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3BA Seminars

Submitted by rsswa on 17 September, 2020 - 14:28.

[3BA] [Seminars]

Hello,
Please read the instructions below.

1. Please make sure you have read all seminar descriptions.


2. YOU NEED TO PROVIDE YOUR USOS E-MAIL ADDRESS AND ID NUMBER: without this information, we won't be able to identify you.


3. Next, please select your first choice (i.e. the BA seminar for which you'll be interviewed). In case you're not admitted to your first choice, you will be reassigned to your 2nd and 3rd choices, depending on availability. DEADLINE: Thursday, 24th September, 20.00.


4. The interviews will take place on Tuesday, 29th September, via MS Teams. You will be added to each committee's room on Friday 25th September. You'll also be informed then what time to expect your interview to take place.

Link:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc_K2BU1MVX6MT7UharzEpVizSfSzed...

Absolutorium Wydziału Anglistyki 2020 ONLINE, MS Teams - WRZESIEŃ 2020

Last updated by tomski on 2020-07-03. Originally submitted by tomski on 2020-06-29.
2020-07-10 10:00
2020-07-10 11:30

UWAGA! Szanowni Państwo, Drogie Absolwentki i Absolwenci, W związku z reorganizacją sesji egzaminacyjnej i trwającą sesją podjęliśmy decyzję o zmianie daty  WA ABSOLUTORIUM ONLINE 2020 na termin wrześniowy. O konkretnej dacie poinformujemy Państwa w terminie późniejszym.

Drodzy Absolwenci i Absolwentki studiów licencjackich i magisterskich Wydziału Anglistyki.

Z  powodu sytuacji epidemicznej Absolutorium w tradycyjnej formie nie jest możliwe. Chcielibyśmy jednak spotkać się z Państwem w formie zdalnej na platformie MS TEAMS  aby uhonorować Państwa i  w symboliczny sposób zaznaczyć ten ważny moment dla Państwa i naszego Wydziału.


PROGRAM ABSOLUTORIUM ONLINE

Prosimy o zgłoszenie chęci uczestnictwa (wraz z podaniem adresu w domenie o365) w uroczystości na adres gjoanna@wa.amu.edu.pl

 


Do zobaczenia!

prof. dr hab. Joanna Pawelczyk

Dziekana Wydziału Anglistyki UAM

 

 

WA Friday Lunch Talk ONLINE (MS Teams: WA Staff), June 26, 13:15-14:15, "No longer wataridori? The Issei generation in Terry Watada’s Kuroshio: The Blood of Foxes (2007)" by mgr Małgorzata Bobowska

Last updated by kprzemek on 2020-06-26. Originally submitted by tomski on 2020-06-24.
2020-06-26 13:15
2020-06-26 14:15

WA Friday Lunch Talks are monthly meetings with presentations of current research results or research in progress by WA faculty, staff, or PhD students. Each talk is of 45 minutes (+15 minutes for discussion). We welcome all to a talk ONLINE (MS Teams: WA Staff)  "No longer wataridori渡り鳥? The Issei generation in Terry Watada’s Kuroshio: The Blood of Foxes (2007)" by mgr Małgorzata Bobowska from the Center for Canadian Literature (Friday, June 26, 13:15-14:15).


  mgr Małgorzata Bobowska
Centre for Canadian Literature

No longer wataridori 渡り鳥?
The Issei generation in Terry Watada’s Kuroshio:
The Blood of Foxes (2007)

The history of the Japanese minority in Canada constitutes a story of the people who were regarded as enemies. Experiencing war, "uprooting, incarceration, and dispersal" (Adachi 2006: 126) in Canada is an essential part of their psychological and social identity. Nonetheless, the attitude of the Issei, who lost everything they had, is considered to be a unique behaviour based on the traditional values ingrained in their minds. As Adachi points out: “The lack of aggressive behaviour and high dependency was part of the enryo (restraint) or gaman (perseverance) syndrome which explains much of Japanese behaviour. Not to conform was really unthinkable, for it meant cutting oneself off from the emotional security of identification” (Adachi 1976: 225). Although Canadian government imposed silence by confiscating radios and interfering with communications among Japanese Canadians (Kella 2000: 185), the response of the Japanese Canadian minority, in particular of the Issei, has been associated with Japanese concepts of shikata ga nai (it can't be helped), gaman (perseverance), and Japanese stoicism.

