Conference Programe

9:00 – 9:20 AM Registration

Launch of the Conference

Prof. Katarzyna Kołodziejczyk, Dean of the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies

11:00 – 11:15 AM Coffee Break

SESSION I

Chair: Leszek Nowak; Discussant: Monika Banaś

Wanda Kondracka (University of Warsaw): Seeing War, Thinking Peace: Bertrand Russell and the Ethics of Visual Propaganda

Kalina Poślednik (Jagiellonian University): Framing Peace, Normalizing War: Moral Narratives in Modern Conflict 

Joanna Ostrowska (Adam Mickiewicz University): Philosophers at War: Reflections or Propaganda?

Maja Gutowska (University of Warsaw): Visual Persuasion: The Use of Photography in Contemporary Political Narratives

Filip Pierzchalski (University of Warsaw): Visual Representations as Emotional Manipulations in Politics

Marta Dębska (Jagiellonian University): Visualization of American Dream in Polish Perspectives 

1:00 – 2:00 PM Lunch

CRITICAL DEBATE: TECHNO-PROGRESSIVISM OR TECHNOFASCISM: PALANTIR TECHNOLOGIES BETWEEN SECURITY, SURVEILLANCE, AND CIVIL RIGHTS

Chair: Filip Pierzchalski, Discussants: Antoni Moskwa (Vortex Analytica), Sebastian Urbaniak (University of Szczecin), Maciej Kassner (University of Warsaw)

3:30 – 4:00 PM Coffee Break

SESSION II

Chair: Wojciech Lewandowski; Discussant: Maciej Adamski

Monika Banaś (Jagiellonian University): Strategic Narratives of Territorial Claims - the Discursive Reconfiguration of International Order

Sara Burchert (University of Warsaw): Social Media Affordances as the Infrastructure of the Visual Amplification of Emotions, Disinformation, and Manipulation

Bartłomiej Zimny (Academy of Justice): Regulating the Synthetic Eye: Legal Boundaries of AI-Generated Visual Propaganda in Electoral Campaigns

Magdalena Pawlik (Independent scholar): Propaganda as Symbolic Hegemony: Affective Management of Political Narrative in Contemporary Poland (2015–2023)

Jan Franciszek Janoś (University of Warsaw): The Neoliberal Suit as Undermining Propaganda

Magdalena Ozimek-Hanslik (University of Opole): Experiences, which are Frowned upon: Few Reflections about Two Cases

6:00 – 8:00 PM Conference Dinner

KEYNOTE LECTURE: IS PROPAGANDA IN FILM A BAD THING? A CRITICAL MEDIA LITERACY PERSPECTIVE

Michael Haus, Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg

11:00 – 11:15 AM Coffee Break

SESSION III

Chair: Filip Pierzchalski; Discussant: Paweł Ścigaj

Marcel Wurszt (Jagiellonian University): Visualizing Exclusion: Social Chauvinism as a Linguistic
and Aesthetic Instrument of Political Propaganda

Przemysław Potocki (University of Warsaw): Banksy - Political Artist or Visual Politician?

Tomasz Rosowski (Jagiellonian University): The Aesthetics of Zoomer-fascism and its Methods
of Othering

Juliusz Mazur-Machowski (University of Warsaw): Propa-Garde? Avant-Garde Visual Language and the Political Initiative of the Communist Party of Poland: The Amnesty Campaign of 1926

Jan Tyszka-Ostrowski (University of Warsaw): Aliens in the House - How Does Polish Society Presents Otherness in Media, Since 1918?

Maciej Adamski (Independent scholar): Purging The Evil - From the Nazi Germany KDF-Wagen to The West Germany Motoring Miracle of The Beetle in Car Brochures

1:00 – 2:00 PM Lunch

EXPERT PANEL: PRIME MINISTER IGNACY DASZYŃSKI: BETWEEN MODERN VISUAL CODES AND POP CULTURE INDUSTRIES 

Bartosz Rydliński (Centre for Progressive Studies)

3:30 – 4:00 PM Coffee Break

SESSION IV

Chair: Sławomir Józefowicz; Discussant: Marta Dębska

Agata Krzywdzińska (Jagiellonian University): Political Propaganda and Ideology in the Modern Russian Film Industry

Weronika Wiszniewiecka (University of Warsaw): Reframing Global Influence: The Rise of Chinese Soft Power in the Light of Waning Appeal of the "American Dream"

Lena Gaworska (University of Warsaw): The ‘Peaceful Liberation’ of Tibet in Chinese State Propaganda

Iga Kostecka (University of Warsaw) : Beyond Democratization: Anti-Communist Visual Propaganda
as a Hegemonic Strategy in 1960s South Korea

Wojciech Lewandowski (University of Warsaw): Fear the Red Demons: Anti-Communist Propaganda in 1940s and 1950s American Comics

6:30 – 9:00 PM Restaurant

SESSION V

Chair: Lena Gaworska; Discussant: Jan Franciszek Janoś

Leszek Szczepaniak (University of Warsaw): Głód jako obraz, obraz jako broń. Wizualne narracje głodu na przykładzie konfliktu ukraińsko-rosyjskiego oraz izraelsko-palestyńskiego

Stanisław Marusarz (University of Warsaw): Rola górali zakopiańskich w ceremoniach wjazdu Hansa Franka na Wawel

Natalia Jaskulska (University of Warsaw): Ciało jako widzialny komunikat: wizualne aspekty oporu w protestach kobiet

Aleksandra Łukaszek (University of Warsaw): Mem jako narzędzie walki politycznej: wizualne strategie narracyjne w mediach społecznościowych

Roman Zabela (University of Warsaw): Dziedzictwo architektoniczne jako medium wizualnej propagandy politycznej: przypadek architektury stalinowskiej i historycznej architektury sakralnej
na Białorusi

11:0 – 11:30 AM Coffee Break

PROPAGANDA IN PUBLIC SPACES IN WARSAW – WALKING TOUR 

Meeting point: Main Gate of the University of Warsaw, Krakowskie Przedmiescie 24/26

Description: Warsaw is a city filled by visual propaganda. The tour aims to discover the propaganda in Warsaw’s monuments and architecture throughout history. We will explore monuments dating back to XVII century, when the royal site of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was established here. In the 1800s Warsaw belonged to the Russian Empire that marked its presence in the urban core and in the interwar period the recently reborn independent polish state searched for his identity and expressed power. The tour will end on Constitution Square - a monument of the Polish Peoples Republic in social realism style.

Walking tour plan: The House Without Edges; Piłsudski Square and Tomb of the Unknown Soldier; Monument to the Heroes of Warsaw; Castle Square – Sigismund Column and East-West Route (Trasa W-Z); Palace of Culture and surroundings; Constitution Square. 

2:30 – 3:30 PM Lunch