Events in 2024
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Book Lovers Among Students Meeting in March
We invite everyone to the next meeting of Book Lovers Among Students (BLASt), the scholarly meeting group for American literature and culture. Hanna Stelmaszczyk will discuss a memoir In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado. Time: Wednesday, March 27, 2024, 11:30 a.m. Venue: Room 213 (Heliodori) Everyone is welcome!
27.03.2024 - 27.03.2024starts 27.03ends 27.03 -
TEAM for BilingualismMatters@Poznań
BilingualismMatters@Poznań invites everybody interested to a presentation of the results of the TEAM project. The presentation by Prof. Anna Ewert, Prof. Aleksandra Wach and Dr. Victoria Kishchak will take place on Tuesday, 26 March 2024 at 3pm in the newly open Hrynakowski Aula, Collegium Heliodori. The main goal of the ...
26.03.202426.03 -
Dutch movie night / Filmavond: The Misfortunates
Hello, hello, any filmbuffs around? We're inviting you to the dutch movie night! Showing: The Misfortunates When? 21 March, 6:30 pm (Aula) Description:Thirteen-year-old Gunther Strobbe lives with his father and three uncles at his grandmother's house. Every day he's confronted with massive amounts of alcohol, hitting on women and shameless ...
21.03.202421.03 -
Guest lecture: “Language development and language proficiency in learners – the understanding and production of later developing language constructions in Afrikaans, English, isiXhosa and Sepedi”
The Department of Dutch and South African Studies announces a series of guest lectures, to be delivered in Afrikaans and English, by Dr Joanine Nel (University of Pretoria).The fourth and final lecture in the series is: Language development and language proficiency in learners – the understanding and production of later ...
20.03.202420.03 -
Culture Vultures meeting: Culture Wars (Mar 20, 2024)
What is fuelling today’s culture wars? In America and Britain, the “culture wars” are fuelling hatred and division. Arguments over racial justice, transgender rights, abortion and other political and social issues are becoming more polarized. Sociologists talk of “affective polarisation”, where one side is driven by an instinct to defeat ...
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Guest lecture: “The language policy in South African schools and literacy in South Africa”
The Department of Dutch and South African Studies announces a series of guest lectures, to be delivered in Afrikaans and English, by Dr Joanine Nel (University of Pretoria).The third lecture in the series is: The language policy in South African schools and literacy in South Africa (Die taalbeleid in Suid-Afrikaanse ...
19.03.202419.03 -
Canada Week at the Faculty of English
Canada Week at the Faculty of English: ScheduleAll sessions will be broadcast live on Zoom and on the Faculty of English Facebook fanpage. If you wish to receive the Zoom link, please register here: https://forms.office.com/e/fmpApu0EFLMonday, March 18 | 11:30-13:00 | room 236Student session (in English) Aleksandra Jurga: "The experience of ...
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WA Distinguished Professors’ Lecture: The representations of racism in immigrant students’ essays in Greece: The “hybrid balance” between legitimizing and resistance identities
Time: Thursday 14 March 2024, 15:00 Venue: Sala Hrynakowskiego, Collegium Heliodori Święcicki Speaker: Prof. Argiris Archakis (University of Patras, Greece) Abstract:Racism as a means for accomplishing homogeneity is the focus of this study which draws on Critical Discourse Analysis and analyzes descriptions of racist behaviors included in immigrant students’ school ...
14.03.202414.03 -
Guest lecture: “Food, cooking, socializing and chatting in South Africa”
The Department of Dutch and South African Studies announces a series of guest lectures, to be delivered in Afrikaans and English, by Dr Joanine Nel (University of Pretoria).The second lecture in the series is: Food, cooking, socializing and chatting in South Africa (Kos, kook, kuier en klets – Braaidag in ...
13.03.202413.03 -
WA Distinguished Professors’ Lecture: Human translator vs. machine translation - competition or cooperation?
Date: Wednesday 13 March 2024, 13:15 Venue: Aula, Collegium HeliodoriSpeaker: Prof. dr hab. Krzysztof Jassem (AMU Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science) Abstract:Machine translation has been the subject of scientific research for several decades. Modern automatic translators, which have been constantly improving the performance quality, may be regarded as a ...
13.03.202413.03