CMC Academic Group at the Media School, Bournemouth University invites you to a public engagement event:
Mediating Solidarity: legacies of the social movement
Screening of a documentary ‘The (Un)finished Portrait of Lech Walesa’
By
Agnieszka Piotrowska
-- BBC trained, award-wining broadcaster, and an author of academic books on film studies
The session will be followed by drinks reception.
Date & time: 6 March, 2014. Time: 14.00 onwards
Venue:
(Screening room: Weymouth House, room: W240)
Bournemouth University, The Media School,
Talbot Campus, BH12 5BB,
Dorset, Poole
Registration: event is free but registration is required: http://mediatingsolidarity.eventbrite.co.uk
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The screening will be followed by Q&A session with the film director:
 Dr. Agnieszka Piotrowska (the University of Bedfordshire)
And
Dr. Anna Feigenbaum (Bournemouth University)
Dr. Mikolaj Kunicki (the University of Oxford)
Mathew Charles (Bournemouth University)
Chaired and organized by Dr. Pawel Surowiec
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More information: http://news.bournemouth.ac.uk/events/event/mediating-solidarity-legacies-of-the-social-movement-6-march-2014/
About the speakers
Dr. Agnieszka Piotrowska is an award winning documentary filmmaker, a film theorist, and a director of the iconic MARRIED TO THE EIFFEL TOWER (2009). Her latest film, THE ENGAGEMENT PARTY IN HARARE (2013), was nominated for the best documentary in an international film festival in Zimbabwe in 2012 as the only non-African film-maker granted the distinction. Her monograph entitled ‘Psychoanalysis and Ethics in Documentary Film’ was published by Routledge in 2013 to enthusiastic reviews. Piotrowska is a Reader in Film Practice and Theory at the Department of Media Arts, the University of Bedfordshire.

Dr. Anna Feigenbaum is a writer, researcher and educator engaged in a variety of projects on communication and social change. She is a lecturer in Media & Politics at Bournemouth University. Anna has recently co-authored the book entitled ‘Protest Camps’, which explores the media, governance and social practices enacted in protest camps across the span of 50 years. She is also involved in a series of public engagement workshops and interdisciplinary exchanges with the Protest Camps Research Network, as well as a project blog: http://protestcamps.org/. Her forthcoming monograph ‘Tear Gas: 100 Years in the Making’ is scheduled to come out with Verso in 2015.


Dr. Mikolaj Kunicki is Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Programme on Modern Poland at St. Antony’s College, the University of Oxford. Before coming to Oxford, he taught history at the University of Notre Dame and the University of California at Berkeley. His book, ‘Between the Brown and the Red: Nationalism, Catholicism and Communism in Twentieth Century Poland’, was published by Ohio University Press in 2012. He is also the author of several articles on 20th century Polish history and cinema. He is currently researching a book on national communism in Polish and East European cinema.


Mathew Charles is an award-winning documentary maker and former BBC correspondent. His research covers human rights and conflict reporting, particularly with regard to drug cartels and urban gangs in Central America. Other areas of interest include advocacy journalism and crowd-funded reporting. His recent documentary, THE ENGINEER, looks at the gang conflict of El Salvador. He is also the director of two films on Belarus: STAGING A REVOLUTION and EUROPE’S LAST DICTATOR. Mathew is a lecturer in media studies at Bournemouth University.

Dr. Pawel Surowiec is a lecturer in propaganda studies at the Media School, Bournemouth University. His research on political communication is intrigued by questions relating to the re-invention of propaganda as a professional practice and power relations in persuasive communications, particularly in the context of political economy. He has published on mediation of dissent and protests (including the Solidarity movement), soft power, and on the role of social media in political engagement. Pawel is working on a monograph exploring corporatization of soft power of the Polish neo-liberal state.

Dr. Pawel Surowiec
Lecturer in Propaganda Studies

Bournemouth University
The Media School
Fern Barrow, Poole
Dorset, BH12 5BB, UK
Tel. 01202 965236
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