Uprzejmie informuję, że dzień 2 grudnia 2013 jest ostatecznym terminem do składania wniosków o grant w ramach NCNOpus, Preludium, Sonata (deadline 15 grudnia 2013) do podpisu przez Panią Dziekan Wydziału Anglistyki.
Proszę o składanie wydruków w ilości 2 sztuk Wniosków , 2 Oświadczeń o udzielenie pomocy publicznej, 1 Informacje Uzupełnieniające (zakładki ze strony wniosku w systemie OSF)- do pokoju 105A.
Wnioski nie zatwierdzamy w OSF - dopiero po weryfikacji poprawności dokumentów przez Dział Nauki i Programów Krajowych wnioski mogą być zatwierdzone i przygotowane do złożenia w NCN.
A public event with the kind support of the Dean of the Faculty of English
Dear colleagues at the Faculty of English,
A very special charity concert has been organized in the beautiful University Hall (Aula) in Collegium Minus on Monday 2 December at 18:00. The representative Orchestra of the Polish Air Force is going to perform some great music to raise money for “ZAKĄTEK” - a special needs school for children with multiple disabilities. If you would like to support the cause, come to the concert, tickets at 40 złoty per person can be bought also on the day from 14:00 in the Aula’s ticket office.
Koncert charytatywny – wydarzenie publiczne popierane przez Panią Dziekan Wydziału Anglistyki
Drogie Koleżanki i Koledzy z Wydziału Anglistyki,
Zapraszamy wszystkich na wyjątkowy koncert charytatywny, który odbędzie się w Auli Uniwersyteckiej w poniedziałek 2 grudnia o godz. 18:00. Orkiestra Reprezentacyjna Sił Powietrznych zagra wspaniałą muzykę, aby zebrać fundusze dla „ZAKĄTKA” – Szkoły Specjalnej dla dzieci ze sprzężoną niepełnosprawnością. Jeśli zechcecie połączyć przyjemne z pożytecznym, bilety w cenie 40 złoty możecie nabyć w dzień koncertu od godz. 14:00 w kasie Auli UAM.
The Department of the History of English has the pleasure to announce that the 8th meeting of the HEL Reading Club will take place on Tuesday, December the 3rd, at 4.45p.m, in 602A. The paper to be discussed:
“In curteisie was set ful muchel hir lest”: Politeness in Middle Englishby Andreas Jucker
The Department of the History of English has the pleasure to announce that the 8th meeting of the Advanced Old English Study Group will take place on Tuesday, December the 3rd, at 6.30p.m, in 602A. The text to be discussed,
Canadian Literature in Perspective READING GROUP, CLiP, invites everybody to come on the *3rd of December* to discuss selected short stories by Dionne Brand and discover what makes her such an outstanding writer!
Come and join us to celebrate the power of Canadian Literature!
Stories (Madame Alaird's Breasts, St. Mary's Estate, Sans Souci and No rinsed blue sky, no red flower fences) selected for this discussion are available in Prof. Agnieszka Rzepa's pigeon hole in the Novum Library.
For further information contact: mgr Magdalena Piotrowicz.
Department of English Literature and Literary Linguistics invites all students and staff members to a lecture by Glenn Patterson, a Northern Irish writer, critic and commentator of today's Northern Ireland. The lecture is entitled "Building the Past in Fiction". During the lecture, Patterson will read the fragments of his latest novel Mill for Grinding the Old People Young (Room C1).
We also invite all interested to a less official meeting with our guest organised by Love Lit Club at 5:00 pm, 109 A.
Representations of Gender and Sexuality in Polish ELT Textbooks and Classroom ‒ project report
December 4th, 16.45
room: 202A
The ELT classroom constitutes an example of social and discursive space in which (constant) construction of gender and sexuality takes place. In today’s world where many social categories (including gender) are redefined and contested, it is imperative to look at how the educational context contributes (or not) to the students’ understanding and making sense of these constantly changing social arrangements. It is also vital to examine whether, for instance, the social changes pertaining to women taking on more agentive roles and men increasingly often functioning in family ones, or LGBTQ people being recognized by most Anglophone states, are reflected in current ELT textbooks.
gender and sexuality portrayals and constructions in texts and the (accompanying) images in selected ESL textbooks and dictionaries; represented discourses of dominant and/or alternative gender/sexuality relations (e.g. in textbook dialogues)
students’ uptake of and/or resistance to the gender/sexual narratives offered
negotiation of the gender/sexual categories in the classroom
publishers’ agendas and the Polish Ministry of Education policies vis-a-vis (non-) sensitivity to the social salience of gender/sexuality representations.
The above allow an assessment of whether and how ELT classroom contexts are keeping up with current social changes concerning gender and sexual relations, with the possibility of our making proposals to teachers, publishers and policy-makers.
In this talk we will give an overview of the research into gender and sexuality in the EFL context, concentrating in particular on textbooks, classroom interaction, and dictionaries. The bulk of the presentation will be devoted to introducing the Polish context of the EFL research as well as the project methodology.
