”Between Cross and Rainbow. Cultural-Scientific Perspectives on the Polish Protest Culture after 1989”, graduate course, thematic module: Practices, Representations, Symbols
  • Winter 2018/19: Theories, Methods, Research Strategies ”Information Skills Eastern Europe”, graduate course, Elite Graduate Program for East European Studies