Polish Studies and Film
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Lecture: Human and Non-Human Perspectives in Women’s Films and Arts
Room: SOL:H104
Date & Time: 13 May, 13:15–14:45
Guest: Małgorzata Radkiewicz (Jagiellonian University, Kraków)
Information and contact: Anna Mrozewicz
anna.mrozewiczlitt.luse
About the lecture
This lecture explores shifting perspectives in contemporary women’s cinema and visual arts, focusing on the relationship between human and non-human experience. The discussion centres on the film The Outrun (dir. Nora Fingscheidt), engaging with questions of embodiment, environment, and narrative voice.
Bio
Małgorzata Radkiewicz is Professor of Film Studies at the Jagiellonian University. Her research focuses on women’s creativity in film, photography, and visual arts, as well as female audiences and feminist film criticism. She is the author and editor of numerous books on women in cinema, including Women and Polish Cinema: Reclaiming the Frame (2026).
Special Event: Scenes from Collaboration: Women’s Creative Work in the Cinema of Wajda and Bergman
Room: LUX B152
Date & Time: 12 May, 16:00–18:00
Information and contact:
Ulla Chowaniec – urszula.chowaniecsol.luse
Anders Marklund – anders.marklundlitt.luse
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa – barbara.tornquist-plewaslav.luse
Speakers: Małgorzata Radkiewicz, Louise Wallenberg
About the event
Organised on the occasion of the centenary of Andrzej Wajda, this event brings together Polish and Swedish scholars to rethink the cinemas of Wajda and Ingmar Bergman from a different vantage point: not the solitary male genius, but the dense network of women who shaped these works from within.
Moving beyond the myth of authorship, the discussion foregrounds the often invisible creative labour of women—co-workers, editors, producers, partners—whose contributions remain embedded in the films yet rarely fully acknowledged. These figures emerge not only as collaborators but as co-authors of cinematic language, style, and meaning.
Bringing this perspective into dialogue with memory studies, the event asks how film itself becomes a site of cultural memory: how women’s work is remembered, forgotten, or archived, and how revisiting these collaborations reshapes our understanding of film history.
Małgorzata Radkiewicz – Bio
Małgorzata Radkiewicz is Professor of Film Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. In her research and publications, she focuses on women’s creativity in film, photography, and video art. Her three books (2002, 2010, 2022, all in Polish) examine women directors and artists, as well as female audiences. In Modern Women on Cinema (2016), she reconstructs the work of Polish female film critics of the 1920s and 1930s, drawing on original articles and archival materials. Her article on the Polish-Jewish film producer Maria Hirszbein was published in Camera Obscura (2021), and her chapter on Pola Negri appears in Stretching the Archives (2024), a volume on global women’s film heritage. Together with Elżbieta Ostrowska, she co-edited Women and Polish Cinema: Reclaiming the Frame (2026).
Louise Wallenberg – Bio
Louise Wallenberg is Professor of Fashion Studies at Stockholm University and holds a PhD in Cinema Studies. Her research addresses gender, sexuality, and creative labour in film and fashion. She has written extensively on gendered structures in the Swedish film industry and co-edited Ingmar Bergman at the Crossroads, which includes the first in-depth interviews with Katinka Faragó and Måns Reuterswärd, long-time collaborators of Ingmar Bergman. She is also co-editor of Now About All These Women in the Swedish Film Industry, which looks beyond statistics to explore the complex cultural, legal, and political conditions shaping women’s entry into a male-dominated field. The volume examines women’s strategies and efforts to promote change, while demonstrating how their presence has challenged the industry—provoking critical responses and introducing new ways of representing women on screen. Her work connects feminist film scholarship with production studies and industry practice.
The seminar is supported by SOL, Polish Studies, Film Studies, and the CEMES research group on European Cultures of Memory.
Ukrainian Female Filmmakers and the Mobilization of Memory in Contemporary Documentaries (Yes Series Seminar, SOL)
Room: SOL L201
Date & Time: 13 May, 13:15–15:00
Guest: Małgorzata Radkiewicz
Information and contact:
Ulla Chowaniec – urszula.chowaniecsol.luse
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa – barbara.tornquist-plewaslav.luse
About the lecture
The lecture explores how Ukrainian women documentary filmmakers draw on cultural memory to narrate and make sense of the experience of war. The analysis is informed by the work of Ann Rigney, Astrid Erll, and Marianne Hirsch, as well as feminist frameworks such as the Women Mobilizing Memory project, which emphasise women’s memory practices as ethical, affective, and politically engaged. From this perspective, the selected documentaries are approached not simply as representations of war, but as cinematic interventions that actively shape how war is remembered and understood.
Bio
Małgorzata Radkiewicz is Professor of Film Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. Her research focuses on women’s creativity in film, photography, and visual arts, as well as feminist film criticism and the history of women in cinema.
The seminar is co-organized in cooperation between the Yes Seminar and the CEMES research group on European Cultures of Memory.