News from Faculty Units
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The American Studies Student Circle BLASt at the Student Science Clubs Day at AMU
A delegation of BLASt members (Hanna Stelmaszczyk, Piotr Matczak, Bianka Stefańska, and Weronika Dziurleja) participated in the Student Science Clubs Day held on April 3, at the Faculty of Chemistry.
7.04.2025 -
Dr Katarzyna Macedulska accepted to the SUSI program
Dr Katarzyna Macedulska, from the Department of American Studies: Literature and Media, has been accepted to the Study of the U.S. Institutes (SUSI) program.
3.04.2025 -
Dr. Beniamin Kłaniecki awarded the Humboldt Research Fellowship for Post-Doc Researchers
Dr. Beniamin Kłaniecki has been awarded the Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers.
19.03.2025 -
New publication: “Abbreviating Middle English: scribal practices, visual texts and medieval multimodalities” by Justyna Rogos-Hebda
In “Abbreviating Middle English: scribal practices, visual texts and medieval multimodalities” (The New Middle Ages Series) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025) Justyna Rogos-Hebda examines how abbreviation symbols helped create linguistic and cultural meanings of texts before print and why hypertextuality, multimodality and interactivity can be useful interpretative lenses for manuscript texts.
24.02.2025 -
Call for Papers: “Special Session: Less researched languages and literatures”
The Dutch Studies Reading Group “Oranjes” is pleased to invite you to a special poster session “Special Session: Less researched languages and literatures” organized as part of the Young Linguists’ Meeting in Poznań (YLMP) 2025 congress in association with the Faculty of English at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań.
20.02.2025 -
Study visit to Barcelona
Members of the Department of Contemporary English and Multilingualism, as well as the Experimental Phonology and Phonetics Laboratory had the privilege of participating in a study visit to Universitat de Barcelona (UB) and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). During the visit, they toured state-of-the-art phonetic laboratories at both universities and ...
20.12.2024 -
Dr Uszula Kizelbach’s lecture at Aston University
Dr Urszula Kizelbach had the honour of presenting her latest book, (Im)politeness in McEwan’s Fiction: Literary pragma-stylistics (2023), during a series of annual lectures organised by the Aston Stylistics Research Group at Aston University in the UK.
14.11.2024 -
Literature and Mobility — meeting with Evelyn Conlon and Sean O’Reilly
On the 15th of October we had the pleasure to listen to two Irish writers speaking on the topic of “Literature and Mobility”. After the talks delivered by Sean O’Reilly and Evelyn Conlon, the audience could ask questions and even have a more personal conversation with our guests.
25.10.2024 -
Dr. Kornelia Boczkowska commissioned to curate a series of touring programs of Jon Behrens’ films for the Interbay Cinema Society in Seattle, WA
In 2023, Caryn Cline, the Executive Director of the Interbay Cinema Society, commissioned Dr. Kornelia Boczkowska (American Studies Research Unit: Language and Culture) to curate a series of touring programs of Jon Behrens’ films to commemorate his vast legacy and screen his films for new audiences.
20.05.2024 -
Geust Lectures of prof. Willie Burger (University of Pretoria)
The Department of Dutch and South African Studies is pleased to announce the following Guest Lectures by prof. Willie Burger – Head of the Department Afrikaans – University of Pretoria.
6.05.2024