CONFERENCES

2023

Magdalena Zdrodowska, Polish Independent Deaf Filmmaking, Nordic Network on Disability Research Conference, Reykjavik, Iceland

Magdalena Zdrodowska, Transition to Sound and the Rise of the Deaf Film Audiences, Society for the History of Technology SHOT, Los Angeles, the US

Magdalena Zdrodowska, Polish deaf TV: televising outside the communist state's reach, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies ASEEES, Philadelphia, the US

 

2022

Magdalena Zdrodowska, Dis/cinema. Questioning the ‘norm’ of the cinematic experience, Epistemic Media: Atlas, Archive, Network - European Network for Cinema and Media Studies NECS Conference, Bucharest, Romania

Magdalena Zdrodowska, Polish Independent Deaf Filmmaking, Deaf History International, Lubljana, Slovenia & Zagreb, Croatia

Magdalena Zdrodowska, Film as a ‘printing press’ for the deaf: cinematic preservation and standardization of sign language in the 1910s, Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT), New Orleans, United States

Sławomir Łotysz, Cinema musicians and transition to ‘talkies’ in Poland, 1920s–1930, 49th Symposium of the International Committee for the History of Technology ICOHTEC

Sławomir Łotysz, Contesting revolution: deaf viewers and cinema musicians against the introduction of sound in movies, Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT), New Orleans, United States

 

2021

Magdalena Zdrodowska, From fluorescent gloves to closed-captioning. The deaf American’s struggle for civil rights; 26th International Congress of History of Science and Technology (International Union for History and Philosophy of Science and Technology), Czech Republic [online]

Magdalena Zdrodowska, Not definite extinction: (silent) film intertitles as adeaf guerilla technology, Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT), [online] 

Sławomir Łotysz, Al Jolson or Helen Tykociński? A controversy over who was the first to give voice to a film, 26th International Congress of History of Science and Technology (International Union for History and Philosophy of Science and Technology), Czech Republic [online]

Sławomir Łotysz, The first ‘talkie’ spoke in a female voice. Helen and Joseph Tykociner’s unacknowledged revolution in film making, Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT), [online]