Events in 2025
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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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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 -
BLASt’s June meeting on J.G. Ballard and AI
Book Lovers Among Students (BLASt) cordially invites everyone to our June meeting with a talk by Magdalena Szukalska: The art of creation in the age of generative AI: J. G. Ballard’s “Studio 5, The Stars” and its American contexts, followed by a discussion of the short story. Date: 4.06.2025 Time: ...
4.06.202504.06 -
Phon&Phontastic meeting: “Cognitive performance of multilinguals: A comparison of accented speech comprehension and attention allocation efficiency”
The Department of Contemporary English and Multilingualism and the Experimental Phonology and Phonetics Lab cordially invite everyone to our upcoming meeting. Our presenter will be our own Iryna Kravchuk, MA with a talk titled, “Cognitive performance of multilinguals: A comparison of accented speech comprehension and attention allocation efficiency”. Date: Wednesday, ...
4.06.202504.06 -
“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 -
WA Distinguished Professor’s Lecture: “Semantic structure encoded in the grammatical system and its consequences for syntax”
Time: Wednesday 4 June 2025 @ 10:00Venue: Aula, Collegium Heliodori Święcicki, Grunwaldzka 6Speaker: Prof. Zygmunt Frajzyngier (University of Colorado, Boulder)Semantic structure encoded in the grammatical system and its consequences for syntaxAbstract The aim of the present talk is to present the evidence for the following claims: The grammatical systems of ...
4.06.202504.06 -
Guest lecture: Willie Burger (University of Pretoria): “From Dutch Diaries to Cape Rap: a concise history of Afrikaans literature”
The Department of Dutch and South African Studies is pleased to announce the Guest Lecture by prof. Willie Burger — Head of the Department of Afrikaans, University of Pretoria. The lecture entitled “From Dutch Diaries to Cape Rap: a concise history of Afrikaans literature” will take place on the 29th ...
29.05.202529.05 -
AMU Eisteddfod, Welsh Culture Festival
Celtic Research Circle and Celtic Studies Research Unit invite everyone to the Welsh culture festival Eisteddfod UAM, which this year will be hosted at Przystanek Pireus and will be open to the public. The theme of this year’s edition is “Dragons,” inspired by the Welsh flag and legends. We invite ...
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