Movie WAtch is a new movie event at the Faculty of English. The aim of our meetings is to watch and enjoy movies with references to various cultural aspects of the English-speaking world.
Our second movie is the classic American screwball comedy
Zmiany są nieodzowną częścią naszego życia a okres studiów i wchodzenia na rynek pracy niesie ze sobą zmiany bardzo szybkie.
Czy zmianą rządzą jakieś reguły?
Jak przekuć zmianę w sukces?
Czy zmianę można zaplanować?
W jaki sposób wyjść naprzeciw zmianie?
Co ułatwia przeprowadzanie zmian i co ma z tym wspólnego Lewin?
Jak poradzić sobie w ciągle zmieniającym się świecie?
Jeśli jesteś ciekaw odpowiedzi na te pytania zapraszamy na warsztat pt.
„Akceptacja zmiany – wymóg współczesności”
DS Jowita, ul. Zwierzyniecka 7, sala A
6 grudnia 2013, godz. 10.00 - 14.00
The CASMACAT (Cognitive Analysis and Statistical Methods for Advanced Computer Aided
Translation) workbench is a new browser-based computer-assisted translation workbench for post-editing machine translation outputs. CASMACAT is a project co-funded by the European Union under the Seventh Framework Programme Project 287576 (ICT-2011.4.2).
The main features of this new workbench are:
1. Web-based technology which allows for easier portability across different machine
platforms and versions
2. Interactive translation prediction, suggesting to the human translator how to complete the
translation.
3. Interactive editing, providing additional information about the confidence of its
assistance.
4. Adaptive translation models, updating and adapting its models instantly based on the
translation choices of the user.
The translation field can be pre-filled by machine translation through a server connection and
also automatically updated online from an interactive machine translation server. Shortcut keys are used for functions such as navigating between segments.
The main innovation of the CASMACAT workbench is its exhaustive logging function. This
allows for completely new possibilities of analyzing translators' behavior both, in a qualitative
and quantitative manner. The extensive log file contains all kinds of events, keystrokes, mouse, cursor navigation, as well as gaze information (if an eye-tracker is connected) during the translation session. The logged data can also be replayed for visualizing the moves and choices made by the translator during the post-editing process.
An extension of CASMACAT called SEECAT (Speech & Eye-Tracking Enabled Computer
Assisted Translation) is able to recognize speech from any user without any previous training.
Also, in the next prototype of CASMACAT the hand written recognition will be provided.
All interested are encouraged to have a look at the following resources:
PhD Programme in English: Language, Society, Technology and Cognition (LST&C) funded by the European Social Fund has the honour to invite staff and students of the Faculty of English to a couple of guest lectures by prof. Dafydd Gibbon (University of Bielefeld). The lectures will be held on Tuesday, 10 December in 601A.
9:00-10:30 "Data mining with annotated speech corpora"
The Department of the History of English has the pleasure to announce that the 9th meeting of the HEL Reading Club will take place on Tuesday, December the 10th, at 4.45p.m, in 602A. The paper to be discussed:
Dative and genitive variability in Late Modern English: Exploring cross-constructional variation and changeby Christoph Wolk, Joan Bresnan, Anette Rosenbach and Benedikt Szmrecsanyi
The Department of the History of English has the pleasure to announce that the 9th meeting of the Advanced Old English Study Group will take place on Tuesday, December the 10th, at 6.30p.m, in 602A. The text to be discussed,
Whose line is it anyway? Pride movements in Southern contexts
Pride marches are becoming increasingly common and popular in the ‘Global South’ and can be seen as sign of progress towards greater social acceptance of sexual minorities. These movements often appropriate and mimic the semiotic symbols and discursive frames visible in Pride movements in the 'North' such as rainbow flags, and the promotion of individual human rights. However, there is also a degree of recontextualisation of these discourses so that they are relevant to local contexts. There is also a tension visible, both within these movements and between them and wider society.
This paper will focus on newspaper articles as a way of gauging how Pride movements are discursively constructed in the public sphere. I will critically analyse actor representations in a systematic sample of articles from three daily national newspapers from India and South Africa over a period of three years. By highlighting nominational and predicational strategies (Reisigl and Wodak, 2001) the paper will focus on three types of actors: the actual Pride movement, participants of pride and outside actors.
Scots and the politics of double-bind:
Language ideologies and identity constructions in a changing Scotland
Often associated with, inter alia, the rise of the Scottish National Party from the minority to the majority government (between 2007 and 2011), a considerable improvement in the official language policy on the Scots language could have been noted in recent years. However, despite those improvements, the perceived status of Scots is still an open issue subject to contestation, underpinned by common misconceptions of its alleged inferiority to English as well as its historical stigmatisation.
