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Conferences and Other Events

CONTRIBUTIONS AT CONFERENCES

  1. "eTEXTS16: Literary and Cultural Studies Conference", 28-29.05.2026, online. Organized by The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland, Delta State University, Cleveland, Mississippi, USA and University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Paper: "Self-Care, The Goop Lab and Contemporary Wellness Culture".

  2. National Scientific Conference "Obrazowanie w komunikacji" - Edycja 4 "Ciało w poznaniu, komunikacji i kulturze" ["Image in Communication" - Edition 4 "The Body in Cognition, Communication and Culture"], 14-15.04.2026, Kraków, Poland. Organized by Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Faculty of Polish Studies. Paper: "Co i dlaczego je ciało w filmie science fiction? Przypadek Czarnego lustra" ["What and Why Does the Body Eat in Science Fiction? The Case of Black Mirror"].

  3. International Scientific Conference "Transhumanism: Hopes & Risks for the 21st Century Vision of Life: Science, Society & Culture", 5-6.03.2026, Łódź, Poland. Organized by Medical University of Łódź. Paper: "Food and the Transhuman Body in Black Mirror".

  4. "52nd Conference of the Austrian Association for American Studies - Ruptures, Fractures, Discontinuities: Troubling American Studies", 3-5.10.2025, Vienna, Austria. Organized by Austrian Association for American Studies (AAAS). Paper: "Performing Happiness and Affective Ruptures in Feminine Wellness Culture: From Bree to Goop".

  5. "Delicious, Nutritious and Fictitious: Food in Popular Culture. 17th Conference of the Popular Culture Research Network (PopCRN)", 25-26.09.2025, online. Organized by PopCRN - The Popular Culture Research Network. Paper: "Processed, Performed, Forgotten: The Foodways of Black Mirror".

  6. "eTEXTS15: Literary and Cultural Studies Conference", 12-13.06.2025, online. Organized by The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland, Delta State University, Cleveland, Mississippi, USA and University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Paper: "From Bree to Goop: Performing Happiness in Feminine Wellness Culture".

  7. As a keynote speaker: National Student and Doctoral Conference "Kino w chmurze: Filmy w dobie internetu" ["Cinema in the Cloud: Films in the Age of the Internet"], 14-15.03.2025, Poznań, Poland. Organized by Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Faculty of Polish and Classical Philology. Paper: "ASMR i post-kinowe doświadczenie: Posthumanistyczne praktyki intymności w erze cyfrowej" ["ASMR and the Post-Cinematic Experience: Posthuman Practices of Intimacy in the Digital Age"].

  8. "Multisensuality Through History and Across Media. International Scientific Conference", 17-18.11.2022, online. Organized by University of Vienna, Pedagogical University of Kraków and University of Humanities and Economics in Łódź. Paper: "Listen to This Crispy Chicken! Sound in Culinary Recipes" (together with dr Marzena Keating).

  9. "Seventh International Convention on Food History and Food Studies", 2-3.06.2022, Tours, France. Organized by European Institute for Food History and Cultures (IEHCA). Paper: "Microphone Licking, Perfume Drinking, Chocolate Scratching. Multistability of Eatables in ASMR Culture".

  10. International Scientific Conference "Posthumanismus. Transhumanismus. Jenseits des Menschen?", 25-28.05.2022, Graz, Austria. Organized by Kulturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft (KWG). Paper: "Getting Intimate, Becoming Posthuman? Human-Nonhuman Assemblages in ASMR Videos".

  11. International Scientific Conference "Wastelands. 34th European Association For American Studies Conference", 6-8.04.2022, Madrid, Spain. Organized by European Association for American Studies (EAAS). Paper: "'Your Secret Island of Relaxation and Peace'. Discourse of Hopelessness and Regeneration in the Descriptions of YouTube Channels by American ASMR Creators".

  12. International Scientific Conference "Crossing the Border of Humanity: Cyborgs in Ethics, Law, and Art", 14-15.12.2021, online. Organized by Medical University of Łódź, Poland. Paper: "Cyborg Bodies in ASMR".

  13. "6th Memory, Melancholy and Nostalgia. International Interdisciplinary Conference", 9-10.12.2021, online. Organized by InMind Support. Paper: "Lice Check and Classroom Tingles, or Return to Childhood in ASMR Videos".

  14. National Scientific Conference "Emocje" ["Emotions"], 28.11.2021, online. Organized by Ośrodek Badawczy "Facta Ficta", Uniwersytet Przyrodniczo-Humanistyczny w Siedlcach and Katedra Porównawczych Studiów Cywilizacji Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego. Paper: "Mrowienie, prąd, ciarki. Język afektu w komentarzach użytkowników filmów ASMR w mediach społecznościowych" ["Tingles, Current, Shivers. Affective Language in User Comments on ASMR Videos in Social Media"].

  15. National Scientific Conference "Kanony piękna – postrzeganie, kreowanie, ewolucja" ["The Canons of Beauty – Perception, Creation, Evolution"], 27.11.2021, online. Organized by Fundacja na rzecz promocji nauki i rozwoju TYGIEL. Paper: "Piękno tkwi w uchu słuchającego. O pięknych (albo obrzydliwych) dźwiękach w ASMR w kontekście koncepcji 'deep listening' Pauline Oliveros" ["Beauty is in the ear of the listener. About beautiful (or disgusting) sounds in ASMR in the context of Pauline Oliveros' 'deep listening' concept"].

