dr hab. Ewa Majewska, prof. SWPS
ORCID: 0000-0003-2653-1339
ewamajewska@o2.pl
https://english.swps.pl/ewa-majewska
https://ewa-majewska.com
LECTURES
Selected Keynotes, Lectures, Presentations and Conferences
Presentation “Compliant and its Discontents. For a critique of institutional systems of antidiscrimination in academia,” 7th International Conference on Gender Research (ICGR), Barcelona, Spain, 26 April 2024.
Lecture “Contesting the canon by means of weak resistance. How to re-claim minoritarian heritage?” Identity and Heritage PostGraduate Studies Program Bauhaus University, Berlin, Germany, 8 April 2024.
Lecture “Weak Resistance? Against the Invisibility of Immigrant Autonomy and labour,” Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema & Sound, Brussels, Belgium, 18 December 2023.
Presentation “Rosa Luxemburg and the War,” International Conference of Marxist Feminism, Warsaw, Poland, 16-18 November 2023.
Presentation “Public Against Their Will?,” prof. Ramsey McGlazer Seminar, UC Berkeley, USA (online), 26 October 2023.
Presentation “Procedures of justice - towards historical dimensions of Weak Solidarity,” International Conference of Walter Benjamin Studies 2023 Politics of Justice: Text, Image and Practice, SWPS University Warsaw and IFiS PAN, Warsaw, Poland, 28 September 2023.
Opening lecture “Queerstories beyond the West. Dialectics of the Weak,” Queer Theory Summer School, Between Bridges Gallery, Berlin, Germany, 3 July 2023.
Presentation “But I am your Mother! The caring control of sexuality and gender in neoliberal state of exception,” Historical Materialism International Conference, Athens, Greece, 21 April 2023.
Presentation “Nie tylko prawa zdobywa się w walce. Rodziny LGBTQIA+ – pokrewieństwo w oporze,” Interdisciplinary Conference Genealogies of the LGBTQ+ Movement (Genealogie w ruchu LGBTQ+), Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland, 20–21 October 2022.
Lecture “Feminist Antifascism: A Book Presentation and Debate on Today’s Counterpublics,” Bard College, Berlin, Germany, 2 November 2021.
Keynote Lecture, Equality, Diversity and Solidarity in the Art World Conference, Kunstwerein Dusseldorf, Kunstwerein Koln and University of Bochum, Germany, 7 October 2021.
Talk “Weak Resistance,” Summer Academy, Art Academy Salzburg, Austria, 22 August 2021.
Lecture “Feminist Antifascisms. Weak Resistance and Post-Artistic Strategies,” Akademie der Bildenden Künste Vienna, Austria, 4 April 2021.
Presentation, The Return of Hegel. History, Universality and the Weakness International Conference, Graduate School of Social Research of the Polish Academy of Science, in collaboration with the Goethe-Institute Warsaw, 15 October 2020.
Presentation: “Complaint as counterpublics. Weak resistance and feminism in the neoliberal academia,” Left Feminist Theory and Historiography Conference, Karl University, Prague, Czech Republic, 19-20 September 2019.
Presentation: “Artystki patrzą na wojnę. Feministyczne strategie w czasach katastrofy,” as a part of the program of the Never Again exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, 22 September 2019.
Lecture “Passionate Action,” Spinoza Summer School 2019, West Den Haag Art Center, Hague, Holland, 15-21 July 2019.
Presentation on contemporary art censorship, Histories of our Futures panel discussion , Queer Art Festival, HAU Berlin, Germany, 30 June 2019.
Performative lecture “Weak Resistance at the Parliament of Bodies,” Bergen Assembly, Bergen, Norway, 15 June 2019.
Presentation “Art and Censorship,” Trauma and Revival panel discussion, organized by the Bozar art Centre Brussels, Manege Central Exhibition Hall in Moscow, Russia, 30 May 2019.
Presentation “…and another time as farce. Antifascist Counterpublics in the time of fascism, again,” International Historical Materialism Conference, Panteion University, Athens, Greece, 5 May 2019.
Workshop and Public Session “Uneasy Alliances,” with Wojciech Kosma, Transmediale 2019, Berlin, Germany, 27-30 January 2019.
Keynote lecture, Conference on Resistance to Hate Speech, Instytut Artes Liberales, University of Warsaw, Poland, 10 December 2018.
Presentation “Słaby opór - słaba awangarda,” Conference Estetyka / inestetyka. Współczesne teorie działań artystycznych, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland, 8 December 2018.
Keynote lecture “Weak Resistance and Feminist Artivism,” International Conference Feminist Art Activisms and Artivisms, Middlesex University, London, UK, 2 July 2018.
