Events in 2024
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Culture Vultures meeting: Culture Wars
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 ...
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Canada Week at the Faculty of English
Canada Week at the Faculty of English: Schedule All 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.Monday, March 18 | 11:30-13:00 | room 236Student session (in English) Aleksandra Jurga: “The experience of ...
18.03.2024 - 22.03.2024starts 18.03ends 22.03 -
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’ ...
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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 ...
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 Heliodori Speaker: 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 ...
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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 ...
12.03.202412.03 -
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 am Where: Room 153Henry Kissinger’s death in November, 2023 saw the departure of a figure who had left a massive ...
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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. Mgr Hanna Twardowska will present a talk on “A ...
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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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