Events in 2025
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WA Distinguished Professor’s Lecture: “Life and language beyond Earth”
Time: Thursday May 22, 2025 @ 13:15Venue: Aula Hrynakowskiego, Collegium Heliodori Święcicki, Grunwaldzka 6Speaker: Prof. Raymond Hickey (University of Limerick)Life and Language Beyond EarthAbstract My talk will address four basic questions about life and language beyond Earth with a specific focus on attempted answers to the fourth. Is there any ...
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Research Day 2025
It is our great pleasure to invite all interested parties to the Research Day at the Faculty of English. It will take place on Wednesday 21 May 2025 in Collegium Heliodori Święcicki. The opening is scheduled for 11:30 in the main lecture hall (“Aula”) and it will be followed by ...
21.05.202521.05 -
Guest lectures by Dr Biljana Vlašković Ilić
The Department of Studies in Culture warmly welcomes Dr Biljana Vlašković Ilić, Full Professor at the University of Kragujevac, as a distinguished guest lecturer at the Faculty of English. Join us for her talks, open to all students, faculty, and members of the academic community interested in expanding their perspectives. ...
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9th Young Linguists’ Meeting in Poznań (YLMP 2025)
The 9th edition of Young Linguists’ Meeting in Poznań (YLMP 2025) will be held on May 16–18 in Collegium Heliodori Święcicki, bringing together researchers and students interested in language and communication. The conference is organized by the Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań. The leitmotif of the upcoming edition ...
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WA Lunch Talk: “Cultural differences in visual attention: A pilot eye-tracking study of Polish and Chinese museum visitors” and “When words sound foreign: Neural dynamics of emotional speech processing in native vs. foreign accent”
We are delighted to invite you to the upcoming WA Wednesday Lunch Talk, which will take place on May 14th at 13:15 in Aula Hrynakowskiego. This session will feature two presentations: Małgorzata Fabiszak and Tomasz Michalik: “Cultural differences in visual attention: A pilot eye-tracking study of Polish and Chinese museum ...
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Culture Vulture Meeting: Prof. Mary Ellen Curtin’s talk “Rethinking Race and Political Biography: Barack Obama’s Dreams from my father: a story of race and inheritance”
The Polish Fulbright Alumni Association (PFAA) and Culture Vultures have the pleasure to welcome everybody to a talk by Prof. Mary Ellen Curtin from American University in Washington D.C., titled “Rethinking Race and Political Biography: Barack Obama’s Dreams from my father: a story of race and inheritance.” The event will ...
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An open lecture by Prof. Anastasia Ulanowicz
Department of American Studies: Literature and Media invites everyone to an open lecture by Prof. Anastasia Ulanowicz (University of Florida, USA) entitled “Haunted Memories: Representations of Eastern European Immigration in Vera Brosgol’s Anya’s Ghost and Be Prepared”. When? Wednesday, May 7, 2025, 1:15 p.m.Where? Sala Górna, Collegium Heliodori Święcicki, Grunwaldzka ...
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WA Distinguished Professor’s Lecture: “The role of the voice in language structure”
Time: Wednesday, May 7, 2025 @ 11:30Venue: Sala Górna, Collegium Heliodori Święcicki, Grunwaldzka 6Speaker: Prof. James Kirby (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich)The role of the voice in language structureAbstract When we talk about a voice as being “creaky” or “breathy,” we might be referring specifically to phonation, a sound-generating process of the ...
7.05.202507.05 -
Syn&Sin meeting
The Department of English-Polish Comparative Linguistics cordially invites everyone to join us for the April meeting of the Syn&Sin syntax reading and discussion club. The meeting will be held on Wednesday, April 25th, 11:30-13:00 in room 341. Prof. Jacek Witkoś will give a talk on “Chomsky’s Box Theory and wh-movement”.
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Book Lovers Among Students’ meeting on Jeff VanderMeer’s speculative novel “Annihilation”
The scholarly circle Book Lovers Among Students (BLASt) cordially invites everyone to our April meeting with a talk by Hanna Stelmaszczyk: Horror in Microscale: The Biological Gaze in Jeff VanderMeer’s ‘Annihilation’, followed by a discussion of the novel. Date: 9.04.2025 Time: 11:30Venue: Room 215 Collegium Heliodori For more information, please ...
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