We invite you to a meeting around the new edition of the book "Gender. An Anthropological Perspective"! ✨ Wednesday, 22.10.2025, 6:00 PM 📍 Duży Pokój Studio, Warecka 4/6, Warsaw (entrance from Kubusia Puchatka Street) The two-volume collection "Gender. An Anthropological Perspective," published in 2007, significantly contributed to the emergence of issues of gender and sexuality in Polish ethnology and cultural anthropology, as well as in other humanities and social sciences. Today—almost two decades after its publication—we propose a new, expanded edition that provides insight into what has happened and gained importance in gender and sexuality research since 2007: issues of race and racism, female forms of expression, gender dimensions of migration, the development of feminism in the context of the end of the Cold War, and gender-based violence during ethnographic fieldwork. Unlike the 2007 edition, the new edition also includes Polish texts. During the meeting, the Editors and Authors will discuss the background of the new edition, the development of the anthropology of gender and sexuality, as well as the difficulties in practicing it in times of global moral panic around the term gender. Guests of the meeting: - Magda Bodzan – anthropologist, conducted research among migrants living in Warsaw involved in culinary initiatives. Currently, she studies processes of memory recovery and knowledge creation about the refugee camp on Tubabao Island in the Philippines. For over 15 years, she has been involved in NGO activities focused on global justice and educational programs for people fleeing the war from Ukraine to Poland. - Hanna Frejlak – anthropologist, conducted research among conservative Catholics in Warsaw and among refugees from West Africa in Sardinia. She works daily as a strategist and analyst at the Pacyfika Agency. She is a member of the editorial board of Kontakt Magazine. - Dr. Renata E. Hryciuk – social anthropologist and Latin Americanist, affiliated with the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Warsaw. Her research interests include: gender studies, anthropology of food and consumption, political anthropology, and critical development studies. She has conducted fieldwork in Poland, Lithuania, and for over two decades in Mexico. Co-editor of two collective works: "Farewell to the Polish Mother? Discourses, Practices, and Representations of Motherhood in Contemporary Poland" and "Dangerous Liaisons. Motherhood, Fatherhood, and Politics," as well as readers of texts "Gender. An Anthropological Perspective." She studied processes of patrimonialization of culinary cultures for cultural tourism in southern Mexico, using tools of feminist and decolonial anthropology. - Prof. Dr. Hab. Agnieszka Kościańska – works at the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Warsaw, was a visiting professor at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies. She researches sexuality, gender, religiosity, and discrimination. Prof. Kościańska is the author of, among others, "Go Away. On Polish Racism," "Seeing the Moose. The History of Polish Sex Education from the First Lesson to the Internet," "Gender, Pleasure, and Violence. Shaping Expert Knowledge about Sexuality in Poland," as well as (co-)editor of numerous collective works, including "Anthropology and Discrimination," "The Routledge Handbook of Sexuality in East Central Europe," "Gender. An Anthropological Perspective." The meeting will be hosted by: - Dr. Hab. Karolina Bielenin-Lenczowska, Prof. IS PAN – social anthropologist and linguist, professor at the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Her scientific interests include anthropology of migration and diaspora, linguistic anthropology, and social research methodology. She has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Macedonia, Italy, and Brazil. Author of the books "Spaghetti with Ajvar. Translocal Everyday Life of Muslims in Macedonia and Italy" and "Colonists from Rio Claro. Socio-linguistic Worlds of Polish Settlers in Southern Brazil." ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION: We strive to make our events accessible to all interested persons. The venue is located on the ground floor, with entrance from the street, but it is necessary to climb 3 steps to enter. It is possible to come with a guide dog. If you have any needs or questions related to participation in the event, please email [email protected] or call 602727185, and we will try to find a solution. FUNDING: The project is co-financed by the City of Warsaw.
