On November 6, following the talk on Glocal Political Economy of Queer Dating in Poland, we will be hosting a graduate seminar with Dr Łukasz Szulc. The graduate seminar is envisioned as a space for discussion on current developments in technologies of intimacy and issues of transnationalism in queer digital media research. To prompt conversation, we will be reading two short collaborative articles Szulc has co-authored:
Szulc, Ł., Bennett, A., Wearne, K., Cheng, C., Wang, C., & Sun, F.K. (2025). Hearts and hallucinations: AI-driven dating futures. London School of Economics blog. https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/2025/07/07/hearts-and-hallucinations-ai-driven-dating-futures/
Bayramoglu, Y., Szulc, Ł., & Gajjala, R. (2024). Transnational queer cultures and digital media: An introduction. Communication, Culture & Critique, 17(3), 147-151. https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcae031
(You can check out the special issue articles here: https://academic.oup.com/ccc/issue/17/3 )
Coffee, tea and light snacks will be served. If you wish to participate, sign up by sending an email indicating your name, study level and department to digslab@concordia.ca, as the seminar has limited capacity. If you have any questions/accommodation requests, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us.
Dr Łukasz Szulc is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Media and Culture at the University of Manchester. His research focuses on critical and cultural studies of digital media particularly at the intersections of gender sexuality and transnationalism. He co-edited the 2024 Special Issue of Communication Culture and Critique on ‘Transnational Queer Cultures and Digital Media’ (with Yener Bayramoğlu and Radhika Gajjala) and is the author of the book Transnational Homosexuals in Communist Poland: Cross-Border Flows in Gay and Lesbian Magazines (2018).