{"id":3044,"date":"2016-12-13T16:10:38","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T21:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/culturalmediations\/?post_type=cu-people&#038;p=3044"},"modified":"2025-03-21T16:21:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T20:21:34","slug":"anna-ania-paluch","status":"publish","type":"cu-people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/culturalmediations\/people\/anna-ania-paluch\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Anna (Ania) Paluch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My research examines the connections between Indigenous Futurism and Slavic Futurism and the role of science fiction and popular culture in reclaiming traditional imagery and preserving oral stories. When doing my research I approached my work self-reflexively as not only a settler, but as someone who belongs to the Polish diaspora in Canada. Where I look at Indigenous Futurism in the decolonial context, I approach Slavic Futurism through the lens of Polish artists de-westernizing themselves. I focus on visual art and short films and how they show that culture and tradition can live in a contemporary, futuristic, setting: the Navajo creation story can be set on Mars (<em>The 6th World<\/em>), and Polish folk heroes can out-smart demons in a space ship (<em>Twardowksy 2.0<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Doctoral Project<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>THESIS TITLE:\u00a0<em>From Turtle Island to Vistula\u2019s Shores: Indigenous North American and Eastern European Futurisms in Dialogue<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Defence date:\u00a0January 15, 2024<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recent Exhibitions and Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cReflecting on Identity Through the Family Album\u201d. In <em>Ottawa Hispanic Studies: 27<sup>th<\/sup> Edition,<\/em> edited by Luis Abanto and Ana Fernandez, 77-90. Ottawa: Lugar Comun Editorial, 2018.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cLiving Culture Moving Art\u201d, National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives, Ottawa, ON. 7 \u2013 21 April 2015.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cMapping Ottawa\u201d, Blink Gallery, Ottawa, ON. 17 \u2013 27 July 2014.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cUnconventional Space as Cultural Dialogue: Installations from the Central-Eastern World\u201d.\u00a0<em>Millefeuilles Journal<\/em>, Ottawa: Magcloud. June 2014.<\/li>\n<li>\u201c125 Years\u201d, Paradigm[e] Gallery, Ottawa, ON. 5 December 2013 \u2013 17 February 2014.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Recent Conferences<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2019. <em>Metis Futurism: Rosalia Favell and Metis in Space Set Their Phasers to Decolonize the Sci Fi Universe (V. 2), NAISA 2019, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand\/Aotearoa<\/em><\/li>\n<li>2018. <em>Metis Futurism: Rosalia Favell and Metis in Space Set Their Phasers to Decolonize the Sci Fi Universe (V. 1), \u201cWorlding SF: Building, Inhabiting, and Understanding Science Fiction Universes\u201d, University of Graz, Graz, Austria<\/em><\/li>\n<li>2018. <em>A Tale of Two Polands, <\/em>&#8220;To Maria Amanda Bairo: Legacy of Love&#8221; panel<em>, <\/em>Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, International Colloquium: Women&#8217;s Voices\/Voix Feminines\/Voces Femeninas<em>, <\/em>University of Ottawa, ON<\/li>\n<li>2018. <em>Pi\u0119kna \u015amier\u0107: The translation of death rituals from Poland into Polonia<\/em> (V. 2)<em>,<\/em> Death and Culture II Conference, Department of Sociology, University of York, York, UK<\/li>\n<li>2017. <em>Pi\u0119kna \u015amier\u0107: The translation of death rituals from Poland into Polonia<\/em> (V. 1), Joint Graduate Students Symposium, \u201cCommemoration and Critique: Discussions around Heritage Conservation &amp; Cultural Work of Mourning\u201d, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON<\/li>\n<li>2017. <em>Water is Life, Water is Blood: Indigenous Resistance and Environmental Activism in Music Videos<\/em>, Off the Record Conference, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON<\/li>\n<li>2017. <em>Barry Ace \u2013 Beads and Motherboards,<\/em> CIRCLE Conference, \u201cReckoning with Canada at 150: Critical Perspectives and Indigenous Sovereignty\u201d, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON<\/li>\n<li>2017. <em>Analyzing the Family Album<\/em>, Work in Progress: The Construction of Identities Through Discursive Practices in Contemporary (Canadian) Society, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON<\/li>\n<li>2016.<em>\u00a0Decolonizing the Streets<\/em>. Workshop and presentation at the Decolonizing Conference CIARS 2016. Toronto, Ontario. 5, November.<\/li>\n<li>2016-2018.<em>\u00a0Contested Landscapes and Beats on the Streets<\/em>. Presentation with Prof. Allan J. Ryan at the 2016 Summer School on Arts + Human Rights Program. Ottawa, Ontario. 23, June.<\/li>\n<li>2015.<em>\u00a0Calligraffiti: The Script of Protesters<\/em>. Presentation at Flux &amp; Flow: Explorations of Movement and Change. Ottawa, Ontario. 28, March.<\/li>\n<li>2015.<em>\u00a0Imagined Identities, Composed Memory.<\/em>\u00a0Presentation at Zelikovitz Centre Student Colloquium: Religion, Memory and Identity. 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