2021

Magdalena Zdrodowska gave invited lectures at:

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• the History Department of Karlsruhe Insitute of Technology, Germany: From silent films to the deafening effect of the cinema: the deaf viewers and metaphor of deafness.

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• the Faculty of Humanities of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland talk entitledTransition to sound in cinema and the rise of the new cinematic audiences

 

 

2022

Magdalena Zdrodowska gave invited lectures at:

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• Creative Industries Research and Innovation Network (CIRIN) at Oxford Brookes University, where she presented lecture: Transition to Sound and the Rise of the Deaf Film Audiences.

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• Robert F. Byrnes Russian and East European Institute at Indiana University, Indiana, United States; she presented on Deaf History of Cinema & Independent Deaf Filmmaking in Poland & the U.S.

Recoding of the lecture is available on YouTube.

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• Key note Dis/cinema. What critical disability studies can bring to audiovisual studies for DiGRA annual conference in Kraków, Poland
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• as part of the International Week of Deaf People, Magdalena Zdrodowska chaired a discussion that followed the screening of Tomasz Grabowski videoart works at The Mazovia Institute of Culture in Warsaw. The panelists: Tomasz Grabowski (Deaf multimedia artist), Gosia Talibska (Deaf activist and scholar), Marek Lasecki (Deaf artist and educator).

2023

In April Magdalena Zdrodowska was a guest speaker at online seminar of the Communication, Culture and Diversity network at Jönköping University. She presented paper "Investigating deaf cultural heritage. Discussing methodology for the Deaf Cinema project". During the seminar, she discussed both methodological and technological tools that can be used when deaf studies, disability studies, film studies, and film history intersect. She also considered the researcher-as-an-ally model present in disability studies, and how to balance the profit of the researcher and of the community when investigating outside the English-speaking domain.