Institute of Polish Culture, University of Warsaw
Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28
room no. 5
Thursday, 26 September 2024
9:00-9:45 registration and coffee
9:45 opening
welcome addresses:
authorities of the Institute of Polish Culture
Marcin Bogucki – conference organiser
10:00-11:30
keynote lecture
Dean Vuletic (University of Luxembourg),
The Eurovision and Intervision Song Contests: Competition and Cooperation
11:30-12:00 coffee break
12:00-13:30
session 1
Nation branding: post-Yugoslavia, Belarus, Ukraine
chair: Dean Vuletic (University of Luxembourg)
- Jonas Vanderschueren (KU Leuven), Post-Jugovizija: Eurovision Song Contest and (trans)national identity formation in Southeast Europe after 1992
- Wojciech Artur Pietrucha (University of Warsaw), Born in Belorussia, USSR-time Belorussia… Belarusian ESC 2011 entries as reflections of clashing state propaganda narratives
- Louisa Martin-Chevalier (Sorbonne University), Ukrainian Victories at the ESC and Musical Diplomacy (2003-2024)
13:30-15:00 lunch break
15:00-16:30
session 2
Nation branding: Ukraine and Poland
chair: Anton Saifullayeu (University of Warsaw)
- Valeria Korablyova (Charles University), Performing a Euro-nation: the rising soft power of Ukraine at the ESC (2003-2024)
- Izabela Andrzejak (University of Warsaw), Self-exoticization – My Słowianie as a citation of Polish folklore at the Eurovision
- Marcin Bogucki (University of Warsaw), Polish aspirations. On Edyta Górniakʼs song To nie ja!
16:30-17:00 coffee break
17:00-18:30
discussion
Polish fandom: 20th anniversary of OGAE Poland
chair: Maciej Sychowiec (OGAE Poland, SWPS University)
members of OGAE Poland: Katarzyna Leśniewska, Szymon Stellmaszyk, Konrad Szczęsny, Maja Wojcieszek
19:00 dinner
21:00 Młodsza Siostra, Dobra 14/16
accompanying event – karaoke
hosts: Stanisław Godlewski (Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences), Ewa Leśna & Mikołaj Szuszkiewicz (OGAE Poland)
Friday, 27 September 2024
9:30-10:00 coffee
10:00-11:30
session 3
Media & narratives
chair: Marcin Bogucki (University of Warsaw)
- Oliwia Szeląg (Adam Mickiewicz University), The role of the public broadcaster in selecting a national representative in the Eurovision Song Contest: A comparative study of the CEE Countries
- Angelika Tracz (University of Warsaw), The CEE broadcasters vs. article 10 of the European Convention of Human Rights (2013-2024)
- Florian Wagner (House of Austrian History), Hofburg, Wurst and Grenzenöffnung: A History of the Eurovision Song Contest through the lens of an Austrian National History Museum
11:30-12:00 coffee break12:00-13:00
session 4
Camp & queer
chair: Konrad Sierzputowski (University of Warsaw)
- Xawery Stańczyk (University of Lodz), Other Central-Eastern Europes? Gender, national, and class axes of Renia Pączkowska and Verka Serduchka musical collaboration
- Halszka Fryźlewicz (Jagiellonian University), Don’t trust the voices: Remarks on t.A.T.u.’s Eurovision 2003 performance
13:00-14:30 lunch break
14:30-16:00
discussion
Eurovision in Wartime: The Present and Future of the Eurovision Song Contest and ESC Studies
chair: Karen Fricker (Brock University)
Elad Carmel (University of Jyväskylä), Ivan Raykoff (The New School)
16:00-16:30 closing remarks
16:30-17:00 coffee break
17:00-18:30
film screening
Intervision Song Contest – schlager i kalla krigets skugga
(Intervision Song Contest – schlager in Cold War Europe)
with English subtitles
introduction: Oskar Anesten (SVT)
22:00 La Pose, Mazowiecka 6/8
accompanying event – drag show
(ticketed event)
free entrace
(except the drag show)
partner institutions: OGAE Polska, Młodsza Siostra, La Pose