In Japanese Canadian literature, especially in the works written in the 1980s and the 1990s, the Issei are portrayed as wataridori (migratory birds) and as “silent sufferers” (Aunt Ayako, Uncle in Kogawa’s Obasan) who refer to Japan as their “country of the heart” (Mary Kiyoshi Kiyooka). I have noted, however, that writers who did not go through the experience of the internment often move away from portraying the Issei as "model citizens" or "perfect victims". Thereby, the purpose of this talk is to show how one of the Japanese Canadian writers, Terry Watada, banishes stereotypes and portrays the Issei “with full agency” in his novel Kuroshio: The Blood of Foxes (2007. In his work, Watada explores the lives of the first generation and portrays Japanese Canadian pioneers as brave immigrants who speak freely, exercise their powers (Liu 2016: 172), and fight for justice.

Bibliography

Agnew, Vijay. 2005. Diaspora, Memory and Identity: A Search for Home. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Adachi, Ken. 1976. The enemy that never was: A history of Japanese Canadians. Toronto: McClennand & Stewart.
Adachi, Nobuko. 2006. Japanese Diasporas: Unsung Pasts, Conflicting Presents and Uncertain Futures. London: Routledge.
Adachi, Nobuko. 2010. Japanese and Nikkei at Home and Abroad. New York: Cambria Press.
Laver, Michael S. 2011. The Sakoku Edicts and the Politics of Tokugawa Hegemony. New York: Cambria Press.
Lebra Sugiyama, Takie. 1984. Japanese Women: Constraint and Fulfillment. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
Liu, Zhen. 2016. A Liberating Inheritance: Chinese Canadian and Japanese Canadian Literature in English, 1970s-2000s. [Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Strathclyde, Glasgow.].
Kella, Elizabeth. 2000. Beloved Communities: Solidarity and Difference in  Fiction by Michael Ondaatje, Toni Morrison, and Joy Kogawa. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis: Uppsala.
Watada, Terry. 2007. Kuroshio: The Blood of Foxes.Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press.
Watada, Terry. 2013. The Sword, the Medal, and the Rosary. Toronto: HpF Press.

Małgorzata Bobowska is a PhD student at the Faculty of English of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Her research interests include contemporary Canadian literature, Asian-Canadian literature, and the history of the Japanese community in Canada. Her MA thesis was supervised by Professor Agnieszka Rzepa. Małgorzata received an award of the Dean of the Faculty of English for the best MA thesis in literature in 2015, and an honourable mention in PACS Nancy Burke Best MA Thesis Contest in 2016. Currently, she is working on her PhD thesis, the title of which is “Diasporic Identity and Belonging in Recent Japanese Canadian Novels and Life-writing”. Her thesis aims to explore the Japanese Canadian literary landscape, in particular novels and life-writing, and to investigate changes in the perception of identity and belonging, which occurred since the publication of the highly-acclaimed Obasan (1981). In 2018, she received a research grant from the John F. Kennedy Institute in Berlin, which enabled her to collect a lot of valuable materials for her PhD project. As far as her personal interests are concerned, she is fascinated with Japanese culture, including music, history, and cuisine. Moreover, she is a cat lover, and a typical bookworm. She dabbles especially in Asian Canadian and Japanese literature.

You can join the talk via MS Teams (WA Staff) or contact prof. Bogusława Whyatt at bwhyatt@wa.amu.edu.pl




WA Distinguished Professors' Lectures ONLINE: "Serving in Silence? Australian LGBTI Military Service since 1945" by Prof. Noah Riseman, June 26, 2020, 10:00 a.m. via MS Teams

Submitted by tomski on 24 June, 2020 - 14:57.
2020-06-26 10:00
2020-06-26 11:30

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WA Distinguished Professors' Lectures Series features internationally renowned scholars visiting the Faculty of English to share their research and professional expertise with the faculty and students. This time we have the honour to host Prof. Noah Riseman (Australian Catholic University in Melbourne) who will deliver a lecture: "Serving in Silence? Australian LGBTI Military Service since 1945" that will take place on June 26 (Friday), 2020, at 10:00 a.m. via MS Teams.


Serving in Silence?
Australian LGBTI Military Service
since 1945

by

Prof. Noah Riseman

Friday, June 26, 10:00 a.m.

Join us via MS Teams by clicking on the link below:

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_MDJjNDA3NWEtM2NkNi00YTIzLWFiMjItYjFlNGMzNzRmZGJl%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22429af009-f196-448f-ae79-58c212a0f2ce%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%224bdf0055-f701-4b70-a18d-18fd22e99668%22%7d


This lecture draws on oral histories and archival records uncovered from a recently-completed Australian Research Council-funded project which explored the changing policies, practices and lived experiences of LGBTI people in the Australian Defence Force since the end of the Second World War. In the lecture, Riseman will showcase the evolution of the Australian military’s approach to LGBTI service through four key phases: silence (1945-73), persecution (1974-92), tolerance (1993-2005) and inclusion (2006-present).

