International Interdisciplinary Scientific Conference: #Uncancel culture | 4-6.12.2025

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#Uncancel culture
A Culture of Inclusion Versus a Culture of Exclusion.
The Work – the Function. Creator – Audience

International Interdisciplinary Scientific Conference
4-6 December 2025

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Conference fee Call for papers (deadline extended to June 20th) Programme committee Schedule

 

You are cordially invited to take part in the International Interdisciplinary Scientific Conference, bringing together artistic circles from many fields of art. The problem posed in the title of the conference is intended as an impulse for a possibly broad discussion on the notion that has been present in the humanities for some time, namely the culture of exclusion or cancellation (cancel culture). At the opposite end of the spectrum, the notion of inclusion can be understood as an attitude of openness and acceptance of artistic phenomena, regardless of aesthetic preferences, level of education or beliefs.

We encourage reflexamination of the work of art and its function in culture, as well as the person of the artist in confrontation with the contemporary audience, paying particular attention to aspects of the phenomena of attachment and exclusion in art, such as:

• historical – examples of inclusion and exclusion in the history of art;
• theoretical – concerning compositional, visual and theatrical techniques, creative material, forms, genres;
• aesthetic – concerning stylistic changes, currents and trends and current aesthetic criteria;
• ultra-contemporary – taking into account contemporary ‘hyper-connected’ trends in art: combining different styles and media, mixing different forms of expression, engaging different senses, combining art with ideological messages and technology, and creating experiences that fully engage audiences (trans-avant-garde, polystylistic, polysensory, activism, object-phonic, immersive, virtual, audial and transaudial, etc.);
• valuing – the preferences of the audience, but also of the artists and performers;
• identity – issues of self-exclusion, alienation, a sense of not belonging or artistic identity.

Because the semanticity of music remains non-obvious and non-literal, it readily enters into relations with other cultural artefacts: literary texts, theatre, film, visual arts, performance, as well as art philosophies and aesthetics. Music is therefore particularly predisposed to the role of a mediating field in the relations between the arts, to be the centre of processes of interdisciplinary connection.

Call for papers

 

Programme Committee

Dr. Iwona Sowińska-Zając (Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Krakow, Project Manager)
Dr. hab. Małgorzata Janicka-Słysz, prof. AMKP (Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Krakow)
Dr. hab. Agnieszka Draus, prof. AMKP (Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Krakow)
Dr. Andrzej Mądro (Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Krakow)
Dr. Marcin Strzelecki (Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Krakow)
Dr. Maria Wilczek-Krupa (Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Krakow)
Dr. hab. Agata Kwiatkowska-Lubańska (Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow)
Dr. hab. Olga Katafiasz (AST National Academy of Theatre Arts in Krakow)

Organisers

Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Krakow
Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow
AST National Academy of Theatre Arts in Krakow

 

Schedule of the Conference

PDF version:

Uncancel culture2025_schedule.pdf

 

4 December, Thursday

8:00-9:00 Registration
9:00 Welcome (Concert Hall)

I Session A, Concert Hall, 9:30-11:00

Inclusion vs Exclusion
Chair: Małgorzata Janicka-Słysz

09:30 Owen Belcher (USA), Inclusion and the Culture Industry

10:00 Agnieszka Draus (Poland), Inclusions doomed to exclusion

10:30 AbdulQuddus Mohammed / Venous Moslem Shojaei (UAE), AI and Creativity in the UAE: How Technology Supports an Inclusive and Inspiring Artistic Future

 

I Session B, Chamber Hall, 9:30-11:00

Music Theory and Culture
Chair: Andrzej Mądro

09:30 Marcin Strzelecki (Poland), The Materiality of Music and Its Role in Shaping Musical Culture

10:00 Lucia Reiprich Maloveská (Czech Republic), Between sanctity of score and individual experiences. Dilemmas and roles of contemporary music theory

