RESISTing B/ORDERS: Navigating Meaningful Research Process in the Spirit of the Queer-Feminist Epistemologies within Neoliberal, Institutional B/Orders of Multi-National Funding Grant Systems (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Kulpa, R. (2023, September). RESISTing B/ORDERS: Navigating Meaningful Research Process in the Spirit of the Queer-Feminist Epistemologies within Neoliberal, Institutional B/Orders of Multi-National Funding Grant Systems. Presented at Contesting 21st Century B/Orders, Frankfurt

In this presentation Roberto and the RESIST project team will reflect on the meanders of the contemporary higher education and research sectors across Europe from the perspectives of queer-feminist researchers located in diverse geopolitical contexts... Read More about RESISTing B/ORDERS: Navigating Meaningful Research Process in the Spirit of the Queer-Feminist Epistemologies within Neoliberal, Institutional B/Orders of Multi-National Funding Grant Systems.

The Epic Spartacus (2023)
Book Chapter
Stutterheim, K. (in press). The Epic Spartacus. In Kubrick Encounters Spartacus. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press

Epic stories portray influential characters acting under extraordinary circumstances. As we can see it happens to Spartacus in this movie, the main character is forced to act in a way they never would have imagined a moment before the incident starts... Read More about The Epic Spartacus.

Post-Enlightenment: Can We Go Beyond Occidentalist Epistemologies and Geo-Politics in Queer Studies? (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Kulpa, R. (2022, December). Post-Enlightenment: Can We Go Beyond Occidentalist Epistemologies and Geo-Politics in Queer Studies?. Presented at Go West! Conceptual Explorations of “The West” in History of Education, University of Münster, Germany

The invited lecture reflected on the contemporary queer studies and the geo-temporal ‘unsettlement’ of Central and Eastern Europe in the occidental (and occidentalist) imaginary. Dr Kulpa pointed to the uncanny possibilities for queer studies eme... Read More about Post-Enlightenment: Can We Go Beyond Occidentalist Epistemologies and Geo-Politics in Queer Studies?.

RESIST - Fostering Queer Feminist Intersectional Resistances against Transnational Anti-Gender Politics (2022)
Digital Artefact
Kulpa, R. (2022). RESIST - Fostering Queer Feminist Intersectional Resistances against Transnational Anti-Gender Politics. [Website]

Website for the EU-funded research project "RESIST - Fostering Queer Feminist Intersectional Resistances against Transnational Anti-Gender Politics". Website available at: https://theresistproject.eu

Press Release. EU Funded Project "Fostering Queer Feminist Intersectional Resistances against Transnational Anti-Gender Politics (RESIST)" Launches (2022)
Other
Boulila, S., Browne, K., Chauvin, S., Filep, K., Blidon, M., Zarate, M., …Kulpa, R. (2022). Press Release. EU Funded Project "Fostering Queer Feminist Intersectional Resistances against Transnational Anti-Gender Politics (RESIST)" Launches. [Press release]. Dublin

Anti-gender politics pose a grave threat to modern democratic formations because they challenge people's everyday survival, bodily integrity, and self-determination. Anti-gender spans the political spectrum and manifests not only in illiberal and aut... Read More about Press Release. EU Funded Project "Fostering Queer Feminist Intersectional Resistances against Transnational Anti-Gender Politics (RESIST)" Launches.

Friendship as Method? Friendship as Epistemology? (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Kulpa, R. (2022, June). Friendship as Method? Friendship as Epistemology?. Paper presented at 11th European Feminist Research Conference: "Social Change in a Feminist Perspective", Universita di Milano-Bicocca, Milano, IT

Friendship gained across years some traction in kinship research, recently especially within the ‘queer kinship’ debates, as a strong manifestation for the need and drive of alternative ‘families of choice’. With this presentation I want to focus on... Read More about Friendship as Method? Friendship as Epistemology?.

Queer Politics of Post-Enlightenment (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Kulpa, R. (2021, December). Queer Politics of Post-Enlightenment. Presented at Working transnationally beyond comparative hierarchies: Exploring relationalities, solidarities and changing conditions in transnational research and pedagogies, Lund University, Sweden

This invited presentation reflected on the contemporary queer studies and the geo-temporal ‘unsettlement’ of Central and Eastern Europe in the occidental (and occidentalist) imaginary. Dr Kulpa pointed to the uncanny possibilities for queer studi... Read More about Queer Politics of Post-Enlightenment.

The Potential of Friendship: A Case for Social Resilience (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Kulpa, R., & Ludwin, K. (2021, April). The Potential of Friendship: A Case for Social Resilience. Paper presented at 70th Annual Conference of the British Sociological Association, London, UK

The consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic mark a crisis of neoliberal ideologies of entrepreneurial individualism underpinning global precarity globally, nationally, and at the level of personal and community networks and relation(ship)s. In Poland a... Read More about The Potential of Friendship: A Case for Social Resilience.

“The Crown” - Princess Diana and the Cinderella Dream (2021)
Other
Kulpa, R. (2021). “The Crown” - Princess Diana and the Cinderella Dream. [Magazine article]. Warsaw

A week after the premiere of the fourth season of "The Crown", the British media announced that viewership records were broken. Diana's story is the main theme in it. What is it about her character that attracts the attention of filmmakers, the media... Read More about “The Crown” - Princess Diana and the Cinderella Dream.

Spaces and Places of Friendship. Thinking about Geo-spatiality in Practices of Friendship (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Kulpa, R. (2019, September). Spaces and Places of Friendship. Thinking about Geo-spatiality in Practices of Friendship. Paper presented at European Geographies of Sexualities Conference, Prague, CZ

Presentation titled: "Spaces and Places of Friendship. Thinking about Geo-spatiality in Practices of Friendship". To: 5th European Geographies of Sexualities Conference. Prague, Charles University. https://2019.egsconference.com

Surveying Friendship. What the Quantitative Data Tell Us About Friendship among LGBT Communities (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Kulpa, R. (2018, October). Surveying Friendship. What the Quantitative Data Tell Us About Friendship among LGBT Communities. Paper presented at Queering Friendship: Citizenship, Care and Choice (‘Intimate’ Project), University of Lisbon, Lisbon, PT

2018, Surveying Friendship. What the Quantitative Data Tell Us About Friendship among LGBT Communities. To: Queering Friendship: Citizenship, Care and Choice (‘Intimate’ Project), University of Lisbon. https://www.ces.uc.pt/intimate/index.php?id=1... Read More about Surveying Friendship. What the Quantitative Data Tell Us About Friendship among LGBT Communities.