
Agata Lulkowska Interdisciplinary Arts/Practice Researcher

RESEARCH INTERESTS
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Art/Practice-Based Research
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Film-making
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Documentary and Experimental Film
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Photography
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Politics of Representation
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Indigenous Filmmaking
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Representing Cultures and the 'Other'
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Intercultural Communication
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Ethnographic Methods
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Trans-Cultural Collaborations
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Media and Communication
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Reception Studies
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World Cinema
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Film Festivals
This section showcases my publications, online articles, conference chairing, conference presentations, grants, awards and distinctions, impact and community outreach and professional memberships.
PUBLICATIONS
Articles
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Peer-reviewed: ‘Decolonising local knowledge - Arhuaco filmmaking as a form of cultural opposition’ in: Art, Visuality & Indigenity in unsubmissive Key. Cuadernos de música, artes visuales y artes escénicas (Journal of Music, Visual and Performing Arts); Vol. 16 N.2, 2021, Pontifical Xavierian University, Bogota, Colombia (forthcoming)
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Peer-reviewed: ‘Intercultural communication and decolonial strategies in the Arhuaco filmmaking and collaborations’, together with a documentary ‘The Voice of the Sierra Nevada’, in: AnthroVision SI: Epistemic Disobedience: Transcultural and Collaborative Filmmaking as a Decolonial Option (Published: November 2020) https://journals.openedition.org/anthrovision/5872
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Peer-reviewed: ‘Voice of the Arhuacos: Transcending the borders of ‘indigenous’ filmmaking in Colombia’, in: The Journal of Communication and Media Studies, Common Ground Research Networks; published in April 2019 (DOI: 10.18848/2470-9247/CGP/v04i02/45-52)
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Peer-reviewed: ‘A Photographer in the field – art photography versus research image-making’ in: Journal for Artistic Research; pending resubmission
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Peer-reviewed: ‘Photography and touch - translating real-life experience into visual storytelling’ in: The International Journal of the Image; pending resubmission
Books
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Peer-reviewed: ‘Politics of representation, contexts of dissemination, and the indigenous communicators in Colombia’; accepted book publication by the Common Ground Research Network, pending draft submission
Book Chapters
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´Sexuality and solitude in contemporary French cinema’ in: ‘Reżyserki Kina. Tradycja i wspóÅ‚czesność’, edited by MaÅ‚gorzata Radkiewicz’, Rabid, Krakow, published in 2005
Online publications
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A love letter to Cinema - The Conversation, June 2020
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New Ways of Seeing - Art and Science Heading Towards the Future Wiley Researchers online; March 2020
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Parasite: at last the Oscars jumps the ‘one-inch’ subtitles barrier; The Conversation, February 2020
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An Oscar for Parasite? The global rise of South Korean film; The Conversation, January 2020
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Representing inter-culturally on the example of indigenous filmmaking of Colombia; in MediAsia2017 Proceedings Online
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Direct travel experience versus photography storytelling’ published at the Advisory Council on Latin American and Iberian Information Resources blog
CONFERENCE CHAIRING
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Politics – Documentary and Photojournalism Panel at 2nd International Conference Photography and Academic Research: Images in Post-Truth Era; 6-8 September 2018, Birkbeck, London
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Politics / Art – Truth and Colonialism Panel at 2nd International Conference Photography and Academic Research: Images in Post-Truth Era; 6-8 September 2018, Birkbeck, London (invitation)
CONFERENCES
2021
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7th International Conference on Professional & Practice-Based Doctorates: The Role of Practice in Doctoral Degrees, 23-26 February 2021, Middlesex University London, UK Council for Graduate Education
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Sixth International Conference on Communication & Media Studies, 7-8 October 2021, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
2021
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Eighteenth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, Jul 1, 2020 – Jul 3, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Venice, Italy (changed to virtual)
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MeCCSA Brighton: Media Interactions and Environments, University of Brighton 8 - 10 January
2019
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Eleventh Conference on East-West Cross-Cultural Relations: Dialogues in Transition: Luso-Hispanic Cultural Production and Global South Exchanges; May 9-12th, Warsaw-Cracow-Bielsko Biala
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V International Congress on Visual Culture; 15-16 April, San Juan, Puerto Rico; Congress' theme: Latin America from the Image: the Historical Narrative and Visual Culture
2018
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Third International Conference on Communication & Media Studies, 18–19 October, University of California, Berkeley, USA; Presented paper: Indigenous Filmmaking with Mainstream Ambitions: Intercultural Communication Transcending Established Order
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2nd International Conference Photography and Academic Research: Images in the Post-Truth Era, 6-8 September, Birkbeck, University of London; Presented Paper: Image re-enactions in the Arhuaco self-representation practices
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International Congress on Visual Culture; 28-29 May, Rome; Accepted Paper: Audio-Visual Self-Representation As An Intercultural Communication - Indigenous Filmmaking For Mainstream Audiences
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Latin American Studies Association Congress (LASA2018), May 23 - 26, Barcelona, Spain; Accepted Paper: 'Colombian Indigenous Filmmaking through European eyes'
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AHGBI (The Association of Hispanists of Great Britain & Ireland) Annual Conference, 26-28 March, Leeds; Presented paper: ‘Indigenous filmmakers with mainstream ambitions: Creating a digital archive of the Arhuaco heritage’