10:30 Mateusz Borkowski (Poland), Broadway, Race, and Cancel Culture

11:00-11:30 Coffee break

 

II Session A, Concert Hall, 11:30-13:00

Aspects of Performance
Chair: Marcin Strzelecki

11:30 Chris David Westover-Muñoz (USA), “To be (wa)or not to be?” The conductor/curator in confrontation with genre

12:00 Chae-Lin Kim (Austria), “Deaf Performance Now!”: Voices from the Deaf Community

12:30 Renate Bräuninger (Germany), Musique dansante uncancelled

 

II Session B, Chamber Hall, 11:30-13:00

Composers
Chair: Agnieszka Draus

11:30 Božena Čiurlionienė (Lithuania), #(Un)canceled Artist: Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis

12:00 Olha Myronenko-Mikheishyna (Ukraine), Musical Time in Witold Lutosławski’s Works Through the Prism of Audience Perception

12:30 Anna Rusin (Poland), When Two Worlds Collide: The Musical Laughter Facing The Nazi Camps

13:00-15:00 Lunch

 

Keynote lecture I, Concert Hall, 15:00-16:15

Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, Uncancelling Cancel Culture

Introduction: Iwona Sowińska-Zając

16:15-16:45 Coffee break

 

III Session A, Concert Hall, 16:45-18:15  

Inclusion vs Exclusion
Chair: Iwona Sowińska-Zając

16:45 Ewa Czachorowska-Zygor (Poland), The individual versus the system. Cinema of moral concern and its music

17:15 Eduardo Solá Chagas Lima (Canada), #Uncancel Music Education: Integrating Autobiographical Theory in Kodály Frameworks

17:45 Jerzy Luty (Poland), Canceling by Cognition? How Knowledge, Reputation, and Morality Shape Aesthetic Inclusion and Exclusion Across Cultures

 

III Session B, Chamber Hall, 16:45-18:15

Sociology, Politics, Law
Chair: Marcin Strzelecki

16:45 Zbigniew Pinkalski (Poland), Can provisions of copyright law cancel the cancel culture?

17:15 Barbara Jabłońska (Poland), Exclusion in Communication on Musical Topics from the Perspective of Critical Discourse Analysis

 

19:00 Concert, Florianka Recital Hall

Piotr Orzechowski. Pianohooligan – Critique of Swing in Two Parts

 

5 December, Friday

9:00-10:00 Registration

I Session A, Concert Hall, 10:00-11:30

Contemporary Music
Chair: Agnieszka Draus

10:00 Alexandra Magazin (Romania), Marcel Mihalovici: From Exclusion to Universal Expression – A Case Study in 20th Century Artistic Identity

10:30 Zuzanna Daniec (Poland), Disappointment Category and Devaluation of Status. “Chain of Undermining” in Lachenmann and Peszat’s Work

11:00 Klaudia Gawronek (Poland), Polish Folklore in View of the 20th Century Cultural Offensive

 

I Session B, Chamber Hall, 10:00-11:30

Opera and Dance
Chair: Małgorzata Janicka-Słysz

10:00 Anna Dańda (Poland), Émile Jaques-Dalcroze (1865-1950). A portrait sketch with the art of dance in the background

10:30 Mariachiara Grilli (Italy), Inclusion as symbiosis in LIFE (1999), an Opera by Ryuichi Sakamoto

11:00 Yurim Ko (Austria), Rethinking Turandot: Orientalism, Confucian Virtue, and the Myth of Cultural Enlightenment

11:30-12:00 Coffee break

 

Keynote lecture II, Concert Hall, 12:00-13:15     

Mark Andre, „About music by/of disappearing: „…selig ist…“ for piano and electronics, „…selig sind…“ for clarinet and electronics

Introduction: Michael Heinemann

13:15-14:45 Lunch

 

II Session A, Concert Hall, 14:45-16:15

Cultural memory
Chair: Iwona Sowińska-Zając

14:45 Christina Guillaumier (UK), Marion Scott and the Politics of Cultural Memory: Reclaiming a Marginalised Musical Life