  16. "5th Dreams, Phantasms and Memories. International Interdisciplinary Conference", 25-26.11.2021, online. Organized by InMind Support. Paper: "Capitalism Ate My Sleep but ASMR Brought It Back. Sociocultural Meanings of Sleep in ASMR Culture".

  17. National Scientific Conference "'Na bezrybiu i rak ryba'. Ryby w literaturze, kulturze, języku i mediach" ["Fish in Literature, Culture, Language and Media"], 20.10.2021, Siedlce, Poland. Organized by Instytut Kultury Regionalnej i Badań Literackich im. Franciszka Karpińskiego, Ośrodek Badawczy "Facta Ficta", Towarzystwo Kultury Języka (Oddział Siedlecki) and Instytut Językoznawstwa i Literaturoznawstwa UPH. Paper: "Chrupiąca tilapia i akwarium na głowie, czyli o rybach i afekcie w ASMR" ["Crunchy Tilapia and a Fishtank on the Head – About Fish and Affect in ASMR"].

  18. The 3rd International Interdisciplinary Conference "Food and Drink as a Curse", 13-14.09.2021, online. Organized by Pedagogical University of Kraków and Technological University Dublin. Paper: "Fear Thy Fodder! On Food-Related Anxieties in Black Mirror".

  19. Scientific Conference "Wstręt, obrzydzenie, odraza" ["Disgust, Revultion, Loathing"], 15-16.05.2021, online. Organized by Ośrodek Badawczy "Facta Ficta", Uniwersytet Przyrodniczo-Humanistyczny w Siedlcach and Katedra Porównawczych Studiów Cywilizacji Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego. Paper: "Wydalanie na ekranie, czyli krótko o fekaliach w kinie" ["Excretion on the Screen, or Briefly About Feces in Cinema"].

  20. International Scientific Conference "In/visible. Designs of Social Experience", 30.09-2.10.2020, Kraków, Poland. Organized by Tischner European University in Kraków. Paper: "Designing Intimacy, or About Gender Roles in ASMR Roleplay Videos".

  21. National Scientific Conference "Kobiety… Studia, dyskursy, paradygmaty oraz konteksty kulturowo-historyczne" ["Women… Studies, Discourses, Paradigms, and Cultural-Historical Contexts"], 20-21.09.2019, Kraków, Poland. Organized by Ośrodek Badawczy "Facta Ficta". Paper: "Szepczące kobiety i haptyczna wizualność w filmach ASMR" ["Whispering Women and Haptic Visuality in ASMR Videos"].

  22. National Scientific Conference "Popkultura. Teksty, praktyki, interpretacje" ["Pop Culture. Texts, Practices, Interpretations"], 7-8.09.2019, Kraków, Poland. Organized by Wydział Humanistyczny AGH, Koło Naukowe Studentów Socjologii AGH and Fundacja "dzień dobry! kolektyw kultury". Paper: "Ci wspaniali mężczyźni w swych magicznych okularach (i ich wirtualne dziewczyny). Posthumanizm w wersji pop w Creative Control" ["Those Magnificent Men in Their Magic Glasses (and Their Virtual Girlfriends). Pop Version of Posthumanism in Creative Control"].

  23. International Scientific Conference "The Senses of Science Fiction: Visions, Sounds, Spaces", 5-7.12.2019, Warsaw, Poland. Organized by Speculative Texts and Media Research Group, American Studies Center, University of Warsaw. Paper: "'You Poor Broken Android!', or About Science Fiction 'Fixing You' Roleplays in ASMR".

  24. International Scientific Conference "Affects And Their Vicissitudes In The Postdigital Age", 24-25.10.2019, Warsaw, Poland. Organized by Techno-Humanities Lab, Faculty of Artes Liberales, Warsaw. Paper: "Sounds, Affects, and Nonstandard Intimacies in ASMR".

  25. International Scientific Conference "Representation in the Time of the Posthuman: Transhuman Enhancement in 21st Century Storytelling. 16th International Conference on Contemporary Narratives in English", 29-31.05.2019, Zaragoza, Spain. Organized by University of Zaragoza, Spain. Paper: "Representations of (Post?)Human Subjects in Love in Creative Control (2015) and Operator (2016)".

  26. International Scientific Conference "Sex in the States: Manners, Morals, and Mores", 8-9.04.2019, Opole, Poland. Organized by Department of American Literature and Culture, University of Opole, Poland. Paper: "'The Only Real Choice Is Between Being the Purchaser and the Purchased', or Sex Among Posthumans in Altered Carbon (2018)".

  27. III. National Scientific Conference "Oblicza miłości. Przeszłość – Teraźniejszość – Perspektywy" ["Faces of Love. Past – Present – Perspectives"], 11.05.2018, Lublin, Poland. Organized by Fundacja na rzecz promocji nauki i rozwoju TYGIEL. Paper: "Orgazmotron i pigułki uniesień, czyli o cielesnych uciechach w Barbarelli" ["Orgasmatron and Exaltation Transference Pills, or on Bodily Pleasures in Barbarella"].