Noah Riseman is a Professor of History at the Australian Catholic University in Melbourne. He specialises in histories of race, gender and sexuality, with a long track record examining histories of Indigenous and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people’s service in the Australian military. Riseman has published numerous journal articles and book chapters, as well as authored the following books: “Indigenous Peoples and the Second World War: The Politics, Experiences and Legacies of War in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand “ (co-author; Cambridge University Press, 2019); “Serving in Silence? Australian LGBT Servicemen and Women” (co-author; NewSouth, 2018); “Defending Country: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Military Service since 1945” (co-author; University of Queensland Press, 2016); “Defending Whose Country? Indigenous Soldiers in the Pacific War” (University of Nebraska Press, 2012). The contents of this lecture will form part of his forthcoming co-authored monograph: “Pride in Defence: The Australian Military and LGBTI Service since 1945” (Melbourne University Publishing, 2021).


BSA Teaching Shakespeare on gender performativity with a piece by Dr Katarzyna Burzyńska on teaching Shakespeare and gender politics in Poland 2020

Submitted by tomski on 18 June, 2020 - 08:08.
2020-06-18

A new issue of "Teaching Shakespeare: POLICY • PEDAGOGY • PRACTICE" (Issue 19 – Summer) published by The British Shakespeare Association with a contribution by dr Katarzyna Burzyńska from the Department of Studies in Culture is now available. The issue features articles on gender performativity, content warnings in Shakespeare pedagogy as well as teaching Shakespeare in the 21st century. Dr Burzyńska’s piece “Shakesqueer at the battlefront for equality in Poland” discusses teaching gender politics and early modern drama in Poland in 2020. The issue’s release pertinently comes at a time of more intensified attacks on the LGBTQ+ communities amidst the presidential campaign in Poland.

 

The article is available at:

https://www.britishshakespeare.ws/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/TeachingShakespeare19_AW_WEB_1.pdf

Dzień Kandydata na UAM na Facebooku, 30 maja 2020, 10:00 - 15:00

Submitted by tomski on 29 May, 2020 - 21:25.
2020-05-30 10:00
2020-05-30 15:00

Wszystkich zainteresowanych rozpoczęciem studiów na Wydziale Anglistyki serdecznie zapraszamy na Dzień Kandydata na UAM online w dniu 30 maja 2020 roku. Część główna wydarzenia odbędzie się w godzinach 10:00-13:00 na profilu Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza na Facebooku. O godz. 13:00 zapraszamy do zadawania pytań związanych ze studiowaniem na Wydziale Anglistyki UAM w Poznaniu na profilu FB Rady Samorządu Studentów Wydziału Anglistyki. Nasi wykładowcy i studenci odpowiedzą wtedy na wszystkie Wasze pytania i przedstawią ofertę naszych kierunków i specjalizacji.


Zapraszamy do zapoznania się z ofertą kierunków
i specjalizacji w zakładce dla kandydatów na stronie Wydziału Anglistyki

http://wa.amu.edu.pl/wa/dla_kandydatow

WA Friday Lunch Talk ONLINE (MS Teams: WA Staff), May 29, 13:15-14:15, "Language revitalization without native speakers: Breton and Lower Sorbian" by dr Joanna Chojnicka & prof. Michael Hornsby

Submitted by tomski on 28 May, 2020 - 15:15.
2020-05-29 13:15
2020-05-29 14:15

WA Friday Lunch Talks are monthly meetings with presentations of current research results or research in progress by WA faculty, staff, or PhD students. Each talk is of 45 minutes (+15 minutes for discussion). We welcome all to a talk ONLINE (MS Teams: WA Staff)  "Language revitalization without native speakers: Breton and Lower Sorbian" by dr Joanna Chojnicka & prof. Michael Hornsby from the Centre of Celtic Studies (Friday, May 29, 13:15-14:15).

 

dr Joanna Chojnicka
  Centre for Celtic Studies

&

  prof. Michael Hornsby
Centre for Celtic Studies


Language revitalization without native speakers: Breton and Lower Sorbian

In this talk, we would like to present a new research project carried out at the Centre for Celtic Studies (2019-2022): “Language revitalization without native speakers: The cases of Breton in Upper Brittany and of Sorbian in Lower Lusatia”. The critically endangered languages, Breton and Lower Sorbian, are sustained in bilingual communities where many speakers are so-called “new speakers”, who have not learned the respective language as their L1/mother tongue. Still, some of them decide to send their children to Breton immersion schools or schools that teach Sorbian and, although to a lesser extent, to raise them as minority language speakers in Breton/Sorbian. In many ways, these families are separated from other Breton- and Sorbian-speaking communities where there is a much stronger tradition of intergenerational transmission (although this has been considerably weakened in the second half of the twentieth century).

