Events in 2025
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LoveLitClub meeting: “Burial rites” by Hannah Kent
We would like to warmly invite you to the next Love Lit Club meeting that will take place on November 26th at 13:15 in Room 214. We will be discussing “Burial rites” by Hannah Kent. The copy of the book is available: contact dr Jacek Olesiejko to get it.promotional poster
26.11.202526.11 -
Open lecture: “Through the Labyrinth: Women Leadership in and Beyond Academia”
The Language, Gender, and Sexuality Research Group cordially invites everyone to an open lecture by Professor Monika Foster (Northumbria University, UK): Through the Labyrinth: Women Leadership in and Beyond Academia. Time: Wednesday, 19 November 2025, 15:00Venue: Aula, Collegium Heliodori Święcicki Professor Monika Foster is Associate Pro-Vice Chancellor (International and Educational ...
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WA Distinguished Professor’s Lecture: “Early Modern Foreign Language Textbooks: Perspectives for Historical Linguistics and for the History of Knowledge”
Time: Wednesday 19 November 2025 @ 11:30Venue: Sala Górna, Collegium Heliodori Święcicki, Grunwaldzka 6Speaker: Prof. Horst Simon (Freie Universität Berlin)Early Modern Foreign Language Textbooks: Perspectives for Historical Linguistics and for the History of KnowledgeAbstract In this lecture I will present Early Modern foreign language textbooks first as instances of teaching ...
19.11.202519.11 -
CLiP Reading Group meeting — Anne Carson’s “Autobiography of Red”
Canadian Literature in Perspective (CLiP) Reading Group cordially invites everyone for a discussion of Anne Carson’s novel in verse Autobiography of Red (1998). The meeting will be held on November 19 (Wednesday) at 11:30 am in room 341. Join us! For book access, email Hania Błauciak or DM us on ...
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WA Lunch Talk: “The “norm” in norming databases of affective language” and “The synchronic status of Sievers’s Law in Gothic”
We are delighted to invite you to the upcoming WA Wednesday Lunch Talk, which will take place on November 12th at 13:15 in the Aula. This session will feature two presentations: Dr Halszka Bąk: “The “norm” in norming databases of affective language” When you sit down to resolve a research ...
12.11.202512.11 -
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 ...
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