  28. National Scientific Conference "Emocje robotów w narracjach kultury i technologii" ["Robot Emotions in Narratives of Culture and Technology"], 19-20.11.2017, Kraków, Poland. Organized by AGH University of Kraków. Paper: "Stawanie-się-Ashem, czyli wzloty i upadki posthumanistycznego podmiotu w Be Right Back" ["Becoming-Ash, or the Rise and Fall of the Posthuman Subject in Be Right Back"].

  29. National Scientific Conference "Człowiek zalogowany: Cyfrowa miłość. Jak internet zmienia bliskie związki?" ["Logged-in Human: Digital Love. How Does the Internet Change Close Relationships?"], 25-26.02.2017, Kraków, Poland. Organized by Jagiellonian University. Paper: "Bezwładni ludzie, żywe maszyny? Miłość człowieka i robota w filmie Ona Spike'a Jonze'a" ["Inert Humans, Living Machines? The Love Between a Human and a Robot in Spike Jonze's Her"].

  30. 3. National Scientific Conference "Światy poza światem: narracje fantastyczne w literaturze i mediach" ["Worlds Beyond the World: Fantastic Narratives in Literature and Media"], 20-21.05.2017, Kraków, Poland. Organized by Ośrodek Badawczy "Facta Ficta". Paper: "Jak kochają współczesne cyborgi? Krótki przegląd erotycznych uniesień istot cyborgicznych w filmie science fiction" ["How Do Modern Cyborgs Love? A Brief Overview of the Erotic Ecstasies of Cyborg Beings in Science Fiction Films"].

  31. International Scientific Conference "2017 AFEA Conference: The Pursuit of Happiness ("La Recherche du Bonheur")", 6-9.06.2017, Strasbourg, France. Organized by l'Association Française d'Études Américaines (AFEA) and Université de Strasbourg. Paper: "Love relationships between humans and machines in Anglo-Saxon science fiction film".

  32. International Doctoral Seminar "Ninth RSC International Ph.D. Seminar", 11-13.05.2016, Middelburg, The Netherlands. Organized by Roosevelt Institute for American Studies. Paper: "Affective Response beyond the Gothic: Romantic Encounters of Humans and Artificial Intelligence Agents from Blade Runner to Ex Machina and Uncanny".

  33. National Student and Doctoral Conference "III Łódzkie Spotkanie Studentów Historii Sztuki" ["3rd Łódź Meeting of Art History Students"], 12-14.12.2014, Łódź, Poland. Organized by University of Łódź. Paper: "'Nie tańczysz sama przed lustrem. Oni na ciebie patrzą!' Kobiety w filmie Czerwony jedwab w kontekście przemian obyczajowych w Tunezji" ["'You Do Not Dance Alone in Front of a Mirror. They Are Looking at You!' Women in the Film Red Silk in the Context of Social Changes in Tunisia"].

  34. International Scientific Conference "Młodzi dla Nauki. Ekonomia-Prawo-Nauki Społeczne i Przyrodnicze" ["Youth for Science. Economics-Law-Social and Natural Sciences"], 20-22.11.2014, Karpacz-Prague, Poland-Czech Republic. Organized by Instytut Ekonomiczno-Społeczny w Kamieńcu Wrocławskim. Paper: "Randki 2.0., czyli w miłosnym trójkącie z technologią. Analiza filmu Sight" ["Dating 2.0, or in a Love Triangle with Technology. An Analysis of the Film Sight"].

INVITED LECTURES AND EXPERT CONTRIBUTIONS

  • 08.2025. An invited expert contribution to the webinar "Jumble of the Senses: Sound and Language in Japanese Culinary Culture", part of the Japan Past and Present (JPP) project.

  • 06.2025. An invited lecture at the Faculty of Humanities, AGH University of Kraków, Poland. The title of the lecture: "Zmysły, maszyny, intymność: afektywne praktyki medialne" ["Senses, Machines, Intimacy: Affective Media Practices"].

  • 05.2023. An invited lecture at the Institute of English Studies, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland. The title of the lecture: "ASMR as a New Intimacy Practice".

ORGANIZED ACADEMIC EVENTS

  • 14-15.11.2025. Organization of the International Scientific Conference "Multisensuality and Language Across Media, Cultures, and Histories" at the University of Vienna (Sprachenzentrum). Organized by University of Vienna, University of the National Education Commission in Kraków, Koszalin University of Technology and Pomeranian University in Słupsk. LINK

  • 19.05.2023. Organization of the guest lectures "Affects and Emotions in Film" (Part 2) at the University of Vienna. LINK

  • 26-28.04.2023. Organization of the guest lectures "Affects and Emotions in Film" (Part 1) at the University of Vienna. LINK

  • 17-18.11.2022. Organization of the International Scientific Conference "Multisensuality Through History and Across Media" at the University of Vienna. Organized by University of Vienna, Pedagogical University of Kraków and University of Humanities and Economics in Łódź.​

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