Hello, everybody!
The Weird Fiction Research Group would like to invite you to a Halloween workshop! Together, we will watch and discuss an episode of the classic 90s TV show, The X-Files. We don’t want to spoil too much, but the episode chosen by dr Kotwasińska is a wonderful gateway into this year’s theme, “Weird TV”! There is much to unpack there: TV as a medium, TV as a threat, conspiracy theories, and, last but not least, the wonderful campiness of The X-Files as a series.
Tuesday, October 29, 2024
4:45 PM
You can get 3 OZN points for participating in this event.
Where?
Dobra 55, room: 0.246
(the building features some mobility accommodations: ramp and lift)
Registration
Registration starts on Monday, October 21, 2024, and ends on Sunday, October 27, 10 PM
Register at: jkaniewska1991@gmail.com
Limit: 20 people
Who?
The workshop will be led by dr Agnieszka Kotwasińska and Asia Kaniewska, director and vice director of Weird Fictions Research Group.
Agnieszka Kotwasińska is Assistant Professor at the American Studies Center, the University of Warsaw. She specialises in Gothic and horror studies, gender studies and queer theory, and feminist new materialism(s). Her current research interests centre on embodiment in the so-called low genres, Slavic Horror, and death, illness and mourning in horror cinema. She has published articles in Somatechnics, Polish Journal of American Studies, and Humanities, among others, and chapters in Monsters: A Companion (2019), The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic (2020), Diffractive Reading New Materialism, Theory, Critique (2021) and Fifty Key Figures in Cyberpunk Culture (2022). Her first monograph, House of Horrors: Familial Intimacies in Contemporary American Horror Fiction was published in 2023 by the University of Wales Press.
Asia Kaniewska is a translator and a PhD student at the Doctoral School of Humanities at the University of Warsaw, Poland. Her current research focuses on the literature of American witches. Her academic interests include popular music, Japanese and American popular culture, science fiction, and weird studies. Sometimes, she writes about them on her blog “dziewiętnaście czwartych” (“nineteen fourths”) or talks about them in her radio show “dancing in dystopia” on Radio Kapitał.