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SLAS Annual Conference, 22-23 March, University of Southampton; Presented Paper: 'The Arhuacos in Different Light - Comparative Study of the approach from the UK and Colombia'
2017
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International Conference: Border Subjects/Global Hispanisms; 24-25 November; Presented paper: ‘Transcending the borders of indigenous filmmaking in Colombia’
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MediAsia: The Asian Conference on Media, Communication and Film; 27-29 October, Kobe, Japan; Presented paper: ‘Representing interculturally on the example of indigenous filmmaking in Colombia’ (click for the full text)
- ¿La Paz es Ahora? Examining the question of Peace and Violence in Colombia; Newcastle University, 29th September; Presented paper: ‘Narratives of violence through the indigenous eyes - Arhuaco filmmaking as a response to forced displacement’
2016
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Student conference Birkbeck, University of London, May. Fieldwork report from filming in Colombia, Sept 2015 - Jan2016
2014
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RAI Anthropology and Photography Conference, British Museum, May, London. Presented paper: ‘Photographer in the field: collaborative visual work as a research methodology to investigate Indigenous self-representation practices in Colombia’
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SLAS annual conference, April, Birkbeck, London. Presented paper: ‘Colombian Dream comes true, or the emergence of new Colombian cinema’
2013
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SLAS Annual Conference, April, Manchester. Presented paper: ‘Researching visual representations of the Indigenous Identities’ for the ‘Fieldwork, Art, Science: Issues on Audio-Visual Based Research’ panel
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Between Bodies conference, Dublin. Presented paper: ‘Photography and touch - relation between body senses and the photographic image’
2011
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Travel Seminars, Oxford, November, Presented paper: ‘Direct travel experience versus photography storytelling’
GRANTS, AWARDS, AND DISTINCTIONS​
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June 2020: the International Award for Excellence for the Journal of Communication and Media Studies
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May 2020 - CDT GTA-PhD Scholarship - FMJ for PhD principal supervision for the project- Sonic Landscape of the Documentary Format - Practice-Based Research
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March 2018: shortlisted for one of the scholarships for Young Researchers granted by the scientific committee of the IV International Congress of Visual Culture by the International Community of Visual Culture
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January 2018: AHGBI conference support grant
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December 2017: SLAS Conference Grant
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July 2015: CILAVS Travel Grant for the fieldwork in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta
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June 2014: Santander Travel Bursary
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March 2014: Postgraduate Travel Award by Society for Latin American Studies
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2012: AHGBI/Spanish Embassy Travel Award
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October 2011: Premio Bertelli for the photography project ‘Little Treasures’, Bologna
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March 2010: Postgraduate Travel Award by Society for Latin American Studies
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2006: European Commission prize for the ‘Almost Like Home’ educational project and solo photographic exhibition, London in collaboration with teenagers of Polish origins and Ilford Park Polish Home
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IMPACT & COMMUNITY OUTREACH
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Film on Demand: #WednesdayWisdom webinar at Staffordshire University, 20th May 2020 -
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Featured on the European Association for Digital Humanities
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CHASE ‘Addressing Access’ Conference, with a focus on widening participation in Academia, Open University, London, 11th March 2018
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PILAS-CLACS ‘Fieldwork in Latin America and the Caribbean Research Workshop’ 5 Dec 2017, Manchester
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Presented at the Arts Week 2016, Birkbeck, University of London: Indigenous filmmaking from Colombia
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Invited Talk: Colombian Indigenous Films, Muxima, 22nd May 2016
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Invited Talk: ‘Flickering Darkness’ - presentation and panel discussion at Birkbeck Cinema alongside with artist Juan delGado and Andrés David Montenegro Rosero, History of Art Teaching Fellow, University College London;
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Organised a special retrospective of Colectivo Zhigoneshi’s works at Birkbeck University, London and Q&A with Charlotte Gleghorn, Chancellor’s Fellow, Hispanic Studies, University of Edinburgh, May 16-17, 2016.
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Organised Tate Film: Luis Ospina and Grupo de Cali retrospective, Tate Modern, 28-29 November 2014;
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Collaborated organising and presented at the Arts Week 2014, Birkbeck, University of London
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Presented and co-organised ‘Thinking Visually: Iberian and Latin American Images in Practice and Research’, a discussion alongside with Dolores Galindo and Leyneuf Tines, 20 May 2013, Birkbeck, London.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
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MeCCSA - Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association
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Society for Artistic Research
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BAFTSS - British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies
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IAFVC - International Association For Visual Culture
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RAI - Royal Anthropological Institute Student Fellow
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LASA - Latin American Studies Association
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RPS - Royal Photographic Society (expired)
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SLAS - Society for Latin American Studies
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WISPS - Women in Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin-American Studies
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AHGBI - Association of Hispanists of Great Britain & Ireland
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Corkscrew – Practice-based research network at Birkbeck
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CMSRN - Communications & Media Studies Research Network