Distinguished Professors’ Lectures

2024

• Prof. Argiris Archakis (University of Patras, Greece) — “The representations of racism in immigrant students’ essays in Greece: The “hybrid balance” between legitimizing and resistance identities” — 2024-03-14
• Prof. dr hab. Krzysztof Jassem (AMU Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science) — “Human translator vs. machine translation - competition or cooperation?” — 2024-03-13

2023

• Prof. Christine Mallinson (University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)) — “Decolonization and Inclusion for a Liberatory Linguistics” — 2023-06-05
• Prof. Roel Vismans (University of Sheffield (School of Languages and Cultures)) — “Address and politeness. A theoretical exploration?” — 2023-04-18
• Prof. Trena Paulus (East Tennessee State University (ETSU)) — “Creating reflexive digital research workflows” — 2023-04-14
• Prof. Jessica Nina Lester (Indiana University Bloomington) — “Engaging Reflective Interventionist Conversation Analysis for Studying and Transforming Interactional Practices” — 2023-03-24
• Prof. Lynne Bowker (Michigan State University) — “Beyond Open Access: Can machine translation and plain language help to make research even more accessible?” — 2023-01-20

2021

• Prof. Shawn Loewen (Michigan State University) — “Online language learning: How effective is it?” — 2021-12-17
• Prof. John Harris (University College London) — “Where does phonological knowledge stop? – Simplicity versus naturalness in the learnability of phonotactic patterns” — 2021-03-26
• Prof. Ocke-Schwen Bohn (Aarhus University) — “Core aspects of the revised Speech Learning Model (SLM-r)” — 2021-01-15

2020

• Prof. Noah Riseman (Australian Catholic University in Melbourne) — “Serving in Silence? Australian LGBTI Military Service since 1945” — 2020-06-26
• Prof. Dr. Katja Sarkowsky (Augsburg University) — “The Reason You Walk": Indigenous Life Writing and Differentiated Citizenship” — 2020-02-28
• Prof. William Kretzschmar (University of Georgia, Athens) — “Language and Complex Systems in Text Analysis” — 2020-01-17

2019

• Prof. H. Floris Cohen (Utrecht University) — “Copernicus and the rise of modern science: a partly dissenting view” — 2019-11-15
• Prof. Willie Burger (University of Pretoria) — “Writing literary history in the transnational moment” — 2019-10-25
• Prof. William Kretzschmar (University of Georgia, Athens) — “Digital Humanities for Linguistics and Literature” — 2019-10-18
• Prof. Michal Starke (Masaryk University) — “From syntax to the structure of thought” — 2019-03-28
• Prof. Charles Chang (Boston University) — “Integration and dynamicity in bilingual speech perception” — 2019-03-21
• Prof. Dr. Peter Siemund (University of Hamburg) — “Are multilinguals the better academic EFL users? Evidence from a questionnaire study measuring self-assessed proficiencies” — 2019-02-27
• Prof. Adrian Holliday (Canterbury Christ Church University) — “Revisiting culture and language: Crossing borders and national identity” — 2019-01-31

2018

• Barbara M. Bernhardt and Joseph P. Stemberger (University of British Columbia) — “Investigating phonological development: An international crosslinguistic study” — 2018-11-08
• prof. Thomas H. Bak (University of Edinburgh) — “From Neuroplasticity to Terrorism” — 2018-09-25
• Prof. Bryan Reynolds (University of California, Irvine) — “Political Play: Children as Vanguards of Cultural Resistance and Change” — 2018-07-05
• Prof. Michael D. Tyler (Western Sydney University) — “Perceived phonological overlap and the discrimination of non-native phones” — 2018-06-21
• Prof. Dr. Isabelle Buchstaller (University of Duisburg-Essen) — “Language Change Across the Lifespan” — 2018-04-26
• prof. dr hab. Marta Dynel (University of Łódź) — “Humour and (Un)truthfulness” — 2018-04-19
• Prof. Ronald C. Arnett (Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) — “Crisis, Conflict and Communication Ethics” — 2018-03-15

2017

• Prof. Jacob Juntunen (Southern Illinois University) — “Making the Radical Palatable: The Political Effects of U.S. Mainstream Drama” — 2017-11-09
• Prof. Guillaume Thierry (Bangor University) — “Neuropoetry: How Shakespeare tempest the brain and how poetry catches the mind” — 2017-05-18
• Prof. Frans Hinskens (Meertens Instituut) — “Ethnolects. Where language contact, language acquisition and dialect variation meet” — 2017-03-16

2016

• Prof. Janet Schofield (University of Pittsburgh) — “Teaching and Learning as Social Processes: Insights from Social Psychology” — 2016-12-01
• Prof. Harald Clahsen (University of Potsdam) — “Morphology in Child and Adult Learners’ Spoken Language Comprehension” — 2016-11-24
• Prof. Giorgio Mariani (Sapienza University of Rome) — “Peacefighting in American Literature: from the Revolution to the Iraq War” — 2016-11-10

2015

• Prof. Lionel Posthumus (University of Johannesburg) — “Time and tense reckoning in language: Some misconceptions and some principles” — 2015-12-03
• Prof. Thomas Austenfeld (University of Fribourg) — “Robert Lowell and the History of Poetic Self-Revelation” — 2015-03-27
• Prof. Srikant Sarangi (Aalborg University) — “Communication expertise and medical/professional practice” — 2015-03-26

2014

• Prof. John Dean (University of Versailles) — “Selling America: Social Persuasion and the Deliberately Ambiguous Powers of Words & Images in U.S. Civilization” — 2014-12-04