Events
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Phon & Phon B Sawicka-Stępińska on /s/-weakening in Guayaquil Spanish
The Department of Contemporary English Language (DoCELu) is happy to announce a Phon&Phon meeting. Brygida Sawicka-Stępińska (Institute of Romance Studies of the Faculty of Modern Languages and Literatures) Me como las eses hasta en la sopa (I eat my esses even in the soup). Sociolinguistic dimensions of /s/-weakening in Guayaquil ...
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CLiP Meeting: “Old Babes in the Wood” by Margaret Atwood
Canadian Literature in Perspective (CLiP) Reading Group invites everyone to our first meeting in 2024! On January 18, we are going to discuss Old Babes in the Wood - the latest collection of short stories by Margaret Atwood. Join us on Jan. 18, 6:30 pm in room 339 (Coll. Heliodori). ...
18.01.202418.01 -
Book Lovers Among Students Meeting in January
We invite everyone to the next meeting of Book Lovers Among Students (BLASt), the scholarly meeting group for American literature and culture. Mr. Piotr Matczak will deliver a talk entitled “The highway in Joan Didion's Play It As It Lays: a spatial reading of the novel”. We'll discuss Play It ...
17.01.202417.01 -
The art of/in writing historical fiction: A meeting with Vikramajit Ram
The Department of English and Irish Literature, and Literary Linguistics warmly invites you to take part in: The art of/in writing historical fiction: A meeting with author Vikramajit Ram.Wednesday, 17th January 2024 at 1:15 PM in room 214 Vikramajit Ram is a novelist and non-fiction writer based in Bangalore. A ...
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Culture Vulture meeting: Meet WA Foreign Students
Culture Vultures has the pleasure of inviting everybody to a meeting with foreign students studying in WA. Let us celebrate and explore their cultures. Let us listen to what the students say about Poland. Let us ask them questions about their countries and about Poland.Let us have fun! January 17, ...
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IAS Invited Lecture: “Colonial orthographies and their contemporary consequences: Focus on North American Englishes” by Prof. Carol Percy (University of Toronto)
The Department of the History of the English Language invites everybody to the fourth on-line lecture in the series Sociolinguistic Aspects of Historical Orthography, organised within the framework of the AMU Institute of Advances Studies in Social Sciences and Humanities programme. On Wednesday 10 January at 1.15 p.m our guest ...
10.01.202410.01 -
Culture Vultures meeting: A conversation on the latest Hollywood movies
Please join us in a conversation on the latest Hollywood movies Killers of the Flower Moon, Barbie and Oppenheimer to discuss what they want to tell us and why.Date: Tuesday 19 December 2023Place: Room 152 (Collegium Heliodori Święcicki) Time: 18:30–20:00Moderators: Katarzyna Burzyńska and Elżbieta Wilczyńska
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Book Lovers Among Students Meeting
We invite everyone to the next meeting of Book Lovers Among Students (BLASt), the scholarly meeting group for American literature and culture. We’ll discuss Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco’s graphic novel Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt (2012) through the lens of “slow violence”, a term coined by Rob Nixon ...
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IAS Invited Lecture, “Spelling across unruly borders: The royal correspondence of James V of Scotland and Henry VIII of England, 1513-1542” by Dr. Mel Evans (University of Leeds)
The Department of the History of the English Language invites everybody to the second on-line lecture in the series Sociolinguistic Aspects of Historical Orthography, organised within the framework of the AMU Institute of Advances Studies in Social Sciences and Humanities [external link] programme. On Wednesday 13 December at 1.15 p.m ...
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WA Lunch Talk: How a second language context lowers cognitive interference during creative ideation in bilinguals
WA Lunch Talks are monthly meetings with presentations of current research results or research in progress by WA faculty, staff, or PhD students. We welcome all to a new talk in the series.How a second language context lowers cognitive interference during creative ideation in bilingualsRafał JończykWednesday 13 December 2023, 1:15–2:15 ...
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