WAJDA AFTER IMAGES Intermedial Art, Political Aesthetics, and the Afterlives of Cinema
An International Symposium on the Centenary of Andrzej Wajda’s Birth (11/21-22)
概要 / Overview
Marking the centenary of Andrzej Wajda’s birth, this international symposium invites participants to reconsider Wajda not only as one of the defining figures of Polish and European cinema, but also as an intermedial artist whose work unfolds across film, literature, theatre, visual art, political history, and archival practice.
Wajda’s films are deeply rooted in literary adaptation, painterly composition, scenographic imagination, and the transformation of historical experience into visual and performative forms. His artistic language negotiates the relationships between word and image, stage and screen, documentary and fiction, as well as individual memory and collective history. Rather than approaching Wajda solely within the boundaries of film history, the symposium situates his work within broader discussions of artistic form, political aesthetics, cultural memory, and the circulation of images across media.
The title Wajda After Images refers both to the enduring power of Wajda’s images beyond their original historical moment and to the afterlives of cinema itself—its transformations across theatre, visual art, exhibition practice, television, digital media, video games, and contemporary forms of memory culture.
The symposium welcomes papers that address Wajda’s work directly, as well as proposals that use his cinema as a point of departure for broader reflections on Polish, European, Japanese, and global visual culture. We are particularly interested in interdisciplinary approaches that examine cinema in relation to other media, institutions, archives, and political histories.
発表論文募集 / Call for Papers
提出締切: 2026/08/23
採択通知: 8月下旬 / 9月上旬
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タイトル形式: Wajda After Images CFP – [Surname]
Please submit the following materials:
- paper title
- abstract (250–300 words)
- short biographical note (100–150 words)
- institutional affiliation (if applicable)
- contact email
- optional indication of the thematic area to which your paper relates
Presentations should be 20 minutes, followed by discussion.
The symposium welcomes proposals from scholars working in film studies, theatre studies, literature, art history, media studies, Slavic studies, Japanese studies, cultural studies, history, museum studies, game studies, and related disciplines.
We also welcome proposals from curators, archivists, artists, translators, filmmakers, and other cultural practitioners whose work engages with Andrzej Wajda’s legacy or with broader questions of cinema, intermediality, visual culture, cultural memory, and political aesthetics.
アーカイブ・展示プログラム / Archival & Exhibition Component
Alongside the academic programme, the symposium will feature a modest display of selected archival materials related to Andrzej Wajda’s work. The display will highlight the material and intermedial dimensions of his artistic practice.
会場 / Venue
早稲田キャンパス 大隈記念講堂 大講堂 / Okuma Auditorium – Main Auditorium, Waseda Campus, Waseda University
対象 / Prospected Audience
学部生、大学院生、教員、研究者 /
Students, Graduate students, Faculty members, Research members
言語 / Language
英語 / English
主催 / Organizer
早稲田大学 高等研究所 / Waseda Institute for Advanced Study (WIAS)
共催 / Co-organizer
日本美術技術博物館(Kraków)
駐日ポーランド共和国大使館
協力 / Support
国立映画アーカイブ(NFAJ)
日本スラヴ学研究会
メディアパートナー / Media Partner
Culture.pl
助成 / Funding
This symposium forms part of the international project Wajda After Images, commemorating the centenary of Andrzej Wajda’s birth. The project includes an international symposium and an accompanying exhibition in Japan.
The project is co-financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland under the Inspiring Culture 2026–2027 programme.
企画 / Convenor
PACHCIAREK Pawel (早稲田大学 高等研究所 講師)
