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Academic Lectures & Presentations

“The Polka Alternative: Identity, Ethnicity and Class in the Music of Polish American Chicago.” American Musicological Society Popular Music Study Group 2024 Pre-Conference Symposium Chicago Music:  Histories, People, and Scenes at DePaul University, Chicago, October 2024. (refereed)  

“The Space of the New Ethnic Neighborhood: Polka Festival as Imagined Community.” Cultural Studies  Association, Chicago, IL May 2021. (refereed)  “The Space of the New Ethnic Neighborhood: Polka Festival as Imagined Community.” Cultural Studies Association, Chicago, IL May 2021. (refereed)

“The Real Problem: Aleterity and Virtuality, Tourism and Otherness.” Defacing Alterity in the Digital Age, International Meeting on Alterity, Institute for Critical Theory, Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland, January 2015. (invited)

“Brigid Pasulka’s Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially Trueand the Work of Ethnic Fiction,” Polish American Historical Association Annual Meeting, New York City, January 2015. (refereed/in absentia)

“The Boundary Event: Digital Natives In-between Cultures,” Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America [PIASA] Fifth World Congress, Warsaw University, June 2014. (refereed)

“Cinema Slapdown #52: The Master.” Public lecture & debate between Ann Hetzel Gunkel and Film Critic Jonathan Rosenbaum on Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master. Columbia College Chicago School of Media Arts, April, 2014. (invited)

“Going Native: The Real Problem in Theorizing the Communicative Interaction of Digital Natives,” Harmonia International Symposium, Negotiating Cultural Difference in the Digital Communication Era, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, October 2013. (invited)

“Pedagogy and Political Work in Cultural Studies,” CSA Cultural Studies Association Annual Conference, Columbia College Chicago, May 2013. (refereed)

“Doctor Who and Philosophy: Reading Being and Time in the TARDIS,” Invited Paper, 50th Anniversary of the BBC’s Doctor Who Colloquium, DePaul University Media & Cinema Studies, March 2013. (invited)

“Reading the Miniature American Cityscape: Anti-urbanism in the Christmas Village,” Polish Association of American Studies (PAAS) Annual Conference, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland, October 2012. (refereed)

“Cultural Studies and the Undergraduate: A Seminar,” Panelist, Cultural Studies Association (CSA) Annual Conference, March 2011.

“Global Górale and Postmodern Polskość: Polish Roots Music & the Post-Communist Recovery of Folk,” The Polish Diaspora in America and the Wider World Conference, Institute of American Studies and Polish Diaspora, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, June 25-26, 2010. (invited)

“Postmodern Polish Ethnicity: Polish Roots Music & the Post-Communist Recovery of Folk,” The Intersections Lecture at the Chicago Cultural Center, March 2010. (invited)

“Global Górale and Postmodern Polskość: Ethnicity & Identity in Polish Music.” Polish Institute of Arts & Sciences of America Annual Meeting, New York, NY, June 2009. (refereed)

“From Humanism to Post-humanism.” Human/Nature Symposium, Critical Encounters Series, Columbia College Chicago, April 2009.

“Ethnic Aesthetics: Considering Polish American Art.” Polish American Historical Association Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA, January 2006. (refereed)

“The New Ethnic Neighborhood: Polka Festival as Imagined Community,” Polish American Historical Association Annual Conference, Seattle, Washington, January 2005. (refereed)

“Polish American Polka as Resistant Ethnicity.” The Annual Fiedorczyk Lecture. Polish Studies Program, Central Connecticut State University, November, 2004. (Invited)

“Of Polka, Pierogi, and Ethnic Identity: Toward A Polish American Cultural Studies,” 150 Years of Polonia in the United States Conference, Central Connecticut State University, June, 2004. (invited)

“Immigrant Voices: Polka Lyrics as Ethnic Literature,” Polish American Historical Association, Washington, DC, January 2004. (refereed)

“A Polka Primer, “Polish American Historical Association, Washington, DC, January, 2004. (refereed)

“Polka and Cultural Resistance,” Lecture at the Chicago Cultural Center’s Intersections Lecture Series in Cultural Studies, October, 2003. (invited)

“Urban Street Processions: The Political Aesthetics of Neighborhood Ethnicity,” Multimedia presentation to School of Visual Arts Conference on Liberal Arts and the Education of Artists, New York NY, October 2003. (refereed)

“PolishTraditions.org: Virtual Ethnicity & The Ethnographic Museum Project,” Presentation to the Polish American Historical Association, Chicago, IL, January, 2003. (refereed)

“The Sacred in the City: Polonian Street Procession as Countercultural Practice,” Presentation to the Polish American Historical Association, Chicago, IL, January, 2003. (refereed)

“The Accordion and Cultural Resistance?” Lecture at the Witte Museum, San Antonio Texas, in conjunction with the International Accordion Festival, October, 2002. (invited)

“Urban Polonian Street Processions: Neighborhood Ethnicity and the Politics of Gentrification,” Presentation to the Midwest Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October, 2002. (refereed)

“Urban Street Religion: Neighborhood Ethnicity and The Politics of Gentrification,” Presentation to the Midwest American Academy of Religion, DePaul University, March 2001. (blind review)

“The Technology of Collectibles: Narratives of Community in the Virtual Village,” Presentation to the School of Visual Arts Annual Conference on Liberal Arts and the Education of Artists. New York, October, 2000. (refereed)

“Polka as Counter-Hegemonic Ethnic Practice,” Presentation to the American Studies Association, Detroit, October, 2000. (blind review)

“Identity & Community: Religious Street Processions in Urban Polonia,” Presentation to the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, June, 2000. (blind review)