Our project therefore aims to investigate how language revitalization works where the members of a particular community are non-native or new speakers. How do families who send their children to immersion schools in Rennes/Nantes view their own educational choices for their children? For those parents who speak Breton/Sorbian to their children at home, how do they make their transmission of the language work effectively? Using a wide range of qualitative and ethnographic sociolinguistic methods (sociolinguistic questionnaires, focus groups with parents and children involved in minority language education/cultural activities, semi-structured interviews with key actors in the communities and participant observation in a number of educational/recreational sites in Brittany/Lower Lusatia), the project ventures out to answer the question whether revitalization efforts without native speakers are renewing the language community or if they are in fact transforming it into a new type of postmodern community, where language plays a much more symbolic role than previously thought.

References:
Dołowy-Rybińska, Nicole. ‘Language Learners or New Speakers: The Transfer of the Breton Diwan Immersion Education Model to the Lower Sorbian Witaj Project’. Studia Celtica Posnaniensia 2, no. 1 (2017): 5–26.
Hornsby, Michael. Revitalizing Minority Languages. New Speakers of Breton, Yiddish and Lemko. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Hornsby, Michael. ‘The “New” and “Traditional” Speaker Dichotomy: Bridging the Gap’. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 231 (2015): 107–25.

Joanna Chojnicka holds a PhD in Latvian linguistics and an MA in Latvian philology, both from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, and is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Celtic Studies at the Faculty of English of that university. Previously she was a Fellow at the Herder Institute in Marburg, a Marie-Curie Fellow at the Zukunftskolleg, University of Konstanz, and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Faculty 10: Linguistics and Literary Studies of the University of Bremen, where she also acted as the Managing Director of the Institute for Postcolonial and Transcultural Studies (INPUTS). Her research interests include discourse, gender and sexuality, the language of argumentation, manipulation and resistance, ecolinguistics, and discourses of language revitalization.

Michael Hornsby, PhD (Southampton, UK), DLitt (AMU Poznań, Poland) is currently head of the Centre for Celtic Studies at the Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. He specialises in ‘new speaker’ studies, particularly from a minority language perspective. To date, his research has included investigations on the place of new speakers (or L2 language users) in contexts of revitalisation, particularly in Breton-, Lemko- and Yiddish-speaking communities of practice, and how their positions can be contested in inter-communal settings. He is also interested in how new speakers adapt their own stances as a result and adopt various legitimizing strategies in order to give meaning to their own sense of ‘speakerhood’. He is currently looking at how minority language communities have possibly been misrepresented in the past as occupying two binary ‘native’ and ‘non-native’ speaker positions, and is attempting to find a more accurate paradigm to represent minority language communities in the 21st century.

You can join the talk via MS Teams (WA Staff) or contact prof. Bogusława Whyatt at bwhyatt@wa.amu.edu.pl



WA Friday Lunch Talk ONLINE (MS Teams: WA Staff), May 22, 13:15-14:15, "You don’t really notice it in the moment, but … The persistence of gender’s salience in an ostensibly meritocratic institution" by prof. Joanna Pawelczyk & prof. Judith E. Rosenstein

Submitted by tomski on 20 May, 2020 - 08:58.
2020-05-22 13:15
2020-05-22 14:15

WA Friday Lunch Talks are monthly meetings with presentations of current research results or research in progress by WA faculty, staff, or PhD students. Each talk is of 45 minutes (+15 minutes for discussion). We welcome all to a talk ONLINE (MS Teams: WA Staff)  "You don’t really notice it in the moment, but … The persistence of gender’s salience in an ostensibly meritocratic institution" by prof. Joanna Pawelczyk & prof. Judith E. Rosenstein (Friday, May 22, 13:15-14:15).

