Events

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    Book Lovers Among Students’ November Meeting

    The Scholarly Circle Book Lovers Among Students (BLASt) cordially invites everyone to our next meeting with a talk by Piotr Matczak. Title: “We’re invisible”: (Gay) spatialities of Los Angeles in Christopher Isherwood’s A Single Man (1964) The talk will be followed by a discussion of the novel. Venue: Collegium Heliodori, ...

    Faculty of English Events in 2024
    20.11.2024
    20.11
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    WA Lunch Talk: Meet our new PhD candidates

    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 ...

    Faculty of English Events in 2024
    13.11.2024
    13.11
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    Phon&Phontastic meeting: Effects of L3 Japanese on Production and Perception of L2 English Word-Initial Stops

    The Department of Contemporary English and Multilingualism and the Experimental Phonology and Phonetics Lab cordially invite everyone to the first meeting of Phon&Phontastic, a newly established reading group that merges the long-standing Phon&Phon and Phontastic groups into one cohesive community dedicated to phonetics and phonology. Our first presenter will be ...

    Faculty of English Events in 2024
    13.11.2024
    13.11
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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
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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
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    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
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