“Interactive Multimedia Pedagogy: Urban Images,” Presentation to the Broadcast Education Association, Las Vegas, April 2000. (blind review)

“The Threads of Polish-American Spirituality,” Presentation to the Archdiocese of Chicago Deaconate Women, Chicago, February 2000. (invited)

“Polka As Counter-Hegemonic Ethnic Practice,” Presentation to the Polish American Historical Association, Chicago, January 2000. (blind review)

“Kitsch and Community in the Christmas Village,” Presentation to the Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture /American Culture Association, Philadelphia, PA, November 1999. (blind review)

“Imagining the City: The Pedagogy of ‘Urban Images,’” Presentation at The School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, October, 1999. (refereed)

“Cultural Identity and Critical Inquiry in the Humanities Classroom,” Presentation to the Association of Core Texts and Courses, University of North Carolina at Asheville, March 1998. (invited)

“Kitsch and Community in the Christmas Village: Thinking the Polis in Consumer Culture,” Presentation to the Humanities Research Forum, Carthage College, November, 1997. (invited)

“Plus Ratio Quam Vis: Paradoxes of Resistance in Polish Political Philosophy,” The Burckhardt Lecture in History, Carthage College, November, 1997. (invited)

“Imaging the Margins,” Presentation to the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Mobile, Alabama, May 1997. (blind review)

“Goals and Outcomes of Student-Centered Pedagogy in the Humanities Classroom,” Presentation to the Humanities Advisory Council of Carthage College, April 1997. (invited)

“Tradition and Innovation in the Humanities Core Curriculum,” Presentation to the Association for Core Texts and Courses, Temple University, April 1997. (invited)

“Cyberspace and the Space of Fiction,” Presentation to the 22nd Annual Conference on Film and Literature, Florida State University, February 1997. (blind review)

“Pedagogy and Power Rangers: Teaching in the Classrooms of the Future,” Preparing Future Faculty Conference, Marquette University, April 1996. (invited)

“Teaching Video: At the Borders of Feminist Pedagogy,” Presentation to the National Women’s Studies Association, Skidmore College, June 1996. (blind review)

“Women, Culture, and Community,” Presentation to the Western Association of Women Historians, Huntington Library, Pasadena, California, May 1996. (invited)

“Great Teaching, Great Learning,” Keynote Address to the Honors Induction Ceremonies of Resurrection Academy, Chicago, Illinois, May 1996. (invited)

“The Pedagogy of Holocaust: Teaching Morrison’s Beloved and Schindler’s List,” Presentation to the Heritage Studies Faculty, Carthage College, March, 1996. (invited)

“The Challenge of Teaching Culture,” Presentation to EIDOS Institute of Philosophy and Culture, St. Petersburg, Russia, October, 1995. (invited)

“Problematizing Culture Through Anthropological and Ethnographic Narratives,” Presentation to the Heritage Studies Faculty, Carthage College, August, 1995. (invited)

“Feeding the Revolution: Critical Body Studies and the Education of Women,” Presentation to the National Women’s Studies Association, University of Oklahoma, June 1995. (blind review)

“The Cybernetic Weave,” Presentation to the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Villanova University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May, 1995. (blind review)

“Bodies in Question,” Lecture at Carthage College, April 1995. (invited)

“Colonial Geographies: From Columbus to Cyberspace,” Presented to the Philosophy, Interpretation, Culture Conference, State University of New York, Binghamton, April, 1995. (blind review)

Theorizing Student Bodies: Pedagogical Strategies for Critically Teaching Body Image and Eating Disorder Issues,” Lecture to the Colloquium, Revisioning the Education of Women for the 21st Century, Resurrection Academy, Chicago, Illinois, September, 1994. (invited)

“The Melting Plot: Introducing Cultural Studies Through Columbian Narratives,” Lecture presented to the Heritage Studies Faculty Colloquium, Carthage College, August, 1994. (invited)

“The Possibilities of Pedagogy,” Presentation to the National Women’s Studies Association Conference, University of Iowa, June 1994. (blind review)

“Between Poetics and Technics: The Feminist Space of Philosophical Discourse,” Presentation to the International Association of Philosophy and Literature Conference, University of Alberta, Canada, April 1994. (blind review)

“Anorexia Nervosa and the Philosophy of Culture,” Invited Lecture to the Women’s History Week Forum, Carthage College, March 1994. (invited)

“Strategies for Teaching Plato in a Multicultural Context,” Presentation to the Heritage Studies Faculty, Carthage College, March, 1994. (invited)

“Reading Frankenstein: A Pedagogical Model,” Presented to the Heritage Studies Program Faculty Retreat, Carthage College, August 1993. (invited)

“Feminism and the Curriculum,” Presentation to the National Women’s Studies Association, Washington, D.C., June 1993. (blind review)

“Women in Philosophy,” Lecture to the Women’s History Week Forum at Carthage College, March, 1993. (invited)

“The Pedagogy of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave: Alternative Approaches,” Invited Lecture to the Heritage Studies Program Faculty Retreat, Carthage College, February, 1993. (invited)

“CHORA and the Desire for Philosophy: Heidegger and Irigaray Reading Plato.” Accepted for presentation at the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Annual Meeting, Berkeley, California, April, 1992. (blind review)

“The Bridge Between Platonic and Kantian Ethics,” Lecture presented at Marian College, February, 1992. (invited)

“Eros and Techne in Plato,” Lecture presented to the Faculty of Xavier University, January, 1992. (invited)

“Cosmology and the Feminine,” Lecture presented to the American Association of University Women, Chicago, Illinois, January, 1992. (invited)