Presentation “The weak counterpublics of feminist resistance,” International Conference Impacts of Gender Discourse on Polish Politics, Society & Culture: Comparative Perspectives, SOAS, University of London, UK, 11-12 June 2018.
Lecture “Kobiety ‘Solidarności’. W stronę kontrpubliczności feministycznych,” European Center of Solidarity in Gdańsk, Poland, 30 May 2018.
Lecture “Counterpublics and Weak Resistance,” Kassel Art Academy, Kassel, Germany, 7 February 2018.
Guest lecture “Weak Resistance in Feminist Protests,” Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK, 1 August 2017.
Presentation in the debate “Public intellectual in the contemporary world,” Instytut Artes Liberales, University of Warsaw, Poland, 19 April 2017.
Presentation in the debate “On Zygmunt Bauman’s Concept of Liquid Modernity,” Instytut Artes Liberales, University of Warsaw, Poland, 21 February 2017.
Debate and presentation: “Od słabej myśli do słabego czynu. Obraz, opór, estetyka i utopia poza paradygmatem heroicznym,” Instytut Artes Liberales, University of Warsaw, Poland, 12 January 2017.
Guest lecture “Artistic means of production and emancipation,” Bard College, Berlin, Germany, 2 November 2016.
Presentation “Weak Resistance – solidarity and beyond,” Colloquium Weak Resistance. Precarity, Diasporas, Movements, Institute of Cultural Inquiry, Berlin, Germany, 8 July 2016.
Guest speaker, Panel “Instituting for the Contemporary—part 1” BAK Utrecht, Holland, 11 April 2016.
Lecture “Can Utopia be saved? How to think emancipation with a vision (in response to prof. Amy Allen)” Marc Bloch Centre, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, 19 May 2015.
Presentation and coordination of the International Conference Weak Resistance. Everyday Struggles and the Politics of Failure, Institute of Cultural Inquiry, Berlin, 27 May 2015.
Presentation “The caring gaze of Leviathan. On the public sphere, surveillance and data collecting then and now,” International Conference Can we have some privacy?, Institute of Cultural Inquiry, Berlin, 7-8 May 2015.
Presentation “Protest Counterpublics and the Issue of Change,” International Conference Global Cultures of Contestation, University of Amsterdam, Holland, 21 April 2015.
Presentation “Capitalism in semi-peripheries. Errors, failures or back side of success?” International Conference Historical Materialism, Soas, University of London, UK, 8 November 2014.
Presentation “Majdan: Towards Semi-Peripheral Counterpublics?” International Conference Philosophy and Social Science, The Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Science, Prague, Czech Republic, 23 May 2014.
Presentation and coordination of the International Conference Love: A Question for Feminism? Instiutute of Human Sciences (IWM), Vienna, Austria, 28 April 2014.
Presentation “Maintenant, au contraire, on est chez soi. Between the territorial and nomadic - art in Deleuze and Guattari’s theory of the social,” International Deleuze Studies Conference The Territory In-Between, University of Lisbone, Portugal, 9 July 2013.
Coordination of the International Conference Censorship, Democracy, Gender. Feminist critiques and resistances, sponsored by Heinrich Boell Stiftung, Zachęta National Gallery, Warsaw, Poland, 22–23 May 2013.
Presentation “Critiques of success or how can subversive be revolutionary?” International Conference (Im)possibly Queer International Feminisms, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK, 19 May 2013.
Lecture “Political solidarity 20 years after transformation. A critical feminist analysis from Poland,” University of Marburg, Germany, 5 February 2013.
Presentation “A Marxist Legacy. Love and Revolution in the Contemporary Socialist Feminism,” International Conference Hegel and Marx on the Global Crisis, University of Warsaw, Poland, 23 October 2012.
Presentation “Traces de résistance. Antigone, entre théorie queer et politique de l’esthétique,” International Conference L’ Homme de la Democratie, organized by CERSES/CNRS Université Paris V and the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Science, Siedlce, Poland, 8-9 March 2012.
Presentation “Bordercrossing - reading feminist theorists of Color in Poland,” International Conference The Politics of Location Revisited: Gender. 8th European Feminist Research Conference, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, 19 May 2012.
Presentation “Love in Translation. Neoliberal availability or a solidarity practice?” International Conference Love in Our Time: A Question for Feminism, University of Orebro, Sweden, 4 December 2010.
Presentation: “Between censorship and appropriation. The neoliberal financing of Public Art in Poland,” International Conference Public art and its distresses. From mainstream city marketing strategies to a tool for social regeneration. Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy, 21 October 2010.
Presentation “Judith Butler’s Reading of Althusser,” International Conference European Philosophy after the Epistemological Break, University of Szczecin, Poland, 19 September 2010.
Lecture “Impossible Translations and Unexpected Intersections. Reading feminist writers of Color in Poland,” University of California, Berkeley, USA, 9 February 2010.