On Wednesday, April 24, Michal Matuszewski (University of Warsaw, Poland) gave a seminar on "Animating Life and Death and the Hunter's Eye: An Introduction to Film Animal Studies trough Polish Nature Films" to a group of members of the UPF Center for Animal Ethics, the UPF CritiCC research group at the Department of Communication, members of the Film Studies section at the same department, and other researchers from other UPF and non-UPF departments.

More information on this talk can be read here.

Bio: Michał Matuszewski is a PhD researcher at the Doctoral School in Humanities, University of Warsaw, Poland, in the field of cultural studies and critical “film animal studies”. He is working on a dissertation entitled "Bloodless hunting? Polish Nature Film 1945-2005" on a cultural history of polish wildlife films and discourses on nature and animals. Michał is also a film curator, festival programmer, researcher, author, and film essayist. Head of a Film Essay Studio at the vnLab of the im Łodź Film School. He is a scholarship holder of the Culture and Animals and Animals Foundation and works on the film project based on visual research on the animal gaze in cinema. His recent film essay project "Re-membering Topsy" was presented at the National Museum of Warsaw. He is a co-leader of the Film Animal Studies Workgroup at NECS - European Network for Cinema and Media Studies.