Elżbieta Wiącek

Elżbieta Wiącek is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Intercultural Studies, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. She earned her Ph.D. in the humanities with a specialty in arts. Her research scope encompasses cultural semiotics, the history of art, cinema (especially early cinema and Iranian cinema), film analysis, visual anthropology, and postmodernism. She conducted a series of lectures in Finland, Portugal, Italy, USA, and Turkey within this range of themes.

In 2004 she published the book on the filmic journeys of Abbas Kiarostami – Filmowe podróże Abbasa Kiarostamiego (in Polish). She is also the editor and co-author of the volume Symbols of Contemporary Culture (2015). Her last book, titled – Rozstania, powroty, tajemnice – autorskie kino Asghara Farhadiego (published in 2023 in Polish) is devoted to the author cinema by Asghar Farhadi. She is also the author of many articles including Transnational Dimensions of Iranian Cinema: “Accented Films” by Mohsen Makhmalbaf (2020), Where is Anna? What happened to Elly? – Asghar Farhadi rewrites and re-veils Michaelangelo Antonioni (2015), “The Orient” in Global Cultural Flow: the Case of Turkish Riviera (2013), In the Labyrinth of Memory. Images of the Warsaw Uprising of 1944 (2014), Poland’s refugee policy, and Polish society between values of survival and self-expression (2017).

She was involved in several projects, including: “Do Not Be Deaf to Culture – An Analysis of the Chances and Barriers for the Deaf to Participate in Cultural and Artistic Life” (2013- 2014, financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Poland). In 2014 she participated in a teaching fellowship program at the University of Rochester NY, USA.

She is a member of a non-governmental association INTERKULTURALNI PL in Poland which aims to promote and develop the idea of an open and multicultural society.

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