Events in 2025
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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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23rd International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Communication, Medicine and Ethics (COMET 2025)
We cordially invite you to the 23rd International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Communication, Medicine and Ethics (COMET 2025), co-organised by Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and Poznań University of Medical Sciences. The conference’s aim is to bring together scholars and professionals from around the world to explore the intersections of ...
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WA Lunch Talk: “Active Aging: Learning English and developing fine psychomotor abilities”
We are delighted to invite you to the upcoming WA Wednesday Lunch Talk, which will take place on June 18th at 13:15 – please note the room change: this time we’ll meet in the Aula. This session will feature the presentation: Dr Karolina Baranowska: “Active Aging: Learning English and developing ...
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A meeting for candidates for doctoral studies (2025)
Date: 18 June 2025, 11:30–12:30Place: Room 153 in Collegium Heliodori, Grunwaldzka 6, Poznań If you are considering doctoral studies at the School of Languages and Literatures, come to a fact-finding meeting for candidates for doctoral studies. You will learn about the recruitment procedure and how it is to study at ...
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WA Distinguished Professor’s Lecture: “What does language do and what can we do with it?”
Time: Wednesday 11 June 2025 @ 10:00Venue: Aula, Collegium Heliodori Święcicki, Grunwaldzka 6Speaker: Christine Mallinson (University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC))What does language do and what can we do with it?Abstract Language is essential to humanity. How we use language is a key part of how we define ourselves and ...
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WA Distinguished Professor’s Lecture: “Historical linguistics in the age of AI: Why it matters”
Time: Monday 9 June 2025 @ 9:45Venue: Aula, Collegium Heliodori Święcicki, Grunwaldzka 6Speaker: Prof. Nikolaus Ritt (University of Vienna)Historical linguistics in the age of AI: Why it mattersAbstract The talk will begin with a discussion of a very specific English sound change, namely the voicing (or lenition) of what used ...
9.06.202509.06 -
Workshop: “Bases for non-aprioristic typology”
Title: Bases for non-aprioristic typologySpeaker: Zygmunt Frajzyngier, University of Colorado, BoulderWhen and where: 6 June 2025 @ 8:00, Room 211, Collegium Heliodori Święcicki Abstract The aim of the present talk is to demonstrate the advantages of non-aprioristic typology in two areas that presumably can be expressed in all languages, namely ...
6.06.202506.06 -
“Digital archives for history-oriented research”
June 4th, 11.30–13.00, room 214. Research areas: critical discourse analysis, (historical) sociolinguistics, gender studies, women studies, queer studies, manuscript studies, media linguistics, (visual) multimodality, historical pragmatics Who is this presentation for? 2BA and 3BA Students in search for potential topics for their BA/MA theses all history lovers anyone interested in ...
4.06.202504.06