Martyna van Nieuwland (Markowska)
| Since 2022, Martyna van Nieuwland has been the artistic director of Music Meeting Festival in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. She specialises in curating interdisciplinary and social projects within different international programmes (Upbeat is one of them). She was a member of the team that organised WOMEX 2017 in Katowice and a board member of Europe Jazz Network (2018-2021). Education: 2009 – 2013: post-graduate studies at Department of Philosophy, History, Culture and Art Studies (field: Comparative Literature), University of Helsinki, Finland; Doctor’s thesis subject: Relations between photography and literature in contemporary Finnish, Polish and British novels 2010 – 2011: research visit at Department of Nordic Philology, University of Zürich, Switzerland (part of the PhD programme, Swiss Federal Scholarship) 2000 – 2006: studies at Arts-Interfaculty Department of Selective Studies at University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland (two main subjects: philosophy and culture studies, some classes also at sociology, Polish philology, English philology, film directory) 2005: Master’s degree at philosophy, Master’s dissertation titled: Interpretation theory in hermeneutic philosophy of Wilhelm Dilthey and Hans-Georg Gadamer (tutor: professor Andrzej Noras, Department of Social Science, University of Silesia) 2006: Master’s degree at culture studies (comparative literature), Master’s dissertation titled: Between arts – relations between photography and literature. Example of new Polish novel writing (tutor: Dr Beata Gontarz, Department of Philology, University of Silesia) 2006: Socrates-Erasmus scholarship at University of Stockholm, Master’s thesis titled Reportage – literature and photography genre (tutor: doc. Maria Zadencka, Department of Slavonic Philology) 2007: University of Turku, Finnish language course for the foreigners with academic degree Professional experience: 2013 – 2022: Head of Programming at Institution of Culture Katowice – City of Gardens (coordinator and artistic director of such initiatives, as Katowice JazzArt Festival, World Music Festival “Gardens of Sounds”, curator of Polish section of the conference and showcase Czech Music Crossroads in Ostrava, member of local team in charge of WOMEX 2017 in Katowice) www.miasto-ogrodow.eu 2018 – 2021 – member of Board of Directors of Europe Jazz Network; from 2020 – Secretary 2005 – now: cooperation with several Polish cultural, music and literature magazines (“Opcje”, “FA- art”, “Artpapier”, “Topos”, “Jazz Forum” etc. 2007 – 8. 2009: Tajik State National University and Russian-Tajik (Slavonic) University, Dushanbe, Tajikistan – Polish language lecturer (delegate of Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Poland) 2008 – 2. 2009: program assistant of the project “Sacred places of Tajikistan” at NGO “Anthropology Center” working at Tajik Academy of Science, Dushanbe, Tajikistan Since 2003: work as a literature critic, focused especially on new Polish novelists; critical articles published in magazines like “Opcje”, “Pismo Folkowe” Language Skills: Polish – mother tongue English – proficiency: spoken and written (CAE exam, TOEFL) Finnish – proficiency: spoken, intermediate: written (level B2) Russian – proficiency: spoken, intermediate: written |  Photo by Joanna Nowicka |
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