Events in 2024
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Research Day 2024
It is our great pleasure to invite all interested parties to the Research Day at the Faculty of English. It will take place on Wednesday 22 May 2024 in Collegium Heliodori Święcicki. The opening is scheduled for 11:30 in the main lecture hall (“Aula”) and it will be followed by ...
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Guest talk: Professor Kazumi Noguchi: “The cross sectoral collaboration and public and private partnership in public policy”
Speaker: Professor Kazumi Noguchi, Director, Office for the Promotion of International Programs, Global Local Studies Department, Kobe Women’s University Professor Noguchi will be talking about empowering women. When: 21 May 2024 @ 10:00 Where: Room 240 (you may also join a Zoom meeting [external link])
21.05.202421.05 -
Guest lecture: “The erasure of counter-stereotypical girls from Disney’s toys: Exploring toy, transmedia and audience tensions” by Rebecca Hains
The Department of American Studies: Literature and Media is pleased to announce a guest lecture by Rebecca Hains (Salem State University, USA), a Fulbright Visiting Scholar to the Jagiellonian University The title of the talk: “The erasure of counter-stereotypical girls from Disney’s toys: Exploring toy, transmedia and audience tensions” Date: ...
17.05.202417.05 -
WA Distinguished Professors’ Lecture: A New History of Iowa
Time: Wednesday 15 May 2024, 13:15Venue: Aula, Collegium Heliodori ŚwięcickiSpeaker: Prof. Jeff Bremer (Iowa State University, USA) Abstract: Iowa is a small state in the middle of a huge country, known for farms, small towns, and cold weather. But Iowa’s story represents America as much as California or New York. ...
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Syn&Sin syntax meeting
The Department of English-Polish Comparative Linguistics cordially invites everyone to join us for the May meeting of the Syn&Sin syntax reading and discussion club. The meeting will be held on Wednesday, May 15th, 11:30-13:00 in room 341. Bartosz Wiland will talk about how to derive multiple prefixes in Polish verbs ...
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Love Lit Club: Adiba Jaigirdar’s “The Henna Wars”
The Love Lit Club warmly invites you for the discussion of Adiba Jaigirdar’s The Henna Wars (2020). The meeting will be held in room 214 at 11:30AM on Wednesday, May 15th.
15.05.202415.05 -
Book Lovers Among Students (BLASt) Meeting in May
The Scholarly Circle Book Lovers Among Students (BLASt) cordially invites everyone to our May meeting our special guest will be Professor Jeff Bremer (Iowa State University) a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar in Humanities and Social Sciences, who will deliver a talk titled “The Most Biologically Altered State: Iowa and the Climate ...
15.05.202415.05 -
Queer Cinema and Queer Gothic: A BLASt Workshop Meeting
Book Lovers Among Students (BLAST) cordially invites everyone to our workshop meeting with two presentations by our members: Ewelina Łowicka (film studies): “Going against the grain: Gender nonconformity in ‘girls’ and queer cinema in the USA” and Hanna Stelmaszczyk (American literature): “You are this house’s ghost: Queer Gothic in Carmen ...
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Culture Vultures meeting: How can the 4th wave of feminism be illustrated in African American female hip hop?
The research explores the ways in which African American female rappers influence and reflect the change in owning their identity and how this journey is reflected in rap music and fourth wave feminism. For decades Black women were hypersexualized or masculinized, from slavery to objectification by male rappers in their ...
14.05.202414.05 -
CLiP Meeting in April - Dionne Irving’s The Islands
Canadian Literature in Perspective (CLiP) Reading Group cordially invites WA students and staff to join us on April 25 for a discussion of Dionne Irving's short story collection The Islands (2022). The meeting begin at 6.30 in room 341, Coll. Heliodori and it will be moderated by Hanna Błauciak and ...
25.04.202425.04