Corresponding with the landmark results of the census question on the Scots language and the Scottish independence referendum, the proposed research aims to investigate interrelated constructions of the Scots language in the contexts of bottom-up negotiation of personal identities (among the language users) and in top-down practices of (collective) nation-building and national self-imagining. After providing the audience with an insight into the characteristics of Scots’ sociolinguistic situation, the talk will discuss the theoretical and methodological design of the author’s PhD research project.
Dziekan Wydziału Anglistyki Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu uprzejmie informuje, że w dniu 13 grudnia 2013 roku, o godz. 11.30 w sali 109a, w budynku Coll. Novum przy Al. Niepodległości 4 odbędzie się publiczna obrona rozprawy doktorskiej
mgr ZOFII MALISZ
Tytuł rozprawy doktorskiej:
“Speech rhythm variability in Polish and English: A study of interaction between rhythmic levels.”
przypominam o rejestracji w systemie USOS. Proszę sprawdzić, czy jesteście Państwo zarejestrowani na wszystkie przedmioty do odpowiednich wykładowców.
Studenci warunkowi proszeni są o zgłoszenie się do Sekretariatu Filologii Rosyjskiej, gdzie zostaną oddzielnie przypisani na zajęcia, które powtarzają z poprzedniego roku studiów.
Można również przesłać taką liste z nazwiskami do mnie (imie i nazwisko, nr pesel, nazwy przedmiotów powtarzanych z nazwiskiem wykładowcy, z informacją którego roku zapis w USOS miałby dotyczyć).
During the past three years, the authors of this abstract have collaborated to produce a new generation of instructional treatments that engage young learners in conversations in which they learn to reason about and construct science explanations as well as learn English when learning scientific concepts. The treatments involve classroom conversations, in which the teacher facilitates conversations where students explain science presented in animations, and conversations in an immersive multimedia environment. The results of these treatments, based on formal evaluations of students’ learning gains, and interviews with students and teachers, indicate that a) students become fully engaged by the instructional treatments, and report that they are motivated to learn science after using them, b) teachers have embraced the pedagogy and believe it is highly beneficial to their teaching effectiveness and their students’ achievement, and c) students who used the treatments achieved significant learning gains, with strong effect sizes, compared to students who received traditional classroom instruction. Our talk will describe and provide demonstrations of two programs, Tablit (kindergartens) and ETOS (primary and junior high schools), which were funded by grants from the EU in Poland.
W dniu 17 grudnia 2013 r. w Sali Posiedzeń Rady Wydziału Anglistyki miała miejsce ceremonia podpisania umowy o współpracy między Wydziałem Anglistyki UAM a XVI LO z Oddziałami Dwujęzycznymi im. Charlesa de Gaulle'a w Poznaniu. Swoje podpisy pod tekstem pozozumienia złożyli Dziekan WA, prof. dr hab. Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk oraz Dyrektor XVI LO, mgr Andrzej Karaś. Dzięki porozumieniu uczniowie klas dwujęzycznych będą mieli pierwszeństwo uczestnictwa w wydarzeniach otwartych na WA oraz wybranych zajęciach na studiach stacjonarnych. XVI LO ze swojej zapewnia pomoc w organizacj praktyk studenckich oraz realizowaniu projektów grantowych przez pracowników i doktorantów WA.
XVI LO jest jedną z wiodących szkół średnich w Wielkopolsce, w której wszyscy nauczyciele angielskiego są absolwentami poznańskiej anglistyki. W czerwcu b.r. drużyna uczniów z XVI LO wygrała teleturniej Seven to One zorganizowany przez Wydział Anglistyki.
The Department of the History of English has the pleasure to announce that the 10th meeting of the HEL Reading Club will take place on Tuesday, December the 17th, at 4.45p.m, in 602A. The paper to be discussed:
Low productivity indexes - The Old English verbal suffixes -ettan and -læcan by Gema Maíz Villalta
The Department of the History of English has the pleasure to announce that the 10th meeting of the Advanced Old English Study Group will take place on Tuesday, December the 17th, at 6.30p.m, in 602A. The text to be discussed,
Jimmy Corrigan: The smartest kid on earth by Chris Ware
Jimmy Corrigan has been hailed as the greatest graphic novel ever to be published. It won the American Book Award (2001) and The Eisner Awards' Best Publication Design and Best Graphic Album (2001).
"The compact imagery, the compacted plot and subplots, make Jimmy Corrigan more akin to a novel by Faulkner or Dickens than to The Adventures of Spiderman. "- Beth Nissen
BLASt is a student section of the American Literature Reading Club. The meetings are hosted by and addressed to students. If you like literature - join us (click here)!
Dziekan Wydziału Anglistyki Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu uprzejmie informuje, że w dniu 20 grudnia 2013 roku, o godz. 11.30 w sali 109a, w budynku Coll. Novum przy Al. Niepodległości 4 odbędzie się publiczna obrona rozprawy doktorskiej
mgr ZUZANY BUCHOWSKIEJ
Tytuł rozprawy doktorskiej:
“Negotiating Native American identities – The role of tradition, narrative and the English language at Haskell.”
