Events in 2026
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IAM 2026
We are pleased to announce the 14th International Conference on Third Language Acquisition and Multilingualism, which will take place on 2–5 September 2026. The conference is organised jointly by the Faculty of English and the Faculty of Modern Languages and Literatures at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań. We warmly invite you ...
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Culture Vultures Meeting: “Flat White to Fresh Starts: Why So Many People are Moving to Australia?”
Culture Vultures reading group is happy to invite you you a talk by dr Zuzanna Kruk-Buchowska titled: Flat White to Fresh Starts: Why So Many People are Moving to Australia?. Date: 10 June 2026 (Wednesday) Time: 11:30 Place: Room 214, Collegium Heliodori All parties are welcome to join us!Please note ...
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WA Student Seminar: “Pride & Prejudice: Marginalised Voices in the History (and Present) of English”
In celebration of Pride Month, the History of English Language Lovers reading group invites everyone to the WA Student Seminar Pride & Prejudice: Marginalised Voices in the History (and Present) of English. Date, venue, and time: 10 June 2026, Sala Górna, Collegium Heliodori, 11:30–15:30 Join us for presentations, lightning talks, ...
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WA Distinguished Professor’s Lecture: “Hope as Form: Writing Hope in Twenty-First Century Fiction”
Time: Wednesday 27 May 2026 at 13:15Venue: Aula, Collegium Heliodori Święcicki, Grunwaldzka 6Speaker: Prof. Dr. Heidi Lucja Liedke (Goethe University Frankfurt)Hope as Form: Writing Hope in Twenty-First Century FictionAbstract This talk proposes “elpilogy” as a new subdiscipline within literary studies devoted to examining hope as both thematic content and formal ...
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Lecture by Dr Sabina Laskowska-Hinz: “War and Politics in Polish Shakespeare Posters, or What We Would Like to Ignore”
The Department of Studies in Culture cordially invites everyone to a lecture: “War and Politics in Polish Shakespeare Posters: Or What We Would Like to Ignore.” This inspiring lecture will be delivered by Dr Sabina Laskowska-Hinz, a distinguished scholar of English literature and art history, specialising in Shakespeare’s visual reception. ...
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Book Lovers Among Students (BLASt) Meeting: Suzanne Simard’s “Finding the Mother Tree”
Book Lovers Among Students (American Literature Reading Group) will hold its next meeting on Wednesday, May 27, 2026 at 11:30 a.m. in room 155. We will explore the emotional challenges of female academic struggles in the face of capitalistic exploitation of the forests. Join our discussion on academic challenges and ...
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WA Lunch Talk: 1) Motivational, cognitive and emotional registrations…; 2) What can boredom do to creativity?
We are delighted to invite you to the upcoming WA Wednesday Lunch Talk, which will take place on 20 May 2026 at 13:15 in the Aula. This session will feature two presentations: Dr Kamila Dębowska-Kozłowska: “Motivational, cognitive and emotional registrations — an exploratory study of younger and older Poles’ orientations ...
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Research Day 2026 at the Faculty of English
We would like to invite all Faculty members and Students to this year’s Research Day!20 May, 11:30–14:30 Programme: 11:30 — Opening of Research Day (Collegium Heliodori Święcicki, Aula) 11:40 — Lecture by Prof. Michael Bamberg (Clark University, Worcester): Data, Methods, and Methodology (Collegium Heliodori Święcicki, Aula) 12:15–14:30 — Poster session: ...
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Workshop: “A Hands-on Introduction to Computational Methods for Working with Language Distances”
Title: “A Hands-on Introduction to Computational Methods for Working with Language Distances” Instructor: Dr. Søren Wichmann (University of Kiel, Germany) Time: Thursday 14 May 2026 @ 13:15 Venue: Aula, Collegium Heliodori Święcicki, Grunwaldzka 6 Abstract In linguistics as well as in several other disciplines where languages have a role to ...
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TRACE Meeting: Screening Jenni Olson’s “The Joy of Life” (2005)
We would like to warmly invite you to the next TRACE meeting. We’ll be discussing The Joy of Life (2005), an experimental landscape documentary film directed by Jenni Olson. The screening and presentation will take place on 13 May 2026 (Wednesday) in room 233 at 14:00. About the film The ...
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