Events in 2024
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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.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Love Lit Poetic reading circle meeting: Poems of place
Love Lit Poetic reading circle cordially invites Faculty of English students to a poetry meeting “Poems of place.” All students are invited to bring and present a poem of their choice describing a place. The meeting takes place at 11.30, 24 April, room 211.
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Open lecture: Dr Mary Newbould’s “Eighteenth-Century Literary Celebrity and Adaptation in the Twenty-First Century: A Virtual Museum of Laurence Sterne”
Literature of the 18th and 19th Century and Print Culture Research Unit is happy to invite everyone to dr Mary Newbould’s lecture “Eighteenth-Century Literary Celebrity and Adaptation in the Twenty-First Century: A Virtual Museum of Laurence Sterne.” The lecture will take place on 23 April (World Book Day) at 4.45 ...
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Dr Mary Newbould’s workshop “Using Digital Sources in Literary Studies: Adaptation Theories in Practice”
Literature of the 18th and 19th Century and Print Culture Research Unit invites everyone to dr Mary Newbould’s workshop „Using Digital Sources in Literary Studies: Adaptation Theories in Practice” on 22 April, 1.15 p.m., Aula, Collegium Heliodori Święcicki. Everyone is welcome! Dr Mary Newould is a co-creator of the Laurence ...
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Guest talk by Michał Ejankowski: “Treedioms online idiom dictionary”
Bilingualism Matters invites everybody interested in learning idioms and educational applications to join a presentation by Michał Ejankowski, who developed Treedioms — a platform aiding idiom acquisition. Date: Thursday, 18th April 2024Time: 3 pmRoom: Sala Górna, Collegium Heliodori Treedioms online idiom dictionary “How to simplify the idiomatic ocean of metaphor?” ...
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Guest Lecture: “Through the Labyrinth: Resilience and Breaking the Bias for Women in Leadership”
Speaker: Professor Monika Foster, Northumbria University, UK Time: 17 April 2024 at 14:00–15:00 (please note the time has been updated since the original publication of this event) Venue: Aula, Collegium Heliodori Święcicki Short synopsisIn ‘Through the Labyrinth’, sociologists Alice Eagly and Linda Carli apply the ancient female image of the ...
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