Events in 2024
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Guest lecture: “Multilingualism in South Africa: From then to now - Afrikaans and other languages in the rainbow nation”
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 first lecture in the series is: Multilingualism in South Africa: From then to now - Afrikaans and other languages in the rainbow ...
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Culture Vultures meeting “Compromise and World Order: Considering the Legacy of Henry Kissinger”
The Culture Vultures reading group invites everyone to a meeting with Jeremy Pomeroy entitled:Compromise and World Order: Considering the Legacy of Henry Kissinger (1923-2023)When: Wednesday, February 28, 11:30 amWhere: Room 153Henry Kissinger’s death in November, 2023 saw the departure of a figure who had left a massive imprint on American ...
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Syn&Sin meeting: Hanna Twardowska on subjunctive mood
The Department of English-Polish Comparative Linguistics cordially invites everyone to join us for the next upcoming meeting of our Syn&Sin syntax reading and discussion club. The meeting will be held on Wednesday, 28th February 2024, at 11:30 am in room 341 (note a new date)! Mgr Hanna Twardowska will present ...
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Tuesday 30 January 2024: Classes follow the Friday timetable
While it is not strictly an “event,” we would like to make explicit, to all whom it might concern, a peculiarity in the general organization of the 2023–2024 academic year: On Tuesday 30 January 2024 classes at the Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań follow the Friday timetable. (On Friday 2 February ...
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IAS Invited Lecture, "Development of prestandard Lithuanian orthography and certain theoretical insights: symbolism, materiality, aestheticity, and graphochronology" by Prof. Giedrius Subačius (University of Illinois, Chicago)
The Department of the History of the English Language invites everybody to the fifth and final on-line lecture in the series Sociolinguistic Aspects of Historical Orthography, organised within the framework of the AMU Institute of Advances Studies in Social Sciences and Humanities programme. On Wednesday 24 January at 3 p.m ...
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Phon & Phon B Sawicka-Stępińska on /s/-weakening in Guayaquil Spanish
The Department of Contemporary English Language (DoCELu) is happy to announce a Phon&Phon meeting. Brygida Sawicka-Stępińska (Institute of Romance Studies of the Faculty of Modern Languages and Literatures) Me como las eses hasta en la sopa (I eat my esses even in the soup). Sociolinguistic dimensions of /s/-weakening in Guayaquil ...
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CLiP Meeting - Jan 18. - 18:30 - room 339
Canadian Literature in Perspective (CLiP) Reading Group invites everyone to our first meeting in 2024! On January 18, we are going to discuss Old Babes in the Wood - the latest collection of short stories by Margaret Atwood. Join us on Jan. 18, 6:30 pm in room 339 (Coll. Heliodori). ...
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