Events

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    Language of Empowerment

    The Faculty of English at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, cordially invites everyone to participate in the fifth edition of our annual seminar series entitled “Language of Empowerment” as part of the International Week for Equality and Inclusion between the 4th and 8th November 2024. Through this event, we aim to ...

    Faculty of English Events in 2024
    4.11.2024 - 8.11.2024
    starts 04.11
    ends 08.11
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    Love Lit Club — organisational meeting

    We cordially invite you to the Love Lit Club organisational meeting. Love Lit Club is a book club; during our meetings we discuss British and English-language literature, except for American and Canadian literature. The meeting will be held on October 30th at 1:15PM in room 235. The organisational meeting, which ...

    Faculty of English Events in 2024
    30.10.2024
    30.10
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    Inaugural Meeting of Book Lovers Among the Students Literary Club

    The Department of American Studies: Literature and Media kindly invites you to the Inaugural Meeting of Book Lovers Among the Students (BLASt)“Paul Auster Remembered” When? October 30, 2024, 11:30 a.m.Where? Collegium Heliodori, room 215 Join us!

    Faculty of English Events in 2024
    30.10.2024
    30.10
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    CLiP organizational meeting

    Do you want to learn about Canada, its literature and culture? Are you ready to start your adventure with CanLit and become part of a small but passionate group of Canada enthusiasts and book lovers? We're waiting for you! Canadian Literature in Perspective Reading Group invites everyone interested in literature ...

    Faculty of English Events in 2024
    23.10.2024
    23.10
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    Culture Vultures meeting: Impoliteness, humour and environment in The Office (US series)

    The Department of Studies in Culture is happy to announce the start of the Culture Vultures interest group this semester. Dr Urszula Kizelbach will deliver the talk titled "Impoliteness, humour and environment in The Office (US series)". Join us on 23rd October (Wednesday) at 11:30 a.m. in room 153, Collegium ...

    Faculty of English Events in 2024
    23.10.2024
    23.10
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    WA Distinguished Professors’ Lecture: Constituency in classifier phrases

    Time: Wednesday 23 October 2024, 10:00Venue: Sala górna, Collegium Heliodori ŚwięcickiSpeaker: Dr. Éva Dékány (HUN-REN Hungarian Research Center for Linguistics and Eötvös University (Budapest)) Abstract Classifiers are nominal auxiliaries which are required in the context of numerals in some languages (e.g., Mandarin Chinese “san-ben shu”, lit. three-Cl book, ‘three books’). ...

    Faculty of English Events in 2024
    23.10.2024
    23.10
  • Logo of the Syn and Sin reading group, a binary tree (with its root a the top) branching out into two sub-constituents, the right-hand one branching further into another two, the terminal nodes filled with the captions: Syn, an ampersand, and Sin, all black on white

    Syn&Sin meeting: syntax and ChatGPT

    The Department of English-Polish Comparative Linguistics cordially invites everyone to join us for the meeting of the Syn&Sin syntax reading and discussion club. The meeting will be held on Wednesday, 16th October 2024, 11:30-13:00 in room 341. Prof. Przemysław Tajsner will present his work on human language syntax and ChatGPT.

    Faculty of English Events in 2024
    16.10.2024
    16.10
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    Irish Literary Geographies: Irish literature and mobility

    Meeting with Evelyn Conlon and Sean O’ReillyIrish writers Time: 15 October 2024 at 13:15Place: The Aula, Collegium Heliodori (Grunwaldzka 6, Poznań)Language: English

    Faculty of English Events in 2024
    15.10.2024
    15.10
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    Are Celtic languages becoming postvernacular?

    What does it mean when a language becomes 'postvernacular'? A series of presentations on Irish, Gaelic, Breton, Cornish … and Gaulish! This concept will be explored through a number of case studies involving some Celtic languages by guests to and staff of the Celtic Research Unit at the Faculty of ...

    Faculty of English Events in 2024
    10.10.2024
    10.10
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    Inauguration of the American Studies program

    The Faculty of English at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań cordially invites all interested parties to the inauguration of the newly-launched American Studies program.Event Program Welcome – Dean of the Faculty of English Presentation of the program – Prof. UAM dr. hab. Radosław Dylewski Inaugural lecture – Prof. Mary Ellen Curtin ...

    Faculty of English Events in 2024
    30.09.2024
    30.09