15:15 Krzysztof Bielawski / Mariusz Koluch (Poland), Eleusis: Unspeakable – a scientific-artistic project

 

II Session B, Chamber Hall, 14:45-16:15

Background Diversity
Chair: Marcin Strzelecki

14:45 Nolan Miranda (USA) – online, Three Participatory and Collaborative Improvisation Environments: Reflections on Composing for Performers with Diverse Musical Backgrounds

15:15 Geneviève Bélanger-Nantel (Canada) Speaking from the Margins: Cancelled Artists and the Aftermath of #MeToo in Quebec

 

Moving to AST (National Academy of Theatre Arts in Krakow)

III Session, AST, Experimental Scene, 5 Warszawska Street, 16:45-18:15

Theatre, Film and Music Theory
Chair: Marta Bryś

16:45 Olga Katafiasz (Poland), The New Map with the Augmentation of the Indies

17:15 Iwona Grodź (Poland), Musicians and music in Polish cinema. Strategies of inclusion and exclusion

17:45 Tomasz Kienik (Poland), CANcelled and UNcancelled – Prominent Music Theorists and Musicologists as Composers – a Reconnaissance

 

Performance, AST, Classical Scene, 5 Warszawska Street, 19:00

Songs of the Polish Bakers [Pieśni piekarzy polskich] by Mariusz Gołosz, dir. Klaudia Gębska

 

6 December, Saturday

Keynote lecture III, ASP, Auditorium, 13 Jan Matejko Square, 9:30-10:30    

Magdalena Ujma-Gawlik, Is Culture of Support and Care Possible?

Introduction: Agata Kwiatkowska-Lubańska

10:30-10:45 Coffee break

 

Curator-guided tour of the exhibition, ASP, 10:45-11:30

 

II Session, ASP, Auditorium, 13 Jan Matejko Square, 11:30-13:00

Visual Arts
Chair: Robert Sowa

11:30 Agata Kwiatkowska-Lubańska (Poland), Threads of Controversy: Analyzing Cancel Culture in Fashion Design and Media

12:00 Artur Tajber (Poland), Culture of exclusion vs. counterculture – disambiguation

12:30-14:30 Lunch

 

Moving to AMKP

Panel discussion & Conference closing, AMKP, Chamber Hall, 14:30-16:00     

prof. dr hab. Mariusz Sielski (AMKP Rector), dr hab. Małgorzata Janicka-Słysz, prof. AMKP, dr Maria Wilczek-Krupa, dr hab. Grzegorz Mielczarek, prof. AST (AST Rector), prof. dr hab. Dorota Segda, dr hab. Olga Katafiasz, prof. AST, prof. dr hab. Andrzej Bednarczyk (ASP Rector), dr hab. Agata Kwiatkowska-Lubańska, dr hab. Robert Sowa

Moderators: Agnieszka Draus, Iwona Sowińska-Zając, Andrzej Mądro

 

Performance, AMKP, Concert Hall, 16:30

Music painted with movement

Oliwia Adamska, Anna Basista, Anna Dańda, Faustyna Filipska, Anna Głogowska, Joanna Goc, Maria Gumularz, Patrycja Hamera, Joanna Kozłowska, Maja Krawczyk, Anita Krywoborodenko, Stefania Kupiec-Chrupczalska, Oliwia Makuła, Aniela Marczyk, Magdalena Pawełek, Julia Piasecka, Róża Piotrowska, Zofia Prytuła, Kinga Rolka, Aniela Sikora, Katarzyna Smoleń, Zuzanna Sobczak, Adrianna Stefan, Agata Styczyńska, Aleksandra Szaron, Wiktoria Toporkiewicz, Izabella Vinent Abreu, Karolina Zagórska

Introduction: Anna Rusin

 

 

 

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