Events in 2025
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Book Lovers Among Students (BLASt) Meeting: Judith Butler’s Who’s afraid of gender?
Book Lovers Among Students (American Literature Scholarly Circle) will hold its next meeting on Wednesday, November 12, at 11:30 a.m. in Room 215. We’ll be discussing Judith Butler’s collection of essays Who’s afraid of gender? and its implications for literature, identity, and cultural critique. All students and literature enthusiasts are ...
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WA Lunch Talk: Meet our new PhD candidates in 2025
We’re excited to invite you to our first WA Wednesday Lunch Talk of the academic year, where you’ll have the opportunity to meet and learn about the work of our new PhD candidates. This session will showcase a range of topics in both literary studies and linguistics. The Lunch Talk ...
22.10.202522.10 -
Censorship in Irish Drama — discussion with Kate Heffernan, Irish playwright
On the 22nd of October 2025 the Faculty of English will host a meeting with an Irish playwright and a theatremaker Kate Heffernan, whose latest production “Guest Host Stranger Ghost” had its premiere at Dublin Theatre Festival in 2024. The meeting with Kate Heffernan will take place in Aula, Collegium ...
22.10.202522.10 -
Autumn 2025 Orientation Meeting for incoming Erasmus+ and bilateral exchange students
We kindly ask all Erasmus+ and bilateral exchange students at the Faculty of English to attend the meeting. Time: Thursday 16 October 2025 @ 11:00 (a.m.)Venue: the Aula, Collegium Heliodori Święcicki (seat of the Faculty of English), ul. Grunwaldzka 6 The purpose of the meeting is to familiarize you with ...
16.10.202516.10 -
Screening of Marusya Bociurkiw’s documentary and meeting with the artist
Canadian Literature Research Unit and Canadian Literature in Perspective Reading Group invite everyone to a film screening of Marusya Bociurkiw’s feature documentary Analogue Revolution: How Feminist Media Changed the World (2023). The distinguished Canadian filmmaker, writer and scholar will be joining us in person. You can’t miss it! When and ...
15.10.202515.10 -
Guest lecture: “Humour as Counterculture: The Case of Satirical Cartoons”
The Department of Studies in Culture invites you to a guest lecture by Dr. Rhiannon McGlade (Associate Professor in Hispanic Studies, University of Strathclyde, UK).Join us for: Humour as Counterculture: The Case of Satirical Cartoons Thursday, 9 October 2025 at 9:45 a.m.Sala Górna, Collegium Heliodori All are welcome! About the ...
9.10.202509.10 -
Guest workshop: “From second language acquisition to third language acquisition”
Time: Thursday 9 October 2025 @ 08:00Venue: Sala Górna, Collegium Heliodori Święcicki, Grunwaldzka 6Speaker: Prof. Stano Kong (Tunghai University, Taiwan)From second language acquisition to third language acquisitionAbstract This workshop is divided into two parts. The first introduces participants to five key observations in second language acquisition: L1 transfer, developmental stages, ...
9.10.202509.10 -
WA Distinguished Professor’s Lecture: “Crosslinguistic Influence in Early L3 German: Determiner Phrase and Adjective Placement Acquisition by Chinese Speakers of Advanced English”
Time: Wednesday 8 October 2025 @ 15:00Venue: Sala Górna, Collegium Heliodori Święcicki, Grunwaldzka 6Speaker: Prof. Stano Kong (Tunghai University, Taiwan)Crosslinguistic Influence in Early L3 German: Determiner Phrase and Adjective Placement Acquisition by Chinese Speakers of Advanced EnglishAbstract This talk reports on an empirical study on third language (L3) German in ...
8.10.202508.10 -
Guest lecture: “Challenges in acquiring English locational and directional prepositions: an asymmetry observed in adult L1 Chinese learners”
Time: Tuesday 7 October 2025 @ 09:45Venue: Sala Górna, Collegium Heliodori Święcicki, Grunwaldzka 6Speaker: Prof. Stano Kong (Tunghai University, Taiwan)Challenges in acquiring English locational and directional prepositions: an asymmetry observed in adult L1 Chinese learnersAbstract This study investigates adult native Chinese speakers with English as a second language (L2), focusing ...
7.10.202507.10 -
Open lecture by Prof. Alison Pilnick at COMET 2025
On behalf of the organizers of the 23rd International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Communication, Medicine and Ethics (COMET 2025), organized by the Faculty of English at Adam Mickiewicz University and the Poznań University of Medical Sciences, we cordially invite you to the open lecture by Prof. Alison Pilnick (Manchester Metropolitan ...
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