Agata Lulkowska Interdisciplinary Arts/Practice Researcher

2021

• 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

• Sixth International Conference on Communication & Media Studies, 7-8 October 2021, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

2021

• Eighteenth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, Jul 1, 2020 – Jul 3, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Venice, Italy (changed to virtual)

• MeCCSA Brighton: Media Interactions and Environments, University of Brighton 8 - 10 January 

2019

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• International Congress on Visual Culture; 28-29 May, Rome; Accepted Paper: Audio-Visual Self-Representation As An Intercultural Communication - Indigenous Filmmaking For Mainstream Audiences

• Latin American Studies Association Congress (LASA2018), May 23 - 26, Barcelona, Spain; Accepted Paper: 'Colombian Indigenous Filmmaking through European eyes'

• 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’

• 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

• International Conference: Border Subjects/Global Hispanisms; 24-25 November; Presented paper: ‘Transcending the borders of indigenous filmmaking in Colombia’ 

• 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

• Student conference Birkbeck, University of London, May. Fieldwork report from filming in Colombia, Sept 2015 - Jan2016

2014 

• 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’

• SLAS annual conference, April, Birkbeck, London. Presented paper: ‘Colombian Dream comes true, or the emergence of new Colombian cinema’

2013

• 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

• Between Bodies conference, Dublin. Presented paper: ‘Photography and touch - relation between body senses and the photographic image’

2011

• Travel Seminars, Oxford, November, Presented paper: ‘Direct travel experience versus photography storytelling’

 

GRANTS, AWARDS, AND DISTINCTIONS​

• June 2020: the International Award for Excellence for the Journal of Communication and Media Studies 

• May 2020 - CDT GTA-PhD Scholarship - FMJ for PhD principal supervision for the project- Sonic Landscape of the Documentary Format - Practice-Based Research 

• 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

• January 2018: AHGBI conference support grant

• December 2017: SLAS Conference Grant

• July 2015: CILAVS Travel Grant for the fieldwork in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta

• June 2014: Santander Travel Bursary

• March 2014: Postgraduate Travel Award by Society for Latin American Studies

• 2012: AHGBI/Spanish Embassy Travel Award 

• October 2011: Premio Bertelli for the photography project ‘Little Treasures’, Bologna

• March 2010: Postgraduate Travel Award by Society for Latin American Studies

• 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

• Film on Demand: #WednesdayWisdom webinar at Staffordshire University, 20th May 2020 -

• Featured on the European Association for Digital Humanities 

• CHASE ‘Addressing Access’ Conference, with a focus on widening participation in Academia, Open University, London, 11th March 2018

• PILAS-CLACS ‘Fieldwork in Latin America and the Caribbean Research Workshop’ 5 Dec 2017, Manchester

• Presented at the Arts Week 2016, Birkbeck, University of London: Indigenous filmmaking from Colombia

• Invited Talk: Colombian Indigenous Films, Muxima, 22nd May 2016 

• 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;

• 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. 

• Organised Tate Film: Luis Ospina and Grupo de Cali retrospective, Tate Modern, 28-29 November 2014; 

• Collaborated organising and presented at the Arts Week 2014, Birkbeck, University of London

• 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

• MeCCSA - Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association

• Society for Artistic Research

• BAFTSS - British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies

• IAFVC - International Association For Visual Culture

• RAI - Royal Anthropological Institute Student Fellow 

• LASA - Latin American Studies Association

• RPS - Royal Photographic Society (expired)

• SLAS - Society for Latin American Studies 

• WISPS - Women in Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin-American Studies

• AHGBI - Association of Hispanists of Great Britain & Ireland

• Corkscrew – Practice-based research network at Birkbeck

• CMSRN - Communications & Media Studies Research Network