ReMedia Symposium

Dr. Barbara Dynda is a postdoctoral researcher at the Polish Academy of Sciences and the University of Warsaw. Her research focuses on feminist and queer grassroots culture, history and activism in the post-socialist era. She is currently a Visiting Scholar in Residence with the ReMedia Infrastructure for Research and Creation (ReMedia) at UBC Okanagan, where she will work with Drs. Emily Murphy and Maria Alexopoulos on research and creative initiatives. Drs. Murphy and Alexopoulos are faculty members in the Department of English and Cultural Studies.

ReMedia, led by Dr. Murphy, supports research that combines cultural memory, media and embodied methods. ReMedia projects investigate a range of subjects, including comics, literature, performance, social media platforms, memes, modernist robots—and now zines.

On July 23, the team is hosting a symposium to showcase some of Dynda’s work and will include other zines and collections by Dr. George Grinnell’s Punk Pedagogy Project. Drs. Dynda and Grinnell will present this work in conversation with Drs. Alexopoulos and Murphy.

This event is free and open to all and will take place at UBC Okanagan in the Sawchuk Theatre from 10 am until noon.

About Dr. Barbara Dynda

Dr. Barbara Dynda is a postdoctoral researcher at the Polish Academy of Sciences and the University of Warsaw. Her research focuses on feminist and queer grassroots culture, history and activism in the post-socialist era. She is a recipient of a Duke University scholarship and research grants from the Polish National Science Centre. Dynda is a member of research projects: CCINDLE (coordinated by the University of Amsterdam) and QUEER IT (Humboldt University in Berlin and the University of Warsaw). Her work has been published, among others, by Routledge, University of Toronto Press, and Atlantis. She is currently working on a book about Polish anarcho-feminist and queer zines, which will be published by the University of Massachusetts Press in fall 2026.