 

prof. Joanna Pawelczyk
Dean of the Faculty of English
Department of Sociolinguistics and Discourse Studies

&

prof. Judith E. Rosenstein
Department of Leadership, Ethics, and Law
United States Naval Academy


You don’t really notice it in the moment, but …
The persistence of gender’s salience in an ostensibly meritocratic institution

In this presentation we answer Britton’s call to better understand the extent to which women in predominantly masculine occupations and institutions experience a chilly climate. In many organizations that ostensibly welcome women and promote equality, we expect that women experience a climate that is humid rather than chilly -- they are simultaneously welcomed, yet frequently made to feel uncomfortable or that they do not truly/fully belong. Drawing on qualitative interviews and applying discourse analytic methods, we find that women students at a United States military service academy have a general feeling of inclusion, yet describe “little things happening here and there.” However, these women often have a difficult time articulating these experiences as gendered and are often unable or unwilling to label them as harassment. We contend that humidity is a more accurate description than chilly for the discomfort and symbolic oppression that these women may experience. We anticipate that this humidity is felt by many women in similarly male dominated occupations, particularly as nowadays organizations strive to become more inclusive and boast being merit-based. While humidity may be hard to quantify, its implications may be widely felt and likely contribute to women’s sense of exclusion, “voluntary” exit, and, at an extreme, experiences of violence.
By unpacking gender harassment in interview interactions, we show how macro-level phenomena (social problems) can be captured and studied by analyzing micro-level details of discourse and interaction.

References
Britton, Dana. M. 2017. Beyond the chilly climate: The salience of gender in women’s academic careers. Gender & Society 31(1): 5-27.

You can join the talk via MS Teams (WA Staff) or contact prof. Bogusława Whyatt at bwhyatt@wa.amu.edu.pl

Zapowiedź premiery drugiego tomu Dziejów kultury europejskiej autorstwa prof. Wojciecha Lipońskiego

Last updated by kprzemek on 2020-05-16. Originally submitted by tomski on 2020-05-10.
2020-05-29

Na dzień 29 maja 2020 roku Wydawnictwo PWN zapowiedziało premierę drugiej części sześciotomowej historii kultury europejskiej zatytułowanej Dzieje kultury europejskiej. Średniowiecze autorstwa prof. Wojciecha Lipońskiego z Zakładu Badań nad Tekstami Kultury. Więcej informacji o książce oraz przygotowywanych kolejnych tomach serii można znaleźć na STRONIE WYDAWNICTWA PWN.

Pierwsza część Dziejów kultury europejskiej: Prehistoria-starożytność została wydana w listopadzie 2019 roku.

WA Friday Lunch Talk ONLINE (MS Teams Lecture), April 24, 13:15-14:15, "By any other name – how we speak emotions and feel words" by dr Halszka Bąk

Submitted by tomski on 22 April, 2020 - 15:22.
2020-04-24 13:15
2020-04-24 14:15

WA Friday Lunch Talks are monthly meetings with presentations of current research results or research in progress by WA faculty, staff, or PhD students. Each talk is of 45 minutes (+15 minutes for discussion). We welcome all to a talk ONLINE (MS Teams Lecture) "By any other name – how we speak emotions and feel words" by dr Halszka Bąk (Friday, April 24, 13:15-14:15).

 

dr Halszka Bąk

Department of Pragmatics of English

By any other name – how we speak emotions and feel words

ABSTRACT


When a Pole says they are "wściekły/a", does the word carry the same emotional meaning as "enraged" for an American? There is a respectable body of research on broad affective states expressed through language. However, research on more complex psychosomatic states like basic emotions in language has been lacking. Here I will present the preliminary results of a systematic comparison of how the theoretically universal basic emotions are conceptualized and lexicalized in Polish and English. Universal basic emotions as postulated by Paul Ekman include: fear, anger, disgust, sadness, surprise, and joy. I compiled a database of all those words and their synonyms in noun, verb, and adjective form in English. I compiled another database on the same principles using translation equivalents of the six basic emotions in Polish. Native speakers of English and Polish were then invited to provide key evaluations of valence (how positive/negative each emotion is), arousal (how intense it is), and dominance (how well it can be controlled) for all the words in their native languages. I found significant differences in how basic emotions were conceptualized between the two languages. On the level of lexical analysis English emotion lexicon is three times the size of Polish. On the functional level, basic emotions, especially anger and fear are preferentially expressed as verbs in English, whereas Polish favors nouns. Affectively, Poles conceptualize all basic emotions as more subjectively intense than English-speaking Americans do. Finally, I found marked differences in how male and female speakers of Polish and English conceptualize emotions. The main objective of this research project has been to compile databases of emotion terms for future use in research. However, the observations based on these compilations already seem to carry important implications for the base assumptions in emotion research, bilingualism studies, and psychotherapy.


Research Grant SONATA 13, Ref. No. 2017/26/D/HS6/00035
Basic Emotion Terms Catalogue – Polish & English

JOINING THE TALK via MS Teams:

Group: WA Friday Lunch Talk (04/24, Bąk)

e-mail from your University account to hbak@wa.amu.edu.pl by 23rd April by 8:00pm to request being added

or join with a code: wg1h07p

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